Nourishing Mind & Healing Heart:
A Retreat for Psychologists
at Lake Lawn Resort, Delavan, Wisconsin
July 26-27, 2012
6:00 p.m. Thursday - 4:00 p.m. Friday
The Wisconsin Psychological Association
offers 8 hours of CE credit for this retreat for psychologists.
Call 262-728-7950 for room reservations, and email wispsych@execpc.com to register for the retreat.
Fees Received by 7-20 Received after 7-20
WPA Member $150 $175
Non-member $175 $190
Student $50 $50
Psychologists have rich and powerful connections with those whom they treat, and the work of psychotherapy blends exposure to pain with rediscovery of human strength. This sort of work creates a tension, which may nurture greater health, yet may exact a toll in its demands for both equanimity and empathy. This Retreat invites participants to create symbols and paths for finding mindful balance and to strengthen moment-to-moment awareness through the practice of savoring of experience. You will be guided to develop resilience in the face of compassion fatigue and to explore writing as a vehicle for vitality, community and integrity.
The presenters are those who convened last year’s first-ever WPA retreat for psychologists. They hope to move further in the directions charted by those who participated last year. Their teaching is informed by their ongoing relationships with WPA members and their diverse communities of support and engagement, setting the stage for comfortable intensity and grounded explorations. Dr. Phyllis Kasper provides deeper experience with the Native American approach to healing and renewal via diverse medicines of cedar, song and rhythm. Dr. John Weaver looks at savoring experience as a way to practice positive psychology and mindfulness. Dr. Al Bellg invites reflection on compassion fatigue and ways of renewal. Dr. Mark Marnocha leads directed writing techniques that facilitate richer self-awareness and emotional connection.
Spirit Lodge: Sacred Healing Ceremony - Phyllis Kasper, PhD
This is a virtual Sweat Lodge experience, taking us through an ancient process of rebirth from the womb of Mother Earth. We let go of ego and trust the medicines of cedar, the drum and shakers, and sacred song to renew our spirits. We begin with a Talking Circle, experience the Lodge, and follow up with Dr. Weaver’s “savoring” experience the following morning.
· Connect with your deeper self through mindfulness rather than reading & thinking
· Appreciate the power of mindfulness by experiencing it during ceremony
· Understand mindful listening through participation in the Talking Circle
· Understand the true purpose & benefit of Sweat Lodge
Savoring Your Life: Positive Psychology in Action - John Weaver, PsyD
Positive psychology helps us to identify the best of what it means to live a full, rich, human existence. The understanding of positive psychology is not sufficient to gain the benefits, though. It must be practiced. The ability to take time to savor an experience is one way we can make the principles of positive psychology a part of our daily experience. In this session, we will learn by doing. We will engage in a savoring exercise and look for ways to make this experience a real and consistent part of our daily life.
· Be able to engage consciously in a savoring exercise
· Understand the benefits of taking time to savor events in daily life
· Construct a structured plan for practicing conscious savoring on an ongoing basis
Compassion Fatigue, Compassion Renewal - Albert Bellg, PhD
Many of us go into psychology because we want to help others. But the strains of psychotherapy practice often lead to distancing, emotional numbing or "compassion fatigue" that undermines our therapeutic relationship with clients and our satisfaction with work. Through discussion, self-reflection and writing, this session will give participants an opportunity to examine compassion fatigue in their own work and develop a self-care strategy to renew their compassionate experience of clients, improve personal satisfaction and increase resilience.
· Be able to identify sources of strain & compassion fatigue in your practice & work
· Develop internal & external strategies to address those issues
· Create an ongoing practice of self-care & compassion renewal
Writing to Revive - Mark Marnocha, PhD
Sometimes bringing things back to life entails finding a centered awareness, transparent so as to admit memories and hope. Writing is a vehicle for renewal, whether as part of providing health care or developing one’s own spiritual practice. This session will make further use of writing exercises as a means to better center awareness, thereby to revive the power of a mentor, the grace of young life, the truth in the most mundane, or the dancing of the natural world.
