St. Clair County RESA - Event Detail

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Stress Reduction for those in the Schools and Human Services

Are you stressed out? Is the human services field, working with children and other people, overwhelming for you at times? Are you experiencing feeliings of exhaustion, decreased motivation, or a hard time either falling asleep or staying asleep? If so, you're not alone AND research shows that these symptoms can be improved through developing a regular self-care routine.

Beginning this spring, St. Clair County RESA will be launching a new, all encompassing course, in Stress Reduction for those in Human Services. This course is also know as John Kabat Zinn's, MBSR or Mindful Based Stress Reduction and will focus on developing options for effective self-care routines through Mindfulness, Intentional Breathing or Breathwork, and Gentle Yoga.

This course is also available for Counselor SCECHs, under Career Exploration. MBSR is an evidence based practice in addressing pain management, and treatment for anxiety, thus being a valuable tool for those interested in careers relating Social Work, Therapy, Psychology, Vocational Counseling and countless others. Come explore the potential of MBSR as a potential career pathway.

Full completion of this course would earn 27 Social Work CE's covering your Pain Management requirement and/or 28 SCECH's for Teachers.

If you are not quite sure this is for you, drop in to one of our 60 minute Introduction sessions to see what this is all about in February 2024. Flyers will go out and the dates and times can be found below and on the St Clair County RESA website.

The full 8 week course will launch in March. See both the Introductory Presentation Dates/Times as well as the Full 8- week Course Date/Times Below.

Introduction Presentation: February 28 and February 29, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Stress Reduction for the Human Services, full 8-week Course- this is the course for me, here's what I’ll be learning!
Orientation: March 5, 2024 from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

Class 1: Tuesday 3/12 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Abdominal breathing, instroduction to mindful eating, and the body scan meditation

Class 6: Tuesday 4/30 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Communication styles and habitual patternss of responding (includes technology and communication), yoga, and sitting meditation

Class 2: Tuesday 3/19 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Perception and creative responding, standing yoga, and the body scan

Class 7: Saturday 5/4 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

"Putting it all together" full day self care retreat

Class 3: Tuesday 4/9 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.

The power of being present, lying down yoga, and separating events, thoughts, & feelings

Class 8: Tuesday, 5/7 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Self efficacy and capability, mediations with mutiple anchors and perspectivies

Class 4: Tuesday 4/16 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Standing yoga, sitting mediation, the biology of stresss & reactivity

Class 9: Tuesday 5/14 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Developing a self-care routine and next steps

Class 5: Tuesday 4/23 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Sitting meditation with multiple anchors, skillful stress response versus stress reactivity

Audience: Special Education Teachers, Principals, Social Workers, Counselors, and Administrators
Location: St. Clair County RESA - Administration Buidling, 499 Range Road, Marysville, MI
Trainer: Joe Zima
Registration: 4:00-4:30pm
Class time: 4:30-7:00pm
SCECH's are available pending approval.
SSW-CEU's are available pending approval.