Description
This virtual conference will be a live stream of a live in-person conference being held in Richmond, BC. If you would like to attend live in-person please register here: http://www.jackhirose.com/workshop/bc-mental-health-summit/
This conference will be live streaming from Richmond, British Columbia to online participants on November 14 – 16, 2023 from 8:30am – 4:00pm PT.
This course is streaming live out of Richmond, BC beginning at 8:30am PT (Vancouver, BC). Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until January 6, 2023. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 1 – 3 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
Registration will close on November 13, 2023.
Pricing
Attend More and Save! 1 Day enrollment $269.00, 2 day enrollment $469.00, 3 day enrollement $669.00 + tax
Fees are per person, seat sharing is not allowed. Please respect this policy, failure to comply will result in termination of access without a refund. For group rates please contact webinars@jackhirose.com
Day One (November 14, 2023) Workshop Choices:
Day One Morning 8:30am – 11:45am:
Workshop #1: Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model: Theory & Skills Practice (Evolution of the Model & Composition of the Psyche) | PRESENTED BY Alexia Rothman, Ph.D.
After decades of clinical innovation and recent scientific research, the empirically validated Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been shown to be effective at improving clients’ general functioning and well-being. This paradigm-shifting model provides clinicians with procedures for helping clients with the most challenging mental health profiles compassionately connect with the wounded, burdened, and traumatized parts of their systems.
The IFS model provides a compassionate, respectful, non-pathologizing approach to understanding the organization and functioning of the human psyche.
IFS embraces and celebrates the natural multiplicity of the mind. Its assumption that every part of the internal system has good intention and valuable resources allows clinicians to approach even the most troubling of “symptoms” with curiosity and respect. IFS offers therapists a powerful and effective set of tools for empowering clients with a wide range of clinical profiles to work effectively with their wounded parts, resulting in:
- A way to enter clients’ inner ecology without an overemphasis on containment and stabilization
- Symptom reduction, increased internal harmony and improved functioning for clients
- Deep self-healing within even the most troubled clients
Through instruction, video demonstration, experiential exercises and skills practice, Alexia D. Rothman, Ph.D., Certified IFS therapist and consultant and colleague of Dr. Richard Schwartz (founder of IFS) will show you step-by-step how to apply the most effective, empirically validated IFS interventions to help your clients connect with and understand their conflicting parts to facilitate deep, lasting healing.
Workshop #2: Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: A Trauma-Informed Approach | PRESENTED BY Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Self-rejection is a survival strategy that maintains children’s attachment to abusive attachment figures by disowning themselves as “bad” or “unlovable.” This deeply painful failure of self-acceptance is adaptive in an unsafe world but results in lifelong shame and self-loathing, difficulty self-soothing, identity confusion, and complications in relationships with others.
To overcome this alienation from self, the Fragmented Selves approach (Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment or TIST) focuses on cultivating mindful awareness of clients’ disowned selves and disowned experience. As individuals learn to relate to their overwhelming emotions and impulsive behavior as evidence of trauma-related parts, they develop increased ability to observe rather than react and to tolerate distressing affects rather than acting out. Using strategies inspired by polyvagal theory, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems, we will explore the therapeutic power of fostering clients’ secure attachment to their most deeply disowned selves.
Workshop # 3: Fostering Flow States, Peak Experiences & Psychological Richness: A New Paradigm? | PRESENTED BY Jonah Paquette, Psy.D.
While many approaches to well-being emphasize contentment and pleasant emotional states, recent research has shed light on how peak experiences, flow states, and psychologically rich experiences offer a new paradigm for understanding psychological well-being and fulfillment. In this workshop, attendees will learn strategies to help clients achieve more flow experiences in their lives, and how to enhance experiences of psychological richness in order to combat stress, find meaning, and increase overall well-being and happiness.
Workshop #5: Addressing the Emotional Roots of Anxiety & Agitation: An Attachment-Based Developmental Approach | PRESENTED BY Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D.
