Anyways, that's just a little stream of consciousness blurting. My point in posting was to get a few things I'm interested in lately out there.
- Today is Survivors of Suicide Day. It is an important day of healing for those who have lost someone to suicide. You can find out more about this day and even watch a broadcast of the day HERE.
- I have recently discovered Dan Siegel and his work on Mindsight. It is a mindfulness approach that he has developed and created theory around that is incredibly interesting. You can find some of his work and meditations at his website. As well, I just finished listening to a talk he gave at the Upaya Zen Center on his approach and highly recommend it. You can find all of the podcasts HERE. I've just ordered his books and am looking forward to reading them. One is called Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
and the other is The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration. I'll try to give them a bit of a review after I read them.
- On a personal/professional level, I'm struggling with choices lately. My clients constantly struggle with whether they made the right choices or whether they are making the right future choices and I can really relate lately. My life has changed so much from a few years ago that I can hardly recognize it a lot of the time. I'm happy with where I am professionally, but I wonder if it's the place I'm supposed to be in order to move forward. I'm comfortable with the struggle (surprisingly) but I know I'll have to come to terms with it eventually. So complicated.
And there is another entry in my very occasional blog! Finis!
For the Summer 2010 issue of The New Social Worker, Claudia Dewane and I wrote an article titled, "Treating New Social Worker Anxiety Syndrome" http://www.socialworker.com/home/Feature_Articles/Professional_Development_%26_Advancement/Treating_New_Social_Worker_Anxiety_Syndrome_(NSWAS)/ The idea behind the article was that social work students graduate and they feel anxious about their skills, their job, etc. Yours sounds like the opposite situation: New Social Worker Boredom Syndrome. :-). Thanks for the post.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment, Jonathan. And yeah, you're right. I seem to have skipped over that anxiety phase. I don't know if it's because I have a ton of experience in the social services previous to graduating, or because I have enough anxiety in my everyday life that I'm not anxious about my skills. Oh well, I'll enjoy it while I can. ;)
ReplyDeleteI finished my MSW 3.5 years ago and I still have anxiety dreams that I didn't finish an independent study, so I'm not actually qualified to hold the position I currently have. Yuck!
ReplyDeleteHa, I still have that sense that something is still due, but I've never taken it to that next step that it now makes me unqualified for my job. Thanks for planting THAT seed. ;)
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