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Wellbeing
Angie Arora, MSW, RSW (she/her/hers)
Veterinary Social Worker
Private Practice
Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Presentation Description / Summary:Boundaries. We know what they are and why we need them. According to Rachel Havekost,“boundaries are the verbal contracts that you create with yourself and those around you that say, ‘please don’t trespass, I am protecting this part of me’”. There is a growing understanding across veterinary medicine of the importance of boundaries as a tool to promote self-care and wellness both within personal and professional relationships. However, why can it be so challenging to implement them?
The primary goal of this session is to explore how we have been conditioned to develop adaptive responses that make it harder to establish boundaries in our relationships. At a macro level, we will explore the connection between boundaries and social and familial conditioning. At a micro level, we will explore how many have learned to cope with nervous system activation through fawning responses which lead us to putting the needs of others ahead of our own. You will leave the session with resources on key tools required to shift these patterns including self-regulation, self-awareness, values, and empathic assertions. You will leave this session with a very different and deeper understanding of boundaries that will shift the way you engage in boundary setting with your family, friends, colleagues, and clients.
Learner Outcomes: 1. Improve one’s understanding of the barriers to implementing boundaries. 2. Identify the correlation between one’s values and boundaries. 3. increased awareness of resources to foster self-regulation, self-awareness and empathic assertions to establish more effective boundaries.
