Restoration Over Optimization: Rebuilding Capacity When Self-Care Isn’t Enough 8/8/26
Date/Time
Time: 8:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern
Location: LIVESTREAM
Cost: $99.99
Credits: 5 CE Credits
Events open 15 minutes before the hour. Registration ends 30 minutes before the event opens.
Presenter(s)
CEU Creations presents:
Restoration Over Optimization: Rebuilding Capacity When Self-Care Isn’t Enough 8/8/26
FEATURING:
- A new burnout model that shifts from self-care as optimization to restoration as capacity-building.
- A step-by-step Restoration Plan (nervous system, boundaries, workload design, and recovery rhythms) you can apply immediately to protect longevity in helping work.
EVENT INFO:
8:45 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern
Events open 15 minutes before the hour. Registration ends 30 minutes before the event opens.
COST:
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:
Social Workers:
ASWB ACE – 5 General CE credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 5 Contact hours
Psychologists:
APA – 5 CE credits
Counselors:
NBCC ACEP – 5 Contact hours
NY State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 5 Contact hours
Addiction Professionals:
NAADAC – This course is not eligible for NAADAC Contact hours.
Nurses:
California Board of Registered Nursing – 5 Contact hours
Case Managers:
CCMC – 5 CE Contact hours
Long-Term Care Administrators:
This course is not approved for NAB/NCERS participant hours.
Attendance or applied credit certificate available for other credentials.
Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credits.
Counselors: If this course awards Ethics hours, please note that some states do not recognize Ethics hours; in those cases, Contact hours will be awarded.
Target Audience: Social workers, psychologists, counselors, nurses, and case managers
Counseling Skill Group:
N/A
OVERVIEW:
Helping professionals are often socialized to believe that the answer to burnout is brief acts of self-care, better time management, increased efficiency, or pushing through with more discipline. In reality, burnout recovery is not about optimization, it is about restoration.
Chronic exposure to emotional and cognitive overload, trauma narratives, high caseloads, and systemic deficiencies and pressures gradually deplete the nervous system and reduce the brain and body’s capacity to recover. When we attempt to solve exhaustion with more productivity strategies, we often intensify the cognitive, emotional, and physical depletion we are trying to fix.
This 5-hour workshop reframes burnout recovery as a structured process of restoring capacity rather than another attempt to improve efficiency output. Participants will explore how ongoing work stress affects energy, mood, cognitive function, physical health, and professional effectiveness. Participants will examine how burnout develops, how to recognize warning signs, and why restoration, not efficiency, is the foundation of recovery.
The heart of the workshop introduces a practical, sustainable Restoration Plan built around small, realistic personal and workplace shifts. Participants will design micro-level recovery strategies such as reframing their relationship to work, clarifying values and priorities, developing boundary-setting language, protecting downtime, and making thoughtful workload adjustments. These changes are designed to reduce cumulative stress and rebuild resilience without requiring major life overhauls. Attendees will leave with a clear, personalized restoration framework that supports professional longevity, immune health, and renewed engagement in their work.
OBJECTIVES:
By attending this training, you will be able to:
1. Differentiate between acute stress that is resolved naturally and chronic stress that accumulates when structured recovery is not integrated into daily routines.
2. Identify warning signs of chronic stress overload and burnout, including patterns of over-functioning, over-responsibility, and excessive multitasking.
3. Identify two micro-level recovery strategies.
4. Describe how ongoing, unrelieved stress affects energy, mood, cognitive function, physical health, and professional effectiveness.
5. Develop a personalized long-term Restoration Plan that includes realistic personal and workplace-based changes (e.g., reframing the relationship to work, reorganizing values and priorities, boundary-setting practices, and structured restoration rituals) designed to rebuild capacity rather than increase productivity.
AGENDA (all times are Eastern):
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Restoration Over Optimization (includes a 10-minute break)
12:00 p.m. – 12:40 p.m. Midway Reset
12:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Restoration Over Optimization (includes a 10-minute break)
PRESENTER BIO:
Rhonda DiNovo serves as Clinical Assistant Professor, MSW Program Coordinator, and Coordinator of the Graduate Drug and Addictions Studies Certificate Program in the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina. She teaches students important theoretical and practical approaches in interdisciplinary health and mental health, as well as principles and practices of motivational interviewing and cognitive behavior therapy. Rhonda also serves as Field Supervisor and Director of the West Columbia Outreach Program, a police social work outreach service offered through the West Columbia Police Department that provides brief screening, assessment, and referral to treatment services and community resources to those in mental health and substance use crises. Prior to becoming a full-time faculty member in the College of Social Work, Rhonda served 3 years as Director of Substance Abuse Prevention and Education for the University of South Carolina, and 8 years as Prevention Specialist for adolescents and their families at LRADAC.
COURSE PARTICIPATION INFORMATION:
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This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussions. A computer or mobile device is required. Zoom account is not required.
You will receive a reminder email approximately 24 hours prior to the start of the training and a link to join the webinar will be in your CEU Creations account under Member Profile.
To receive credit, you must log in on time, attend the entire presentation, and interact.
POST EVENT: When the training ends, your attendance will be processed using Zoom analytics. Once processed, the evaluation link will be available in your account and we ask that you complete it within 3 days of the training. Once your evaluation is complete, your certificate will be available in your CEU Creations account within 24-72 hours.
Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions.
FINE PRINT
SOCIAL WORKERS: CEU Creations, #1239, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/24-11/22/27. Social workers completing this course receive 5 General CE credits.
CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0616. This activity is approved for 5 Contact hours.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: 5 CE credits. CEU Creations is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CEU Creations maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
COUNSELORS: 5 Contact hours 
CEU Creations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6941. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CEU Creations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0199. This activity is approved for 5 Contact hours.
ADDICTION PROFESSIONALS: This event is not eligible for NAADAC Contact hours.
NURSES: 5 Contact hours. CEU Creations is an approved provider of nursing CEs through the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider number: CEP17905. All states retain their own licensing authority through their own boards. Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure transferability of the CE credits.
Cancellation Policy: Registrants must cancel their registration in their CEU Creations account. No email, faxes, or mail cancellations will be accepted. Cancellation fee: $25. Refunds will not be given for cancellations within five (5) business days prior to the workshop date.
Accessibility Accommodations: At CEU Creations, we are dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible experience for all individuals. We strive to ensure our continuing education content, website, and services are usable by everyone, regardless of ability. We are continually working to enhance accessibility and user experience for all of our users. If you encounter any barriers, have questions, or wish to request accommodations, please don’t hesitate to reach out. You can contact us at [email protected] and a member of our team will review your message and respond promptly.
Event Cancellation and Rescheduling Policy: In the event that CEU Creations cancels or reschedules an event, registered participants will be given the option to receive a full refund, a credit toward a different event of the same value, or to transfer their registration to the rescheduled date.