Based on Doc Snipes' upcoming book 100+ Practical Tools to Defeat Depression. Read the whole book for FREE with Amazon Kindle Unlimited
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Spiritual Interventions
Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes, PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC
Executive Director, AllCEUs Counseling Education
Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox, Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery
Objectives
~ Define spirituality
~ Discuss how recovery can be a spiritual journey
~ Explore individual and group activities to help teach concepts of spirituality
~ Purposeful action
~ Living in the present
~ Values
~ Connectedness
~ Honesty and Authenticity
~ Responsibility and Discipline
~ Gratitude
What is Spirituality
~ Recovery from depression can be a spiritual journey. It involves getting honest with yourself and others about what you can and cannot change, developing compassion for yourself and others and living mindfully, devoting energy to those things that are important to you. It is a journey that requires you to identify where you want to go, instead of aimlessly wandering through life.
Honesty and Authenticity (Self-Connection)
~ That means acting in harmony with those needs, wants and desires.
~ Activity (Jenga, Hat Draw, Beach Ball) What and Why?
~ What is your favorite (food, movie, color, book, place, song…)
~ What is the most important characteristic in a friend?
~ What is one thing you do well? Don’t do well?
~ What makes you a good person?
~ What is one thing you really need right now to feel your best?
~ What is something you wish your best friend would do for you?
~ What is one thing you are proud of?
~ What is one thing you would like to improve?
~ What is one goal you are striving toward?
~ What is one thing holding you back from achieving your goal?
Honesty and Authenticity (Self-Connection)
~ Activity
~ If I woke up tomorrow and was happy, what PPTs would be the same and what PPTs would be different? Write a list or description of what you want and need. (Get honest with yourself) You can always shred it.
~ By getting it out there you have the ability to look at it and decide which changes are really what you want and worth making, and which changes are just knee-jerk reactions to stress or despair. (Like changing jobs or ending a relationship)
~ Sometimes you will do things for people that you don’t really want to do.
~ You do it, because they are important to you.
~ In those cases, putting your needs aside serves to enhance something more important to you.
~ The challenge becomes balancing your needs with other people’s.
Values Identification
~ Start with the Values Group Activity
~ Write the following values on individual sheets of paper and put them around the room
~ Honest, Loyal, Compassionate, Hard Worker/High Achiever, Humorous, Knowledgeable/Smart, Popular, Powerful/Influential, Respectful, Optimistic, Tidy/Clean
~ Ask each person to stand under the value that is MOST important for them to be known for.
~ Discuss why people chose that one. Who taught them that was important?
~ Ask if anyone has done anything in the past month that went against that value, and if so, how it made him/her feel.
Values Identification
~ Discuss
~ Values shape how you view the world, what is important to you and how you define goodness.
~ You cannot live authentically or purposefully without knowing what you value
~ Any of these things can either contribute to a stronger sense of peace and self-worth, or a greater sense of confusion, helplessness, hopelessness and depression.
~ You are encouraged to evaluate: