NADD Region I Staff Day is a day of continuing education and reflection hosted by NADD Region I.  On May 12th we will gather at Genesis House in Westfield, MA with our staff members for a day with Dr David Olsen, looking at the topic of Clergy Burnout

People in ministry often find their energy drained, and burnout setting in.  The literature on burnout tends to focus on two causes: systemic (  the problem is within the church )  and intrapsychic (  the problem is within the minister ). This workshop, based on When Helping Starts to Hurt: Understanding Professional Burnout by David C. Olsen, Ph.D. and William Grosch, MD, will look at how the interaction of these two issues produces burnout, and how burnout can be prevented.  Special attention will be given to boundaries, prevention, and self care.

Staff Day

Coffee and Gathering Time                    9:00 am
Rev David Olsen – Part I                      10:00 am
L U N C H                                             12 NOON
Rev David Olsen – Part II                      1:00 pm
Closing                                                3:00 pm

Region 1 Business Meeting                    3:30 pm
Presentation and Discussion on Site Selection
Report from NADD National Meeting

Close of Meeting                                 5:00 pm

Supper at Genesis House                     5:30 pm

All directors and diaconate office staff members are invited to attend.  Each member diocese has three seats at this day and additional participation is available for a contribution of $25 per head toward the cost of the day.

David C. Olsen, PhD, LCSW, LMFT  is the Executive Director of the Samaritan Counseling of the Capital Region (New York State)

David most recently co-authored the nationally published The Couples Survival Workbook (New Harbinger Press, 2001). He is also the author of Integrative Family Therapy (Fortress Press, 1993), co-author of When Helping Starts to Hurt (W.W. Norton & Company, 1994) and co-author of a chapter in Prevention: Avoiding Burnout in a Perilous Calling. He has penned numerous journal articles and is a regular contributor to local media articles and features.
David presents workshops nationally. He has also presented at the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy for the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, and he provides annual family therapy training for U.S. military chaplains and has served as faculty for the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas.
David is also an adjunct professor at Sage Graduate School, where he teaches couple therapy and sex therapy. He is a certified pastoral counselor (Fellow, American Association for Pastoral Counselors), and is a certified marriage and family therapist (Clinical member and Approved Supervisor American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy), a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and Diplomat in the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work. He is an ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches, USA.

Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region, founded in 1985, is a private, not-for-profit center that offers individual, couples, family and group therapy, as well as comprehensive business consulting services.  The center's therapists are all certified and licensed professionals, representing the disciplines of clinical social work, clinical psychology, marriage and family therapy, and pastoral counseling. The center is intentionally holistic and attends to issues of body, mind and spirit.

http://www.genesiscenter.us

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