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 Three (November 16, 2023) Workshop Choices:
Day Three Morning 8:30am – 11:45am:
Workshop #21: Polyvagal Theory: Healing Through Compassionate Connection | PRESENTED BY Alexia Rothman, Ph.D.
Despite the diversity of content that brings clients to therapy, difficulty regulating their emotional experience is at the heart of their struggles. Clients can feel hijacked by extreme emotional states, uncomfortable in their own skin, or think or behave in ways they wish they wouldn’t. Polyvagal Theory (PVT) helps us understand what is happening on a biological level when our clients are emotionally dysregulated or stuck in adaptive survival states, such as fight, flight, freeze, or numb.
Workshop #22: Neufeld’s Traffic Circle of Frustration: A Revolutionary Approach to Aggression, Depression & Suicide | PRESENTED BY Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D.
We all get frustrated, as this primal emotion is automatically evoked when something – anything for that matter – doesn’t work. There are several indicators that the groundswell of frustration is rising. This powerful emotion can be experienced in many ways and have a myriad of outcomes. Included in the array of emotional outcomes are compulsions regarding change, attacking impulses, suicidal impulses, aggression, and even frustration-based depression. Frustration can also result in healthy change and inner transformation. Dr. Neufeld will help us walk through the traffic circle of frustration in a way that benefits all. Given the critical importance of developing a healthy relationship with frustration, we should all be ready to serve as traffic directors when needed.
Workshop #23: Making Sense of Today’s Feeding & Eating Problems from a Relational & Developmental Perspective | PRESENTED BY Deborah MacNamara, Ph.D.
We have never known so much about food and what our bodies need to survive yet face increasing feeding and eating issues with our kids. Eating disorders are the second in fatalities only to opioid use. What has come undone and what do we need to do to get back on track? What if it wasn’t just about food, or the table, or sitting beside each other to eat? We have missed something more critical to well-being that was meant to go along with eating. The current context of eating issues will be examined through a developmental and relational lens, shedding light on the stress response that underlies them. This issue couldn’t be more urgent with the role of food now more disconnected from human relationships. In the context of our largely food obsessed culture, we will examine myths that keep us stuck, and strategies for making lasting headway. Best practices in treating eating issues will be examined using a developmental and relational lens.
Workshop #24: Navigating Addictions: Practical Interventions to Promote Healing & Recovery | PRESENTED BY Carissa Muth, Psy.D., CCC, R.Psych
The field of addictions is muddled with a myriad of theories and treatments, yet little progress has been made over time to improve relapse rates. Given the repetitive and persistent nature of addictions, mental health professions addressing such concerns are at increased risk for compassion fatigue and burnout. In order to reduce this risk on treatment providers, the workshop will focus on empowering workers by providing techniques to effectively address a variety of client presentations. Often default recommendations of attending inpatient care are provided to clients as professionals lack the tools to know how they can make positive impacts on a clients care at various stages of the recovery journey.
In this workshop, you will also be provided with tools to understand the complexity involved in the development of substance use disorder and thus be able to make effective treatment recommendations. Attendees will leave the workshop equipped with practical techniques for treating those struggling with addictions including basics of assessments, working with families, and providing post-treatment care. Additionally, various intervention methods will be overviewed including CBT and narrative therapy in order to provide the client with techniques to implement with a variety of client presentations.
Day Three Afternoon 12:45pm – 4:00pm:
Workshop #26: (CONTINUATION) Polyvagal Theory: Healing Through Compassionate Connection | PRESENTED BY Alexia Rothman, Ph.D.
THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE MORNING SESSION
Despite the diversity of content that brings clients to therapy, difficulty regulating their emotional experience is at the heart of their struggles. Clients can feel hijacked by extreme emotional states, uncomfortable in their own skin, or think or behave in ways they wish they wouldn’t. Polyvagal Theory (PVT) helps us understand what is happening on a biological level when our clients are emotionally dysregulated or stuck in adaptive survival states, such as fight, flight, freeze, or numb.
Workshop #27: Resilience & the Stress Response: Addressing Emotional Stuckness & Trauma | PRESENTED BY Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D.
New understandings reveal that there is much wisdom to the stress response. Rather than focusing on dysfunction, we should begin by appreciating how our brains are brilliantly programmed to not only summon the strength required to deal with distressing situations, but to also serve as an emotional first-aid response. The problem is not with the stress response per se, but when the stress response is not followed in a timely fashion by its partner, the resilience response. We will be much more effective in our interaction with distressed children, youth and students if we first come alongside how their brains are trying to take care of them, and from this stance, proceed to help the stress response become unstuck.
Workshop #28: Making Sense of Resistance & Opposition in Kids | PRESENTED BY Deborah MacNamara, Ph.D.
Counterwill is a name for the instinctive reaction of a child to resist being controlled. This resistance can take many forms: opposition, negativism, laziness, noncompliance, disrespect, lack of motivation, belligerence, incorrigibility and even antisocial attitudes and actions. It can also express itself in resistance to learning. Despite the multitude of manifestations, the underlying dynamic is deceptively simple – a defensive reaction to perceived control or coercion. Counterwill is undoubtedly the most misunderstood and misinterpreted dynamic in adult-child relations. The simplicity of the dynamic is in sharp contrast to the trouble it creates – for parents, for teachers, and for anyone dealing with children. It creates a perplexing dilemma in that what is most demanded or expected from a child can become the least likely to be realized. Understanding the role of counterwill in the development process is the key to knowing how to handle it. A three-pronged approach to safely defusing counterwill and to handling the resistant child or adolescent will be discussed.
Workshop #29: (CONTINUATION) Navigating Addictions: Practical Interventions to Promote Healing & Recovery | PRESENTED BY Carissa Muth, Psy.D., CCC, R.Psych
THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE MORNING SESSION
The field of addictions is muddled with a myriad of theories and treatments, yet little progress has been made over time to improve relapse rates. Given the repetitive and persistent nature of addictions, mental health professions addressing such concerns are at increased risk for compassion fatigue and burnout. In order to reduce this risk on treatment providers, the workshop will focus on empowering workers by providing techniques to effectively address a variety of client presentations. Often default recommendations of attending inpatient care are provided to clients as professionals lack the tools to know how they can make positive impacts on a clients care at various stages of the recovery journey.
In this workshop, you will also be provided with tools to understand the complexity involved in the development of substance use disorder and thus be able to make effective treatment recommendations. Attendees will leave the workshop equipped with practical techniques for treating those struggling with addictions including basics of assessments, working with families, and providing post-treatment care. Additionally, various intervention methods will be overviewed including CBT and narrative therapy in order to provide the client with techniques to implement with a variety of client presentations.
