Distant RC Trainer Webinar - September 17, 2019

Mindfulness in the Workplace: Practices for Sustaining Trauma-Informed Care

Training Description

Wondering about the mindfulness buzz? Wondering about the evidence-based benefits of mindfulness practice? New to mindfulness, already engaged in mindfulness or wanting to further integrate mindfulness practice in your workday? Interested in integrating mindfulness in your organization’s culture as a practice for sustaining trauma-informed care?

Come ready to learn more about mindfulness, how mindfulness can help sustain trauma-informed care, for individual treaters and organizations. Learn, too, principles for practicing mindfulness in a trauma-informed way.

Participant outcomes for this 90-minute webinar include:

Understand basic definitions and examples of mindfulness practice
Identify and debunk common myths about mindfulness
Discuss evidence-based benefits associated with mindfulness, including addressing compassion fatigue
Explain ways to ensure mindfulness practices are trauma-informed
Describe examples of mindfulness being used to transform a growing number of workplace environments
Identify simple ways to integrate mindfulness in the workplace
Directly experience brief mindfulness practices during the webinar

Presenter

John P. Engel, MA

Program Coordinator at the Traumatic Stress Institute of Klingberg Family Centers. John recently participated in the virtual 'Mindfulness at Work Summit' where 56 leading experts offered sessions on the latest tools, techniques and strategies in applying mindfulness at work. John formerly served on the faculty at Naropa University where he taught leadership courses that were infused with mindfulness practice and thought. John has maintained an on-again, off-again mindfulness practice for more than 20-years and a more consistent practice in recent years, informing the personal, family and professional dimensions of his life.