Law & Ethics CEs!
Ethics of Simple Self-Care in Nature – Day 2
Presented by: Dr. Brenda Butterfield, EdD, MSW, LMHC
When: Friday, June 5th, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live in person at the ONE Center (7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA 98502)
Lodging Information: If you’d like to come the night before or stay over on Friday night after the workshop, you can explore the lodging options provided by the ONE Center here. For questions about lodging, please email the ONE Center at [email protected]
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 Law & Ethics CEs | $199.00
Are you ready to come back to ONE for your annual Self-Care Check-Up? Just like an annual physical exam, on this day, you can check in with “the Doctor” to reassess your health and well-being, assess progress toward goals, and discuss challenges along the way. Except in this scenario, you are the “Doctor!” Come, step off the busy treadmill of life to pause, drop in, and check in with yourself while earning 6 ethics credits!
Like Ethics of Simple Self-Care in Nature Day 1, this workshop is retreat-style, nature-based, and very experiential. In our welcoming circle, we’ll begin the day by connecting, building community, and savoring the good company of colleagues. We’ll take time to complete the Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) and the Professional Self-Care Assessment during the annual checkup. Bring your assessment measures from the Day 1 workshop, or no worries if you don’t have them. Trust your inner guide to know where you’ve been and where you are now.
Throughout the day, we’ll spend time in community and on our own as we sit spot on the land and by the water, resting in awareness and writing reflectively. We’ll explore new, simple self-care practices from nature therapy and mindful self-compassion. All practices are evidence-based ways to activate the parasympathetic nervous system anytime, anyplace. All can be shared with clients to support their health and well-being. We’ll revisit research explaining why self-care is essential for health care providers and take a deeper dive into the ethics of practicing self-care through the collaborative Practice of Council around the campfire. We’ll discuss our own biases, real-life challenges, values & beliefs, and find ways to acknowledge, support, and problem-solve together.
Self-care can be quite simple but seldom easy, especially when caring for others. Self-care is living mindfully. It requires ongoing intention and attention to skill building, giving and receiving support, and holding oneself accountable. We hope you answer the call this season of care and come back for your Self Care Check Up at ONE. You’ll be in the good company of colleagues, supported by the healing power of nature.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:
- Reassess your compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress.
- Reassess your current self-care across 5 life domains.
- Explore experientially a variety of ways to practice simple self-care
- Identify lifestyle choices that are supporting or undermining your health and well-being.
- Revisit research correlating clinician health and well-being to treatment outcomes for clients.
- Revisit ethical implications for practicing/not practicing self-care.
- Refine your realistic action plan for improved self-care