Description
This virtual conference will be a live stream of a live in-person conference being held in Oakville, ON. If you would like to attend live in-person please register here: http://www.jackhirose.com/workshop/on-mental-health-summit/
This conference will be live streaming from Oakville, Ontario to online participants on November 27 – 29, 2023 from 8:30am – 4:00pm ET.
This course is streaming live out of Oakville, ON beginning at 8:30am ET (Oakville, ON). 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 26, 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 29, 2023) Workshop Choices:
Day Three 8:30am – 11:45am:
Workshop #19: Trauma-Focused DBT | PRESENTED BY Eboni Webb, Psy.D., HSP
Working with emotionally dysregulated and traumatized clients/students in your practice can be overwhelming and exhausting. You probably feel the pull of being the “savior” for their constant state of dysregulation. Learn how to develop the skills needed to be more effective in treatment, avoid burnout and achieve positive outcomes through developing an integrative lens to treat trauma and attachment more effectively across the lifespan through integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy techniques and interventions. Dr. Webb will give you the training you need through case stories, neuroscience research, and experiential activities. Learn to work together with clients/students and all relevant support systems to increase compassion through seeing the function of their behaviors through the lens of trauma, reestablish structure, and create a validating environment. Leave with the knowledge and skills to confidently teach clients/students and all critical care providers how to implement a safe structure that enables clients/students to learn and master these skills throughout all the pertinent areas of their lives.
Attend this workshop and you will discover how critical complex interventions are for the complexity of treating trauma and attachment disorders.
Join Dr. Eboni Webb, former advisor to the Dialectical Behavior Therapy National Certification and Accreditation Association, and Advanced Certified Practitioner of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and take home evidence-based strategies from both modalities to use with clients who come from hard places.
Workshop #20: The Personality Disorder Toolbox | PRESENTED BY Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.
Individuals with personality disorders have long been considered the most challenging clients presenting in the clinical setting. Many patients lack motivation, most begin with poor insight, and some have such deeply engrained dysfunctional beliefs, unhealthy coping skills, and destructive behavioural patterns that continue to frustrate providers, family members, and consumers alike. Many professionals even continue to view them as untreatable.
However, there is hope. Emerging research suggests this is simply not the case. DBT, CBT, and Schema Therapy have paved the way in pioneering new attitudes and outcomes related to treating these conditions
Join leading exert in the field of personality dysfunction Dr. Jeff Riggenbach for this enjoyable training chock full of the latest research, techniques, and practical strategies. This powerful workshop will give you a new ability to help struggling individuals deal with issues related to self-injurious behaviours, multiple suicide attempts, frequently hurt feelings, intense and unpredictable mood swings, substance use, angry outbursts, toxic relationships and other problems that impair their ability to function in society. Leave this day long training with an integrated DBT/CBT /Schema Informed approach to treating these cases and giving clients with even the most complex needs a life worth living.
Workshop #21: 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 #22: 20 Empirically-Based Art, Music, Movement & Thinking Skills Activities to Improve Behaviour & Learning in Children & Adolescents | PRESENTED BY Lynne Kenney, Psy.D.
Music, art, and movement have been recognized as important elements in children’s cognitive development (Dumont et al., 2017; Americans for the Arts, 2023). Music, art, and movement provide various benefits that enhance cognitive abilities, including attention, language skills, spatial awareness, problem-solving, creativity, and social interaction.
Musical training has been linked to improved cognitive skills, such as enhanced verbal memory, mathematical abilities, and spatial-temporal skills (Forgeard et al., 2008; Miendlarzewska & Trost, 2018; Schellenberg, 2004).
Learning to play an instrument has shown positive effects on executive functions, including attention, self-regulation, and working memory (Moreno et al., 2011). Children who undergo musical training have better verbal memory, second language pronunciation accuracy, reading ability and executive functions (Miendlarzewska & Trost, 2018).
