Burnout, Identity & the Power of Adult Play: A Creative Supervision Training for Therapists

About this training

What is a Hybrid Book Study Course? 📕 Purchase the book "Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul" by Stuart Brown. 🎓 Earn 10 NBCC/10 APT non-contact CE hours by completing this self-paced home study. 🤓 Participants purchase and read the entire book and complete self reflecting writing prompts in lieu of an exam ☀️ Additional supplemental material is included to help the book come alive How This Training Can Help You Supervision is not simply oversight or documentation. It is the art of nurturing curiosity, reflection, and growth in the clinicians you mentor. Yet many supervisors find themselves weighed down by administrative pressure, clinical demands, and burnout, leaving little room for the playfulness and spaciousness that make supervision transformative. This book-study-for-CEs experience offers a meaningful shift. Drawing on the themes in Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, you will explore how play is essential for professional well-being, creativity, and resilience. Through reflective writing prompts and a bonus creative art activity, you will reconnect with the practices that keep supervision alive, engaging, and sustainable. This training helps you slow down, think deeply, and rediscover the sense of ease and perspective that strengthens your supervisory presence. Learning Objectives By the end of this book study and written reflection course, participants will be able to: 🍎 Describe how play supports the development of sound judgment, risk-taking, and confidence in emerging therapists, based on Stuart Brown’s research. 🍎 Identify the relationship between play, brain development, and professional team cohesion, citing examples from Play. 🍎 Assess their current approach to work and supervision using a structured self-reflection scale, and articulate strategies for integrating more playfulness into professional practice. 🍎 Analyze their personal “play personality” and examine how bringing these traits into supervision or therapy can positively influence professional relationships. 🍎 Evaluate past professional roles through the lens of play theory, identifying how experiences of fun and enjoyment have impacted resilience, creativity, and growth. 🍎 Reflect on cultural and diversity considerations in therapy and supervision, and develop strategies for incorporating culturally responsive play practices in clinical and supervisory contexts.