Workshop Help for the helpers with Babette Rothschild 28-29.03.2025
You eat right and exercise to keep physically fit. You take continuing education classes and read professional journals to keep professionally fit. So why do you give so little time to caring for yourself to manage the stress of your work? It’s work you love, right? But nonetheless, it is taxing emotionally, mentally, even physically at times.
During the best of times, psychotherapists of all sorts tend towards aspiring (or feeling bound) to be superheroes for everyone—our clients, colleagues, family members, and friends. We expect of ourselves and are expected by others to rise above the fray, put everyone else first, and fix it (whatever “it” is). On the rare occasions when there is a ounce of precious time or energy to spare, we come last. It is always a challenge to make time for us. And though we do not like to talk about it, we, as a profession, do suffer from both the joys and burdens of helping others. In the last few decades our professional risks have become more recognized and we have even gained our own set of diagnostic categories: vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue. However, since early 2020 our challenges and obligations have multiplied exponentially. As if “the usual” did not offer up enough pressure for us, the last years have added significantly to the weights on our shoulders. In this “new normal” we all face unprecedented additional challenges that have further complicated all of our lives, and continue to do so.
This 2-day professional webinar has as its main goal improving the well-being of the psychotherapist in light of the new as well as the usual challenges that they face in 2022. With a combination of lecture, videos, exercises, and breakout discussions, participants will be helped to identify their own individual risk factors and challenges. In addition, strategies and tools will be presented so that each participant can add to, or begin to supply, their own individual self-care toolkit.
Learning Objectives, Day One
Participants will be able to:
- Assess their own risk factors for Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma
- Use tools to maintain their ability to think clearly under stress
- Practice mindfulness to reduce burnout risks
- Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of attending to details of client stories
- Control their own personal empathy dial
Learning Objectives, Day Two
Participants will be able to:
- Apply facial feedback theory to reduce vicarious trauma risk
- Increase supportive and compassionate internal dialogue
- Mirror and unmirror clients depending on what is most beneficial
- Increase self-protection through muscle toning
- Track their ANS arousal
- Control tendencies to imagine (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) client stories
- Make a plan for continued self-care
BiographyBabette Rothschild, MSW, has been a practitioner since 1976 and a teacher and trainer since 1992. She is the author of seven books, (translated into more than 19 languages including Danish, German, French, Spanish, and Japanese) all published by WW Norton, including her classic bestseller, The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (2000) and Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment: Phased Recovery via Sensory and Autonomic Balance (2017, 2020). She is the Series Editor of the WW Norton 8 Keys to Mental Health Series. After living and working for 9 years in Copenhagen, Denmark in the 1990’s she returned to her native Los Angeles. There she is writing her next books while she continues to lecture, train, and supervise professional psychotherapists worldwide. In recent years, together with members of her Somatic Trauma Therapy team, the London office of WW Norton, and the Complex Trauma Institute, she has been at the forefront of providing probono training and support for thousands of psychotherapists and other helping professionals in Ukraine. For more information, visit her website: www.trauma.cc
Date: 28-29.03.2025 16:00-20:00
ZOOM platform. Tłumaczenie symultaniczne.
The lecture part will be recorded. The recordings will be available for 6 months after the workshop.
Price: 1050 PLN.
If you are interested in the workshpo please contact:
marta@psse.net.pl, +48 606 212 200 (whatsup)
PLEASE NOTE: Registering for a workshop is not a guarantee of participation. Only paying for the workshop guarantees a place at the workshop.