Learn Tools to Reduce Stress and Lower Burnout
InterPlay Chaplain Untensive - July 2025
Transforming Suffering and Burnout in Healthcare: Building Resilience through InterPlay
Christine Gautreaux, MSW, Wakoh Shannon Hickey, BCC, Marci Rau, BCC, and Amy Smith, BCC
Mercy Center - Retreat - 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 15, unless other payment arrangements have been made.
No refunds after June 15.
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