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Thursday, September 21, 2023,10:00 AM -12:00 PM Eastern Time
Learning to effectively harness the power of The Pause - or “purposefully pausing” - is a powerful tool in relational or team-oriented work, especially in fast paced, crisis-driven or intense working environments. To mindfully pause is to interrupt your automatic reactions to life's events and the stories that flow from those reactions. Pausing allows your mind to take a break and gather itself, so you can be with life as it is in the moment.
There are many benefits in pausing with intention. In terms of health, it slows down the parasympathetic system and calms us. In addition, pausing supports us in developing a greater sense of awareness, sharpens our listening skills and helps us to respond more effectively in solution-oriented or conflict-resolution situations. Pausing helps to cultivate a space where everyone can experience feeling seen and heard leading to less tension in the environment.
This 2 hour interactive and experiential workshop is designed for YOU if you are seeking to deepen your personal and professional understanding and effective management of emotional intelligence, self-regulation, conflict-resolution and mindfulness practice.
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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