Trainers: Kelly George, LCPC (They/Them)

Cost: $50 for General Public, $40 QTN Members

Location: The Center on Halsted

Burnout isn’t just an individual problem, and it’s definitely not something you can fix with more yoga and bubble baths and “self care”. While self-care matters, stopping the conversation there leaves even more burden on those already carrying the weight of burnout. 

This training invites queer therapists to explore burnout more holistically, seeing it not as a personal flaw, but as something shaped by the systems around us and our identities and practices within them. Through Narrative Therapy’s practice of externalization, we’ll:

• Unpack how social systems contribute to burn out

• Reflect on how queer identity can shape our experience of burn out

• Develop a deeper understanding of our own unique relationship to burn out

• Build plans to change our relationship with burn out, going beyond surface level self care

• Lean into the importance of community and solidarity as it relates to managing our relationship with burn out going forward.

Come ready to reflect, connect, and be curious about how to re-imagine your relationship with burn out.

Register now!

Continuing Education Units (CEUs):

For those interested in receiving Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for their participation in this training, we are grateful to our community partners at Howard Brown Health and the Center on Halsted to be able to provide up to 2.0 CEU hours. 

Howard Brown Health Center is approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to offer continuing education for professional counselors (License # 197-000041) and psychologists (License # 286-00005).

Center on Halsted is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to offer continuing education for social work and is able to provide CEs under their license.

Charitable Contribution:

When you register for this event you are helping to support organizations that impact the mental health and wellbeing of the LGBTQ+ Community:

• 50% of funds collected will directly benefit the Network

• 50% of funds collected will be donated to benefit a mental health nonprofit, this training will benefit the Trevor Project.

Note: All details are pending including the subject, date, and location. But you can be sure to follow along with our website to find out more details as they become announced!