Social Work CEU on Charms and Spells

Clarifying, Embodying, and Ritualizing Therapeutic Intention From agency and insurance treatment plans with operationalized objectives, to EMDR targets and positive cognitions, DBT's life-worth-living goals and values-to-goals action steps, intention-setting in psychedelic therapies, and ACT values work, ours is a field that understands the imperative of intentionality. What most of us have also learned is that talk alone rarely produces a client who is fully engaged and available for lived, embodied experience. A well-articulated goal can still sit inert in the body. This 3-hour workshop asks what happens when intention is not only clarified but enacted. We’ll draw on the frames the clinicians in the room already use to build and clarify goals, explore how to fill an intention with felt meaning, and demonstrate how ritual gives it weight and staying power. Together, we will enter ritual space and build our own intentions for the New Year, pooling the room’s collective knowledge of frames, techniques, and tips. As we create spell jars and satchel charms, we’ll survey goal-clarifying strategies from across clinical frames, unpack what each step of the ritual is doing clinically, and explore how to bring it to clients. Continuing Education Wanderhome Retreats, #2794, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program.