Upcoming Public Events

Join Bespoke Mental Health Canada on Friday Sept 13 and Sept 20 at 9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m. (PT), 12.30 p.m.– 4.00 p.m. (ET) for full day workshop delivered by Dr Peter Szatmari on mental health challenges in autism across the life–span.

Can’t attend on that date? Just book to watch it ‘on–demand’ at a time that suits you.
Available to watch for one year from event (i.e., until Sept 20, 2025).

Mental health challenges are common among people with autism and impact quality of life across the life–span. These mental health comorbidities include most commonly anxiety and depression but include a range of other challenges as well such as ADHD, obsessive compulsive disorder, and self–harm. There is a growing evidence base concerning the etiology, course and treatment of mental health comorbidities in autism. This presentation will cover these topics as well as suggestions to support differential diagnosis and assessment. Finally, case studies will be presented to integrate the
information in a practical way.

Bespoke Mental Health Canada is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Participants who complete this workshop (either live or on–demand) are eligible to receive 6 CE credits.

Price
Professionals: $175.00 CAD + tax
Students: $140.00 CAD + tax

For more information, click here
To book, click here

Treating PTSD and Complex Trauma (Day 1-4) with Dr Leah Giarratano homestudy (self-paced online) 1 July 2024 to 31 October 2024  

Core 30-hour online training for all mental health professionals working with traumatized populations. This highly practical, evidenced-based continuing education workshop will underpin your clinical practice in this field. The content is applicable to both adult and adolescent populations. Your program fee also includes access to our May 2025 livestream for US and Canada to complete or consolidate learning. 

This self-paced/ home study program can be completed entirely in your own time over four months, without time away from work. Allow 2-3 weeks delivery for your printed materials. Registration for the July intake closes on 19/7/24 for CCPA members. We have 4 intakes annually and you can register anytime for on-demand, or pre-register for any intake.  

This program attracts 30 CCPA CECs.  

Please see our 2024 flyer for complete details about the program and presenter 

Save $200 on the program fee if you register before 30 June 2024 (only applies to Canadian and US residents who register for the July-October, or October-January or February-May intakes or our 2025 May livestream). Contact Joshua George on [email protected] before you register for the CCPA discount code. 

Please refer to this link for our website and to register 

July – September 2024
Four Locations Across Canada

Contact Phone Number: (416) 964-1133
Contact E-Mail: [email protected]
Event Link: https://leadingedgeseminars.org/emdr-training-courses-in-canada/?ref=5442

Are you ready to add EMDR Therapy to your practice? Or is it time to update the basic EMDR training you already have?

Then join us this summer in one of four great cities across Canada for the latest EMDR 5-Day Intensive Training with renowned EMDR trainers/consultants Roy Kiessling and Esta Porter:

• Halifax, Nova Scotia • July 8-12, 2024
• Thunder Bay, Ontario • July 22-26, 2024
• Toronto, Ontario • August 19-23, 2024
• Vancouver, British Columbia • September 16-20, 2024

Register early and you’ll automatically save $100* (but only for a limited time). Plus, if you use code CCPA100, you’ll save an additional $100!

That’s a total savings of $200!

Pay in full OR pay by instalments for ultimate flexibility.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy can make a significant difference when traditional talk therapy doesn’t provide the needed breakthrough for someone struggling with trauma. It helps clients safely process distressing memories by integrating them into their larger, adaptive memory network, alleviating immediate symptoms and fostering long-term healing.

This EMDRIA-approved, 5-day intensive training includes updated information and the latest application techniques, allowing you to offer a more comprehensive and targeted approach to trauma treatment and greatly improve client outcomes. Plus, you’ll learn how to customize treatments for diverse client scenarios, including children, couples, grief, pain, phobias, addictions, and dissociation.

This course also includes 10 hours of post-training consultation, so you can fine-tune your understanding and skills with personalized guidance. Seating is limited, so register early. Interest-free payment plan available.

*Early Bird registration deadline varies between event locations. See website for details.

Register here: www.acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com

Learn more: www.colleeneclarkconsulting.com

This course meets all EMDR International Association requirements for an EMDR Basic Training Course, ie 20 hours of lectures, 20 hours of practice and 10 hours post-training of online consultation.

Integrating EMDR into your Clinical Practice teaches mental health clinicians the foundations of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy through lectures, videos, demonstrations, and practice sessions.