· Appreciate ways that writing may affect emotional & cognitive functioning
· Use writing to explore sources of mentoring & integration
· Sharpen skills of perception & attention via writing in a workshop setting
WPA Member $150 $175
Non-member $175 $190
Student $50 $50
Psychologists have rich and powerful connections with those whom they treat, and the work of psychotherapy blends exposure to pain with rediscovery of human strength. This sort of work creates a tension, which may nurture greater health, yet may exact a toll in its demands for both equanimity and empathy. This Retreat invites participants to create symbols and paths for finding mindful balance and to strengthen moment-to-moment awareness through the practice of savoring of experience. You will be guided to develop resilience in the face of compassion fatigue and to explore writing as a vehicle for vitality, community and integrity.
The presenters are those who convened last year’s first-ever WPA retreat for psychologists. They hope to move further in the directions charted by those who participated last year. Their teaching is informed by their ongoing relationships with WPA members and their diverse communities of support and engagement, setting the stage for comfortable intensity and grounded explorations. Dr. Phyllis Kasper provides deeper experience with the Native American approach to healing and renewal via diverse medicines of cedar, song and rhythm. Dr. John Weaver looks at savoring experience as a way to practice positive psychology and mindfulness. Dr. Al Bellg invites reflection on compassion fatigue and ways of renewal. Dr. Mark Marnocha leads directed writing techniques that facilitate richer self-awareness and emotional connection.
Spirit Lodge: Sacred Healing Ceremony - Phyllis Kasper, PhD
This is a virtual Sweat Lodge experience, taking us through an ancient process of rebirth from the womb of Mother Earth. We let go of ego and trust the medicines of cedar, the drum and shakers, and sacred song to renew our spirits. We begin with a Talking Circle, experience the Lodge, and follow up with Dr. Weaver’s “savoring” experience the following morning.
· Connect with your deeper self through mindfulness rather than reading & thinking
· Appreciate the power of mindfulness by experiencing it during ceremony
· Understand mindful listening through participation in the Talking Circle
· Understand the true purpose & benefit of Sweat Lodge
Savoring Your Life: Positive Psychology in Action - John Weaver, PsyD
Positive psychology helps us to identify the best of what it means to live a full, rich, human existence. The understanding of positive psychology is not sufficient to gain the benefits, though. It must be practiced. The ability to take time to savor an experience is one way we can make the principles of positive psychology a part of our daily experience. In this session, we will learn by doing. We will engage in a savoring exercise and look for ways to make this experience a real and consistent part of our daily life.
· Be able to engage consciously in a savoring exercise
· Understand the benefits of taking time to savor events in daily life
· Construct a structured plan for practicing conscious savoring on an ongoing basis
Compassion Fatigue, Compassion Renewal - Albert Bellg, PhD
Many of us go into psychology because we want to help others. But the strains of psychotherapy practice often lead to distancing, emotional numbing or "compassion fatigue" that undermines our therapeutic relationship with clients and our satisfaction with work. Through discussion, self-reflection and writing, this session will give participants an opportunity to examine compassion fatigue in their own work and develop a self-care strategy to renew their compassionate experience of clients, improve personal satisfaction and increase resilience.
· Be able to identify sources of strain & compassion fatigue in your practice & work
· Develop internal & external strategies to address those issues
· Create an ongoing practice of self-care & compassion renewal
Writing to Revive - Mark Marnocha, PhD
Sometimes bringing things back to life entails finding a centered awareness, transparent so as to admit memories and hope. Writing is a vehicle for renewal, whether as part of providing health care or developing one’s own spiritual practice. This session will make further use of writing exercises as a means to better center awareness, thereby to revive the power of a mentor, the grace of young life, the truth in the most mundane, or the dancing of the natural world.
· Appreciate ways that writing may affect emotional & cognitive functioning
· Use writing to explore sources of mentoring & integration
· Sharpen skills of perception & attention via writing in a workshop setting