The Aligned Professional

Welcome to The Aligned Professional, a course for professionals who are tired of the constant stress and feelings of burnout associated with the good works we do. It doesn't have to be this way. That's why Debra Battistella, MS, OTR/L and Heidi MacAlpine, OTD, M.ED, OTR have joined forces for a wonderful collaboration to support professionals in stepping out of stress and into calm confidence.

As part of our extensive experience along with our commitment to personal and professional development and continuous learning, we want to address the current challenges voiced by healthcare and education professionals such as stress, trauma, and burnout due to workload capacity exceeding tolerance levels. 

Much of our learning has been around understanding nervous system regulation, emotional intelligence, trauma, healing, and the impact of stress on our emotional and physical well-being. 

The longer we work in practice, the more we question the lag in integrating this important information, so Heidi and I are here to do something about it. 

We’d be thrilled to have you join us in this forward motion towards change!

THE ALIGNED OT: MOOD HARMONIZERS FOR CLIENT CONNECTION PART 1

COURSE DETAILS

This mini-course addresses current challenges in healthcare and education such as stress, trauma, and burnout. It is a small sampling of our knowledge base and will cover topics around nervous system regulation for personal peace, calm, and well-being. These strategies, when implemented, will bring you into a place of ease. They can help you feel better physically, think more clearly, and thus, further enhance professional alliances. Course participants will learn practical and effective tools and strategies to create a stronger resiliency to workplace and life stressors.

Course Objectives:

1. Explain the term personal power and describe how it relates to clinical practice

2. Describe nervous system states of dysregulation & regulation 

3. Explain how both nervous system states have on professional practice

4. Objectively classify behavior examples into appropriate nervous system categories 

5. Select language from The Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, 4th Ed. to describe body functions that correlate to mood 

   regulation and health maintenance

6. Identify and practice two strategies to bring the body into a regulated state


This virtual mini-course will deepen participants’ understanding of critical issues in our fields and foster collaboration and professional alliance among professionals. 

BONUS

Participants who attend live are eligible to participate in the 10 day ACTION CHALLENGE

What is the ACTION CHALLENGE?

I'm glad you asked!

The ACTION CHALLENGE consists of 

YOUR COURSE INSTRUCTORS


Debra Battistella, MS, OTR/L has 23 years of experience working in physical medicine practice with the older adult population and 8 years teaching and coordinating fieldwork in an occupational therapy assistant program. She has helped many teams develop programs such as Early Mobility in the ICU, Modified Constraint Induced Therapy & The OT"s Guide to Mirror Therapy for stroke recovery, as well as community-based wellness programs.


Debra is owner of Creative Concepts In Occupational Therapy PLLC, where she supports physical medicine occupational therapy practitioners via online trainings and programs. She is co-host of the Noggins & Neurons Brain Injury Recovery Simplified podcast which gives her an opportunity to share her passion for the brain and neuroplasticity with survivors, their care partners and healthcare professionals.


Heidi MacAlpine, OTD, M. ED, OTR, is an author, podcaster, educator, and holistic healthcare practitioner with 35 years of experience working with children and their families, developing and implementing programs and interventions that help meet the individual and unique needs of her clients and the community.  Her private practice, Align OT,  based in New York,  uses creative and meaningful evidenced-based and neurodiverse programs such as Safe & Sound Protocol, myofascial release, equine therapy, and yoga in naturalistic environments that stimulate and, entertain the eight senses, and aligns the nervous system, using Sensory Alignment Therapy ™, Unyte  Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP), and Trauma- Informed Care.  She has brought her tools and techniques into the community to educate, support, mentor, and supervise occupational therapy students from different institutions to further their understanding of the value of emotional and physical well-being through self-regulation and co-regulation to improve quality of life. One way this was achieved was by developing and integrating a wellness program to prevent burnout with a community partner at a fieldwork site. Email Heidi at Heidi.alignOT@gmail.com. Heidi's website: AlignOT.com