At the completion of this course, participants will have applied the Adaptive Information Processing theory and the eight phases of EMDR therapy. Special instruction is given to the utilization of EMDR with a diversity of clinical populations, depending on the needs of each client. As well, this course teaches clinicians how to utilize EMDR in a telehealth environment.

Registration here: Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada | EMDR Training: Integrating EMDR into your Clinical Practice, 5-Day Intensive – EMDR Consulting

Contact: [email protected]

Lifespan Integration protocols allow a person to experience the integration of memories across the lifespan which supports movement towards self-compassion, self-understanding and cohesion. LI is utilized worldwide and is a powerful blend of trauma processing, working with ego states and memory reconsolidation.

Level 1 Protocols: Baseline protocol, with an intended use of integration of single or repetitive trauma, PTSD protocol, Relationship protocol with a variation for Violent Relationships, and Timeline from Explicit Memory for trauma clearing.

Level 2 Protocols: Standard Protocol (trauma processing) and Baseline Plus.

Level 3 Protocols: Attunement Protocol and Birth Protocol which are “core building” protocols and help people attend to attachment repair. There is also an expansion of Baseline Plus protocols focusing on introjects, validations and therapeutic alliance.

Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm PST

Location: Inn at the Quay – 900 Quayside Drive New Westminster, BC, Canada V3M 6G1

Cost: Early Registration: $585 CAD (complete payment 3 weeks before training date), $620 CAD (Full price)

How to register: Please visit https://www.lifespanintegrationcanada.com/training

Contact info: https://www.lifespanintegrationcanada.com/contact

Core 30-hour online training for all mental health professionals working with traumatized populations. This highly practical, evidenced-based continuing education workshop will underpin your clinical practice in this field. The content is applicable to both adult and adolescent populations. Your program fee also includes access to our May 2025 livestream for US and Canada to complete or consolidate learning.  

This self-paced/ home study program can be completed entirely in your own time over four months, without time away from work. Allow 2-3 weeks delivery for your printed materials. Registration for the October intake closes on 25/10/24 for CCPA members. We have 4 intakes annually and you can register anytime for on-demand, or pre-register for any intake.   

This program attracts 30 CCPA CECs.   

Please see our 2024-25 flyer for complete details about the program and presenter  

Save $200 on the program fee if you register before 30 September 2024 (only applies to Canadian and US residents who register for the October-January or February-May intakes or our 2025 May livestream). Contact Joshua George on [email protected] before you register for the CCPA discount code.  

Please refer to this link for our website and to register  

Title: Giwiidabindimin – Responding to Trauma and Grief Certificate Program
Start and End Date: October 28 – November 1, 9am-4pm CT
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Where to apply: https://ctrinstitute.com/workshops/winnipeg-giwiidabindimin-certificate-program-10-28-2024/
Contact info: Contact [email protected] for more information.
Event info:
Join us for an enriching five-day program that weaves together Indigenous and Western knowledge to provide a two-eyed seeing understanding of trauma and grief. Two co-facilitators will share their wisdom and expertise to provide a relational approach to providing meaningful support. The co-facilitators will create a collaborative and reciprocal learning environment that allows space for everyone to be learners and teachers. You will have the opportunity to self-reflect on your personal journey while considering effective approaches to supporting individuals, families, and communities affected by trauma and grief.

Title: Giwiidabindimin – Responding to Trauma and Grief Certificate Program
Start and End Date: November 18-22, 9am-4pm MT
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Where to apply: https://ctrinstitute.com/workshops/calgary-giwiidabindimin-certificate-program-11-18-2024/
Contact info: Contact [email protected] for more information.
Event info:
Join us for an enriching five-day program that weaves together Indigenous and Western knowledge to provide a two-eyed seeing understanding of trauma and grief. Two co-facilitators will share their wisdom and expertise to provide a relational approach to providing meaningful support. The co-facilitators will create a collaborative and reciprocal learning environment that allows space for everyone to be learners and teachers. You will have the opportunity to self-
reflect on your personal journey while considering effective approaches to supporting individuals, families, and communities affected by trauma and grief.

Are you seeking simple, effective, body-based tools for helping your clients deal with anxiety, stress and depression?

Qi Gong is an ancient practice designed to revitalize the body, harness the mind and regulate the nervous system.

