GET YOUR CLIENTS TO WRITE! Climbing The Journal Ladder

The Creative “Righting” Center

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GET YOUR CLIENTS TO WRITE! Climbing The Journal Ladder

2 continuing education credits for licensed social workers

An Interactive, Live Webinar

Sunday, October 20, 2024

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Journaling has been proven to reduce stress, decrease depression, and strengthen neural connectivity of the brain. This two hour workshop introduces you to “The Journal Ladder,” an ingenious method created by journal therapist Kathleen Adams which helps therapists to choose the type of structured writing that is most likely to succeed with individual clients. Special attention will be paid to the James W. Pennebaker Paradigm for Trauma Release. This workshop offers at least seven techniques that you can immediately implement in therapy sessions for greater expression, self-regulation, and insight. Techniques will be demonstrated, sharing is optional, and no special writing skills are required.

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:

• Articulate at least three goals of journaling.
• Assess a client’s level of readiness for journaling.
• Describe the Pennebaker Paradigm for trauma release.
• Implement simple journaling exercises in therapy.

This is an interactive workshop with writing and optional sharing.

Course Outline

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

Neuroplasticity and emotional regulation through journaling

Why writing reduces stress, anxiety, and depression

Pennebaker Paradigm

The Journaling Ladder

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

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

Practical applications

Structures: lists, sprints, and pantoums

Personification

Dialogue

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: $60

Register by October 19, 2024.

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].

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