Spirituality, Science, and Healing: Empowering Discoveries for Social Workers
Course offered by UW Oshkosh
This workshop will explore evidence for “nonlocal” healing in medicine (and by extension, social work). It will examine the importance of spirituality in this endeavor, the relationship between spirituality and religion, and how both can be engaged in “Era III” healing. It will examine potential relationships among brain, mind, and spirit, and discuss how mind and spirit can enhance healing. Other evidence for “nonlocal mind” (in addition to nonlocal healing) such as precognition, premonition and spontaneous experience of another’s pain will also be discussed.
Learning Objectives
1. Identify three eras of medicine (Era I, Mechanical Medicine; Era II, Mind-Body Medicine; and Era III, Nonlocal Medicine), and their defining characteristics.
2. Gain knowledge about “Era III” approaches to healing that involve spirituality (prayer and conscious intention).
3. Examine potential relationships among brain, mind and spirit, and learn how mind and spirit can enhance healing.
4. Learn about modern scientific research regarding Era III modes of healing with 1) cells, 2) plants, 3) animals, and 4) humans
5. Explore deeper meanings of spirituality, the relationship between spirituality and religion, and how both can be engaged in “nonlocal” approaches to healing.
6. Identify how Era III healing may work, including qualities of resonance, characteristics of the hologram, findings from quantum physics, and research on the “Zero-Point Field.”
7. Explore empowering implications of Era III discoveries regarding spirituality, science and healing for professional social workers.
| Instructor: |
Carolyn Cressy Wells, PhD, LCSW Carolyn Cressy Wells, PhD, LCSW is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Prior to UW Oshkosh, she taught social work at Marquette University. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the |
| Date: | Friday, October 16, 2009 |
| Time: | 9:00am-1:00pm |
| Location: | Radisson Paper Valley, Appleton, WI |
| CEUs/CEHs: | CEHs/CEUs: 4.5 Continuing Education Hours (CEHs)/.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) |
| Fee: | $92 |
| Fee includes course materials, refreshments and CEH/CEU certificate |
Ethics and Boundaries for Social Workers
Course offered by UW Oshkosh
This 4-hour workshop meets the Wisconsin Department of Regulations and Licensing Continuing Education Requirements for Social Work Ethics and Professional Boundaries. Participants will review the National Association of Social Work Code of Ethics including social work values and ethical principles. This interactive workshop will use ethical dilemmas and case examples to illustrate the ethical challenges that social work professionals face in their daily practice. Participants will engage in a discussion of what it means to be a professional and gain the ability to set clear boundaries with clients and colleagues.
Learning Objectives
1. Affirm the core values of the social work profession as identified by the National Association of Social Workers and the ethical principles that flow from those values.
2. Review all six standards of the NASW Code of Ethics.
3. Identify specific dilemmas for social work practice.
4. Use examples as illustration, to demonstrate the critical thinking process that leads to resolution of difficult ethical dilemmas in social work practice.
5. Engage in analysis of ethical issues encountered in their own social work practice.
| Instructor: |
Fredi Staerkel, Ph.D Fredi Staerkel, Ph.D has been an Assistant Professor in the Social Work Department at UW-Oshkosh since 2002 and she is the Program Coordinator for the Collaborative MSW Program. Dr. Staerkel has 26 years of Social Work experience in direct practice, management and research. Her primary area of practice has been child welfare and family support. Dr. Staerkel holds and MSW and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle. |
| Date: | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| Time: | 9:00am - 1:00pm |
| Location: | Oshkosh Convention Center, Oshkosh |
| CEUs/CEHs: | CEHs/CEUs: 4.5 Continuing Education Hours (CEHs)/.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) |
| Fee: | $88 |
| Fee includes course materials, refreshments and CEH/CEU certificate. |
Strategies of Grief Therapy: A Meaning Reconstruction Approach
Course offered by UW-Green Bay
As grief theory and research have grown to include emotion-focused, attachment and meaning-oriented approaches, so too has the range of methods available to grief therapists. This workshop explores principles and practices deriving from these perspectives, with a focus on four types of processes, including: (1) grief work, (2) narrative work, (3) continuing bonds work, and (4) imagery work. Each type of therapeutic strategy suggests the relevance of various clinical procedures for engaging a client’s words and images to reconstruct their relationship to the deceased, and to reveal obstacles to such reconstruction.
This workshop draws on cutting edge theory and research to reinforce the relevance of these four core intervention strategies, and will make use of therapeutic videos, demonstrations and exercises to convey how these methods work and feel in the context of practice. As a result, participants will leave with a clearer conceptualization of processes that foster constructive meaning-making in bereavement.
Learning Objectives:
1. •Identify the defining characteristics of successful and complicated accommodation of loss
2. •Distinguish between two major forms of narrative work and identify strategies for working with each
3. •Describe two methods for working with the continuing bond to promote bereavement adaptation
4. •Practice two uses of imagery and metaphor to foster the articulation and reconstruction of loss experiences
| Instructor: |
Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D. Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D. Robert Neimeyer, Professor, Psychotherapy Research Area, Department of Psychology, University Memphis and internationally known researcher, author and speaker in the field of death, grief and loss. |
| Date: | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| Time: | 9:00am - 4:30pm, Registration 8:30am - 9:00am |
| Location: | UW-Green Bay, University Union |
| CEUs/CEHs: | 7CEHs/0.6CEUs applied for |
| Fee: | $109 |
| Includes course materials, CEU certificate, a mid-morning and mid-afternoon 15-minute break and a one hour lunch. The UW-Green Bay Institute on Dying, Death and Bereavement gratefully acknowledges the support of this program sponsor whose contribution partially underwrites workshop costs: Heartland Home Health and Hospice |
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For the biennium that begins March 1, 2009 and ends February 28, 2011, 30 continuing education credit hours are required. Of those, 4 credit hours must be in social work ethics and professional boundaries.
See Wisconsin Statutes and Administrative Code for more details.
For additional information, contact:
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UW-Green Bay Mona Christensen |
UW-Oshkosh Yvonne Hansen |
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