InterPlay Chaplain & Helping Professionals Untensive - December 2026 San Damiano Retreat in CA
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Danville, CA
December 4th - 6th * We'll start on Friday after dinner and closing Sunday at lunch
Building moral resilience by integrating practices of creativity, reflection, and connection.
Using InterPlay techniques to develop rituals and strategies for addressing grief and professional distress.
Insights into Chaplain led and Social Work interventions and collaborative treatment models, enhanced by InterPlay practices.
Learning Outcomes:
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 care. Reflect on your challenges as a helping professional 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 have the opportunity for reading CEU's for Chaplains
Studies on rituals, chaplaincy, and resilience (SSM - Qualitative Research in Health and Journal of Palliative Medicine)
Who Should Attend:
- Chaplains and Helping Professional who what to earn CEU's in a fun and supportive environment - Chaplains & Helping Professionals embracing the power of creativity. - Chaplains & Helping Professionals seeking body-based practices to reduce stress and burnout. - Chaplains & Helping Professionals looking for a weekend of retreat.
Registration
Cost: Reduced from $795 to $695 if you register by October 15th, 2026
Registration/Information: Register through the link above. We will send a google form to complete your registration.
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 Wellness V. I and V. II