Secrets of a Therapist (Part 2): Modern Therapeutic Models to Move Teams from Overwhelm to Alignment

Wednesday, February 11 at 1:00 pm ET (12:00 pm CT, 11:00 am MT, 10:00 am PT)

Health care teams are under unprecedented pressure – and traditional stress and burnout interventions often fail to address what is actually happening beneath the surface. This webinar, which continues the conversation from our June 2024 webinar, introduces a clinically grounded, team-focused framework that integrates multiple therapy models to help healthcare leaders and clinicians better understand individual and team stress, emotional reactivity, disengagement and conflict.

Building on family systems theory and expanding into Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) and the Polyvagal model of strain, participants will learn how unspoken emotional processes, role expectations and protective behaviors shape team functioning. Practical tools and real-world health care examples will be used throughout.

Participants will leave with a clearer way to assess what is driving distress on healthcare teams – and concrete, immediately applicable strategies to support regulation, alignment and resilience at both the individual and team level. While this webinar builds on themes from our June 2024 session, it is fully designed to stand alone. No prior attendance or preparation is required.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify how hidden emotional and relational dynamics contribute to stress, burnout, and breakdowns in health care teams.
• Differentiate when individual distress is best understood through EFT, polyvagal or parts-based (IFS) frameworks.
• Recognize common protective patterns (e.g., over-functioning, withdrawal, rigidity) in health care workers and teams.
• Apply simple, team-appropriate TeamSTEPPS interventions that improve emotional regulation, psychological safety, and role clarity.
• Translate therapy-based concepts into practical language suitable for health care leadership and interdisciplinary teams and TeamSTEPPS language

Speaker:

• Sanne Henninger, EdD, LCSW, CCTP, EMDRT, CAGCS, CGP
  Bright Blues Counseling and Consulting

Continuing Education:

Participants will earn 1.00 Joint Accreditation credit hour for this webinar by completing all CE requirements. CE credit is provided by Duke University Health System Clinical Education & Professional Development. They are accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).

In order to qualify for credit, you must have an active Duke OneLink Account and watch the webinar live. If you do not have a Duke OneLink account, please follow these directions to set up your account and confirm your mobile number (both steps are required). Please note this is a one-time set-up and you may use your account for all future AHA Team Training webinars.