About the project
An independent project developed by Katerina Anagnostopoulos with the collaboration of Federica Leoni, aimed at promoting self-empowerment and wellbeing of practitioners and volunteers in the helping professions involved with refugees and asylum seekers.
Creating Bridges consists in a variety of training, skills development, practice exchange and dissemination activities across different groups and contexts: online webinars, seminars, onsite local initiatives, including a training program on the Island of Samos, Greece, on 15-20 September 2020.
Webinars on Self-care and effective thinking. Program and resources
Challenging situations, positive mindset and relationship building
This second online event organised on Tuesday July 27th,2020 at 5 pm CEST in cooperation with Indigo Volunteers, builds on the first webinar on “Self-care and effective thinking” held in May. The main topics were defined taking into consideration the feedback and requests of the participants to the 1st webinar – are the following:
- Positive mindset in handling challenging situations and emotions
- Approaching and building the helping relationship: caring, self-caring and balanced interpersonal boundaries.
Slides and resources from the Webinar
The first webinar was held on Tuesday May 12th, 2020
Self- Care and effective thinking. Meaning-making in volunteering and working with refugees and asylum seekers. Good practices, ideas, reflections.
A first introductory webinar, held in cooperation with Indigo Volunteers, designed for workers/volunteers involved in supporting refugees and asylum seekers, as well as practitioners who work in the field.
The aim was that of facilitating the increase of awareness, self-empowerment and personal capacity building. We will focus on the helpers’ self-care and effective thinking attitudes and behaviours which may affect adjustment and resiliency processes. The main topics addressed:
- Meaning-making processes and treasuring experiences
- Self-care strategies, thinking attitudes that help reaching emotional stability and effectiveness, before, during and after field work.
- Cognitive styles, stress and coping resources
Slides and resources from the Webinar
You can click on the title to open and download the presentations.
Katerina Anagnostopoulos – 1st Webinar Self-care…presentation Katerina Anagnostopoulos
+E-mail contact: info@incontridipsicoterapia.it
Federica Leoni – Self-care and effective thinking Webinar 1_presentation Federica Leoni –
Thinking attitudes that help reaching emotional stability and effectiveness. E-mail contact: federica.leoni.psy@gmail.com
