Ethics of Self-Care: A Nature-Based Expressive Arts Experience

Date:
📆 Friday August 28, 2026 | Registration deadline: August 25th

Time: 9:00am–4:00pm Pacific Time (with a 60 minute lunch break & solo nature reflection)
Location: Saint Edward State Park | 14445 Juanita Dr NE, Kenmore, WA 98028
Available CEs: 6 in Ethics
Facilitator: Courtney Mohr Taylor, PhD, LMHC, REAT
Cost: $219.00 + tax
And an additional $10 All Day Parking Fee (paid at time of parking), or FREE if you have a Discovery Pass!

Limited to 8 participants
Who is this training for? Mental health clinicians, Educators, & Healing professionals

This workshop explores the ethical responsibilities of self-care for mental health clinicians through the lens of nature-based expressive arts and eco-therapy practices. Participants will examine the impact of daily stressors—work, home, school—on their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

Participants will leave with a personalized self-care ethics statement including a practical, nature-based expressive arts practices for ongoing self-care, renewed awareness of the ethical imperative of clinician well-being and a toolkit of creative strategies to prevent burnout and sustain resilience.

Through hands-on creative processes with natural materials, guided reflection, and group dialogue, participants will:

• Demystify the concept of self-care.
• Explore the ethical implications of neglecting self-care in clinical practice.
• Learn practical, values-based strategies for resilience and balance.
• Engage in expressive arts activities that can be integrated into personal and professional routines.

Learning objectives

1. Participants will learn about the ethical responsibilities of self-care and stress management.
2. Participants will recognize the impact of stress on professional and personal health.
3. Participants will learn to identify signs and symptoms of burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma.
4. Participants will define self-care in a values-driven, sustainable way.
5. Participants will engage in nature-based expressive arts to process didactic material.
6. Participants will create a personalized self-care ethics statement to guide ongoing practice.
7. Participants will connect RCW 18.130.180’s standards on impairment and competence to the ethical necessity of clinician self‑care, and identify nature‑based expressive arts practices that support ethical, sustainable professional functioning.

Required Materials

• Journals or notebooks
• Comfortable outdoor space (garden, park, or retreat setting)

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute Cancellation & Refund Policy

Earning Continuing Education Credits

To receive a CE Certificate for completion of this workshop, you must officially register, attend the workshop in its entirety and complete an evaluation form after the workshop. The evaluation form is emailed to you by the following Friday of the workshop. After completing & submitting the evaluation form, a CE Certificate will be emailed to you within 5-7 business days.

Who is eligible to receive CEs?

• Nationally: Approved NBCC Provider for Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Social Workers (you are responsible for confirming that your organization/state will accept NBCC credits.)
• New York Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (LCATs)
• Washington State School Counselor/Teacher (OSPI) Approved by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction as a “Washington State approved clock hour offering workshop.”
• If you are outside of Washington State, we advise that you check with your state licensing board to confirm that they accept NBCC Approved CEs. 

Northwest Creative and Expressive Arts Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0123.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7104. Programs that do no qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.