Sun Feb 9, 2025 10:30 AM — 12:30 PM EST Online, Zoom
This workshop is for qualifying practitioners* and will earn participants 2 CEU's
About the Workshop:
We will bring into awareness and name how shame can permeate the therapeutic frame, which the instructor has previously named cultural countertransference. Evolving a stance and perspective that allows you to speak freely about eating and body based problems with less guilt or shame is fundamental. This includes a critique of the Eurocentric westernized (caucasian) repressive and racist body “ideal “that steam rolls and id internalized by all of us. Oppressive food practices hiding within the “wellness “movement will be discussed. What is meant by attuned eating for each person and questioning the scientific “truth” about food and weight regulation schemes will be elicited by the group.
The instructor will be utilizing WTCI Best Practices and Treatment Model for a soothing and a more satisfying relationship to your eating, feeding and embodiment so that you can think about how best to care for yourself. This will include respect for one’s cultural heritage and social location, how to accept of YOUR body and some body based strategies and guides. This deepening of your own experience will inevitably permeate your clinical skills.
The goal is to help practicioners relieve their shame through contextualizing and understanding their distress about their own particular relationship to food and embodiment. This increased acceptance will invite a more comfortable entre into their therapeutic voice with their clients and their symptoms.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to Identify and name feelings of shame in relation to patient’s symptoms which the therapist suffers from too.
Participants will be able to name one idea that will help them to neutralize shame.
Participants will be able to think differently about the "food rules" and practices that are offered as good care and health.
Participants will become familiar with WTCI model of attuned eating and living more securely in one’s body.
About the Instructor:
Carol Bloom, LCSW, PC
Carol co-founded WTCI in 1981, where she is a long time board member, along with colleagues, faculty, case consultant of multiple training programs of WTCI, co-author of Eating Problems: A Feminist psychoanalytic Treatment Model (Basic Books 1995) as well as numerous articles, enjoys supervising therapists at all stages of their career. Organized with Colleagues a yearly public event called “Indwelling - Living Securely in One’s Body” since the 1980’s.
Participation Agreements:
Participants should be prepared to join with audio and video. This is an interactive workshop. Please contact WTCI at admin@wtci-nyc.org if you require accommodations.
*Qualifying practitioners: WTCI has been recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0102 and creative arts therapists #CAT-0018, by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Workers as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed social workers #SW-0361, and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0049.
Refund policy: Recipients who give notice of cancellation two weeks or more ahead of the date of the event will receive a full ticket-price refund. Recipients who give notice of cancellation one week to thirteen days ahead of the date of the event will receive a refund of 50% of the ticket price. Except in the case of dire emergency circumstances, to be determined by Administration, refunds will not be permitted if notice is given in less than a week of the date of the event start date/time. Service fees will not be refunded.