The Importance of Mindfulness: Regulated Professionals Create Regulated Kids

This webinar addresses the personal and professional development of self.  Excellent self-care needs to be in place for those working with children and families to be able to provide consistent quality care that is respectful and competently delivered.  Practical tools will be shared that you can take away and apply in your current jobs.  In this webinar you will experience mindfulness-based practices and you will be able to extend your practice utilizing some resources that are offered.  Register here.

Christine Slavik, University of the Fraser Valley: Christine is an Associate Professor and currently Department Head in the Child, Youth, and Family Studies Department at the University of the Fraser Valley. Previously she was the Director of Child Life at British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, and worked in a variety of areas as a Child Life Specialist. She has been employed as a Child and Youth Care Counsellor, and as a nurse in psychiatry/mental health. Christine teaches the Child Life and Community Health course as the foundation for the Child Life Specialization and is faculty liaison for the Child Life Internship. Christine holds a Certificate in Appreciative Inquiry Facilitation and is a Certified Trainer of the Appreciative Leadership Development Program, and is a qualified teacher in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the Centre for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts. Christine has completed a series of research projects exploring mindfulness-based practices and contemplative pedagogy in both the K-12 and university settings, and teaches the Introduction to MBSR and Neurobiology of Mindfulness, and Wellness and Mindfulness-based practices regularly on campus and in the community.