Music engages multiple brain regions, stimulating neural connections and promoting neuroplasticity, which is crucial for cognitive development (Zatorre et al., 2007; Lippolis et al., 2023).
Dance and rhythmic movements have been shown to improve executive functions and cognitive skills, such as attention, working memory, and inhibitory control (Kattenstroth et al., 2013; Buderath et al., 2008).
Day Three Afternoon 12:45pm – 4:00pm:
Workshop #23: (CONTINUATION) Trauma-Focused DBT | PRESENTED BY Eboni Webb, Psy.D., HSP
THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE MORNING SESSION
Working with emotionally dysregulated and traumatized clients/students in your practice can be overwhelming and exhausting. You probably feel the pull of being the “savior” for their constant state of dysregulation. Learn how to develop the skills needed to be more effective in treatment, avoid burnout and achieve positive outcomes through developing an integrative lens to treat trauma and attachment more effectively across the lifespan through integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy techniques and interventions. Dr. Webb will give you the training you need through case stories, neuroscience research, and experiential activities. Learn to work together with clients/students and all relevant support systems to increase compassion through seeing the function of their behaviors through the lens of trauma, reestablish structure, and create a validating environment. Leave with the knowledge and skills to confidently teach clients/students and all critical care providers how to implement a safe structure that enables clients/students to learn and master these skills throughout all the pertinent areas of their lives.
Attend this workshop and you will discover how critical complex interventions are for the complexity of treating trauma and attachment disorders.
Join Dr. Eboni Webb, former advisor to the Dialectical Behavior Therapy National Certification and Accreditation Association, and Advanced Certified Practitioner of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and take home evidence-based strategies from both modalities to use with clients who come from hard places.
Workshop #24: Mastering the Core Skills & Competencies of CBT | PRESENTED BY Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is the most empirically supported therapeutic approach for multiple psychiatric disorders, and is widely considered the “gold standard” treatment for a variety of issues. Most mental health professionals claim to do “some CBT,” but many clinicians in the trenches resort to a more “eclectic” approach and treatment often loses direction. Leave this 3-hour afternoon session with international CBT expert Dr. Jeff Riggenbach with core competencies, transformed clinical skills, and an improved understanding of conceptualization based treatment that will ensure you never get stuck in therapy again.
You will be able to utilize concrete strategies for helping your clients who suffer from:
- Bipolar and depressive related disorders
- Anger
- Anxiety disorders
- Personality Disorders
Through case studies, interactive discussions, role-plays, and reproducible handouts, you will take away practical CBT strategies to use immediately with any client. Leave this conference armed with tools you can use in your very next session!
Workshop #25: 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 #26: (CONTINUATION) 20 Empirically-Based Art, Music, Movement & Thinking Skills Activities to Improve Behaviour & Learning in Children & Adolescents | PRESENTED BY Lynne Kenney, Psy.D.
THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE MORNING SESSION
Music, art, and movement have been recognized as important elements in children’s cognitive development (Dumont et al., 2017; Americans for the Arts, 2023). Music, art, and movement provide various benefits that enhance cognitive abilities, including attention, language skills, spatial awareness, problem-solving, creativity, and social interaction.
Musical training has been linked to improved cognitive skills, such as enhanced verbal memory, mathematical abilities, and spatial-temporal skills (Forgeard et al., 2008; Miendlarzewska & Trost, 2018; Schellenberg, 2004).
Learning to play an instrument has shown positive effects on executive functions, including attention, self-regulation, and working memory (Moreno et al., 2011). Children who undergo musical training have better verbal memory, second language pronunciation accuracy, reading ability and executive functions (Miendlarzewska & Trost, 2018).
Music engages multiple brain regions, stimulating neural connections and promoting neuroplasticity, which is crucial for cognitive development (Zatorre et al., 2007; Lippolis et al., 2023).
