Montgomery County Commission for Women Counseling & Career Center

Commission for Women Counseling and Career Center
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING SEMINAR

$55 and 3 continuing education hours for seminar
(All professional trainings are held at the MC Commission for Women Counseling & Career Center, 401 N. Washington Street, Suite 100,Rockville, MD 20850)

BUILDING EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE IN A GLOBALIZED, INTERCONNECTED & TUMULTUOUS WORLD

New Date!
Friday, February 26, 2010
8:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
COST: $55

Program Description
In this workshop, Dr. LaBier will describe the emotional attitudes, mental perspectives, and actions that underlie a new form of resilience needed for psychological health today, based on both current research and clinical observations.

Participants will learn:
• the traditional mental health view of resiliency and why it's not as effective in today's world
• why the coping strategies of traditional resilience can diminish your effectiveness and well-being when dealing with today's stresses and conflict
• the paradox of "forgetting yourself" and why it is the foundation for building effective resiliency and overall psychological health
• the key emotional strengths, mindset and actions that build long-term resiliency
• steps for building resiliency in your relationships, in your work, and as a citizen of an interconnected world


American Counseling Association 2010 national Conference

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
March 18-22, 2010

The ACA Annual Conference & Exposition is the largest gathering of professional counselors in the world and is the premier source for professional development across all counseling specialties and work settings. For more information go to:
http://www.counseling.org/Convention/

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