Training
We are pleased to offer a Training and Supervision Program for Professional Caregivers to a limited number of professionals who want to explore their own physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual blocks in order to be better able to attend to their clients’ (or patients’, or congregants’) struggles.
Our philosophy is that caregivers who continue to plumb their own emotional depths are better equipped to attend and hold another’s pain.
The Professional Caregiver’s Program is designed to include training in both the “externalization” (gestalt) technique that we use at The Growth and Transition/ Grief and Loss Workshops and training in group dynamics.
It will be structured in three stages, over 3 weekends in 2010/2011.
Previous attendance at any externalization workshop, plus references, will be required.
Through this experiential training process, participants will deepen their knowledge of family of origin, boundary, and relationship issues.
It is our hope that this safe and respectful group experience will facilitate a broader spectrum of emotional insight, as well as a wiser perspective on the universality of pain.
We view this work as a spiritual journey, with the potential to open us to deeper compassion, empathy, and humility.
Please contact Anne Taylor Lincoln at 520-325-3100 or click here for an application to the 2010/2011 Training Program. References will be required. A minimum of 16, and a maximum of 24, trainees will be accepted.
Tucson Medical Center sponsors the Training Program with 27 CEUs available per weekend for individuals who qualify. Contunuing Education Units will be available after the third weekend component of the program, unless specific exceptions have been granted.