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Regardless of experience, personality or training, ALL emergency personnel and care giving responders are susceptible to CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS. This workshop will help you:

• learn the dynamics of CIS as an occupational hazard
• develop and refine CIS debriefing and defusing techniques
• practice debriefing and defusing techniques
• develop coping skills to identify CIS in yourself and your coworkers.

This workshop will:

• Review the dynamics of CIS as an occupational hazard
• Refine CIS debriefing and defusing techniques through practicals and role playing
• Compare debriefing techniques with other teams
• Develop coping skills to identify CIS in yourself and your coworkers
• Teach skills in team development, training and morale
• Practicing tools for debriefing the debriefers

   

Designed for officers, deputies, detectives, supervisors, physicians, nursing staff, social workers, firefighters, paramedics, district attorneys, coroners, dispatchers, therapists/counselors, and clergy.

Giving the notification, managing survivors and loved ones and performing job duties in the aftermath of death or trauma can be taxing on responding personnel. The goal of this eight-hour course is to make a difficult job more manageable and reduce the impact upon personnel in the aftermath. 

• A broad understanding of death, the grief process and potential impact on survivors is explored
• Specific intervention techniques are addressed through lecture, discussion and practice
• Tools for managing critical incident stress for responding personnel will be given

The day you spend in this workshop will provided you valuable skills for your professional life. Explore strategies for survival in the care giving disciplines. Individuals who work closely with people in grief and loss situations are confronted continually with emotional pain. Dealing effectively with the pain, and providing meaningful support, can be challenging and exhausting.

The Art of Compassion course is designed to augment the professional's formal training, providing in-depth exposure to grief and loss situations and to the tools available for facilitating healing. The sessions are a combination of didactic presentation and group interaction.

Change and loss are a part of our daily lives. This workshop addresses life-affirming tools to transform difficulty into depth, pain into meaning. Utilizing art, music, movement and writing, we create understanding of our unique journey of grief and explore what works for us. No experience in the creative arts is necessary. This is a playful and safe day to build richness into your life.

Loss is a fact of living. Grief is the natural, human response to any loss or change. Issues such as death, living with a serious illness, job loss or change, separation, divorce, violence and sudden or traumatic incidents confront us both personally and professionally on a daily basis. Explore life affirming coping tools. Identify how to recognize stress and grief responses in yourself and others, as well as identify positive action steps for healing.

Many of us feel the need to say "Goodbye" to people or situations that have changed or who are no longer a part of our life. The death of loved ones, job change, relationship loss, internal growth and releasing of old patterns call for an action step. Explore practical skills in organizing a ceremony of leave-taking to help you adjust and build a "New Normal".

Unfinished business is a coined term to describe any unresolved feelings, issues, relationships or acts related to change or loss in our life. Because life is full of constant movement and change, it is important to bring completion to what is left undone in order to move forward with total energy and commitment. Examine tips to actively resolve the feelings of guilt, anger, resentment, regret, sadness and helplessness that often are the result of unfinished business.

This skills workshop teaches participants tools for supporting people facing loss.