Resilience programs: designed specifically for Health & Helping professions

Non for profit organisations, Aged care, health care organisations, Hospital staff\psychologists, general practitioners...

 Simonette has two decades of experience to bring to these compassion based courses.  She is an accredited National supervisor with the Australian board of psychology, and a member of the Australian Psychological Society.  You will learn how to re-vitalise your capacity for empathy and compassion through meditation and mindfulness practices. Evidence based research continues to support the single most important predictor of client improvement is the therapeutic relationship. Carl Roger's has returned to favour!

Emotional Resilience - care for the carer

 Resilience is the ability to bounce back from stressful life experiences, becoming wise and adapting to any situation.

    * I'm empty I have nothing more to give

    * My cup is full and flowing

 To maintain your capacity to give, and have compassion for your clients, you need to have a clear idea of the meaning you give to your work. What meaning do you give to your profession, and the activities involved? Your tasks are many and varied and when you combine these daily/nightly activities and add the amount of significant stresses in your life, then include your outside life and those requirements. Where are you in the equation?

Post-traumatic stress - Health and Helping professionals

 The compound effects of shock, experienced over prolonged periods of time, with repeated exposure to trauma and emotional fatigue can leave you feeling detached from others, with symptoms of PTSD. When life gets too hard, one of the ways to cope is dissociation. You may notice yourself or a colleague saying, I don't care, I feel numb, depressed, angry, I feel so tired. If this is the case it is important to reach out and get some help. You may be too tired to put into practice those very activities you encourage your clients to adopt.  Meditation and mindfulness principles can help.  You will experience your own benefits and then increase your capacity to effect change and health in those you work with.

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Practitioner training in meditation and mindfulness

Two half day weekend courses (PD points pending)

Venue:     Positive Psychology Institute

               St James Trust Building

               Level 4, 185 Elizabeth Street

               Sydney,   NSW   2000

 Course covers

• Overview of current research about the effectiveness of mindfulness practices and complex trauma
• meditation for building resilience to adversity
  

• Interactive and pragmatic approaches to using meditation and mindfulness with your clients
• practice at delivering meditation scripts