Upcoming Non-CCPA Events

Experience how Nature and Play Deepen Inner Wisdom

Are you a therapist who would like to learn more about Nature Guided Focusing Oriented
Therapy?

Would you like to experience how Nature and Play can support you and your clients to
access Wonder and Awe?

Are you ready to help your clients access their own inner wisdom?

Hearth Place is offering a two-year Nature Guided Focusing Oriented Therapy Training

Starting March 2023

CLICK HERE for more info!

March 10, 11, 12, April 14, 15, 16, May 5, 6, 7, June 16, 17, 18, September 8, 9, 10,

October 6, 7, 8, 2023

2:00 pm to 7:30 pm Pacific Time online Via Zoom

81 Continuing Education hours of online training (18 days over 8 months )

Level 2 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)

The focus of Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Level 2 program is to improve participants’ competence, congruence, and confidence in doing transformational, experiential, systemic change therapy.  The course leader will utilize lecturettes, small group discussions, structured exercises, demonstrations, experiential learning, and skill practice sessions to assist participants to move their therapy into a positively directional, change focused, experiential process.

The emphasis will be on bringing about transformational change in individual therapy, couples’ therapy and family therapy.  As well, some attention will be given to working with specific symptoms in therapy.

Pre-requisite STST Level 1 or an equivalent program approved by the Director of training.

Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific

Essentials of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Level 1):
(18 CEC for CCPA Members)

Friday, March 24 to April 28, 2023 (9:00am-12:00pm)

Online

This course (Level I) will focus on teaching the essentials of CBT through a series of weekly experiential training sessions.  Topics covered will include CBT model, behavioural activation, cognitive restructuring, behavioural experiments, and introduction to exposure-based treatment.

Facilitator: Over the past 12 years, Dr. Pete Kelly, C.Psych., has provided CBT training to mental health students and professionals in private and hospital settings.

For further information and to register please visit: https://excellenceinpractice.simplesignup.ca

Phone: 613-820-9931 x: 0
Email: [email protected]

UPCOMING GOTTMAN THERAPIST TRAINING

L1 & L2 – Edmonton, AB April 17-21, 2023
Approved for 37.5 CEC Credits

Would you like to have a toolbox of interventions to give couples – that they love to use? With these proven strategies, help couples in your practice manage conflict and deepen intimacy!

Join us for a dynamic experience of interactive live training with Lawrence Stoyanowski and Darren Wilk, Master Trainers of Level 1, 2 & 3 Gottman Clinical Trainings. They are highly endorsed by the Gottman Institute and have trained thousands of clinicians in Canada and all over the world, in all levels of Gottman Certification since 2006. They are among the top 5 Master Trainers in the world.

Click here for more info.

Evidence-based Insomnia Disorder Treatment for Adults with Depression and Anxiety

Colleen E. Carney, Ph.D., C.Psych.

Associate Professor and Director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

Live-Streamed Workshop Friday April 21, 2023 10 am-5:30 pm ET and On-Demand

Outline
There is considerable dated misinformation about insomnia treatment in the media and on the internet (e.g., Sleep hygiene is an effective treatment for insomnia, melatonin is an effective sleep aide sleep, avoid blue light). This makes it difficult for non-sleep specialist clinicians to know how to effectively treat a frequently co-occurring disorder like insomnia disorder, in their clients with depression and anxiety. Cognitive Behavioural Insomnia Therapy (CBT-I) is an effective, brief treatment with strategies that are complementary to cognitive behavioural treatments for depression and anxiety.

This workshop will begin with an overview of insomnia and its causes, followed by a detailed presentation of how sleep problems can be effectively assessed outside of the sleep laboratory setting. Attendees will receive a brief, easy-to-understand background in sleep regulation in order to effectively troubleshoot problems. You will learn how to implement CBT-I in those with commonly co-occurring disorders such as depressive or anxiety disorders. In addition to training in the basics of CBT-I for insomnia, this workshop will cover whether adjustments to CBT may be necessary in the context of trauma, mood, and anxiety disorders.

The workshop will combine didactic components with interactive elements as attendees will be provided case vignettes and sleep log examples. Attendees will receive a comprehensive handout, including copies of slides and a complete list of recommended readings

Learning objectives
You will learn to:

• Conduct a sleep assessment in a non-sleep specialty setting
• Recommend strategies for managing rumination and an overactive mind at night
• How to identify and modify behaviours that interfere with the build-up of deep sleep drive
• Options for free apps to collaboratively derive an optimal time-in-bed prescription and “sleep window”
• Help clients re-associate the bed with sleep
• Avoid arguing: How to design behavioural experiments that challenge sleep beliefs
• Troubleshoot issues relating to anxiety, depression, and trauma
• Present an integrated case formulation of anxiety, depression and sleep difficulties, and select complimentary evidence-based strategies
• Explore fatigue management strategies with clients

Audience
Anyone who sees adults with insomnia as one of the co-occuring conditions should attend.

Bio
Dr. Colleen E. Carney is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University, where they are the Director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory.  With over 100 publications and hundreds of workshops, Dr. Carney is one of Canada’s leading experts in psychological treatments for insomnia, particularly in the context of co-occurring mental health issues. Dr. Carney is a passionate advocate for improving the availability of treatment for those with insomnia and other health problems.

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References

1. Buysse, D. J., Ancoli-Israel, S., Edinger, J. D., Lichstein, K. L., & Morin, C. M. (2006). Recommendations for a standard research assessment of insomnia. Sleep, 29(9), 1155-1173.

2. Edinger, J. D., Arnedt, J. T., Bertisch, S. M., Carney, C. E., Harrington, J. J., Lichstein, K. L., … & Martin, J. L. (2021). Behavioral and psychological treatments for chronic insomnia disorder in adults: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine systematic review, meta-analysis, and GRADE assessment. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 17(2), 263-298.

3. Edinger, J. D., Arnedt, J. T., Bertisch, S. M., Carney, C. E., Harrington, J. J., Lichstein, K. L., … & Martin, J. L. (2021). Behavioral and psychological treatments for chronic insomnia disorder in adults: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine clinical practice guideline. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 17(2), 255-262

4. Harvey, A. G. (2002). A cognitive model of insomnia. Behaviour research and therapy, 40(8), 869-893.

5. Hiller, R. M., Johnston, A., Dohnt, H., Lovato, N., & Gradisar, M. (2015). Assessing cognitive processes related to insomnia: a review and measurement guide for Harvey’s cognitive model for the maintenance of insomnia. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 23, 46-53.

As counsellors and group clinic owners, we have certainly had a few challenging years. As our caseload complexities increase and resources are limited, we risk being focused on the care of others a don’t prioritize time to reflect on our own practice and ask where are we nourishing ourselves. We may lose touch with our values around our clinical work and start to lose touch with our own wellness.

We invite you to an experiential time away for moments of reflection, self-care, personal exploration around personal and clinical values, as well as business development strategies.

The goal of these retreats is to help you look inward to reflect on the type of practice and clients that invigorate your work. We want to help you explore how to find energy and joy in your work and re-vitalize your desire to offer clients your best self in counselling and business.

You can expect to nestle yourself into the beautiful setting and nourish in surroundings while connecting with like-minded practitioners.  We will focus on self-care tools, evaluating our values, and envisioning our dream practice.

The retreat will include:

• 2 nights stay at Sparkling Hill resort with valet parking
• 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 1 delicious three course dinner
• Access to all the amenities, which include the tea rooms, yoga space, 7 steam/sauna rooms, infinity pool, hot tub, and more! 
• Beautiful meeting rooms for our group work 
• Yoga session 
• Mindfulness and Nature Walks
• Wellness Circuits in Spas
• Wine & Cheese Gathering

$1250 for shared accommodation

$1675 for private accommodations

*partners welcome to join and stay at the resort (and not participate in the retreat functions) for $175 extra

To Register – Please contact us directly at 250 718 9291 or via email [email protected] or visit us https://okclinical.com/wellness-retreat/

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (DBT-PTSD) ONLINE April & May, 2023 (Including April 17+18, 24+25; May 1+2, 8+9) with Drs. Marin Bohus & Shelley McMain

Mondays and Tuesdays, April & May, 2023 (Including April 17+18, 24+25; May 1+2, 8+9) 9:00am – 1:00pm EDT

Online via Zoom

Join this dynamic and interactive online course offered through Centre for MindBody Health, featuring two internationally renowned DBT clinicians and researchers.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW

About the Training
This 4-week (32 hours) course provides a comprehensive examination of DBT-PTSD based on a psycho-social model. Within this model, dysfunctional behaviours are understood as strategies to avoid or escape from trauma-associated primary emotions like powerlessness, threat, anxiety, disgust, humiliation or sexual arousal. The model posits that these emotions are corroborated by dysfunctional cognitive assumptions and dysfunctional behaviours such as self-injury, suicidal ideation, dissociation or intoxication and that problematic secondary emotions such as shame, guilt, self-hatred or chronic anger develop over time into problematic self-concepts which impair quality of life.

