Cultivating Safety in the Surrogate/Client Relationship, Brian Gibney
Safety is an essential building block for clients, both in order to progress within the container of SPT and as something to be taken away from the work as they create healthy relationships in the wild. Safety, however, can’t be taught in a single, discrete exercise. In this one hour discussion, we’ll address the following questions as we examine how safety may be cultivated in the surrogate-client relationship: How do we “make” our clients feel safe? How do we balance creating a safe container for the client with minding our own boundaries, wants, and needs? How much do we share with our clients and how soon? How do we help clients transition from a felt sense of safety in a controlled container of the work to feeling empowered to co-author safety with partners in the wild? Conceptual discussion will be bolstered with anecdotal evidence.
 
Business Skills. Michelle Renee
Building your Network
Marketing (website pros and cons, who do you want to market to, therapists or clients?)
Business organizational structure, i.e. LLC vs Sole Proprietor
Banking and bookkeeping
Insurance
Taxes (quarterly estimated, annual filing)
Physical space, where to work, how to find a location
Policies and Procedures: cancellation policy, client agreements, release of information, consent
 
About the Presenters
 
This session will go from 3:00 to 5:40 Pacific time, which includes 2.5 hours and allows for a 10-minute break somewhere in the middle, at a time that is appropriate for the material. Then the guest speakers will leave us, and there will be an additional half hour, from 5:40 to 6:10, which will be a facilitated discussion and integration of the prior content. This last half hour is optional, so if you’ve had enough at that point you are welcome to skip it. If you choose to stay, you will be invited to consider questions, either all together or in breakout groups, like “What most impacted you from today’s session?” “How do you think you can incorporate this in your work as a surrogate partner?”
 
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