Transforming Suffering and Burnout in Healthcare: Building Resilience through InterPlay
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.
Key Topics Include:
Understanding and identifying moral injury in healthcare settings through both research and embodied exploration.
Building moral resilience by integrating practices of creativity, reflection, and connection.
Using InterPlay techniques to develop rituals and strategies for addressing moral suffering and professional distress.
Insights into chaplaincy-led interventions and collaborative treatment models, enhanced by InterPlay practices.
Learning Outcomes:
Connect with yourself and others in a safe, supportive space that fosters reflection and healing.
Empower your professional practice with InterPlay tools to navigate moral challenges creatively and effectively.
Educate yourself on the latest research and practical interventions to transform moral suffering into resilience.
Refresh your mind, body, and spirit through the healing power of play, movement, and community.
Grounded in Evidence:
This event will have the opportunity for reading CEU's.
Studies on rituals, chaplaincy, and resilience (SSM - Qualitative Research in Health and Journal of Palliative Medicine)
Who Should Attend:
Chaplains embracing the power of creativity. Chaiplains 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.
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
Wakoh Shannon Hickey, BCC
Rev. Wakoh Shannon Hickey, PhD, BCC, is an educator, scholar, board-certified professional chaplain, and interfaith activist in the Napa Valley of California. Her religious name, Wakoh, rhymes with "taco." It is Japanese and means something like "harmony and happiness" — her ongoing exploration. Wakoh's 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 was/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 priest of Soto Zen Buddhism; a kayaker; a servant to two cats; and -- when she's got a good breeze and a clear field -- a pilot of stunt kites. She 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 Rau is an InterPlay leader who has worked as a Hospice Chaplain for over 15 years. She enjoys going deeper and broader with individuals and groups as a Spiritual Director.
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.
