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Divine Mercy Centre & Apostolate Offers A Series of Workshops for Professionals
Divine Mercy Centre and Apostolate is dedicated to the care and nurture of all beings. In that light, they are offering a series of workshops they see as important to enhance the well-being and skills of today’s care providers.
October 10th, 2008: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Compassion Fatigue:
This 1-day of professional
development is for staff, whose work requires them to provide continuous,
empathic support to others who are dealing with crisis or trauma, due to
addiction, abuse, homelessness, suicide, grief or terminal illness. The
workshop examines the impact of Compassion Fatigue on care providers and
explores ways to prevent and transform it.
Facilitators: Rita & Lynn
October 17th, 2008: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Safe Talk: This 1-day introduction to Suicide Intervention Skills
Training, will give you the confidence to identify, & intervene with, those
at risk of taking their lives, in an empathic & productive way for all
concerned. You will be introduced to future training available: the 2-day ASIST
workshop for community caregivers (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills
Training) and Suicide Care.
Facilitators: Leslie & Terry
October 24th, 2008: 9 a.m. - 4
p.m., Grief and
Loss: This 1-day workshop will help you, as a service provider,
to distinguish between Burn-out, Depression and Grief in your clients. You will
be introduced to the 12-week Grief Recovery Program, which will give you an
appreciation of the health benefits reported by participants, an outline of the
process and insight into the undesirable consequences of unprocessed grief.
Facilitators: Lynn & Rita
November 7th, 2008: 9:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., EQ Coaching: This
1-day workshop concentrates on explaining the seven core emotional competencies
while working with a module called A.R.T. Participants are asked to be Aware
of or recognize their emotions, to take Responsibility for such
emotions and then to Take action. EQ Coaching focuses on the
development of emotional skills to increase personal effectiveness and enable
demonstrating the competencies at work and in life that result in
success.
Facilitator: Roy
Divine Mercy Centre & Apostolate Call: 613 259-9114; Toll free: 1-888-461-9254 R.R.4, #2531 Dalhousie Conc. 2 Fax: 613-259-0204 Lanark, ON K0G 1K0 E-mail: administrator@divinemercycentre.com
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS
Leslie Bond, a registered Master Trainer with Living Works suicide prevention programs, fluent in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training), safeTALK and Suicide Awareness. She is an experienced group facilitator and counselor. Having changed directions in the past year, she is now the Principal of L.A.BOND Facilitation, and has designed and facilitated workshops to develop Peer Helpers for a specific population dealing with grief.
Terry Pyne, a registered Coaching Trainer (Train the Trainer) with Living Works suicide prevention programs, fluent in ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training), safeTALK, Suicide Awareness and ASIST Tune-ups. He is the Director of Health Promotion with DND in Ottawa and is an experienced counselor and facilitator. He delivers workshops in Stress Management, Healthy Eating, Smoking Cessation, Drug and Alcohol Education and Healthy Relationships.
Lynn Crosson, MSW, RSW, graduated from Carleton University School of Social Work in 1974 and has worked for 36 years with children and their families in Wisconsin and Ontario. Lynn has had 6 years of experience in the field of Child Welfare and has also worked for 30 years with the families of children with special needs. She is a certified specialist in Grief Recovery.
Rita Myres, MSW, RSW, is a graduate from Carleton University School of Social Work. She has experience creating and delivering programs for specific groups of care-givers, such as family members & teams of volunteers or professional care providers. In addition, Rita facilitates a caregiver support group, a parent education program, a Grief Recovery program and an Emotional Intelligence group for men.
Roy van der Mull, CAE, is an adult educator, business and EQ coach with 30 years in facilitation and training, financial management, business ownership and human resources. He created Complete Internal Expertise Model, a body-mind process to improve communication and collaborative thinking. CIEM, together with EQ Coaching in the work place, has enabled his clients to discover the spiritual and natural laws and cycles of living an effective and fulfilled life. He has trained and coached hundreds in business transformative processes.
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