REGISTRATION IS OPEN • This training is worth 4 Contact Hours
Breakfast Provided!
By the very nature of our work, we frequently encounter difficult ethical issues arising in our client relationships. Mindfulness can be a substantial help in being aware of emerging ethical issues and skillfully working with them. In this workshop, we will review significant portions of Maine Law and the relevant Codes of Ethics that apply to our ethical obligations, examine the sets of values that affect decision-making about such issues and discuss practical approaches to the resolution of frequently-arising ethical questions. We will also explore fundamental mindfulness skills and practices that will strengthen your ability to identify and skillfully resolve ethical issues that arise in your practice.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the sets of values that can affect ethical decision-making.
- Review significant provisions of the relevant Codes of Ethics.
- Learn about common problems in dealing with licensing boards.
- Understand how to respond to a request for production of records.
- Review frequently-arising ethical issues.
- Explore mindfulness as a set of practices that support skillfully avoiding ethical violations.
- Learn the Five Core Skills of mindfulness.
Program Schedule:
| 8:30-9:15 | Introduction to Decision-Making about Ethical Issues
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| 9:15 -10:00 | Avoiding Problems with the Licensing Boards
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| 10:00- 10:15 | Break & Networking |
| 10:15- 11:00 | Discussion of common ethical issues
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | Discussion: ethical issues arising in the practices of the workshop participants. |
| 11:30- 12:00 | Introduction to Mindfulness
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| 12:00 – 12:45 | The Five Core Skills of Mindfulness
Discussion: Using mindfulness skill and practices to avoid ethical violations |
Presenter Bio
Terry Fralich is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with a private practice in Southern Maine and a former Adjunct Faculty Member of the University of Southern Maine Graduate School. He also is an attorney who practiced law in New York City, Los Angeles and Portland prior to becoming a counselor. During that time, Terry studied extensively with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, other leading Tibetan teachers and with some of the American pioneers of mindfulness. Inspired by their teachings and his own study of psychology, mindfulness and meditation, he earned a masters degree in clinical counseling, left the practice of law and began his counseling and teaching activities.Terry is a Co-Founder of the Mindfulness Retreat Center of Maine.He has led more than 350 seminars, training’s and retreats nationwide, in Australia, at Omega Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, The Rowe Conference Center and at the Mindfulness Retreat Center of Maine in mindfulness, meditation,emotional intelligence, stress reduction, and the latest developments in neuroscience. In addition, he taught mindfulness,meditation and behavioral change for six years at Maine Medical Center’s cardiac rehabilitation program and the Cancer Community Center in Southern Maine.His first book, Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A 7-Step Guide to Mindfulness, was published in 2008, with a Second Edition in 2011. His second book, The Five Core Skills of Mindfulness: A Direct Path to More Confidence, Joy and Love, was published in November, 2013. Cultivating Lasting Happiness was recently cited as one of the “Twelve Essential Books on Mindfulness” by Omega Institute. Terry has pursued his own mindfulness and meditation practice for more than 38 years.
