Ethics as Self Care - 7 CE Hours       Caring for Yourself Inside and Outside the Therapeutic Relationship with Kathy Ginn- Friday 3/30/12 8:30am - 5pm

Call Stephanie Anderson 715.379.6361 to register by phone.

Kathy has been active in the profession since 1991. She is an NCBTMB approved provider and has been offering ethics education since 1999. She served with the NCBTMB ethics committee for 8 years, and currently volunteers with the National AMTA teacher development committee. Kathy belongs to the Right Use of Power teacher’s guild ~ a group of passionate ethics educators that live and work throughout the country. She is on faculty with TIBIA Massage School and East ~ West Healing Arts Institute. She is in private practice in Madison, WI. Kathy is a Wisconsin state licensed massage therapist.       You may visit her website @ www.ethicaldimensions.com

Is self- care an ethical issue? Does lack of self - care disrupt our ability to be present with our clients? As helping professionals we tend to focus our energies and attention toward service and care of others to the detriment of our own care. Out of our deep commitment to service and healing, we frequently forget that when we feel depleted our clients will not be getting the level of professional care that we are capable of offering.

This educational program is an engaging and inspiring approach to the work of ethical awareness and accountability. We will begin by investigating the risks of our role as helper, the nature of conscious service, along with exploring the deeper values of our helping work.  This class will offer the participant two lenses ~ exploring self - care inside and outside the therapeutic relationship. The following skills and disciplines will be topics of discussion and study: Self Care outside the therapeutic relationship includes personal care and life style habits, self - care beliefs and attitudes, maintaining balance to prevent overworking and burn out, the disciplines of solitude, stillness and silence and the value of supervision and support.  Self care inside the therapeutic relationship includes modeling good self care by practicing the protocol for professional habits that include informed consent, managing dual role relationship, discriminate self-disclosure, establishing practice policies, increasing awareness around personal limitations and boundary style, and tracking for impact and intention.

This course promises to offer a learning experience that provides information and support, along with practical tools that will guide and inspire the participant to a greater understanding of how to work within the often confusing and fragile client/therapist relationship. The learning environment is experiential in nature, weaving lecture, story telling, community dialogue, art, small group learning and quiet reflection. Kathy’s intention is to allow the study and exploration of ethics to come alive! May we learn to offer our clients a space that promotes healing, natural caring, and authentic connection?

 *Students - please bring a box of crayons or markers.

Cancellation Policy:     Full refund minus $30.00 administrative fee. Cancellations less than 72 hours prior to the event receive no refund.