Live Webinar: Spirituality as a resource in counselling practice

LIVE WEBINAR: 13th August 2024, 1-3pm NZST

Register here: 

https://book.griefcentre.org.nz/spirituality0824

Who should attend this webinar?

Anyone who works in a professional care role or supports people through all forms of loss and grief. This webinar is particularly applicable to those counselling or supporting people living with a life-limiting illness. Our content is applicable to a wide variety of professions including counsellors, social workers, teachers, emergency response teams, medical, corrections, mental health, hospice, volunteers, caregivers and more. 

Overview

Historically speaking, psycho-social disciplines like counselling and social work have considered spirituality to be outside of their scope of practice. We could even say that religious beliefs and religious upbringings have been seen as problems to be overcome in therapeutic work. This has certainly changed in recent decades, yet while many practitioners may have their own dearly held spiritual beliefs and practices, we may have been taught that spirituality is a purely personal matter to be kept apart from our clinical work.

However, in the bicultural context of Aotearoa New Zealand a wide range of spiritual practices and beliefs are becoming recognised and respected. What does this mean for us as practitioners? If it is ok to allow spirituality to become part of the conversation, how do we do this in ways that are ethical, respectful, and possibly even challenging for our clients?

This workshop is an opportunity to explore some ideas about spirituality as a resource in our counselling practice. We will consider ways of unpacking the ordinary spirituality of everyday life with our clients, a spirituality that is available to anyone, whether or not they hold explicit faith beliefs. And for those who do have a faith available to them, how this faith might be brought into the conversation as witness, guide, inspiration or container – among other things.

Key learning points

• What is spirituality and how do we talk about it with people?
• Spirituality as a practice, an identity and a relationship
• Spirituality as self-care for therapists
• How to refresh your spirituality
• Working with challenging or harmful beliefs

Webinar registration details

When you register you will get:

• Access to the live two-hour webinar
• Access to the webinar recording 
• Access to a downloadable PDF handout
• Certificate of accomplishment issued on completion of a short quiz
• Access to CPD points

Certificate of accomplishment

We can provide a certificate of accomplishment for all our training courses. The requirement for receiving a certificate to confirm professional development is as follows:

• You must view a minimum of 80% of a live-presented webinar workshop or
• You must view a minimum of 80% of a recorded webinar workshop
• You must complete a short quiz on the webinar content

CPD points/credits

We are accredited to provide points/credits to the following Organisations, Educational Institutes, and Associations:

New Zealand
FDANZ
NZEA
NZFIH

Australia
AROH

Our training is endorsed or recommended by the following Organisations, Educational Institutes, and Associations:

New Zealand

NZAC
CANZ

DAPAANZ
NZSDRT
The CPD Group

Australia
ACWA
ACA (Australian Counselling Association)

To receive your CPD points/credits, you will need to receive a certificate of accomplishment which you can then provide to your relevant institution.