Recovering Your Authentic, Passionate, and Risk-Taking Self: The Inner Child-Creative Professional Journey
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Speaker : MARK GORKIN
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When : Tuesday, May 13, 2025
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Time : 01 : 00 PM EST
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Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, "The Stress Doc" ™, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has blended individual and group therapy/facilitation, public speaking, workshop and webinar leadership, especially in the areas of stress resilience, burnout prevention, and anger/conflict management, as well as creativity and humor, leadership and team building. A nationally-known Motivational Psychohumorist ™, the Doc is a critical incident and trauma/grief/violence prevention consultant, currently working with the NYC-based national EAP, CCA, and the DC-based Human Resources Consulting Firm, PRM. (Mark has done considerable work with a variety of DC-Govt Agencies, especially the DC Regulatory Affairs Agency.)
Mark’s style, substance, and spirit have helped heal and inspire individuals, teams, and organizations for over forty years. Mark presently provides individual and group teletherapy/trauma services at Inner City Family Services, Washington, DC. The Stress Doc has taught Crisis Intervention at Tulane University Graduate School of Social Work, been a Stress and Violence Prevention Consultant for the US Postal Service, led Stress Resilience and Team-Building Playshops on Leadership Retreats for the US Army. He also helped spearhead a mental health education and advocacy outreach program, Be Well Initiative, for the Nepalese Community in the Greater DC area.
His books, Practice Safe Stress, The Four Faces of Anger, and Preserving Human Touch in a Hi-Tech World, also capture the Stress Doc’s wholistic, healing, and humorous approach to recovery and Post-Traumatic Growth!
Many folks have understandably focused on work and/or family achievement to generate a sense of accomplishment and self-worth. And for a period of time this may suffice, as all the demands of the outside world keep us scrambling. Sometimes we do reach a state of intentional focus and purpose, but then, once again, we go adrift, get distracted, maybe even caught up in an addiction. And, especially during quiet moments, we sense something is missing, or some vital part of ourselves, who we truly are, seems to be in hibernation.
This is the point at which an individual needs to both step back and go back in time; to get off the treadmill long enough to: a) assess personal authenticity, self-awareness, and quality of life, and b) not just quantity or miles. And if we really listen carefully, there is pain or regret, a sadness and anger from our childhood or early adulthood that is like an invisible weight around our neck and inside our psyche. It's a psychic pain or disturbing voice we keep pushing down; a silent voice that proves distracting. Alas, this cover-up drains our energy, confidence, and holds us back from becoming our fullest, most vibrant selves. As acclaimed 20th c. John Fowles noted, "Emotional memories are his electric current. He needs to be plugged into this power source to maximize his creative output."
Areas Covered
- Where Is Charlotte? The Bridge Between Inner Child and Adult Creativity
- Dad's Mid-Life Crisis and Our Courageous Conversation
- Early Trauma and Grief: A Mystical-Like Discovery
- Embracing Your Saboteurs and Eight "F"s of Harnessing Loss and Change
- Academic Flashdancing and Six "R"s of Burnout Recovery
- Passion Power Model: Having A Commanding and Creative Presence
- Healing Humor, Camaraderie, and Confronting the Intimate FOE
- Open, Mutual, and Exploratory Teaming
"Recovering Your Authentic, Passionate, and Risk-Taking Self" will set individuals, teams, and organizations as a whole on the path of "Inner Child" recovery and resilience, on a journey of Post-Traumatic Growth!
Who Should Attend
All personnel levels – from front-line employees to all levels of management will gain skills, tools, and strategies for: 1) being more self-aware and authentic, 2) recognizing and grieving early trauma and saboteurs, and 3) being open to feedback and productively exploring new ideas and possibilities. Clearly, individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole benefit when a work culture is more authentic and stress resilient more passionate and focused, more collaborative and FUN!
Why Should You Attend
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Strategic Intervention Solutions: Safe Spaces and Strategic Tools/Techniques
This program is for any employer, supervisor, manager or executive wanting to be "their fullest selves without being too full" of themselves. In today's challenging and rapidly changing corporate and government environment, it's too easy to settle: too often "tried and true" becomes "tired and trite." Meaningful "Authenticity" includes being more honest and self-aware; acknowledging one's flaws and "saboteurs," as well as being open to "courageous conversations" with others. This level of openness and "Risk-Taking" not only strengthens trust and collaboration, but frees up "Passion," imagination, and "jazz riff" creativity. Teams are better coordinated and more productive!
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$160.00
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