Friday Sept 20
9AM - 10AM CST Self-Compassion as Resistance: Resourcing Ourselves in the Context of Oppression
10AM - 12PM CST Self-Assessment and Self-Analysis as Self Care - Identifying Personal Values and Selecting Selfie Goals Compassionately
12PM - PM CST Break
1PM - 3PM CST Self-Assessment and Self-Analysis as Self Care - Build Yourself Up, Don't Shame Yourself Down: A Constructional Approach to Selfie Goals
Saturday Sept 21
9AM - 10AM CST Transforming Self-Doubt into Confidence: Make Choices that Honor Who You Are and What You Want
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0AM - 12PM Self-Assessment and Self-Analysis as Self Care - Self Resourcing with Selfie Data
12PM - PM CST Break
1PM - 3PM Self-Assessment and Self-Analysis as Self Care - Name What You Need: Resourcing Through Community Care
selfie sessions
Transforming Self-Doubt into Confidence: Make Choices that Honor Who You Are and What You Want
Luisa Cañon, Psy.D. BCBA-D
This workshop is for those of us who strive to have it all put together, yet in the background, the fear of not being "good enough" affects our health, work, and relationships. It’s challenging to discern what truly matters amidst the noise of self-doubt, with questions like these: “Why do I second-guess every decision?” “Why does everything feel so difficult?” “If they only knew…?”“Is this good enough?” or “How can I just relax without feeling guilty?” We often exhaust ourselves by pushing through, disconnected from what brings us fulfillment and well-being, while limiting opportunities to practice who we want to be. Through self-reflection and a brief intentional practice, we will explore how self-doubt manifests through overthinking, procrastination, and overwork, and what it means to cultivate courage and self-trust as pathways to resilience in navigating challenges and experiencing more calm, relating differently to our fears, disrupting indecisiveness, and staying rooted in what matters to us.
By the end of this workshop, attendees will:
1. Discuss self-trust from a behavior-analytic (functional contextual) perspective
2. Identify key contextual factors that support the continued relevance of self-trust for marginalized groups
3. Identify at least one self-trust practice that you might adopt into your personal life or practice at work
Self-Compassion as Resistance: Resourcing Ourselves in the Context of Oppression
Emily Sandoz, PhD, BCBA
Self-compassion, like any aspect of our repertoire, is a behavior that we have differential access to across varying contexts. Contexts in which self-compassion is least accessible may be those that are oppressive - or characterized by a dominance of aversive functional relations. Resistance is often characterized as a response to oppression that involved blocking or stopping its impact on us. A constructive alternative, however, is to consider resistance in terms of how it resources, or empowers us. This presentation will explore self-compassion as resistance, considering oppression, power, relationships with self, and social resistance through a contextual behavioral lens and offering implications for practice.
By the end of this workshop, attendees will:
1. Describe oppression and resistance in contextual behavioral terms
2. Name two actions they could incorporate into their practice based on these conceptualizations
Self-Assessment and Self-Analysis as Self Care
Worner Leland, MS, BCBA, LBA & Janani Vaidya, MS, BCBA, IBA
While ongoing data collection and analysis is likely a common behavior that behavior analysts engage in, it may be less common that behavior analysts have systems for collecting and analyzing data on their own behavior. This workshop is a time to pause, self-reflect, and examine our current behavior along with our vision and values for ourselves. Using values exercises and an adapted version of the Constructional Questionnaire (Goldiamond, 1974) for self use, attendees will vision future goals in alignment with their values. Attendees will pinpoint future goals through a lens of self-compassion, and will generate a data collection method for themselves. Behavior selfie-management will be reviewed and attendees will be invited to try on behavioral strategies which may support them moving in directions aligned with their visions. Attendees will also be invited to identify community care needs and resource and access needs, and strategies for building and accessing community care and resources will be reviewed.
By the end of this workshop, attendees will:
1. Name 3 current values
2. Select and rank current valued domains of self care
3. Select at least 1 area of current desired community care
4. Utilize an adapted version of the Constructional Questionnaire (Goldiamond, 1974) for self analysis
5. Pinpoint one self-compassion-led behavior and a method for behavior tracking
6. Identify at least 1 workable self management strategy for increasing probability of aligning behavior with vision
7. Describe at least 1 fluency practice for increasing self-compassion
8. Describe and opt-in participate in one community care activity for increasing access to resources