Dance and rhythmic movements have been shown to improve executive functions and cognitive skills, such as attention, working memory, and inhibitory control (Kattenstroth et al., 2013; Buderath et al., 2008).
Day Three
Workshop #19: Trauma-Focused DBT | PRESENTED BY Eboni Webb, Psy.D., HSP
Defining Trauma and Attachment
- Biosocial Model
- Effects of inadequate validation in early emotional development
- Symptoms of a pervasive emotional dysregulation disorder
- Developmental vs. attachment trauma
- Single-incident trauma
- Common sources of trauma
- Parenting Styles
- Attachment Styles
Trauma and Brain Development
- Biphasic arousal model
- Core organizers of experience
Workshop #20: The Personality Disorder Toolbox | PRESENTED BY Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.
- Understand evidence based approaches to treating personality disorders, and learn why traditional patient care doesn’t work
- Learn communication skills for effectively engaging clients with complex needs
- Acquire skills for modifying deeply engrained beliefs driving behaviours outside of client awareness
- Disrupt lifelong self-defeating patterns
- Identify 8 motives for self-injurious behaviours and interventions that work for each
- Learn symptom-targetted strategies that help with clients in the moment
- Develop schema modification techniques proven to benefit even your most “difficult” PD clients
- Build resilience in clients by teaching strategies that help them not only get well, but stay well
Workshop #21: Neufeld’s Traffic Circle of Frustration: A Revolutionary Approach to Aggression, Depression & Suicide | PRESENTED BY Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D.
- Understanding the underlying roots of aggression and depression
- Appreciating the key role that frustration is meant to play in our lives
- Recognizing when pivotal feelings are missing that need restoring
- Knowing the symptoms, signs and challenges when frustration gets stuck
- Making sense of why some of our current behaviour management approaches backfire
- Knowing how to direct traffic when frustration needs to find an outlet
Workshop #22: 20 Empirically-Based Art, Music, Movement & Thinking Skills Activities to Improve Behaviour & Learning in Children & Adolescents | PRESENTED BY Lynne Kenney, Psy.D.
Learn about:
- The relationships between art, cognition, learning and academic achievement.
- How art education has been associated with improved academic performance, including higher achievement in reading and math.
- How engaging in visual arts encourages creativity and divergent thinking to foster problem-solving skills and the ability to think outside the box.
- How foundational cognitive skills such as self-regulation, attention and memory support higher-order skills including problem-solving, imagination and creativity.
Understand how to:
- Apply Musical Thinking to engage your students in learning self-regulation, motor pacing, previewing, planning, tempo, timing and rhythm.
- Use proprietary musical activities including “Watermelon, Unicorn and Tiger” to teach children how to transition from one activity to another and experience the “felt-sense” of slowing down.
- Use Procreate to improve your students imagination and creativity skills.
Develop skills to:
- Use art activities that involve fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, which contribute to the development of spatial awareness and cognitive abilities.
- Apply active play and movement activities to stimulate brain development by improving neuroplasticity, neural connectivity, and cognitive flexibility.
- Teach precursor skills to reading, math and spelling including visual-spatial skills, patterning, sequencing, visual-tracking and vestibular strength.
Be ready to implement:
- Dance and rhythmic movements that have been shown to improve executive function and cognitive skills, such as attention, working memory, and inhibitory control.
- Attention, memory and self-regulation songs for students in grades K-4.
- Paradiddles, Cognitap Spots and Rhythmic Movement Phrases to engage cognition and self-regulation in students in grades 5-12.
Movement and cognition
- Physical activity and exercise have been linked to enhanced cognitive functions, including attention, memory, and academic achievement (Hillman et al., 2014; Tomporowski et al., 2011).
- Cognitively engaging physical activity programs have been shown to improve executive functions (Leisman, G. et al., 2016; Schmidt et al., 2016; Diamond & Ling, 2016; Ma, J., et al. 2014; van der Fels et al., 2015; Oberer et al., 2017; Egger et al., 2019; Williams et al., 2020).
