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The Gifts of Imperfection(TM) for Helping Professionals Weekend Beach Retreat

The Gifts of Imperfection(TM) for Helping Professionals Weekend Beach Retreat

September 2025

Comparison is all about conformity and competition. It’s easy to see how difficult it is to make time for the important things such as creativity, gratitude, joy, and authenticity when spending enormous amounts of energy conforming and competing. Creativity, the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared. - Brené Brown

Playful Presence: Creating a Wholehearted Self-Care Portrait for the Authentic Therapist

Playful Presence:  Creating a Wholehearted Self-Care Portrait for the Authentic Therapist

Playful Presence

Friday March 21, 2025, 8:30am - 4:00pm

This workshop emphasizes that play isn't merely a break from work but the essential foundation for a creative therapeutic presence. By actively cultivating playfulness, therapists enhance their creative capacity, develop more innovative interventions, and maintain the flexible thinking needed for effective clinical work.

Based on the research of Cheryl Lynn Childers, this workshop This 6-hour CEU workshop guides therapists through creating a "Playful Presence Portrait" that embodies Brené Brown's guidepost principle of wholehearted living, emphasizing how authentic play and rest revitalizes creative capacity and clinical effectiveness. - Spaces are limited