This work is for nurses who:

• want more from boundary-setting than a list of rules to follow or a defined distance to keep

• are feeling the cost of burnout, or working to prevent it

• are tired of the friction, resentment, and second-guessing that come from boundaries that don't fit the moment

• need a practical framework and tools they can use right away in any nursing situation

• could use a break, and a day of connecting with colleagues through relational learning: case studies, peer discussion, and guided reflection

Topics include:

• The Boundary Context

• Definitive Boundaries and the Boundary Gradient

• The Line of Harm and Saying No Safely

• Yes as a Boundary, and Your Right to Say Yes to Yourself

• Supporting Your Yes with Modifications

• Creating Enhanced Modifications

• Drafting Flexible Boundaries

• Creating Goodwill with the Yes/No Strategy

At course end, participants will be able to:

• use boundaries to creatively move situations forward referencing both context and self

• use the Boundary Gradient to quickly discern when a definitive or flexible boundary might be needed

• use flexible boundaries to proactively respond to complex situations

• use the Yes/No Strategy to generate a culture of goodwill without sacrificing one’s own wellbeing.

YES - upon completion of requirements: i.e., full attendance and course evaluation.

YES. This continuing education activity was approved for 4.0 contact hours by the Ohio Nurses Association, an Ohio Board of Nursing Approver (OBN-001-91), and is suitable for Washington continuing education credits. No pharmacology contact hours.

Yes!

• Early-bird: $159.00 (register at least 30 days in advance). Use code: EARLYBIRD at checkout.

• Groups of 3+ from the same institution: $159.00. Use code: GROUP3 at checkout.

• Groups of 5+ from the same institution: $149.00. Use code: GROUP5 at checkout.

The registration fee is fully refundable, minus processing fees, if cancelled at least 14 days prior to the start of the seminar. For cancellations within 14 days of the seminar, a 100%-off coupon will be issued, good for registering at a future seminar date.

If for any reason the course itself is cancelled, the registration fee is fully refundable.

Upon payment, a tax-ready receipt will be provided with Active Authenticity Partners’ address and EIN# for easy reimbursement.

No. The presenter and planners report no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies, and this activity has received no commercial support.

Eva Papp is a licensed psychotherapist (LMHC, Washington State) with twenty-five years of clinical practice, specializing in integrative medicine, interpersonal neurobiology, and relational dynamics in clinical practice.

Across two and a half decades of treating clients, she developed a model of wellbeing based on the pursuit of authenticity — a model that teaches boundary-making as a skill of presence, discernment, and flexibility, grounded in awareness of self and context. Active Authenticity, her model, is the subject of her 2024 book Chasing the Wild Authentic, and informs her teaching with healthcare professionals.

Eva also brings a multidisciplinary background to her teaching, including graduate fieldwork on non-Western models of healing and meaning-making, and a role as the psychotherapist on the NIH team that received the first IRB approval to study ayahuasca in clinical contexts. Her work integrates clinical and field research with a deep curiosity about how humans thrive — and what it takes to sustain that thriving across a long career.

Eva holds CE accreditation through the Ohio Nurses Association (OBN-001-91) and teaches public CE workshops for nurses at Seattle University, where she will be delivering her Authentic Boundaries in Nursing seminars in fall 2026.

You can contact me here.