- Cognitive-motor activity combines rhythmic physical activity with cognitive-visual and auditory stimuli. This simultaneously activates distinct regions in the brain.
Day Three Afternoon
Workshop #23: (CONTINUATION) Trauma-Focused DBT | PRESENTED BY Eboni Webb, Psy.D., HSP
Defining Trauma and Attachment
- Biosocial Model
- Effects of inadequate validation in early emotional development
- Symptoms of a pervasive emotional dysregulation disorder
- Developmental vs. attachment trauma
- Single-incident trauma
- Common sources of trauma
- Parenting Styles
- Attachment Styles
Trauma and Brain Development
- Biphasic arousal model
- Core organizers of experience
Workshop #24: Mastering the Core Skills & Competencies of CBT | PRESENTED BY Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.
- Develop core competencies in CBT, including the therapeutic alliance, collaborative agenda setting, fostering behavioural and cognitive change, and giving client feedback.
- Understand the role of cognitive distortions in information processing and the unique processing present in specific symptom sets.
- Learn evidence based strategies for treating clinical conditions including depression, anxiety disorders, anger management, and personality disorders
- Utilize techniques from traditional CBT, meta-cognitive, and schema based approaches
- Demonstrate how case conceptualization drives effective treatment planning & improves therapy outcomes.
- Discuss case studies to increase understanding of specific cognitive models of depression, anxiety and anger and effective treatment strategies for each.
Workshop #25: Resilience & the Stress Response: Addressing Emotional Stuckness & Trauma | PRESENTED BY Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D.
- Updating an understanding of the stress response through the lenses of attachment and emotion
- The ability to differentiate between the two kinds of strength that is often associated with resilience
- An appreciation of what has to bounce back for emotional health and well-being
- An understanding of the wisdom of the stress response and how to come alongside it
Workshop #26: (CONTINUATION) 20 Empirically-Based Art, Music, Movement & Thinking Skills Activities to Improve Behaviour & Learning in Children & Adolescents | PRESENTED BY Lynne Kenney, Psy.D.
Learn about:
- The relationships between art, cognition, learning and academic achievement.
- How art education has been associated with improved academic performance, including higher achievement in reading and math.
- How engaging in visual arts encourages creativity and divergent thinking to foster problem-solving skills and the ability to think outside the box.
- How foundational cognitive skills such as self-regulation, attention and memory support higher-order skills including problem-solving, imagination and creativity.
Understand how to:
- Apply Musical Thinking to engage your students in learning self-regulation, motor pacing, previewing, planning, tempo, timing and rhythm.
- Use proprietary musical activities including “Watermelon, Unicorn and Tiger” to teach children how to transition from one activity to another and experience the “felt-sense” of slowing down.
- Use Procreate to improve your students imagination and creativity skills.
Develop skills to:
- Use art activities that involve fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, which contribute to the development of spatial awareness and cognitive abilities.
- Apply active play and movement activities to stimulate brain development by improving neuroplasticity, neural connectivity, and cognitive flexibility.
- Teach precursor skills to reading, math and spelling including visual-spatial skills, patterning, sequencing, visual-tracking and vestibular strength.
Be ready to implement:
- Dance and rhythmic movements that have been shown to improve executive function and cognitive skills, such as attention, working memory, and inhibitory control.
- Attention, memory and self-regulation songs for students in grades K-4.
- Paradiddles, Cognitap Spots and Rhythmic Movement Phrases to engage cognition and self-regulation in students in grades 5-12.
Movement and cognition
- Physical activity and exercise have been linked to enhanced cognitive functions, including attention, memory, and academic achievement (Hillman et al., 2014; Tomporowski et al., 2011).
- Cognitively engaging physical activity programs have been shown to improve executive functions (Leisman, G. et al., 2016; Schmidt et al., 2016; Diamond & Ling, 2016; Ma, J., et al. 2014; van der Fels et al., 2015; Oberer et al., 2017; Egger et al., 2019; Williams et al., 2020).
