The Art of Self-Health for Healthcare Professionals (7 credits)

Music therapists and other healthcare professionals enter their fields because they care deeply about helping people. But when your work continually asks you to give your attention, creativity, compassion, and emotional energy to others, it can become easy to leave very little for yourself.

Over time, the work you once found meaningful can begin to feel different. You may find yourself simply getting through the day, moving from one responsibility to the next, or realizing that the energy and creativity you once brought to your work are harder to access.

The Art of Self-Health invites you to turn some of the care you routinely offer others back toward yourself.

Rather than treating self-care as something you are supposed to squeeze into whatever time remains, this course encourages you to examine how you are using your physical, emotional, and creative energy and develop more intentional ways of supporting your own well-being.

You’ll explore the demands that can contribute to depletion in healthcare work and consider how your own habits, expectations, boundaries, and patterns of giving may affect your ability to sustain yourself professionally.

Most importantly, you’ll have an opportunity to reconnect with your own needs and consider practical ways to create a healthier relationship with the work you care about.

In this workshop, you will learn:

How the ongoing demands of caring professions can affect your energy, creativity, and well-being.
How to recognize patterns of continually giving to others while neglecting your own needs.
Ways to become more aware of your personal limits and the signals that you may need to restore or recharge.
How expectations, responsibilities, and professional demands can contribute to feelings of depletion.
Practical approaches for giving greater attention to your own physical and emotional well-being.
Ways to develop more intentional habits around self-care and self-renewal.
How caring for yourself can support your ability to remain present, creative, and engaged in your professional work.
How to begin creating a more sustainable relationship with the work of caring for others.

Caring for yourself isn’t something that has to wait until you have nothing left to give. Make your own well-being part of how you sustain the work that matters to you.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to set at least 1 intention for positive change in their life.
Participants will be able to demonstrate 7 out of 7 correct match of psycho-emotional imbalances and/ or remedies to the chakras.
Participants will be able to identify at least 2 specific skills for enhancement of self-health that can be used with clients.
Participants will be able to list at least 1 practice of receptivity that will increase the balance of yin/yang in their daily life (meditation, massage, listening, resting, etc.).

This 50 page written course is supported by diagrams, photographs and instructions of body movements, guided imagery and worksheets for self-reflection and development.

The course is followed by 20 study questions for assessment of learning and understanding.

Schedule for completion 6 hours total

CBMT Domain Areas:

"V.B.8 Personal resources that support mental and physical health (e.g., Employee Assistance Program

[EAP], therapy); Task Statement 66 Monitor own mental and physical health and seek support as needed to ensure professional

effectiveness and competence"

III.A.6 Theoretical frameworks for music therapy treatment implementation (e.g., educational, developmental, neurological, psychological)

The Art of Self-Health for Healthcare Professionals is approved by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) for 7 CMTEs-Continuing Music Therapy Education credits. The Spiegel Academy, CBMT Approved Provider #P-106, maintains responsibility for program quality and adherence to CBMT policies and criteria.

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