The Ethics of Self-Care: Exploring Resilience through Expressive Arts

Dates:
📆Thursday February 12, 2026 | Registration Deadline: Feb 9th
📆 Friday April 17, 2026 | Registration Deadline: April 14th
📆 Friday October 16, 2026 | Registration Deadline: October 13th

Time: 9:00am–3:30pm Pacific Time (with a 30 minute lunch)
Location: Online
Available CEs: 6 in Ethics
Facilitator: Courtney Oliver, PhD, LMHC, SUDP
Cost: $219 

This workshop offers a deep dive into exploring compassion fatigue, burnout, vicarious trauma, their impact (e.g., physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual), and the ethical responsibilities of self-care faced by mental health clinicians. This workshop will expand on our popular workshop The Ethics of Self-Care: An Art-based Approach by focusing on types of resilience, including vicarious resilience. Topics will include stressors, ethics, compassion fatigue, burnout, self-care, resilience, and vicarious resilience. These topics will be explored through the hands-on application of creative and expressive arts, offering practical exercises for mental health clinicians to apply to their self-care routines.

Learning objectives

1. Participants will gain an understanding of the ethical responsibilities of self-care.
2. Participants will learn about types of resilience.
3. Participants will learn about compassion fatigue, burnout, and vicarious trauma on professional and personal health levels.
4. Participants will learn practical applications of self-care.
5. Participants will gain an understanding of how the expressive arts is a useful tool in self-care exploration.
6. Participants will engage in hands-on creative arts activities to process didactic material.

Required Materials

• Basic writing materials (paper and writing materials)
• Any other art materials or supplies that participants feel comfortable using

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/program in its entirety and complete an evaluation form after the workshop/program. The evaluation form is emailed from NWCEAI. 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.