Much in this world gets reduced to cookie-cutter steps and simplistic advise, which often do not apply or address the needs of an individual. This seminar is for professional counselors, lay counselors, any people helpers, clergy, students, and anyone interested in the topic, to help address the growing issue of burnout. To explain the many dimensions of an individual’s life, Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory will be utilized as a foundational model to conceptualize the many factors influencing a human being’s life. Participants will be able to experience a time of personal reflection, experiential moments, voluntary interaction, and some lecture with the goal to better serve themselves and their clients around individualized self-care strategies.

Learning Objectives | Participants will:
1) Be able to identify interacting dimensions and etiologies of burnout.
2) Be able to work on personalized self-care strategies for clients and/or for self.
3) Learn how to safely and ethically use spiritual dimensions of self-care for clients.

*The event offers 3 CE hours for continuing education.

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General Registration: $30 (+$3.85 Processing Fee)
Gordon-Conwell Student Fee: $10 (+$2.51 Processing Fee)
Current Gordon-Conwell Site/Clinical Supervisors: Free

About the Speaker, Ingo Tophoven PhD, LPC 
Dr. Tophoven was born in Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany, near Cologne on the Rhine River and speaks English and German. Over the last 28 years, ‘Dr. T.’ has worked as professional counselor (LPC) and supervisor in Texas, directing of a large church-based counseling center, founding several private counseling practices, helping two struggling and dying churches by serving as an interim pastor, and doing counseling and educational work in Europe for ten years. He was department chair at Regent University overseeing three online counseling ministries graduate degrees and serves now as a new assistant professor of counseling at Gordon-Conwell–Charlotte. In his work with individuals and couples and in his own life and family, there has always been a tension around living well in a societies where work and performance are cultural values (Germany and the USA). That tension in the narrative continues in Dr. T’s personal and professional life and receives regular attention in all of Dr. T’s endeavors in counseling, webinars/seminars, and speaking engagements. Dr. T. likes bicycle touring, soccer, yoga, and roughing it, only to get back home and be comfortable. Dr. T. holds double major undergraduate degrees in Psychology and English Literature from Evangel University. He earned a masters degree in Counseling from Regent University and a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision also from Regent University. He is currently licensed in Virginia as an LPC.

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary-Charlotte Counseling Department has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4525. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary-Charlotte Counseling Department is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.