An Interactive, Live Webinar. (2 CEUs)
About this Event

The Creative “Righting” Center

presents

Only Lonely Me

2 continuing education credits for licensed social workers

An Interactive, Live Webinar

Sunday, February 23, 2025

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern Time

What is loneliness? It goes hand in hand with loss and alienation. It strongly impacts mental health, physical health, and spiritual health. According to the studies by Cigna and Kaiser Permanente, it has reached epidemic level proportions in the United States, the UK and Japan. This workshop will help clinicians develop a greater understanding of loneliness and the different types of loneliness. Bibliotherapy (the use of poems, story, and symbol) empowers clients to unpack feelings and explore coping strategies. Techniques will be demonstrated with the workshop participants who should bring a pen, paper and an open heart to this experience.

About the Instructor

Sherry Reiter, LCSW, PhD, is on the faculty of Touro University and a guest lecturer at Hofstra University. She is Director of The Creative “Righting” Center and has worked with marginalized populations for the past four decades. Her book, Writing Away the Demons: Stories of Creative Coping Through Transformative Writing, is a primer in the field. Sherry Reiter is an international speaker and past President of The National Association for Poetry Therapy and the International Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy.

Learning Objectives:

After attending this course, learners will be able to:

Participants will be able to recognize at least three distinct kinds of loneliness.
Participants will be able to articulate the role of bibliotherapy in addressing loneliness.
Participants will explore selected pieces of literature chosen to foster emotional expression and insight.
Participants will be able to implement bibliotherapy interventions to express and reduce loneliness in both groups and one-to-one therapy.

This is an interactive workshop with writing and optional sharing.

Course Outline

12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.

Scope of the Loneliness Epidemic

Different Kinds of Loneliness

The Rationale for Poetry Therapy Treatment

12:50 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Break

1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

Exploring Different Tools:

Story
Journaling Structures:

Sentence Stems

Personification

Word Mapping

Dialogues

1:50 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Conclusion:

Questions and Answers

Closing Exercise

Course Interaction & System Requirements:

This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in student and leader led discussions.

System Requirements:

• Operating Systems: Windows XP or higher, Mac0S9 or higher, Android 7.0 or higher

• Internet Browser: Internet Explorer 9 or higher

• Broadband Internet Connection : Cable, high-speed DSL & any other medium that is internet accessible

Fee & Registration

Cost: $70

Refund requests must be received at least 48 hours before the start of the live webinar. Refunds will be issued for the amount paid minus Eventbrite ticket fees.

Should the event be canceled, refunds will be issued in full within five business days.

Course Completion & CE Requirements:

To earn CE Credit, learners must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course, and complete the Google form online evaluation (link will be sent by email). Certificates will be sent via email within ten business days of course and evaluation completion.

The Creative “Righting” Center, provider # 1939, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 04/15/2024 - 04/15/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 clinical continuing education credits.

Sherry Reiter, Ph.D. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Workers as an approved provider for continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0528.

Note: It is an ASWB ACE and NYSED requirement that the session must be attended in full to receive CEUs.

For questions, concerns, or to request special accommodations, please email: [email protected].