NSCSW Lunch & Learn: Emotional resilience & healthy boundaries

Learn how social workers can develop emotional resiliency tools & skills to aid their professional practice & maintain their own well-being.

Caring and emotional labour is an essential part of any social work role, but there can be costs to caring, including burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. That’s were emotional and energetic boundaries come in. This webinar is an opportunity for social workers to learn skills to for emotional resiliency and healthy internal boundaries, so that they can excel in a mission-driven, purposeful career without sacrificing their own mental health and well-being in the process.

This session is an adapted offering from Amy Pinnell’s Sensitive Social Work course on Boundaries for Burnout Prevention. For more information for the full course, visit her website here.

This session will not be recorded.

Objectives

• Knowledge: Identify and understand strategies and approaches to prevention of burnout, establishment of boundaries, and self-reflective processes to support wellbeing and professional practice.
• Skills: Develop and integrate practices for coping with compassion fatigue and emotional labour involved in effective and ethical Social Work
• Values: Reflect on social workers’ personal strategies of coping with the mental/emotional toll of the work

Speakers

Amy Pinnell is a Registered Social Worker, Clinical Therapist, and the founder of Sensitive Social Worker. She is on a mission to help tender-hearted, deep-feeling helpers and healers engage in meaningful, social-justice oriented work, without burning out. (Through her online courses and live workshops Amy has helped 100s of Social Workers release martyrdom mentality and embrace their sensitivity so that they could continue showing up whole-heartedly for their clients and for themselves. Amy is the creator of the Love Notes for Social Workers Card Deck, a pocket-sized support for busy Social Workers which has been purchased by Social Workers worldwide). Amy has a Masters of Social Work from the University of Victoria and has 10+ years of experience working as a Social Worker in the areas of mental health and substance use. You can find Amy on Instagram (@sensitivesocialworker) or through her website (www.sensitivesocialworker.com).

Eligibility

NSCSW Members

All active, associate, retired associate, and student members of the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers are welcome to attend; our professional development programming is part of our member services funded by annual registration fees.

Community Partners

All allied health practitioners in Nova Scotia/Mi'kma'ki interested in learning more about this topic are eligible to sign up for a $5 partner ticket; just let us know which profession you are a part of when you register.

Professional development tracking

For members of NSCSW, participating in this event is eligible towards fulfilling the annual requirement for the prevention of vicarious trauma & secondary stress. Members who have fulfilled this mandated requirement can track this PD activity under formal professional development instead.

Visit nscsw.org/pd for more information about the current professional development requirements for Nova Scotia social workers.

Foundations

Several sections of the NSCSW Code of Ethics & Standards of Practice are relevant to this session:

Value 4: Valuing Human Relationships

• Guiding Principle 4.2: Social workers continually develop self-awareness and practise self-reflection to guide their practice and personal well-being.

Value 7: Providing Culturally Responsive Competent Professional Services

• Guiding Principle 7.1: Social workers are committed to the ongoing development of their professional abilities and knowledge, aiming to ensure the delivery of culturally responsive professional services.

Questions?

If you have questions about our professional development program content, please contact the College's Professional Development Consultant, Tyler Colbourne, at tyler.colbourne@nscsw.org.