This collection is projects that earn 0.2 - 1.0 CEUs and focus on self-care for interpreters: both in our physical bodies and professional spirits. The current options are: BOOK WORK PROJECTS: "The Body Keeps The Score" by: Bessel van Der Kolk: 1.0 PS CEUs, $75 Deepen your understanding of trauma, focusing on how it impacts our work as interpreters and with our own vicarious trauma that bleeds into our personal lives. "Extreme Self Care: 12 Practical & Inspiring Ways to Love Yourself More" by: Cheryl Richardson: 1.0 PS CEUs, $75: Examine your values and be able to identify if you honor them in your professional behaviors: when to say no, when to take a risk, when to let go, when to redraw boundaries with someone, which direction to go in next, and how to feel confident in making these changes. Activities and reflections that complement the book chapters to offer insights and support the courage to change. Note: this book with the subtitle: "Transform your life One Month at a Time" is the same text - both will work for this project. The Power of Ethics, by: Susan Liautaud: 1.0 PS CEUs, $75: The book provides a framework to help you define you own ethical principles & ask the right questions when facing professional or personal dilemmas, using your core values. "Sign Safetly, Interpret Intelligently" by: Dr Diane Gross: 1.0 PS CEUs, $75: This is a book that participants purchase independently (available at any online bookseller). Written by a former interpreter, now a Dr of Oriental Medicine (DOM) and specialist in interpreter-related injuries, Dr. Gross takes you through exercises and mindfulness around your physical posture, signing style and physical habits that can extend your career and ensure you are pain free until retirement! "Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well" by: Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen: 1.0 PS CEUs, $75 The gift is in the receiving. Learn why it is so challenging to receive, yet crucial to success as a professional. With insights from neuroscience & psychology, learn practical methods to be a better interpreter and mentor. "What Happened to You: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience & Healing" by: Bruce D Perry & Oprah Winfrey: 1.0 PS CEUs, $75 Examine how childhood traumas impact and manifest as misaligned adult behavior and apply this to the historical experience of Deaf clients. Understand the cycles & faces of trauma, our responsibility to ourselves and our community in knowing our own triggers and compassionately navigating others. VIDEOS & FILMS: Self Care for Interpreters: 0.5 PS CEUs, $35: Watch videos from iCEU Central's library collection (link provided) about a variety of self care, burn out, mental health and personal growth topics. You will take notes and write reflections on what you learned. No book purchases required. All videos are free, on-line. You can register for more than one of this project to cover different videos in this library for different learning objectives. They will be posted to your transcript as Part 1, 2, etc with this project title. Documentary: "HEAL": 0.25 PS CEUs, $20 This documentary film explores alternative medicine and approaches to healing that are key to understand as a modern medical interpreter and professional. Available for rental on Amazon Video. Documentary: "Burn Out: The Truth About Work": 0.25 PS CEUs, $20 This documentary film discusses the history and trajectory of human work behaviors that have lead to our current state of exhaustion and burn out. Themes explored are alternative living options, benefits of work and rest, and steps to prevent and divert burn out. Available free on YouTube. OTHER PROJECTS: Burn Out Assessment for Interpreters: 0.2 PS CEUs, $15 After taking Psychology Today's burn out quiz, you will dive into your unique score and explore expert advice that addresses risk factors, symptoms, and techniques for improving and preventing burn out. Core Values Assessment for Interpreters: 0.2 PS CEUs, $15 Understanding your core values will make you a better professional, guide the jobs you chose to better align with RID CPC and your own moral compass. In this project, you identify your Top 10 values and Top 5 Core Values and reflect on how you put these into practice into your daily life and work through a series of written responses to guided questions. There is no book or materials. All work is done via the on-line platform and submitted on line. Discovering What Matters in Your Career for Working Interpreters: 0.25 PS CEUs, $20 Take a journey through a series of guided questions around your career/work goals as an interpreter: what you value, or wish would change about your work, how have you changed over your career span, and what goals do you want to set to achieve your 5-yr or 10-yr vision? You will reflect, in writing, on questions that enlightens your goals as a professional. There is no book or materials. All work is done via the on-line platform and submitted on line. Drama & Difficult People: 0.2 PS CEUs, $15 Learn skills through four specially selected TedX Talks on how to avoid drama, work with difficult people, and learn skills to navigate and communicate colleagues better. There is no book or materials. All work is done via the on-line platform and submitted on line. Also Available: The Lectures & Conversation Series! (click link to review & register for topics in this series) Many titles available on Self Care Topics. New titles added regularly: including, but not limited to: Managing Stress The interpreter "Inner Voice" Shaping your professional identity Dealing with high-conflict people 5 Tools to Protect your Brain from Stress Criticism & Feedback And many more.. All project curriculum is copyrighted by iCEU Central, LLC. Books and films that accompany projects must be rented or purchased by the participant, unless specified, due to copyright laws. All RID CEUs are overseen & administered by RID CMP Sponsor: Ginevra Deianni. A Note about CEU calculations: CEUs are calculated at a passive-learning 2:1 time-to-CEU ratio, per RID rules for CMP Activities of this genre. If you have any questions about the time calculations or pre-approved CEU amounts, please contact us.
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