The Process of Being is an open studio art gathering aimed at creating common humanity amongst anxiety and OCD sufferers, support systems and the public. By sharing lived experience and making art there is collective presence generated. The process of art-making is emphasized as a way to build mastery, feel present awareness, further understand the self, increase tolerance of difficult experiences and support relationships with others.The Process of Being will be offered quarterly to promote awareness and foster more OCD community in Washington.

The Process of Being is an open studio art gathering aimed at creating common humanity amongst anxiety and OCD sufferers, support systems and the public. By sharing lived experience and making art there is collective presence generated. The process of art-making is emphasized as a way to build mastery, feel present awareness, further understand the self, increase tolerance of difficult experiences and support relationships with others.The Process of Being will be offered quarterly to promote awareness and foster more OCD community in Washington.

Description:

Spending time thinking about the clinical work with clients is an ethical obligation, yet outside of treatment notes and updating treatment plans most clinicians are not able to carve out time to process what is occurring in sessions. This course is a creative and interactive workshop on ethical elements of therapy practices, using creativity in supervision and attending to ethical issues through clinical reflection. Attendees are invited to use art-making as a way to look at clinical issues, countertransference, boundaries, diagnoses, power dynamics, burn out and treatment planning. No prior art experience is necessary. Through art prompts, participants of this workshop will practice the art of supervision and ethical reflection. Art materials recommended: paper, watercolor paper, water color paints, crayons, markers, colored pencils, pencil, pen.  

Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

• learn about ethical considerations within supervision and consultation.

• have an understanding of terms.

• identify and learn (3) practices of creative clinical reflection.

• apply (3) practices of creative clinical reflection.

• further develop creative clinical reflections back into the clinical work with clients.

• attend to countertransference and self-care.

The Process of Being is an open studio art gathering aimed at creating common humanity amongst anxiety and OCD sufferers, support systems and the public. By sharing lived experience and making art there is collective presence generated. The process of art-making is emphasized as a way to build mastery, feel present awareness, further understand the self, increase tolerance of difficult experiences and support relationships with others.The Process of Being will be offered quarterly to promote awareness and foster more OCD community in Washington.

Individual consultation and training hour for your needs as a clinician.

Compassionate centered within the Exposure & Response Prevention Model. Continuing Education Credits available for providers!

Centering Self-Compassion work within the Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP) model to better the lives of people living with anxiety disorders and OCD.

In this live synchronous CEU training through Cascadia CEU, Sarah offers insight into assessing and treating anxiety disorders and OCD using evidence-based practices.

Self-compassion has been shown to increase therapy efficacies across modalities (Wetterneck et al. 2013). While it might seem logical that therapy outcomes are impacted by self-compassion abilities, it can be challenging to apply and live these practices! Self-compassion, like exposure and response prevention trials, creates new pathways for thoughts in the brain. However, for many people, especially those in the anxiety-based community, self-compassion does not come naturally and may even bring on discomfort. The practice of self-compassion is correlated with a reduction in symptoms like anxiety, rumination, and depression (Warren et al. 2016). There is much power and healing that compassion can provide. This workshop posits self-compassion work as a primary exposure for treatment of anxiety based diagnoses.

ERP therapy can be very intimidating for anxiety and OCD sufferers. Using art based interventions can be used effectively within exposure and response prevention therapy. Art therapy can provide many benefits to an individual’s therapy. CBT and ERP can be further strengthened in efficacy by using art-based exploration of cognitive strategies, experiences of symptoms, exposure material to fears, and motivations for engaging in therapy.

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is the gold standard of treatment for Anxiety, OCD, and Specific Phobias. At the root of these “doubt disorders” are core fears, which are understood as the drivers of the thought patterns, negative self-beliefs, and compulsions. People living with “doubt disorders” like Anxiety, OCD and Specific phobias can experience chronic invalidation, intense guilt, a heightened sense of responsibility, questioning of their reality/memory/symptoms, engage in self-punishment, feel intense shame, and are stigmatized. Self-compassion, like exposure and response prevention trials, creates new pathways for thoughts in the brain.