PDPs and CEUs are not being offered for this event.
November 10, 2026 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Registration closes on November 2, 2026 at 11:59 pm.
Registration: 8:30 – 9:00 am
Seminar: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Attend In Person
Minuteman High School
758 Marrett Rd.
Lexington, MA 02421
Speaker
Wendy P. Bamatter, Ph.D., Program Director, McLean Hospital’s Child Partial Hospital Program (C-PHP), Instructor, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry
Description
While working in schools can be deeply meaningful and rewarding, it can also be emotionally, cognitively, and physically demanding. Educators regularly balance competing responsibilities, navigate challenging conversations, and support others while managing their own stress. Without effective coping skills, these demands can contribute to burnout and compassion fatigue. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical and highly effective skills that can help educators build resilience, regulate emotions, communicate more effectively, and stay grounded in the midst of daily challenges. In this seminar, participants will learn and practice numerous DBT skills that can be applied immediately in the classroom and beyond. Together, we’ll explore strategies for managing stress, navigating difficult interactions with students, parents, colleagues, and administrators, setting healthy boundaries, and cultivating greater presence and satisfaction in both work and life. Participants will leave with practical tools to strengthen emotional resilience, enhance interpersonal effectiveness, and reconnect with the joy and purpose that brought them to education in the first place.
About the Speaker
Wendy P. Bamatter, Ph.D., (she/her) is the founding Program Director of McLean Hospital’s Child Partial Hospital Program. Prior to this role, she served as Program Director of McLean’s 3East Cambridge Residence and before that, as a Staff Psychologist within the 3East DBT Intensive Residential Program at McLean. As a licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Bamatter works primarily with children, adolescents, young adults and their families. She has developed expertise in treating individuals struggling with emotion dysregulation, non-suicidal self-injury, and suicide ideation and behaviors. She has also focused significant efforts on providing, and training others in the provision of, gender-affirming care to transgender and gender diverse individuals. She also has extensive training in delivering culturally sensitive individual and family therapy in Spanish.
Membership Information
Most MPY webinars are available ONLY to current staff from member districts and organizations. Public school memberships include police and fire personnel. Former and retired employees and members of committees, including but not limited to, PTO/PTA, PAC, School Improvement Councils, Health Councils, Drug/Alcohol Councils, and school volunteers, are not considered MPY members.
PDPs and CEUs
PDPs and CEUs will not be offered for this seminar.
Event Cancellation Policy
If you are unable to attend a MPY webinar you must cancel, through Bonnie Mullen at bonnie@mpyinc.org, one business day before the webinar.
For MPY hybrid conferences, the date in-person registration closes will be posted on MPY’s website. Virtual conference registration will close one business day before the hybrid conference. You cannot cancel or switch your registration from in-person to virtual after in-person registration closes. Please email Bonnie Mullen at bonnie@mpyinc.org with any questions regarding registration.
This seminar will not be recorded. Participants must attend in person. PDPs and CEUs will not be awarded.
Registration: 8:30 – 9:00 am
Seminar: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm