Members-Only
April 8 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Caring for others during a difficult time can be stressful and overwhelming, but support can be found through connection and community. This final session of our leadership community series on Synergy in Action will explore burnout, supporting each other through community, and finding flexibility and adaptability in ourselves and others. As we wrap up our series, this will be a conversation (50 minutes) on supporting each other through community and connection.
Join our session, From Burnout to Breakthrough: Hope and Resilience Behavioral Health Leadership to learn how to integrate hope and resiliency into the very fabric of mental health workplaces through the powerful concept of “Synergy”. Synergy is the energy that we feel when we just know that healing is happening. According to Dr. Richard Katz, “Synergy is out there. The universe is synergistic. We just haven’t learned to open ourselves to it.”
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
10:00am PT / 11:00am MT / 12:00pm CT / 1:00pm ET
Discussion will include:
- increasing understanding about the concept of Synergy and integrating this concept with wellbeing
- exemplify taking responsibility for wellness at each level of a mental health system – from clients to the workforce to the system as a whole.
- learn how to nurture Synergy in action in our current mental health care systems,
- and identify ways we can collectively work towards transforming mental health care towards more Synergistic approaches in each of our contexts.
Participants will be able to ask questions, receive feedback, and support one another to better apply each of the synergy strands on individual, interpersonal, and collective levels in their particular workplace and lives.
Background: In January, CBHL and Stepped Care Solutions hosted an experiential webinar to demonstrate creativity and agency to cultivate a more supportive and effective system for both the workforce and those they serve. This leadership community series was developed as a follow up to that discussion.
What is a CBHL Leadership Community?
CBHL Leadership Communities connect leaders, organizations, and systems eager to learn and work across sectors in pursuit of a shared goal.
What is the purpose of a CBHL Leadership Community?
CBHL leadership communities are created based on member interest with a focus on a specific topic or leadership population. They are recurring over a specific period of time and open to all CBHL members.
- Encourage organic connections among CBHL members through ongoing collaboration around a shared interest.
- To improve knowledge and skills of behavioral health leaders through collaboration, the exchange of ideas, and professional dialogue.
- To facilitate informed and collaborative leadership for improved individual, organizational, and community outcomes.
Leadership Community Hosts
Dr. Gillian Berry, Senior Advisor of Culture & Workforce Development
Dr. Gillian Berry is Senior Advisor of Culture & Workforce Development at Stepped Care Solutions. She is a published author and a clinical social worker, with over 35 years of experience as an educator and practitioner. She has overseen the counseling and psychological services at George Washington University, leading a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals through the implementation of the Stepped Care 2.0 approach into their service delivery. She has been a faculty member at the University of Botswana’s Department of Social Work Southern Africa and the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her clinical interests are strongly influenced by her grandfather’s Indigenous philosophy, and she provides short-term solution-focused services/therapy from this perspective.
Dr. Catie Greene, Faculty of Culture & Workforce Development
Catie Greene, PhD, LPC is a counselor educator and supervisor. Catie has worked as a clinician in college counseling centers and group practice, and an educator in Clinical Mental Health Counseling graduate programs for over 11 years and joined Stepped Care Solutions as a faculty consultant on synergy, beyond diversity, equity, and inclusion in 2020. Catie’s research and practice is grounded in Relational Cultural Theory.
About Stepped Care Solutions
Stepped Care Solutions (SCS) is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization, and the creators of Stepped Care 2.0 (SC2.0©) – an innovative and transformative model that leverages collaborative efforts and technology to transform mental health and substance use health systems for better access and outcomes. SCS exists to help organizations and communities reframe, rethink, and redesign the delivery of mental health care services.
Bolstered by principles and driven by evidence, SCS collaborates with government, business, health care, and more, to promote and implement an equitable and visionary approach to mental health care, and ensure every individual receives care that is uniquely suited to their needs.
Recommended reading:
Stepped Care 2.0: The Power of Conundrums 1st ed. 2023 Edition
Indigenous Healing Psychology: Honoring the Wisdom of the First Peoples 2017
Synergy, Healing, & Empowerment: Insights from Cultural Diversity
