Keynotes, Workshops, and Training
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Join countless others in hearing Barbara Rubel's keynotes, workshops, and full day trainings because you deserve to be educated and enlightened at your upcoming event. Barbara is known for her high energy and humorous teaching style. Barbara customizes all of her programs to meet the requirements and the skill level of your group.
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Our Most Requested Topics
- Palette of Grief®: The Art of Coping With Compassion Fatigue through . . . Growth, Resiliency, Ideas, Energy, and Flexibility
- But I Didn't Say Goodbye: Helping Communities Cope When Tragedy Strikes
- Becoming a Group Facilitator
- Titles can change depending upon the conference theme
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KEYNOTE: Palette of GRIEF®: The Art of Coping with Compassion Fatigue Through . . .
Growth
Resiliency
Ideas
Energy
Flexibility
This fun presentation has been developed to provide professionals with techniques to deal with their stress. The Acronym focuses on Growth, Resiliency, Ideas, Energy, and Flexibility. You will learn the significance of personal growth and building resiliency. Realize how creative ideas, energy, and cognitive flexibility helps you to actively problem solve to manage your stress while helping others. Take this time to celebrate your important role and learn effective ways to prevent burnout and compassion fatigue. If you want to recognize strategies to enhance resiliency so you can continue supporting others, this presentation is for you!
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Participants will:
- List stressors that throw you off balance
- Distinguish between family stress, self-induced stress, job stress, and compassion stress
- Describe how the cumulative trauma of those you support can cause compassion fatigue
- Evaluate resilient coping strategies to avoid burnout and compassion fatigue
- Identify creative ways to build resiliency
- Design an action plan that focuses on taking care of yourself
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TRAINING: But I Didn't Say Goodbye: Helping Communities Cope When Tragedy Strikes
Is it possible to bounce back from loss and a life changing event? This must attend program will offer tools and strategies to cope after a suicide, homicide, accident, disaster, terrorist act, and a public tragedy. Through practical information and engaging activites, you will identify resilient ways to help survivors and victims cope. During this training, you will identify general strategies for promoting mental health and resilience when tragedy strikes.
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Participants will:
- Describe common responses after a suicide and homicide
- Recognize the experience of survivors after a disaster, terrorist act, mass trauma, or public tragedy
- List strategies for healing after a sudden violent death in your community
- Review the determinants that influence the way individuals grieve when tragedy stikes
- Give examples of effective communication techniques in a time of crisis
- Examine the connection between resiliency and post traumatic growth
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WORKSHOP/TRAINING: Becoming a Group Facilitator
This presentation is based on Barbara Rubel's upcoming book, Facilitating Bereavement Support Groups. Participants will learn ways to plan, design, and structure groups. Learn the role of bereavement support group facilitators while identifying support group facilitator values and ethics. Explore ways to offer compassionate support to the bereaved while preventing compassion fatigue in yourself.
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Participants will:
- Describe your support group's purpose and mission statement
- List the stages of group development
- Arrange your group structure from the welcoming statement to the formal closing
- Illustrate effective communication techniques and barriers to group effectiveness
- Review a code of ethics for bereavement support group facilitators
- Describe how resilience, strength and growth positively influence the group
- Create an action plan to cope with stress, burnout and compassion fatigue
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Who Should Attend:
- Victim Assistance Agencies: Sexual assault programs, domestic violence programs, child advocacy programs, at-risk youth programs
- Medical Field: Emergency medicine, palliative care, nurses, pain medicine, psychiatry
- Allied Professionals: Human services, social workers, psychologists, school counselors, suicidologists
- Criminal Justice System: Law enforcement, victim advocates, prosecutors, judicial employees, probation officers, corrections personnel
- Death and Dying Field: Bereavement counselors, hospice professionals, funeral directors, grief counselors, crisis intervention specialists, traumatologists, gerontologists, pastoral care, clergy, chaplains
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