- Cognitive-motor activity combines rhythmic physical activity with cognitive-visual and auditory stimuli. This simultaneously activates distinct regions in the brain.
Eboni Webb, Psy.D., HSP is a licensed psychologist and serves as an advisor to the Dialectical Behavior Therapy National Certification and Accreditation Association (DBTNCAA). She has practiced in numerous community settings including clinics that treat underserved communities of color, clients with developmental disabilities, and clients suffering from severe and persistent mental illness. She worked at the largest mental health clinic at the time in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area that specialized in treating clients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She has practiced DBT in community mental health centers and developed two special DBT-oriented treatment programs for clients with developmental disabilities and borderline-intellectual functioning.
Dr. Webb currently resides in Nashville, TN where she has been serving clients in her private practice, Kairos. She continues to specialize in individual and group DBT as well as cognitive-behavior strategies that address a myriad of clinical issues. She also offers special group therapies for adults and a dual-track of teen skills training that includes their parents.
She is currently working to adapt DBT for clients with severe and persistent mental illness (e.g. psychotic-based disorders).
Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D. is a best-selling and award winning author who has earned a reputation as an international expert in CBT and personality disorders. Over the past 20 years he has developed and overseen CBT-based treatment programs for Mood disorders, anxiety disorders, addictive behaviour disorders and Personality Disorders at two different psychiatric hospitals and clinics serving over 3,000 clients at multiple levels of care. Dr. Riggenbach trained at the Beck Institute of Cognitive Therapy and Research in Philadelphia, is a Diplomat of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and a certified cognitive therapist. He has trained over 20,000 professionals worldwide including audiences in all 50 United States, Canada, Mexico, the UK, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Dr. Riggenbach is the author of six publications including his most recent release The CBT Toolbox (2nd ed): A Workbook for Clients, Clinicians and Coaches.
Jeff is known for bridging the gap between academia, research findings and day-to-day clinical practice, and his work has earned him the reputation for being. “The practical tools guy.” His seminars on CBT, DBT, and Schema-Focused Cognitive Therapy routinely receive the highest evaluations from conference participants in terms of clinical utility as well as entertainment value.
Lynne Kenney, Psy.D., is the nation’s leading pediatric psychologist in the development of classroom cognitive-physical activity programs for students in grades K-8. Dr. Kenney develops curriculum, programming, and activities to improve children’s cognition through coordinative cognitive-motor movement, executive function skill-building strategies, and social-emotional learning.
Dr. Kenney’s most recent educational program is CogniMoves® a universal Tier I MTSS cognitive-motor movement program, co-developed with Benjamin S. Bunney, MD, Former Chairman Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. CogniMoves® is designed to strengthen executive function skills in K-3 students.
Dr. Kenney is a pediatric psychologist on the Language & Cognition Team at Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia, Scottsdale, Arizona. She has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School. As an international educator, researcher, and author, Dr. Kenney is dedicated to improving the trajectory of children’s learning, particularly in high-need, under-resourced communities.
Dr. Kenney’s books include Brain Primers, 2020 (Kuczala & Kenney); 70 Play Activities for Better Thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning and Behavior (Kenney & Comizio, 2016); the Social-Emotional Literacy program, Bloom Your Room™; Musical Thinking™; and Bloom: 50 things to say, think and do with anxious, angry and over-the-top-kids (Kenney & Young, 2015). My Attention Engine: An executive function skill activity book for teachers, parents, and children is slated for 2023.
Since 1985, Dr. Kenney has worked as an educator in community service with national organizations including the Neurological Health Foundation, Head Start, Understood.org, HandsOn Phoenix, SparkPE, the First Nations in Canada, and Points of Light (Generation On) Dr. Kenney values working with Title I Schools.
