Eileen Mejia, MA is an Ambassador of Compassion through Stanford University’s Applied Compassion Program.

As a Professor, Facilitator and Trainer for thirty years, Eileen uses evidence-based methods to facilitate compassionate, joyful community and high functioning teams. Her facilitation promotes harmony, resilience, self-discovery, and renewal.

In Eileen’s classes, workshops and retreats, participants experiment and explore. We ask questions and puzzle out answers. We enact curiosity and thoughtfulness. We grow beyond assumptions as we build on one another’s unique knowledge and insights.

Participants are never coerced out of their comfort zones. Given agency over participation styles and choices, comfort zones tend to expand at each participant’s own pace.

Grounded in authentic humility and confidence, we co-create emergent synergy, developing new knowledge and new understanding.

Generous, openhearted goodwill characterize Eileen’s classes and workshops.

Our goal is to promote compassion, resilience and joyful collaboration. In this workshop we will explore how to reduce empathy fatigue and activate skilled compassion as its antidote. Conceptual information will be integrated with experiential activities that are designed to invigorate your team dynamic and provide opportunities for renewal. Participants can expect a lively and engaging session.

Dr. Kira Mauseth is a practicing clinical psychologist who sees patients at Snohomish Psychology Associates in Everett and Edmonds, WA, is an Associate Teaching Professor at Seattle University and serves as a co-lead for the Behavioral Health Strike Team for the WA State Department of Health. She also owns Astrum Health, LLC, and consults with organizations and educational groups about disaster preparedness, response, and recovery, and resilience building within local communities.

Dr. Mauseth has provided training to community groups and professionals both regionally and abroad in Haiti, Jordan, and recently in Poland as the co-developer of the Health Support Team^© program. Her work and research focus on disaster behavioral health, resilience, as well as small and large-scale critical incident response and preparation for organizations. She has worked extensively with disaster survivors and refugees and has trained first responders and health care workers throughout Puget Sound the United States, and currently serves in the adult mental health clinical seat on Washington State’s Disaster Medical Advisory Committee (DMAC).

This Keynote address will include behavioral health considerations related to the phases of large-scale disaster recovery in general, and specific information about how those phases have played out regionally and impacted our collective functioning. Information will be provided about the physical and neuro-chemical processes at work when we transition from “emergency” mode into something else, and why it is often very difficult to do so. Populations at higher or specific risk will also be acknowledged as we work through options for support and active resilience in an accessible way. Communication strategies for effective processing through crisis, grief, loss, anger, burnout, and compassion fatigue, and managing our complex emotional, cognitive and interpersonal challenges at home and at work will also be discussed as we find ways to re-connect meaningfully with our work and things that matter at home and in community.

Learning objectives:

1. Reflect on current experience of personal and professional behavioral health challenges and resources during this phase of recovery.
2. Understand the physiological and neurological underpinnings from some of our most common experiences and behaviors (the WHY behind the WHAT).
3. Develop a set of take-away skills for best practices with regard to workplace and home oriented communication, listening and behavioral health support

This interactive workshop session is designed to provide skill building opportunities around workplace and team- oriented communication, as well as personal opportunities to operationalize resilience through an exploration and unpacking of its “ingredients”: Purpose, Connection, Adaptability, and Hope. We will develop ideas about how to make small changes in day-to-day practices that are likely to have a longer-term effect on interpersonal functioning, and discuss how to apply that same information in a professional setting for clients. We will engage in the development of a personal coping plan for use at home and at work, and a core values identification process that helps illuminate effective processes of engagement during difficult conversations or about challenging topics with colleagues and family members as well as friends.

 Learning objective:

1. Increase understanding of the components of resilience (Purpose, Connection, Adaptability & Hope) in a practical and accessible way.
2. Develop a personal coping plan for use at any time at home or in the workplace.
3. Create a core values worksheet that can be used to guide challenging conversations or interactions with others.

• Certified Personal Medicine Coach Panel with Pat Deegan, PhD, Corntey Taylor, MD, Tina Kilton, Jason Morrow, and Katrina Hopf, PSS
•  Navigating APD for Behavioral Health Providers (ACT Providers) for clients with complex care needs with Nirmala Dhar
• Addiction Medicine for the ACT Team with Lydia Bartholow, DNP, PMHNP, CARN-AP
• Implementing the Zero Suicide Framework in Health Systems with Karen Cellarius, MPA & Aliza Tuttle, MUS

• Do You See Me? Practice Workshop with Sherronda Jamerson, MA, CDP
• Helping Clients Save Money Without Losing Their Benefits with Kaellen Hessel-Owens
• A Taste of Motivational Interviewing with Trevor Manthey, LMSW, PhD, MINT member
• A Compassionate Apporach to Hearing Distressing Voices with Ron Unger, LCSW
• Opioid Overdose Response and Recognition with Blue Valentine, CHW

• Sherronda Jamerson Workshop with Sherronda Jamerson, MA, CDP
• Queer and Trans Mental Health with Ryan Tieu
• Motivational Interviewing Part 2 – More Skills to Build Motivation with Trevor Manthey, LMSW, PhD, MINT member
• A Compassionate Apporach to Hearing Distressing Voices Part 2 with Ron Unger, LCSW
• Communities of Practice Learning Collaborative with OCEACT

• Hearing Voices Simulation facilitated by OCEACT and OSECE (limited space; only for those who signed up in registration)
• People-First and Identity-First Language with Christina Lindsey, QMHA, PSS & Robert Mountainspring-Wood, BA
• Reconstructing Resilience: Practical Strategies for Accessible Behavioral Health Recovery with Kira Mauseth, PhD
• De-escalation and Crisis Intervention with Benjamin Brubaker, QMHA and Kate Gillespie, LCSW
  
• Introduction to Harm Reducation Treatment (HaRT) for Substance Use Disorders: Meeting People Where They’re At with Seema Clifasefi, PhD, MSW