Counseling Workshops

Counseling for Change Workshops

Facilitated by Kim Anderson, MSW, LCSW, ATR-BC

Culturally Considerate School Counseling ©

This workshop will provide a unique model for consideration of students who seek or are referred for school counseling services, guidelines and strategies based upon those considerations, and strategies for dealing with a myriad of issues and problems within the school setting.

Goals of the workshop include:

·         Defining a new paradigm for providing services based on student individuality.

·         Identifying needs and influences of specific student populations and issues.

·         Outlining counseling guidelines beyond basic skill level.

·         Providing culturally considerate and creative counseling strategies.

·         Assessing personal self-care and professional competency.

·         Strategies for building a caring and compassionate school community.

Through didactic presentation, case examples, and experiential exercises, participants will be given tools for assessment, intervention, and team building.

This material is available in half-day and full-day workshop format and as two and three day retreats.

Creative Self-Care and Accountability for School Counselors, Social Workers and Psychologists ©

Revisiting Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, this interactive presentation will provide personal and professional assessment tools and strategies for assuring accountability in professional school counseling, social work and psychology. Other helping professions may find this material useful as well.

Goals include:

·         Assessing our strengths.

·        Admitting our limitations.

·        Identifying unmet personal needs as they relate to professional performance.

·        Identifying professional needs as they relate to our personal fulfillment.

·        Incorporating self-assessment and self-care into a daily regime of professional accountability.

This material is available via didactic presentation and experiential exercises in half-day and full-day workshop format and as two day retreats.

Day-Long, Experiential Team Building Workshop

Through art making, writing response, and visual dialogue, attendees will experience the choices and challenges of building an integrated community. First creating a “window to my world”, participants will incorporate individual art pieces into group compositions simulating neighborhoods, culminating in the creation of a community whole through interaction, negotiation and acceptance.

Windows of Opportunity: Building a Multi-Cultural Community through Art provides an opportunity for participants to experience and explore the value and meaning of individuality and co-existence through the creation of a cultural within a culture.

Depending upon the size of the group, after presentation and discussion of these personal portals, dyads or small groups will self-select into "neighborhoods" and group compositions will be formed to represent boroughs or burgs. Through writing, art, story-telling, and visual dialogue, neighborhood identities will be constructed.

The workshop concludes with total group participation in the creation of a singular community-in-art installation. Primary and mixed-media, collage, and found objects will be provided for this workshop.