Training: Dalhousie - Journaling for Reflective Practice (online) & UBC Continuing Education

Pen to Paper: Journaling for Reflective Practice

Online Workshop: March 24 - April 20, 2014

Lynda Monk, MSW, RSW, CPCC 

Are you looking for a creative and transformative way to care for yourself? Reflective journaling is a proven technique for increasing self-knowledge, healing stress, nourishing creativity, and enhancing resiliency.

In this interactive online workshop, Lynda Monk, MSW, RSW, CPCC will help you experience the creative and restorative practice of her 5-step reflective journaling method -- Life Source WritingTM. You'll gain an understanding of the occupational hazards within helping professions -- including burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue -- and explore how to mitigate these risks with reflective journaling. You'll also explore self-care, learn how and why to create a reflective journaling practice, and tap into your own sense of inspiration, resiliency, and inner wisdom.

Lynda Monk, MSW, RSW, CPCC, is a registered social worker and a life and wellness coach specializing in serving the well-being and growth needs of people who make a difference. She is the author of Life Source Writing^TM: A Reflective Journaling Practice for Self-Discovery, Self-Care, Wellness and Creativity, as well as the producer of the Creative Wellness Guided Meditation CD.

Online Workshop Summary

Are you looking for a creative and transformative way to care for yourself? During this course, you will learn how to reduce stress, increase self-awareness and replenish from within with Life Source Writing -- a reflective, holistic journaling method for reflective practice, insight, and well-being.

Course Fee:

$235 (registration dated on or before March 3)

$270 (registration dated after March 3) 

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UBC Continuing Education

Benefit from brand new course offerings aiming to support your practice. All courses can be applied to the UBC Certificate in Collaborative Practice or taken individually.

Putting Patients at the Centre of Care

Cristine Urquhart, MSW, RSW & Victoria Wood, MA

Learn collaborative patient-centred practices to improve patient care and safety, recruitment and retention of health care providers and satisfaction for both patients and health professionals.

Apr 3 (9am-4pm) & Apr 4 (9am-12noon), UBC Robson Square, plus online learning and practice.

Mindful Professionals: Enhancing Resilience & Effectiveness for Helping Professionals

Geoffrey Soloway, MEd, PhD

Explore the science of stress, mindfulness and well-being, and its impact on helping professionals, patients, clients and interprofessional teams.

May 9-10, 9am-4pm, UBC Point Grey

Communication for Collaborative Care

Cristine Urquhart, MSW, RSW & Victoria Wood, MA

Deepen your understanding of the necessity for effective, skillful and purposeful interprofessional communication, which is essential to reduce errors, increase efficiency and ultimately improve patient care.

May 22-23 & Jun 6, 9am-4pm, UBC Point Grey, plus online learning and practice

Managing Conflict Collaboratively

Isabel Budke, MRM

Discover the value of constructive conflict and practice collaborative conflict management skills tailored to the healthcare context.

Jun 13-14, 9am-4pm, UBC Robson Square, plus online learning and practice

Also of interest:

· Motivational Interviewing in Psycho-Educational Groups - Apr 4

· Introduction to Motivational Interviewing for Helping Professionals - Apr 25-26 (UBC Okanagan) or Jun 13-14 (UBC Point Grey)

· Advanced Motivational Interviewing for Helping Professionals - May 30-31

A 15% group discount is available.

Find out more and register or call 604.827.4234