Self-Care and Mind-Body Practices
Overview
Wellness Techniques for Practitioners and Different Client Populations
Live Online Seminar
Monday, May 10, and Tuesday, May 11, 2021
10:00am–1:00pm EST (both days)
NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 6 CE contact hours
“Looking behind, I am filled with gratitude, looking forward, I am filled with vision, looking upwards, I am filled with strength, looking within I discover peace.”
–Quero Apache Prayer
Self-care is spoken about often in the social work and mental health profession as a way to mitigate stress that may lead to burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, vicarious trauma, and PTSD. Often times finding ways to participate in self-care in a balanced way can be difficult. The 8 dimensions of wellness can be used to measure which areas of a persons life need to be given more attention to achieve overall wellness.
Yoga and mindfulness practices have been shown to be extremely helpful in reducing anxiety, depression, symptoms of PTSD as well as various other health conditions. Regular use of mindfulness practices contribute to overall wellbeing and can be used as part of a practitioner’s self-care toolbox. Learning these practices can also provide practitioners the opportunity to pass on mindfulness practices to clients. It is also important to learn how practices can be used safely with different client populations.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this seminar, participants will:
- Be able to identify different components of self-care using 8 dimensions of wellness
- Be able to identify areas in which self-care can be improved
- Learn various mind-body techniques which they can use for themselves and clients
- Learn how to adapt mind-body techniques to different client populations
Presenter
Michelle Castillo, LMSW
200-hour Certified Yoga and Wellness Instructor
Michelle has worked in mental health and social services for the last 10 years. She is currently a hospital social worker at Metropolitan Hospital. Prior to this Michelle worked in NYC’s Parachute Programs first Crisis Respite Center for 6 years as a Certified Peer Specialist where she was trained in Intentional Peer Support, Health Navigation, how to speak with voice hearers, and suicide prevention. She also worked on the support line that was the precursor to what is now known as NYC Well.
Michelle completed her yoga and wellness certification in May 2020 at Breathe for Change, a program deeply rooted in social justice issues and anti-racism. This program also focues heavily on transformation of the self to transform communities. Michelle has been practicing yoga and mindfulness regularly for the last 3 years. She recently completed a neuroscience of mind-body therapy and MBSR 8 week certificate course. Michelle hopes to receive her certification in mind-body therapy in coming years to continue using wellness practices with clients.
Registration Information
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Attendance Fees
General Admission: $150.00
Discounts:
- NYU Silver Alumni (Graduate and Undergraduate degrees): $112.50
- NYU Faculty & Staff: $112.50
- NYU Silver Post-Masters Certificate Program Alumni: $140.40
- NYU Silver Current Field Instructors: $112.50
- NYU Silver Retired Full Time Faculty: $112.50
- NYU Silver Current Students: $75.00
- Non-NYU Current MSW and PhD Students: $100.00
- Veterans: $75.00
Cancellations and Refunds
If after registering, you determine that you can no longer attend this event, The Office of Global and Lifelong Learning will issue refunds on the following basis:
- Refund requests made on or before May 3 (by midnight): full refund
- Refund requests made on or before May 6 (by midnight): 50% refund
- Refund requests made on or after May 7: no refund
If this event is cancelled, all registrants will be fully reimbursed. To withdraw from and be reimbursed for this event, please complete the event withdrawal form.
Continuing Education Contact Hours
NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 6 Continuing Education Contact Hours.
New York University Silver School of Social Work is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers {#SW-0012}.
New York University Silver School of Social Work is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors {#MHC-0083}.
For Mental Health Practitioners: Please check with your state, if you are not licensed in New York, to determine if these credits will be accepted for licensing renewal.
55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.
Special Accommodations and Grievance Policy
Special Accommodations:
Students requiring accommodations have the opportunity to make these known upon registering or by writing to silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.
Addressing Grievances:
For information on our grievance and complaint procedures, contact 212.998.9099 or silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.
Contact Us
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