Target Audience
Multi-disciplinary mental health professionals interested in treating complex PTSD using evidence-based principles and procedures. Basic knowledge of DBT is recommended.

For more information and to register, visit our website HERE.
Click here to view the flyer (PDF). 

Please contact us with any inquires at [email protected].

The Parent Hope Project: A Clinical Intervention for Parents to Improve Parent Confidence and Outcomes for Struggling Children

ONLINE April 17, 2023

This conference will present the research and theory that has shaped a new manualized program, The Parent Hope Project. It will present data on parent and child outcomes from a program that aims to promote parent self-discovery, redirect anxious energy away from the child, and reduce their reliance on outside experts. This conference is primarily for helping professionals who may wish to explore this way of working with parents. However, it is open to parents and the public.

Click HERE for more information.

The Systemic, EMDR- Attachment Based Program to Heal Intergenerational Trauma & Repair the Parent-Child Attachment Bond”

Program includes:
9 hours of online training
36 hours of in person training

Cost: $1250 USD   A total of 45 EMDRIA CEUs

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There’s still time to register for our restorative wellness retreat at Lake Louise!

Lori Gill, International Trauma Specialist and Lisa Scandolari, Yoga and Mindfulness Specialist will guide participants through this immersive trauma, mindfulness and yoga wellness training and retreat. Take a deeper dive into the neurobiology of trauma and stress, the nervous system and applied and immersive techniques for promoting regulation. The body holds memory of trauma and as a result engaging the body is critical for healing trauma and stress and promoting well-being. Rebalancing is so very needed, now more than ever, for helpers but the retreat is open to anyone looking to focus on wellness and emotional regulation. We will explore leading edge approaches with hands on access to treatment resources such as neurofeedback, biofeedback, virtual reality, noninvasive brain stimulation etc. After the whirlwind and busyness of the pandemic we need time to rejuvenate, nourish and heal. I do hope you can join us. This will be a very small retreat to support the experiential nature of it.

As an added bonus participants will also have access to a wellness platform as a gift to participants which will include access to part 1 of ATTCH’s trauma and attachment core training (prerecorded) which is a $480+ value and they will also have access to several of Lisa’s videos with guided practices and several other guided practices for continued use as preferred. Our goal is to make sure participants leave with a variety of new skills and tools that you can use and a wellness plan you can carry forward into your life and practice.

This event is eligible for 25 CEC hour(s) with CCPA

Click HERE to learn more.
Click HERE to register.

Playful Dyads Presents:
Neuroscience & Satir in the Sand Tray (NSST)™
Foundations Certificate Course

A live, interactive online certification course in the NSST technique. Course includes 12 live-training sessions, group practice sessions, optional interactive mentor-led sessions, and inclusion in the NSST online community. Successful completion qualifies participants for a foundation level certification in NSST™.
Instructor: Dr. Madeleine De Little

February 2023 – December 2023

Click Here to Apply

The Empowered Supervisor: 30 hours of directed learning in clinical supervision

February 10th – March 10th 2023

NEXT TRAINING STARTS Friday February 10th at 10am EST ONLINE!
30 hours of Directed Learning in Clinical Supervision: Are you a clinical supervisor or thinking about becoming one soon?  This training is for you!

For more information and to register, click HERE!

Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)

February 18, 19, March 18, 19, April 22, 23, May 13, 14, June 3, 4, June 24, 25, August 26, 27, September 16, 17, and October 14, 15, 2023
2:00 pm to 7:30 pm Pacific Time online Via Zoom

81 Continuing Education hours of online training (9 Saturday/Sunday over 9 months)

Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)

STST is based on the work and Wisdom of world renown psychotherapist Virginia Satir, Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Level 1 program offers:

• Deepening the experience of “how to” facilitate change and transformational change with clients
• Experience the profound process of growth as a professional and in your personal life
• Opportunities to expand the internal resources of Self and congruently connecting with clients

In addition, STST offers evidence based experiential therapy, and a process that is experiential, systemic, positively directional and change focused; resulting in neurological changes in the individual.

