When Just Say No is Insufficient: Practical Tools for Boundary Setting and Self Care

Helping professionals choose our career because we want to improve the lives of others, but if we can’t say no or set boundaries when it's necessary for our own wellbeing, we will experience burnout or compassion fatigue and leave the field. While creating and applying boundaries is not always natural to us, it is essential for healthy practice with clients, in our organizations, and in our communities. This workshop will expand our concept of boundary setting, examine steps of boundary setting and enforcement with clients, colleagues, supervisors, workplaces, communities, and social media. We will use hands-on decision-making tools that help us balance our responsibility to ourselves with our responsibilities to others. 

This is an in-person workshop at NSC in St. Louis, MO.

About the Presenter

Katie Ciorba VonDeLinde, MSW, LCSW, is an energetic social worker, educator, and activist working on issues of survivor-centered intimate partner violence (IPV) advocacy, the intersection of economic justice and IPV, and ethical social work practice. Katie has trained thousands of social workers and advocates across the nation on the intersection of economics and domestic violence to increase survivors’ financial security. Ms. VonDeLinde has more than ten years of experience as a beloved, award-winning adjunct faculty member at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University and University of Missouri St. Louis School where she teaches courses on direct social work practice, intimate partner violence, violence across the life course, and human behavior.