Internationally Available Teleclass

Essential Energetic Boundaries & Ethics 
for Grief Support and Healing Arts Practitioners
August 16, 23, & 30, 2014   Each session two hours  11 am - 1 pm PT
If you cannot attend the sessions live you can still register and receive the audio recordings and
handouts to listen to and review at your leisure.

Hello Dear Clients, Friends and Colleagues,

Have you ever felt worn out or overwhelmed with your work in helping others?
Have you ever struggled with boundaries in client relationships? 
Have you ever faced an ethical dilemma in your role as a helper or as a client?
Have you ever been told you are "too sensitive" for your own good? 

I think that most of us in professional helping roles have faced these issues at one time or another. I'm very excited about this new class that covers these issues in a dynamic and hopefully fun way with discussions, shared ideas and stories, case studies, hands-on exercises and numerous handouts.

Many of us began our work in the helping professions--whether in counseling, animal communication, grief support or other healing arts--deeply motivated by love, compassion and a genuine heart-felt desire to serve. While this provides a profoundly important foundation, it's not enough. If we don't also consciously develop and use energetic boundaries and ethics in our work, we can inadvertently undermine the effectiveness and quality of the help we offer and also become depleted ourselves.

The practice of consciously using energetic boundaries and protection is one of the most vital and primary areas of competency needed to do any work in the helping professions and to do the work well without becoming burned out, and without violating ethical boundaries--even unwittingly.

This class provides an in-depth opportunity to examine and explore how both ethics and boundaries can be applied in our work to provide clients with a sense of safety, trust and optimum opportunities for healing and growth, and to provide ourselves with energetic preparedness to offer our knowledge and skills with clarity, without bias (including unconscious bias), and with greater ability to be fully present with the stories, pain and trauma of clients and with reduced risk of burnout and compassion fatigue.

The class  has been designed for all helping professionals including, but not limited to, grief support practitioners in various roles and settings, animal communicators, chaplains, counselors and those who practice any healing arts. You are lovingly welcome to join us! 


With blessings and love to you and your animal loved ones,
                        
 Teresa
Objectives

*  Learn methods of energetic protection to be able to remain fully open-hearted and compassionate when working with clients without taking in their pain and energy which reduces the risks of secondary traumatization (compassion fatigue) and burnout.

*  Increase understanding about the full nature of "being sensitive"--that it is normal, it is healthy and is a gift that must be handled with continual, conscious care if it is to be enjoyed by those who possess it and used effectively to help others.

*  Develop a clear understanding of the dynamics and negative impact of filtering and projection; and learn tools to prevent inappropriate--and often unconscious--filtering and projecting of our own beliefs, ideas and values onto clients.

*  Explore the core ethics of the helping professions, with particular attention to the context of grief support as a tool to bridge the gap between our intention to serve with integrity and professionalism and specific guidelines of how to do that. 

* Build our awareness of how to set boundaries regarding the logistics and decisions of how we work, when we work, and with whom we work.




Class Outline:

Session 1: Ethics and Our Motivation to Help Others
The role and purpose of ethics and guiding principles in the helping professions
Assessing and understanding our own motivations to help
Blind spots and how to illuminate them
Worst & best case scenarios: What can go wrong ethically in grief support and other helping relationships?
  What can we do to prevent such scenarios?
Review of the code of ethics, guiding principles and four elements of the facilitation of healing from the
  Animal Loss and Grief Support Professional Program of Study
Strategies for working through ethical dilemmas:
  Who and what needs to be considered? What is the best course of action?
Case Studies: Which ethics and guiding principles apply?


Session 2:  Energetic Boundaries to Protect Clients from Potential Bias, Filtering or Projection
The role and purpose of energetic boundaries to protect clients in helping relationships
The power of language to communicate respect, acceptance and nurturing neutrality
Effectively handling our own reactions and pain about our client's loss and pain
The importance of not exposing clients to our pain or reactions about their loss
Tools: Internal and external strategies for clearing our values and beliefs during client interaction
Case Studies: Which ethics and guiding principles apply?
 

Session 3:  Energetic Boundaries to Protect Ourselves from Potential Overwhelm and Compassion Fatigue
The role and purpose of energetic boundaries to protect ourselves in helping relationships
Preventing secondary traumatic stress: managing overwhelming feelings in response to client stories
  and trauma
Energetic protection issues for highly sensitive and empathic people
Tools:  Internal and external strategies for protection from overwhelm of others' energy and pain
Case Studies: Which ethics and guiding principles apply?
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