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Thursday, September 28, 2023,10:00 AM -12:00 PM Eastern Time
Let’s face it, change is constant and inevitable. It seems that we are always in some form of a transitional process. The start of any new chapter in life, whether it be joyful and celebratory or one held with reluctancy or disdain, can be overwhelming and stress inducing. Whether we welcome these changes or not, transitional stages can thrust us into an uncertain future. Uncertainty and the unknown aspects of change can trigger within us a myriad of complex and uncomfortable responses such as frustration, destabilization, fear, anger, resentment, and anxiety. At times, it may feel like the ground is shifting underneath our feet as we fumble with the mental and emotional gymnastics of adapting to the disruption of life as we know it.
Applying Mindfulness Practice can help us to ground ourselves and find our way through these challenging processes with more ease, more softness and kindness toward ourselves and others. Integrating mindful practice into our daily experience can also reward us with more clarity, and a greater sense of awareness and curiosity as we seek to remain more focused on the moment.
Join us for this 2 Hour experiential workshop as we create a safe space to explore, share, learn about and work through some of our thoughts, feelings and experiences around life transitions. Together we will center on managing transitions more effectively, making them less painful and allowing ourselves to learn and grow from them.
About the Presenter
Carmen Caraballo, MSW, is a seasoned bilingual Master’s Level Social Worker with over 27 years of experience working with children, youth, adults, families, communities, and organizations throughout the Philadelphia area. She possesses a strong clinical background working with various populations, such as pregnant and parenting women, pre-term prevention, home visitation services, early childhood education, child welfare, at-risk youth and violence prevention, reunification, homelessness and housing, smoking cessation, addiction, and substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, trauma work, and critical incidence, hospice, and end of life care. She has provided services along the continuum of direct service practice, case management, clinical counseling and therapy, supervisory and management functions, director of programs and executive leadership, and executive coaching. She has a passion for coaching and partnering with individuals to unlock their fullest potential in order to attain their most desired personal, professional, and creative goals. In her personal time, she enjoys reading, writing, appreciating the wide range of creative arts, listening to jazz really loud, tending to her many plants, and spending quality time with her three amazing adult children, her nine beautiful grandchildren, and her beloved circle of female friends.
About the Resilience Session Themes
After learning skills for workplace resilience - skills that help counter burnout, help prevent secondary traumatic stress, and help strengthen your work within your team and with those to whom you provide service - how do you sustain these skills? This Resilience Series is currently themed each month around one of the letters in CHIME - Connectedness, Hope & optimism, Identity, Meaning, and Empowerment. Using CHIME can help you keep track of your own skills and check in with yourself on how you are doing.
Supported in part by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health
This Resiliency Series is specially offered for community members and organizations who through their work are First Responders or are involved with those affected by the Substance Use Crisis in Philadelphia. The stress of caring for others can affect our bodies and minds. This free virtual series is here to support our workplaces and community and is open to anyone.
For information on Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), visit #TakeCarePHL at https://www.philadelphiaaces.org/sts. Visit the Events page to sign up for notifications of future events.
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