Course Description:
Workshop participants will be introduced to the CFT model of compassion and how to apply this model in interventions for people with psychosis. Specifically, participants will learn how to help their clients: Establish a bodily experience of safeness through, e.g.: i) practice of soothing rhythm breathing, which activates the parasympathetic system; ii) learning to recognize what postures and activities ground and center the person; and iii) using mindfulness and imagery exercises. Create the external contexts (e.g. interpersonal and environmental) in which safeness experience can flourish. Develop a ‘compassionate self’, which is a part of them with the qualities required to explore and engage with their fears, voices, and dissociated parts; essentially, a self-identity that organizes the mind and provides a secure base (or grounding) from which to do the therapeutic work. Use these compassionate qualities and skills to manage internal conflicts and to initiate supportive dialogue between voices and different emotional parts. This is achieved through techniques such as voice dialoguing / talking with voices, imagery, chair work, and letter writing. Recommended for LMSW beginning and intermediate skill levels.
Course Link:
http://www.socialwork.msu.edu/ceu
CE Value (credits): 6
CE Type: Standard
Sponsor:
Michigan State University School of SW
Contact Information:
Ryan Hasselbach
517-353-3060
swkce@msu.edu