In-Person Workshops

Experiential Wellness

Moving Into Strengths

January 15, 2024

(09:00 AM - 04:00 PM PST )

$299.00 (regular rate)

$269.00 (*early rate)

Trainer Monica Bhatara MA

Location: Holiday Inn Vancouver Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia

*early rate expires 12/25/2023

Continuing Education
Credit Hours (CEC)

Is your team looking for something more active than the traditional workshop-style approach to promoting wellness? This highly experiential workshop explores wellness in a wholistic and hands-on way. Participants will be immersed in activities to better understand themselves and increase their awareness of what influences their wellness. Activities include creating an identity quilt, transformative visualization, reflection, movement, discussion, and more. Professional helping requires active attention to one’s own wellness. This workshop provides transformative tools for participants to use in the pursuit of their own wellness.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, participants should be able to:

List key internal and external factors that influence wellness
Describe how stress influences and is influenced by those closest to us
Define factors that influence regulation
Apply strategies to increase personal and collective wellness

Method of Delivery

Presentation, experiential activities, small group discussions, self-reflection.

Some of the Topics Included

Locating ourselves in our work
Making an identity quilt
Understanding our own stress response and what influences it
Build self awareness of the impact of our work
Exploring Wellness
Understanding the importance of co-regulation

Terms & Conditions

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Trainer: Monica Bhatara

Monica has over 25 years of experience working in the community-based social services field as a Therapist and Community Educator. She is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, Certified Synergetic Play Therapist, and Focusing-Oriented Therapist. Monica has worked both in clinical settings for various programs and served in a leadership role as Director of Clinical Practice, providing her expertise to clinical and non-clinical programs that focus on family preservation and reunification, complex intergenerational trauma, trauma-informed practice, and clinical supervision. In addition to training with CTRI, she has a private counselling practice where she incorporates somatic work, play and expressive therapies, and interpersonal neurobiology in her work with children, youth, and adults. Monica believes in the power of human resiliency and the importance of building the capacity of paraprofessionals and non-clinical workers because they play a vital role on the therapy spectrum. As a trainer, she brings stimulating stories and a style that promotes engagement and facilitates learning.