Scientific studies show that Qi Gong:
*decreases anxiety & depression
*increases energy
*balances our mood
*relieves tension and fatigue
*regulates stress

In this all-levels training, participants will be provided with gentle foundational movements, calming mindfulness practices and a basic structure for leading a QiGong class.

Each graduate will also be given a five video program for personal and professional use.

What people are saying:

“Thank you for the beautiful teachings, this is life changing work you’re doing and I’m honoured to be a part of it.”
– Bernice MacNeil, Guidance Counsellor, Cape Breton, NS

“Jenny’s expertise was evident and her ease in teaching made for an incredible experience.”
– Paula Kavanagh, Registered Psychologist

Leader: Jenny Kierstead, certified in three 200hr QiGong Trainings across North America.

Who: therapists, educators, and anyone interested in wellbeing.

When: November 23-24th, 2024

Where: Chocolate Lake Hotel, Halifax, NS, in-person and Online.

Early Bird Price (before Nov. 1st) $500.00+hst, after Nov. 1st $600.00+hst.

To register: https://form.jotform.com/240998461502259

More info about program; https://yogainschools.ca/new-qigong-level-1-certification-training/

Title: Giwiidabindimin – Responding to Trauma and Grief Certificate Program
Start and End Date: November 25-29, 9am-4pm ET
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Where to apply: https://ctrinstitute.com/workshops/toronto-giwiidabindimin-certificate-program-11-25-2024/
Contact info: Contact [email protected] for more information.
Event info:
Join us for an enriching five-day program that weaves together Indigenous and Western knowledge to provide a two-eyed seeing understanding of trauma and grief. Two co-facilitators will share their wisdom and expertise to provide a relational approach to providing meaningful support. The co-facilitators will create a collaborative and reciprocal learning environment that allows space for everyone to be learners and teachers. You will have the opportunity to self-reflect on your personal journey while considering effective approaches to supporting individuals, families, and communities affected by trauma and grief.

December 6 & 7, 2024

Online via Zoom

11am to 2:30pm ET

Facilitated by: Dr. Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.

Join The Centre for MindBody Health (CMBH) to explore Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy led by Dr. Richard Schwartz. Acquire valuable insights for trauma work and elevate your skills.

About this workshop:

This workshop will provide a brief review of the basics of the IFS model by Richard Schwartz, PhD, who developed the model, then will focus in detail on its use with attachment and trauma. IFS is a non-pathologizing, hopeful framework within which to practice psychotherapy now certified as an evidence-based practice by SAMHSA. IFS offers both a conceptual umbrella under which a variety of practices and different approaches can be grounded and guided, and a set of original techniques for creating safety and fostering Self-to-Self connection in individuals, couples and families.

The workshop will focus on helping clients release personal burdens related to traumatic experiences in their lives. An overview of the clinical applications of IFS in trauma work will be presented. You will learn through didactic teaching, interactive dialogue, demonstration and live interviews.

As the workshops progress the focus will be on understanding and releasing legacy burdens. Legacy burdens are powerful organizers of our minds and behaviors. You will be become more aware of the beliefs and emotions we and our clients absorb from family, peers, ethnic groups and cultural contexts regarding ourselves and/or groups with whom we identify, as well as groups we consider “other.”  We will explore the sources of those burdens and the fears of releasing them. This work is critically important to create more peace and less divisiveness in our often fractured world.

Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems SM, in response to clients’ descriptions of various parts within themselves.  He focused on the systemic relationships patterns among these parts that were similarly organized across clients.  He found that when clients’ parts felt safe and were allowed to relax, they would experience spontaneously the qualities of confidence, openness, and compassion that Dr. Schwartz came to call the Self.  He will show us how to support clients in that state of Self, to facilitate their healing of their own parts.

Learning objectives 

At the end of this 2 Day Workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the basic theory and principles of Internal Family Systems therapy
2. Apply techniques to access their clients’ Self- a core of compassion and other leadership qualities
3. Assess client “resistance” more effectively and with less effort
4. Explain the effects of trauma on parts and Self
5. Apply the model in treating trauma
6. Assess awareness of their own parts and how those parts impact therapy
7. Apply IFS principles to transference and counter-transference

Workshop Audience:  This workshop is intended for all health care professionals seeking to develop skills to engage in effective and evidence-based psychotherapy approaches with clients experiencing trauma.

Click here to register.

For more information or questions please contact [email protected]