2024 National Program_LR

009. Front Stage/Back Stage: Your External Success Requires Internal Health Approved for 3 IBCC CEs for Pastors, Pastoral Counselors, Lay Counselors, and Coaches Level: Beginner PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

and ethical considerations specific to coaching for PTG. In addition to coaching individuals, facilitating groups can be a powerful way to maximize post-traumatic growth. Therefore, participants will discuss four key areas to con sider when creating coaching groups for PTG. Learning Objectives Participants will: 1. Examine seven strategies to promote post-traumatic growth 2. Discuss three challenges specific to coaching for post traumatic growth 3. Identify four key areas to consider when forming coach ing groups that facilitate post-traumatic growth 011. Shattered No More: Effective and Safe Trauma Processing Approved for 3 CEs for Psychologists, Licensed Professional Coun selors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, and Chemical Dependency Counselors Approved for 3 CMEs for Medical Doctors, Osteopathic Physicians, and Physician Assistants Approved for 3 CEUs for Nurses and Nurse Practitioners Level: Advanced Summary: One of the key challenges in trauma processing is adequate ly pacing the work to allow for maximum client functioning, minimizing the risk of suicidality, avoiding hospitalizations, and reducing the risk of premature termination of therapy. However, psychologists and licensed mental health profes sionals must be very sensitive to their clients’ needs. In this workshop, participants will discuss how trauma processing fits within a three-phased treatment model, assessing readi ness for processing traumatic memories, containing symp toms and trauma content between sessions, and integrating memories into a sense of self and identity with particular emphasis on the difficulties of working with spirituality in this population. Participants will gain the ability to imple ment grounding techniques within the session, which is vital to a client’s ability to stay in touch with the here-and now rather than getting lost in the traumatic memory, and strategies for keeping the client within the Affective Window of Tolerance, which is also essential to successful processing of a particularly traumatic event. Furthermore, participants will learn how to integrate behavioral, affective, somatic, and cognitive components of the traumatic memory. Lastly, par ticipants will examine a critical challenge in trauma work, which is preventing vicarious traumatization in clinicians. Heather Davediuk Gingrich, Ph.D. Toccoa Falls College

Johnny Parker, D.S.L. The Parker Group, LLC

Summary: Like a theater play, leaders have a frontstage and a back stage. The frontstage is the public world, and the backstage is the private world. An authentic story originates back stage. Clients live in a frontstage-dominated world, yet core longings such as belonging, love, empathy, signifi cance, and safety are backstage. What roots are to a tree, the backstage is to the frontstage. It empowers and sustains a leader’s frontstage success. This workshop will apply the S.T.O.R.Y. system, which is the heart of the backstage, to assist ministry leaders and coaches in helping clients pro duce authenticity in their lives. Learning Objectives Participants will: 1. Describe how to live and lead from love and not for love by abiding in Jesus 2. Apply insights from positive psychology to build and deepen emotionally safe relationships vital for happiness and health 3. Identify how to overcome soul abuse and the “story lies” driving shame-based behavior 010. Coaching Techniques for Post-traumatic Growth Approved for 3 IBCC CEs for Pastors, Pastoral Counselors, Lay Counselors, and Coaches Level: Advanced

Georgia Shaffer, M.A. GeorgiaShaffer.com

Summary: Although most people have some understanding of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), fewer are aware of the concept or how to promote post-traumatic growth (PTG). As a result, people do not always benefit from the posi tive transformation that can emerge after experiences of trauma and devastating loss. Using biblical techniques and current research, participants will be equipped with proven tools and practical strategies to support and foster post traumatic growth. We will also discuss cultural influences

2024 AACC

MEGA NATIONAL CHRISTIAN COUNSELING CONFERENCE

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