Counsellors and therapist will learn how to use experiential process throughout their therapy sessions to access healing Life Energy; explore and facilitate change in clients’ intrapsychic and relational systems; make contact with clients’ internal experience and create safety quickly and deeply; surface clients’ survival communication and coping patterns and help clients experientially choose more positive possibilities; collaboratively with the client, begin to set positively directional, intrapsychic therapeutic goals for change; help clients access, accept and utilize their internal strengths and resources in the change process; map the internal processes of clients and help them access and change their behaviours, feelings, perceptions and expectations and help clients integrate and maintain their changes

Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific

A two-day course that provides attendees with the practical tools and skills to introduce music into their practice in order to address the social and emotional challenges faced by their clients or students. No previous music skills are required.

The R2R model of rhythmic music linked to reflective discussions, is used by counsellors and educators around the world, working in diverse fields including trauma, mental health, behavioural education, custodial facilities, child protection and refugee integration.

Vancouver, BC – 15 – 16 April                  Calgary, AB – 22 – 23 April
Edmonton, AB – 29 – 30 April                 Halifax, NS – 6 – 7 May

The training includes comprehensive resources, including a 100-page workbook and over 200 training videos of exercises suitable for individual, family & group therapy.

This training is a treasure. It’s a must do for anyone working in a therapeutic or educational context. When words get in the way, tune in to the principles that Rhythm2Recovery offers in this pack filled workshop.

Dr Daryl Chow, MA,PhD (Psych) Counselling Psychologist, Senior Associate & Trainer, International Center for Clinical Excellence

Cost – $ 450  Register Here https://cvent.me/YbBBmq

Further information at http://www.rhythm2recovery.com/

Contact – [email protected]

Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)

July 17 – 27. 2023

10 day Residential Experiential Training Program (Commuter Rates available)

Held at Bethlehem Retreat Center, Nanaimo, BC Canada

60 CEC/CEU

Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)

Family Therapy Training

Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST) Level I training program is for practicing counsellors and therapists, and for other helping professionals who are presently working with clients. The focus of the program is on learning and practicing Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy to bring about deep and lasting change with individuals, couples and families.

This program is very experiential, with lecturettes, small group discussions, structured exercises, demonstrations, and skill practice sessions as part of the training. Participants will be required to work in triads between sessions to practice what they have been learning in the program.

Satir’s Transformational Systemic Therapy Model (STST) is unique in encompassing both the intrapsychic and interactive components of therapy. Much therapy of the past has been focused only on clients’ behaviour, cognition or affect. This model is focused on the whole human being, bringing about transformational change by tapping the internal resources and universal yearnings of individuals within their personal, family, and social systems. The process requires that the therapist has a high level of therapeutic competence and congruence.

STST processes are supported by recent therapeutic and neurobiological research. Evidence-based research supports therapeutic processes that are experiential, systemic, positively directional and change focused in providing neurological changes in clients. The model’s focus on the congruence of the therapist is supported in research supporting how important it is that therapists provide the conditions for attachment, hope, positive possibilities and safety in order for clients to achieve deep and lasting change.

The experiential processes provided by the training program give participants the opportunity to have both personal and professional growth. The program will provide several therapy demonstrations and skill development opportunities.

Counsellors and therapist will learn how to use experiential process throughout their therapy sessions to access healing Life Energy; explore and facilitate change in clients’ intrapsychic and relational systems; make contact with clients’ internal experience and create safety quickly and deeply; surface clients’ survival communication and coping patterns and help clients experientially choose more positive possibilities; collaboratively with the client, begin to set positively directional, intrapsychic therapeutic goals for change; help clients access, accept and utilize their internal strengths and resources in the change process; map the internal processes of clients and help them access and change their behaviours, feelings, perceptions and expectations and help clients integrate and maintain their changes

Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific

Advanced Applications of Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST)

August 1 – 9, 2023

8 day Residential Experiential Training Program (Commuter Rates available)

Held at Bethlehem Retreat Center, Nanaimo, BC Canada

48 CEC/CEU

Advanced Applications of Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST)

SIP’s Advanced Applications of STST program is for advanced Satir Model practitioners.   While most Satir Model practice has been at the process level, advanced practitioners need to incorporate the deeper levels of meaning and energy in their work.  We will focus on how to bring about change at these levels with our therapeutic clients.

