Queer Therapist Network Training Seminar: "Managing the Burn Out Monster"

Our first ever training and seminar for the Queer Therapist Network will be taking place on November 7th from 12 pm - 2pm, with a solidarity connection hour to follow!

Trainer: Kelly George, LCPC (They/Them)

Training Session: 12:00-2:00 PM

Solidarity Networking Hour: 2:00-3:00 PM

Burnout isn’t just an individual problem, and it’s definitely not something you can fix with more yoga and bubble baths and “self care”. While self-care matters, stopping the conversation there leaves even more burden on those already carrying the weight of burnout.

This training invites queer therapists to explore burnout more holistically, seeing it not as a personal flaw, but as something shaped by the systems around us and our identities and practices within them. Through Narrative Therapy’s practice of externalization, we’ll:

• Unpack how social systems contribute to burn out
• Reflect on how queer identity can shape our experience of burn out
• Develop a deeper understanding of our own unique relationship to burn out
• Build plans to change our relationship with burn out, going beyond surface level self care
• Lean into the importance of community and solidarity as it relates to managing our relationship with burn out going forward.

Come ready to reflect, connect, and be curious about how to re-imagine your relationship with burn out.

Continuing Education

For those interested in receiving Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for their participation in this training, we are grateful to our community partners at Howard Brown Health Center and the Center on Halsted to be able to provide 2.0 CEU hours.

Howard Brown Health Center is approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to offer continuing education for psychologists (CE Sponsor License 286-00005).

Center on Halsted is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to offer continuing education for social work and is able to provide CEs under their license.

Charitable Contribution:

When you register for this event you are helping to support organizations that impact the mental health and wellbeing of the LGBTQ+ Community:

• 50% of funds collected will directly benefit the Network
• 50% of funds collected will be donated to benefit a mental health nonprofit, this training will benefit the Trevor Project.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Center on Halsted, 3656 North Halsted Street, Chicago, United States

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