Learn Tools to Reduce Stress and Lower Burnout
InterPlay Chaplain Untensive
Transforming Suffering and Burnout in Healthcare: Building Resilience through InterPlay
Christine Gautreaux, MSW,
Wakoh Shannon Hickey, BCC,
Marci Rau, BCC, and
Amy Smith, BCC
Burlingame , CA
July 18-20th We'll start on Friday after dinner and closing Sunday at lunch
Step into a transformative and interactive professional development experience that uses the creative, body-centered approach of InterPlay to connect, empower, educate, and refresh chaplains navigating the stress and challenges of our profession. This event offers up to 12 hours of Continuing Education Credits and blends cutting-edge research with embodied practices to explore how to transform moral suffering into moral resilience.
Why InterPlay?
InterPlay is a proven modality that unlocks the wisdom of the body through creativity, playfulness, and connection. By engaging in simple, interactive activities like movement, storytelling, and shared reflection, participants will cultivate a deeper sense of resilience, self-awareness, and community. These embodied practices offer a powerful way to address the stress and moral suffering that healthcare professionals experience.
Learning Outcomes
During and/or after the retreat, you will be able to:
- Design a ritual that addresses grief and incorporates improvisational movement, music, storytelling, and/or stillness.
- Name at least three potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) that frequently occur in healthcare settings.
- Explain the difference between PTSD, trauma, and moral injury.
- Describe how InterPlay practices can enhance collaborative treatment models such as active listening, building rapport, meeting your clients where they are, and patient-centered spiritual care.
- Reflect on your challenges as a chaplain and describe or demonstrate how at least two BodyWisdom Practices can support you in doing your work sustainably.
- Develop greater resilience in yourself and provide tools to help cultivate resilience in those with whom you work.
In addition, you will:
- Connect with yourself and others in a safe, supportive space that fosters reflection and healing.
- Empower your professional practice with InterPlay tools to navigate professional and personal challenges creatively and effectively.
- Learn about current research and practical interventions to help transform moral suffering into resilience.
- Refresh your mind, body, and spirit through the healing power of rest, play, movement, and community.
This event will also have the opportunity for reading CEUs.
Studies on rituals, chaplaincy, and resilience (SSM - Qualitative Research in Health and Journal of Palliative Medicine)
Who Should Attend
- Chaplains who want to earn CEUs in a fun and supportive environment.
- Chaplains embracing the power of creativity.
- Chaplains seeking body-based practices to reduce stress and burnout.
- Chaplains looking for a weekend of retreat.
Come prepared to move, reflect, and grow as we combine the wisdom of research with the transformative power of InterPlay. Walk away refreshed, inspired, and equipped with tools to make a meaningful difference in your practice—and your life.
Registration
- Minimum non-refundable $100 to register.
- Registration deadline is June 1.
- Payment in full is due by June 1, unless other payment arrangements have been made.
Cost: $795
Registration/Information: Register through the Pay Now button and we will send a google form to complete your registration
Leaders
Christine Gautreaux, MSW
Christine (she/her) is dedicated to the pursuit of play, joy, art & social justice. Christine’s superpowers include connecting people, helping folks manifest their dreams, standing up against injustice and using art to make a difference in the world.
She currently uses performance art, movement, poetry, storytelling and InterPlay to address issues of oppression with women who are incarcerated, people living with severe and persistent mental illness and homelessness. She also works with activists and artists to maintain balance and self-care during these intense times we find ourselves living.
Pivoting with the times Christine has been called an expert on Zoom and utilizes this online platform to facilitate connection and ease in an online, interactive learning environment.
Christine Gautreaux holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Social Work. She has professional experience with successful grant writing, community organizing and social media marketing. Christine is a life coach for caregivers who are burnt out and ready to take back their own life and make it delightful again. She is the co-author of Stillpoint: A Caregivers Playbook to find ease and to take a deep breath and reclaim joy and Women Connected in Wisdom: Stories and Resources Rooted in the 8 Dimensions of Wellnes V. I and V. II
She currently uses performance art, movement, poetry, storytelling and InterPlay to address issues of oppression with women who are incarcerated, people living with severe and persistent mental illness and homelessness. She also works with activists and artists to maintain balance and self-care during these intense times we find ourselves living.
Pivoting with the times Christine has been called an expert on Zoom and utilizes this online platform to facilitate connection and ease in an online, interactive learning environment.
Christine Gautreaux holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Social Work. She has professional experience with successful grant writing, community organizing and social media marketing. Christine is a life coach for caregivers who are burnt out and ready to take back their own life and make it delightful again. She is the co-author of Stillpoint: A Caregivers Playbook to find ease and to take a deep breath and reclaim joy and Women Connected in Wisdom: Stories and Resources Rooted in the 8 Dimensions of Wellnes V. I and V. II
Wakoh Shannon Hickey, BCC
Rev. Wakoh Shannon Hickey, PhD, BCC, is a board-certified professional chaplain, educator, scholar, and interfaith activist in the Napa Valley of California. Wakoh, the Japanese religious name she received when she was ordained as a priest of Soto Zen Buddhism in 2003, rhymes with "taco." It means something like "harmony and happiness." Wakoh has practiced Buddhism since 1983 and is currently seeking dual affiliation as a Unitarian Universalist minister.
Her first career was as a journalist covering politics, business, and law in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her second was/is as a professor of Religious Studies. Her third is as a chaplain, in both university and medical settings. She has worked full-time in hospice care since 2018. She is also the author of a ground-breaking history of mind-body healing; a kayaker; a servant to two cats; and -- when she's got a good breeze and a clear field -- a pilot of stunt kites.
Wakoh started InterPlaying in 2003 to balance the structure and rigors of Zen monastic practice and of academic life. She became a Certified Interplay Leader in 2014. She seeks ways to incorporate contemplative practices and InterPlay into both teaching and chaplaincy, to help people connect with themselves and one another, explore their creativity, and tap into self-acceptance, confidence, and joy!
Marci Rau, BCC
Marci (she/her) is commited to delight, awe, and laughter in the midst of a world that needs these more now than ever. Life also has presented opportunities to go deep into suffering close to home and around the world. Working with groups and individuals in their grief and processing what empowers others has been a lifelong activity. She has worked as a Chaplain for over 25 years in Hospice and Trauma Hospitals. During the pandemic InterPlay tools provided her body and soul refuge and a semblance of sanity.
The ocean and mountains and daily noticiings of nature also have provide solace, comfort, healing, and hope. Embodied spirituality is the best description of where life leads Marci and the people she accompanies along the way.
Amy Smith, BCC
Amy Smith is a hospice chaplain with Four Seasons Hospice in Flat Rock, N.C. A
Board Certified Chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains since
1999, she has over 30 years experience in healthcare, the last 22 years working
in a community hospice setting. Amy is a certified InterPlay leader, grief support
group facilitator, and community educator, specializing in end-of-life issues, grief
and bereavement, compassion fatigue and resilience. She lives in Western North
Carolina near National and State Forests and is an avid hiker, photographer, and
Native American flute player. Amy blends her arts background and deep
compassion as she accompanies individuals and groups in facing the Big
Questions and Annoying Limitations that are part of being human in this world.