Deepening Cultural Competence: Advanced Strategies for Counselors
As counselors, we make a commitment to engage in life-long learning, not only for our personal growth and development, but also to enhance our professional acumen and clinical skillset.
As a participant in this second installment of the course, you will deepen your understanding of what it means to be a culturally competent counselor through the use of different evidence-based strategies, culturally responsive interventions, and mindful self-regulation skills.
Additionally, you will engage in collaborative exercises to reflect your thoughts and feelings, practice your counseling skills in vivo, and generate ideas about how to transform your counseling program and better advocate for your students and community members.
Furthermore, through the implementation of new strategies and interventions, you will continue to develop and enhance your skills and counseling approach from being culturally competent to more culturally responsive. You will identify how to translate your knowledge into actionable and measurable community change initiatives.
This course offers a safe space for your compounding reflection, leading to continued integration of new learning, self-understanding, and self-acceptance. At the culmination of this course, you will develop a personalized plan of action to help guide your growth as an international counseling professional. This course offers you numerous opportunities to expand your network, your knowledge, and your ability to respond to the varying needs of your community members ethically, with empathy, and with understanding.
You can register here, https://iscainfo.com/Academy-Course-Registrations.
AIELOC & Women of Color in ELT Conference
The AIELOC and Women of Color in ELT Conference aims to provide high-quality professional development for international educators and leaders focused on representation, social justice, and equity studies.
Getting to Solutions: The Heart of Counseling
International schools are filled with kids and adults experiencing change of all types; and change comes with individual responses and needs. The ‘heart’ of school counseling involves the counselor working with students, families and teachers one to one to meet these individual needs.
The Wheel of Wellness in Action
We hope to create a safe, honest, and engaging environment to lay the foundation for a timely conversation about college student mental health and wellness.
Culturally Competent Counseling: Building Skills & Awareness
If you are a professional school counselor, mental health professional working in a school setting, or an educator with a desire to learn how to better support your students, you should attend this course, Culturally Competent Counseling: Building Skills & Awareness. It’s being offered by the International School Counselor Association, ISCA, an organization known for providing quality, relevant, practical, and evidence-based learning opportunities for international counselors and educators.
I am so excited to collaborate with ISCA on the creation of this and other courses, and I am just as eager to learn from the other brilliant and caring professionals offering their expertise and perspective to help grow the profession and support our growth as helping professionals.
Having worked as a Professional School Counselor and Licensed Psychotherapist in the United States and abroad for 9 years (6 of those taking place in Beijing, China), I have witnessed firsthand the importance and necessity of running a comprehensive, culturally responsive counseling program and BEING a culturally competent and responsive counselor. Our school communities are bastions cultural diversity, and it is an ethical imperative for us as counselors to provide the most equitable, relevant, and competent care possible.
Participating in this course can be a catalyst for your journey or a reinforcement for your growth. As a community, we will learn, listen, support, reflect, and create.
I hope you consider signing up for this course and lending your perspective for our collective benefit and for the betterment of the students, families, and communities that we support.
Acknowledging and Healing Impostor Syndrome
I’ll be presenting on Acknowledging and Healing Impostor Syndrome at the ISCA (international school counselor assoc.) conference in Athens, Greece this week.
Holiday Mental Health: Expat Edition
Join us on December 20th at 9 AM on YouTube Live as we discuss holiday mental health, strategies to implement during the holiday season to improve your mental health and functioning, and how intentional self-care and rest can help prepare you for the new year ahead.
Sister Circle Virtual Hangout
The Sister Circle Virtual Hangout will be a safe space for women to just BE-together-in a safe, supportive space during the holiday. Come prepared to commune with other like-minded women, sharing and seeking solutions to improve their lives one act of self-care at a time. This group is not a substitute for therapy.
Navigating Transitions
Are you moving to another country, graduating, seeking a new job, starting a family, or dealing with loss? Life changes spring up on us when we least expect it. Transitional seasons can be challenging, stressful and sometimes traumatic, but you don’t have to cope with them alone. The Embassy community is providing this opportunity for professional advice on how to navigate these life events.
Educator Self-Care as a Pedagogical Imperative
I will be presenting at the TESOL conference about the importance of educators prioritizing their self-care and mental health in order to be their best personal and professional selves.
Anxiety Prevention Group
Join the anxiety prevention group you are experiencing feelings of overwhelm, isolation, stress, and burnout. Joining this virtual support group will help you identify your triggers, accept & acknowledge your feelings, and take action toward your healing.
FREE GROWTH MINDSET CHALLENGE
As a therapist, professional school counselor, and an educator wellness coach ( I love supporting every level of education), I wanted to offer a communal, collaborative space for educators to engage in work with the aim to reset their mindset, create helathy routines, learn how their mindset can affect their overall health and ability to thrive, and study a book centered around modifying your perspective and mindset.
If you are a teacher, specialist, librarian, nurse, counselor, AP, principal, support staff, or work in higher ed, you are welcome to attend this 4-week collaborative event. As we all return to work, this will hopefully provide you with some skills to successfully handle the stress of the return, be more self-aware, and practice the mental resilience you'll need to thrive.
Sign up with the link below to learn more about the FREE GROWTH MINDSET CHALLENGE and get ready to reset and maximize your mindset.
"Prioritize your holistic wellness in order to impact your pedagogical performance." ~ Kindall Tyson
Supporting the Social-Emotional Needs of America's Students
This panel of professional school counselors, school administrators, and parents will aim to provide understanding about how stakeholders can collaborate to best support the social-emotional needs of students. Actionable strategies will be shared that can be implemented in a variety of settings.