Ring, MSW, LCSW
Transformational Consultant
SERVICES
DREAM WORK & PSYCHOTHERAPY
Individual sessions and dream work groups & workshops (Free monthly on-line dream group by invitation)
Individual psychotherapy and counseling for personal, professional, spiritual development and transformation; life transitions; living with loss and grief; personal and professional caregivers burnout relief and prevention,
RETREAT SERVICES
Personalized retreat planning and facilitation for individuals, groups and organizations are offered in Barbados or world wide for your particular needs and time frame. Can also include informal or structured training and instruction retreats in:
Personal Dream Work
Wellness Retreat
Regaining Balance in Chaotic Times
Professional Caregivers Compassion Fatigue Relief and Prevention
Looking Forward to Retirement or “Re-creation”? Organizational Reflection and Planning
(Receiving Abundance Retreat scheduled for 2015)
TRAINING & GROUP FACILITATION
Individualized training & group programs for specific organizational goals & objectives
Transformational Leadership
Growth through Creative Improvisation & Creative Arts
Facilitating Change Through Appreciative Inquiry
Strategic Planning
Team-building
Free on-line consultations. please email: karenannring@gmail.com
Or call 1-246-234-8694
KAREN A. RING is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), psychotherapist, trainer and transformational consultant in private practice. She is licensed in the State of Florida USA, Department of Health, Division of Medical Quality Assurance, License # SW1444. She was a Lecturer in Social Work at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, (1996-2012) until her retirement. She also taught in the School of Social Work at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, and had a psychotherapy and consultation practice before moving to Barbados in 1996. From 1988-1995 she facilitated and coordinated bereavement support groups and volunteer services for Big Bend Hospice in Tallahassee, Florida, and trained volunteers and professionals in bereavement counseling and crisis intervention. She was a social worker at Caldwell Home, a residential facility for schizophrenic clients in Washington, DC (1986) and studied Jungian psychology and dream work at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland (1985). Ring has been a trainer of professionals, semi-professionals and volunteers in many countries besides Barbados and the United States. She has taught at the University of Calgary in Canada, the University of Aruba, Florida State University in Valencia, Spain, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Grenada, Dominica, Martinique, Montserrat, and Jamaica. Some of this training was done when she was a volunteer for the Florida Association for Volunteer Action in the Caribbean and the Americas. Her research interests and publications include a 6-year long study of resiliency in women in Montserrat after the volcanic eruption and another disaster related study on the Arch Cot Cave-In in Barbados, a study on “Counseling Myths in the Caribbean” and the status of social work in Barbados. She was a research team member of the Global Social Group Work study, which was funded by the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). She is currently a Board member of the International Association for Social Work with Groups (IASWG) and was the co-chairperson of the IASWG Annual Symposium held June 2014 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She has also been a member of the Advisory Council for CASA (Centre for Counselling Addiction Support Alternatives), a non-governmental agency providing drug treatment to youth and families. She has served as President and Vice-President of the Barbados Association of Professional Social Workers. Her consultation practice includes collaborations with non-governmental organisations (NGO’s) and educational institutions on strategic and retreat planning, Myers-Briggs testing in relation to learning and management styles, Appreciative Inquiry, team building, career counselling, professional development, training programme development, counselling training and clinical supervision. In addition to her work in academics and organizations, Ms. Ring’s clinical practice focuses on spiritual development, dream work and the healing arts. She is currently writing a book on the use of dreams as tools for personal and spiritual development.
