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Care for the Whole Professional Workshop

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 5pm to 6:30pm

Applications pending for 1.5 CEs for LMHC, Psychologists, LI/LCSW 

Discounts available for current Boston College students, faculty, and staff, email lynchschoolpce@bc.edu for more information. 

“Take a breath, deeply… inhale, pause, exhale…” What skills can we develop in order to better serve others as clinicians, therapists, teachers, and professionals? How does stress, be it physical or psychological, affect our embodiment? What does the wisdom from the depth of traditions, both scientific and spiritual, have to say about mindfulness skills?

As care-giving and education-oriented professionals, we must be mindful in the ways we carry burdens, in order to be proper change agents to those we serve. During this “Care for the Whole Professional” brief workshop, we invite you take a pause before the holiday season and amidst the chaos of our current world. We will explore (a) introduction to the neuroscience of stress and mindfulness, (b) practical applications of diaphragmatic (4-7-8) breathing, and (c) mindfulness from Christian spirituality (Catholic-Jesuit examen and Greek Orthodox hesychasm). We will bridge the gaps and deepen our knowledge between current research, clinical skills, and spirituality – through a dialogical workshop and your engagement in practice.

Our hope to cultivate a small group experience, where you’ll have time to take a (deep) breath to refocus on in your values and what matters – so that we may better teach and counsel others to do the same.

At the conclusion of this presentation the participant will be able to:

(1) explain the effects of psychological stress, through the lens of neuroscience, on the human person

(2) apply diaphragmatic (4-7-8) deep-breathing exercise and understand the basic research behind breath-mindfulness

(3) compare different applications of mindfulness, particularly Greek Orthodox hesychasm and the Ignatian examen