David Evans presents the second part of his series: Becoming a Holistic Practitioner: Firing Your Negative Committee. Previous workshop is NOT a prerequisite for registering!

In our daily practice, we routinely give ourselves negative messages about our work and (more importantly) about ourselves. Often referred to as the Negative Committee, this detrimental self-talk impacts us in multiple ways: physiologically, elevating our sympathetic nervous system response, putting us into a fight-flight–freeze response; mentally because we can’t think clearly when cortisol (a stress hormone) is being released in our system; and spiritually because we feel unworthy as people. Unsurprisingly, these negative messages prevent us from working as effectively as we otherwise might be able to do. 

 There is good news: with relatively little effort we can replace the negative, self-defeating messages with affirming ones to positively affect our bodies, minds, and spirits! 

 In this session, we will start by recording a baseline of our physiological responses to perceived stressful situations. Then, positive self-talk strategies will be presented along with guidelines so you can create your own effective statements. Finally, we will apply positive self-talk statements and practice interpreting an ASL text, recording and noting the difference in our internal and external responses.

Target Audience: ASL-English Interpreters and students

Registration is $40.00.