GENERAL AGENDA, TOPICS, & LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Opening Plenary:
Title: Wellness Session: Collective Healing Addressing long-term impacts of counselors dealing with clients (Secondary Traumatic Stress).
Speaker: Dr. N. D'Angelo Lewis
Description: Counselors and clinicians are routinely exposed to trauma, grief, systemic injustice, and human suffering. Over time, this exposure can lead to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS), compassion fatigue, and cumulative burnout. This opening plenary explores collective healing as a protective and restorative framework, shifting the focus from individual self-care to shared meaning-making, communal regulation, and sustainable wellness within professional communities.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
- Define Secondary Traumatic Stress and distinguish it from burnout and vicarious trauma.
- Identify emotional, cognitive, somatic, and relational indicators of STS.
- Explain the role of collective healing in mitigating trauma exposure.
- Apply collective wellness strategies that support resilience.
- Reframe counselor wellness as an ethical and organizational responsibility.
Breakout Session A:
Title: Values Driven Supervision
Speaker: Jason Black
Training Description: This training explores the role of values-based alignment in clinical supervision as a protective and generative factor against burnout, moral injury, and supervisory rupture. Participants will examine how clearly articulated personal, professional, and organizational values shape supervisory style, influence supervisee development, and impact retention and ethical decision-making. Using reflective exercises and applied supervision scenarios, the training invites supervisors to identify their own core values, understand the values of their supervisees, and recognize common points of alignment and tension. Participants will leave with practical tools to adapt supervision approaches across differing value systems, respond skillfully to value conflict, and intentionally shape supervision that supports clinician growth, organizational integrity, and sustainable clinical practice.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
- Identify and articulate their own core supervisory values describe how each value explicitly informs supervisory expectations, feedback practices, and decision-making.
- Differentiate between burnout and moral injury within clinical supervision contexts and explain how values misalignment contributes to each.
- Evaluate supervisee values and developmental stage by utilizing structured reflective questioning and supervision dialogue techniques.
- Demonstrate adaptive supervisory strategies by selecting and justifying supervision approaches that align supervisor, supervisee, and organizational values while maintaining ethical standards
- Develop a values-informed supervision plan that promotes psychological safety, professional identity formation, and long-term workforce sustainability.
- Recognize and respond to values-based supervisory conflict by implementing at least one intervention strategy to address misalignment without escalation or rupture.
Breakout Session B:
Title: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Children & Adolescents
Speaker: Dr. LaTanya Sobczak
Training Description: Positive Behavior Support (PBS) strategies and plans are impactful tools used by support teams caring for individuals with emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges. These challenges can significantly affect caregivers’ ability to support children at home, as well as staff capacity within residential and community-based services. Challenging behaviors can negatively impact quality of life for children and families. This training explores how strength-based, positive behavior supports can be effectively developed and implemented for children (and adults) with complex needs.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
- Identify the key components of a positive behavior support plan.
- Define Positive Behavior Support strategies.
- Identify best practices for completing behavior support plans for children with complex needs.
- Explain the importance of using positive, strength-based strategies in behavior support plan implementation.
Breakout Session C:
Title: Using AI in advancing clinical supervision with ethical considerations
Speaker: Michael Daniels
Training Description: Agenetic AI is evolving beyond basic chat tools into systems capable of reasoning, memory, and voice interaction. This training supports clinical supervisors in understanding how to ethically integrate AI into supervision without replacing professional judgment. Participants will explore applications such as case conceptualization, treatment plan review, documentation support, and supervisee development while addressing confidentiality, bias, and informed consent.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Distinguish argentic AI from standard chat tools.
- Apply AI ethically to supervision tasks while maintaining clinical responsibility.
- Develop AI-supported workflows for documentation and feedback.
- Evaluate ethical risks related to confidentiality, consent, and bias.
- Explain how AI can reduce supervisor burnout and support supervisee development.
Closing Plenary:
Title: Somatic approaches clinical supervision can practice and take back to their clinicians (Promoting self-regulation)
Speaker: Dr. N. D'Angelo Lewis
Training Description: This closing plenary introduces somatic and body-based approaches that supervisors can integrate into clinical supervision to support regulation, presence, and sustainability. Participants will explore how supervision can serve as a restorative space by addressing nervous system responses to chronic stress and trauma exposure.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
- Describe the relationship between the nervous system, trauma exposure, and clinician functioning.
- Identify signs of dysregulation in supervisees.
- Integrate somatic practices into supervision.
- Model co-regulation strategies within supervisory relationships.
- Support clinicians in transferring somatic skills into clinical practice.