Los Angeles Chapter — California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
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Charter for Compassionate Education Institute |
The Charter for Compassion Education Institute and LA-CAMFT are partnering to bring compassion education closer to you and your clients. The purpose of the Charter for Compassion Education Institute (CEI) is to provide relevant and timely learning experiences for anyone interested in growing compassion in their lives, their work and community, locally and globally. The Charter’s goal is to connect people from every nation—to share our stories, our perspectives, and our common yearning to create a world of compassion for every being. One of the ways we are working to make these connections is through education. Why Compassionate Education? Our courses are authored by uniquely skilled facilitators who share tools and strategies to cultivate self-compassion, compassion for others, and compassionate action. CEI is supported by tuition costs and as an arm of the Charter for Compassion and contributes its income to support the operations of the Charter. CEI offers courses that address the work of compassion in many contexts—in communities, healthcare, business, education, religion and interfaith, social services, the arts, restorative justice, environment, science and research, women and girls and social justice. We’ve designed courses to support you to: · define and determine how the concept of compassion can make a difference in your personal life, with your clients, in your community, and beyond · ·gain and practice skills and competencies of self-awareness, self-compassion, and emotional intelligence that are the basis for the initial and continued development of compassion for others · acquire skills and competencies that demonstrate compassion as an action that can be constantly present in our lives to bring about positive change for yourself, your clients and the betterment of the world · explore the attributes (i.e., altruism, caring, empathy, encouragement, happiness, gratitude, kindness, listening abilities, mindfulness, resilience, and responsibility) of compassion as skills that are essential in the continued practice of compassionate action · learn techniques and processes to facilitate further discussions and dialogue with others about compassion and compassionate action CEI offers Featured Courses which are instructor-lead and On Demand allowing you open access based on your schedule. Please review our available and upcoming courses on our home page Charter Education Institute https://charterforcompassion.org/charter-for-compassion-education-institute. LA-CAMFT and the Charter for Compassion have collaborated to refine the following courses below to be more specifically designed for psychotherapists and those with clinical practices who want to become more literate and skilled at integrating a focus of compassion into their worlds. Emotional Intelligence for a Compassionate World
Maybe you’ve thought about how empowering it could be to join with others who are willing to take action for a more compassionate world. And maybe you’ve recognized that building Emotional Intelligence skills could be helpful to you in your relationships as well as in building a more compassionate community where you live. Emotional Intelligence skills and competencies can become the fertile ground for a more compassionate world. The skills that contribute to Emotional Intelligence can lead to the development of empathy and compassion—in individuals, in families, in the workplace, in communities, and among the interconnected societies of people throughout the world. During this course, you will discover your own Emotional Intelligence strengths, learn ways to add to your Emotional Intelligence competencies, and consider practical ways to apply your skills to build a more compassionate world. Compassionate Integrity Training
Have you ever wondered how you could cultivate the compassion called for in the world or help others cultivate that compassion? Compassionate Integrity Training (CIT) is a great place to start! CIT is a resiliency-informed program that cultivates human values as skills, so we can thrive as individuals, and a society, within a healthy environment. By learning skills to calm our bodies and mind, becoming more emotionally aware, learning to practice compassion for ourselves and others, as well as engaging with compassion in complex systems, we can build towards compassionate integrity: the ability to live one’s life in accordance with one’s values with a recognition of common humanity, our basic orientation to kindness and reciprocity.The Essence of Compassion
The Essence of Compassion is intended to take you on a historical and cultural journey of the development of thinking about and acting on compassion. In participating in the course you will be simultaneously developing your own definition of compassion by determining what it is and isn’t. You’ll do this by journaling, reading, watching videos, listening to poetry and music and observing art that reflects views of compassion. The Science of Compassion
Emma Seppälä, contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science, tells us that “the eyes may be the window to the soul, but science is showing the ears may be the route to our hearts.” The Science of Kindness and Compassion takes a close look at the motivators of compassion, physiological and psychological effects when it is utilized. Questions of how emotions, empathy and altruism are related to compassion are explored. Research methodologies and theories are presented in this growing field of science. Guest speakers will be a part of this course. Wanted: Clinicians to do Diagnostic Assessments to Informed by this distance-learning course including 5 CEUs, any licensed LMFT, LCSW, LPC, Ph.D., or Psy.D. is qualified to interview and write a diagnostic assessment of a traumatized refugee, who is in deportation proceedings. The report helps the judge decide to grant asylum, or to cancel the deportation for refugees who have experienced violence simply on account of their gender, orientation, politics or race. These are often literally life and death consequences! There are organizing principles and techniques to elicit this data in the interviewing; and in the writing of the report. Post-course monthly mentoring, support and consultation is freely available. Free access to a shared Dropbox folder filled with resources, sample reports, tests, and marketing materials. Lawyers, needing a low-cost diagnostic evaluation, are ecstatic to have, even a newly licensed clinician, conduct a low-cost or pro bono interview; and write a report. There is no need to speak the language of the asylum seeker. The course is available for you to come and go as is convenient for you, as it is fully asynchronous and, not hosted live at a specific time or day. Some topics for Psychological Evaluations for Asylum & Other Immigration Cases:
Marc Sadoff, LCSW worked for the Program for Torture Victims Los Angeles and was accepted in immigration court as expert in traumatic stress 65 of 65 appearances. He’s done over 130 evaluations for asylum, VAWA, hardship, and T-visa cases. He presented a 1/2 day training to Asylum Officers with his colleagues from the PTVLA.org on issues of credibility and was acknowledged as having contributed to the Physicians for Human Rights book titled A Health Professional’s Guide To Medical And Psychological Evaluations Of Torture published in 2001. He has trained 170 clinicians to do this work in the last 3 years. To register and review the syllabus go to PacificSkills.RealHope.com. | Upcoming Events
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This course is currently available on-demand. Register anytime. (Barbara Kerr)
10-Week Live Course (CIT)
This course is currently available on-demand. Register anytime.
This course is currently available on-demand. Register anytime.
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