This program will look at aspects of therapy where clients are working with impacts of depression, anxiety, pain, attachment and Use of Self.  We can understand and work with individuals beyond the D.S.M. (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of APA), looking at working successfully with the root causes instead of symptoms.

Let’s go back to the roots of the Satir Model and explore what is now possible with all the increased understanding of the healing process.

This program will also look at how the Satir Model has changed, evolved, and developed over time, as well as looking at what has been added from other schools and authorities to mix with the Satir Model.

We will have eight days including evening trio work, “becoming more fully human” and deepening our therapeutic work with clients.

Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific

Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)

September 16, 17, October 14, 15, 15, November 4, 5, 6, and December 2, 3, 2023

10 day Experiential Training Program

Held at CoWorks by Elevate, Langley, BC

60 CEC/CEU

Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)

Family Therapy Training

STST is based on the work and Wisdom of world renown psychotherapist Virginia Satir, Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Level 1 program offers:

• Deepening the experience of “how to” facilitate change and transformational change with clients
• Experience the profound process of growth as a professional and in your personal life
• Opportunities to expand the internal resources of Self and congruently connecting with clients

In addition, STST offers evidence based experiential therapy, and a process that is experiential, systemic, positively directional and change focused, resulting in neurological changes in the individual.

Counsellors and therapist will learn how to use experiential process throughout their therapy sessions to access healing Life Energy; explore and facilitate change in clients’ intrapsychic and relational systems; make contact with clients’ internal experience and create safety quickly and deeply; surface clients’ survival communication and coping patterns and help clients experientially choose more positive possibilities; collaboratively with the client, begin to set positively directional, intrapsychic therapeutic goals for change; help clients access, accept and utilize their internal strengths and resources in the change process; map the internal processes of clients and help them access and change their behaviours, feelings, perceptions and expectations and help clients integrate and maintain their changes

Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific

Hypnosis is often used to treat sleep problems, but most published scripts are targeted towards simple insomnia – difficulty falling asleep in the absence of significant sleep or co-morbid mental health challenges. Most of our clients are much more complex, but few doctors or therapists have more than superficial knowledge of sleep and little or no training in the treatment of sleep disorders.

Embedding Sleep is a 7 week, online course that offers an introduction to sleep disorders (both primary and secondary to other mental health challenges), research about the effectiveness of hypnotic strategies for treatment, tools for evaluating sleep, and scripts to address specific sleep problems. In addition, you will learn practical, psychoeducational, and hypnotic strategies to treat complex sleep problems.

Cost: $397 + applicable tax

For more information, please visit https://embeddingsleep.cambiumed.ca/

Contact: Linda Tilley at [email protected]

As an international leader in crisis management services, we regularly recruit trauma specialists to join our crisis responder network. Crisis responders participate in short-term contract work in response to mass casualty events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks and aviation accidents.

To become part of the network, individuals must be trained by FEI and will be required to attend the FEI Crisis Responder Training.  This training is facilitated via webinar and those who complete the training are eligible to earn up to 8 continuing education units (CEU’s).

When deployed to provide support during a crisis, the trauma specialists will be compensated at an hourly rate ranging from $75-$90 USD/hour (depending on the level of support required for those impacted and as requested by our customer).

If you are interested in learning more about the training and the opportunity to become a member of our International Crisis Responder Network, please contact us at:414-359-6571 or you may see details on the training and register at the link below:

https://alliance1.org/web/events/webinar/crisis-management-responders.aspx

FEI Behavioral Health has been a leader in providing humanitarian support for over 40 years to our customers, their family members and, their communities following a critical event. At times the crisis may require organizational support such as an on-site debriefing.  At other times, we may be asked to provide support on a larger scale due to a mass casualty event. In those situations, basic psychological first aid is provided.

FEI has experienced an increase in the requests for critical incident support from our customers.  Additionally, with the escalation and threat of terrorism and natural disasters, FEI would like to invite your agency, and your clinicians, to join our elite network focused on providing the necessary support at the most critical times.

The PEI Breast Cancer Support Group is a survivor driven group dedicated to providing support to those affected by breast cancer.

The PEI Breast Cancer Support Group provides:
• group support
• a voice of solidarity for Island breast cancer survivors
• education
• one on one support
• advocacy
Regular meetings are held on the first Monday of each month, unless a holiday and held the following Monday.

For more information, click HERE!

For details contact:
Judy 902-569-3496 | Teri 902-218-1621
[email protected]
1-800-685-8820