There is currently an epidemic of anxiety and agitation affecting children and teens which can take many forms including attention problems, clinginess, eating problems, obsessions, compulsions, phobias, panic, sleep issues, physical illnesses, as well as a host of other perplexing behaviours. Today’s world can create many challenges for children and youth with school pressures, peer interactions, family dynamics, negative self-image, perfectionism, and many other stressors that can impede a child’s ability to learn and mature. Whether it’s the natural, episodic worries or more profound and crippling versions of anxiety, Dr. Neufeld will help make sense of the roots of anxiety and agitation and suggest ways in which we can help bring the anxious and agitated to rest.
Day One Afternoon 12:45pm – 4:00pm:
Workshop #6: (CONTINUATION) Introduction to the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model: Theory & Skills Practice, (Case Conceptualization in IFS) | PRESENTED BY Alexia Rothman, Ph.D.
THIS WORKSHOP CONTINUES OVER 2 DAYS. THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE MORNING SESSION (Nov 13)
After decades of clinical innovation and recent scientific research, the empirically validated Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been shown to be effective at improving clients’ general functioning and well-being. This paradigm-shifting model provides clinicians with procedures for helping clients with the most challenging mental health profiles compassionately connect with the wounded, burdened, and traumatized parts of their systems.
The IFS model provides a compassionate, respectful, non-pathologizing approach to understanding the organization and functioning of the human psyche.
IFS embraces and celebrates the natural multiplicity of the mind. Its assumption that every part of the internal system has good intention and valuable resources allows clinicians to approach even the most troubling of “symptoms” with curiosity and respect. IFS offers therapists a powerful and effective set of tools for empowering clients with a wide range of clinical profiles to work effectively with their wounded parts, resulting in:
- A way to enter clients’ inner ecology without an overemphasis on containment and stabilization
- Symptom reduction, increased internal harmony and improved functioning for clients
- Deep self-healing within even the most troubled clients
Through instruction, video demonstration, experiential exercises and skills practice, Alexia D. Rothman, Ph.D., Certified IFS therapist and consultant and colleague of Dr. Richard Schwartz (founder of IFS) will show you step-by-step how to apply the most effective, empirically validated IFS interventions to help your clients connect with and understand their conflicting parts to facilitate deep, lasting healing.
Workshop #7: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Somatic Interventions in the Treatment of Trauma | PRESENTED BY Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
In surviving trauma, individuals are left with a host of easily re-activated physiological responses and an inadequate memory record. Uncertain about what happened, they interpret the somatic activation as data about “me:” “I am still not safe,” “I am worthless and unlovable.” Divorced from the events that caused them, overwhelming emotions and sensations, intrusive images and memories, chronic expectations of danger, self-destructive impulses, and numbing and disconnection communicate physiologically that the client is still in danger, that ‘it’ is still not over.
This presentation will review recent neuroscience research that explains how traumatic experience becomes encoded in both mind and body, extending traumatic responses far beyond the original events. New neurobiologically-informed somatic techniques drawn from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can directly address the non-verbal memories and physiological symptoms, offering renewed hope for long-term relief to traumatized individuals.
Workshop #8: Fostering Resilience Through the Principles of Applied Positive Psychology | PRESENTED BY Jonah Paquette, Psy.D.
Whether it’s a job loss, a breakup, a pandemic, or anything else that life throws our way, we can emerge stronger by harnessing skills like self-compassion, awe, gratitude, savoring, and more. In fact, research on positive psychological principles has shown that these skills can play an important role not only in supporting our well-being during good times, but also in helping to cultivate resilience following life’s challenges. In this workshop, you’ll explore how to apply principles from applied positive psychology with your clients to help reduce suffering and foster greater fulfillment, meaning, and well-being in their lives. Learn practical tools to help clients cultivate resiliency, connection, awe, and gratitude – even during challenging times.
Workshop #10: Why Our Children’s Mental Health is Deteriorating & What Can be Done About It | PRESENTED BY Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D.
The alarming rise in anxiety, depression, despair, and attention problems, begs for an explanation. The prevailing premise blames the social isolation experienced during the pandemic. When the dots are joined however, another picture emerges that reveals the attachment roots of mental health. This current mental health crisis provides us with a unique opportunity to understand the underlying dynamics, giving us a guide to better take care of our children, our students and ourselves.
