Building an Emotionally Resilient Practice

Description: The challenges social workers address in their clinical and macro practices are daunting, intense, and ever-present. Compassion fatigue and burnout are common. Social workers require specific skills and training to help mitigate the stress and strain of high-quality social work practice.

Effective social workers are adaptive, responsive, and able to demonstrate value guided committed behavior when it is needed most. Increasing your psychological flexibility improves your ability to provide this value guided practice while also protecting and enhancing your own mental health and wellbeing.

Objectives:

After this presentation, the attendee will be able to:

· Define Resilience and identify the evidence-based theories included in the resilience training model used at Michigan State University.

· Understand and begin to practice a 6-word framework for resilience to help them navigate moments of inconvenience, upset, disappointment, setback, failure, and trauma.

· Adopt a process for honoring and metabolizing the emotional load of social work practice.

· Shift to an inside-out vantage point from which to navigate their personal and professional life.

Format: Live Zoom (once registered you will find a link on the online event page)

CECHs: 2 Continuing Education Contact Hours. Trauma Informed Care Certificate Core Course

Skill Level: Recommended for LMSW beginning and intermediate skill levels.

Refunds: You can refund yourself up to 7 days before event on Eventbrite.

Accommodations: Please email us directly with any special accommodations you may need at swkce@msu.edu

Contact Info: swkce@msu.edu

Instructor: Lisa Laughman, LMSW

Lisa Laughman earned her Bachelor's degree in Social Work from Eastern Michigan University in 1988 and her Masters in Social Work from Michigan State University in 1990. Lisa has worked in the areas of foster care, substance abuse, employee assistance counseling, community development, workplace wellness, and stress reduction coaching. Her passions include teaching principles of healthy human functioning including a focus on shame resilience theory (SRT), psychological flexibility, and Acceptance Commitment Theory (ACT) within a social justice framework. Lisa is a counselor for the MSU Employee Assistance Program, and an emotional wellness consultant for the MSU Health4U Program. Lisa is also the owner of Wisdom Heart Life a counseling and coaching practice that helps people live their life lined up with their deepest wisdom and their greatest sense of meaning and purpose.