Certificate Programs
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Counselling Skills Certificate: Gain Creative, Concrete and Easy to use Tools and Strategies
Beginning September 17, 2018 (6-days)
Description: In this 6-day program participants will learn the essentials of client-centered capacity building conversations. This training is strategically structured so each session builds practical, easy to apply skills. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/gtq4m3.
Children's Grief & Bereavement Certificate: Including Individual Learning Modules
Beginning September 25, 2018 (5-days)
Description: This certificate program equips participants with the skills to provide evidence-based support to children, youth, and families grieving the dying, or death of someone they care about. Individual learning modules may be taken separately from the Certificate Program. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/9gqng4.
Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) Level 1:
Beginning September 27, 2018 (4-days)
Description: In this certificate program, participants will learn cognitive and behavioural strategies, including case formulation and conceptualization in CBT, identifying and modifying thoughts, behaviour activation and experiments, exposure, stress reduction strategies, and problem-solving therapy. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/ktqyf9.
Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Level 2:
Starting October 12, 2018 (5-days)
Pre-requisite: Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Level 1: Practical Solutions to Real World Problems
Description: This Level 2 Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) Certificate is designed to draw on and advance the skills and strategies learned in the CBT Certificate Level 1. The CBT Certificate Level 2 is an advanced program that emphasizes the conceptualization and application of CBT principles to specific clinical populations. Participants will learn how to further conceptualize and apply CBT treatment strategies to anxiety disorders, including Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, trauma-related disorders, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and severe mental health disorders, including Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder. Individual learning modules may be taken separately from the Certificate Program. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/rgq9z3
Narrative Therapy Certificate: A 5-Day Program Conducted Over 5 Months
Starting October 13, 2018 (5-days)
Description: This certificate program breaks down the theory of Narrative Therapy into skills that can be practiced - each skill builds on the one before. After each session, participants will leave with a clear set of steps to incorporate this therapeutic model into best practices.
Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/4gqnzw.
Management Certificate: Including Individual Learning Modules
Starting October 19, 2018 (5-days)
Description: This certificate program offers participants the opportunity to fully explore the many exciting ideas and practices that make up the vast world of management. It specifically targets the areas of employee performance, time management, having difficult conversations, and mindfulness in the workplace. Individual learning modules may be taken separately from the Certificate Program. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/2tqyvk.
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| Leadership Training
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Mindfulness in the Workplace:
September 28, 2018
Description: Participants will walk away from this program with tools and techniques to develop a mindfulness practice, as well as strategies to manage the barriers that get in the way of developing and maintaining a mindfulness practice at work. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/bgqn42.
Increasing Team Effectiveness: Leadership Training for Health and Human Service Professionals
October 31, 2018
Description: This workshop will teach the skills needed to become a team leader including how to mitigate group conflict, how to move the team towards peak performance, how to adapt to different types of team structures, as well as different stages of group development. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/cgqn4s.
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| Working with Adults |
Motivational Interviewing:
September 21, 2018
Description: This workshop teaches the guiding principles, strategies and skills for incorporating Miller and Rollnik’s MI techniques into practice. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/zgqnc5.
Becoming an Adult Attachment Focused Therapist: Shifting Framework in Therapeutic Work
October 1, 2018
Description: This workshop will present a model of therapy that will shift participant’s theoretical framework to that of Attachment Focused therapy. This model will help assess adult attachment categories, recognize the impact of early childhood attachment experiences, guide clients through the process of mourning their losses and longings and use one’s self in the reparative process of therapy. Participants will develop awareness of their own attachment style and its importance in therapeutic work. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/hgqn49.
*NEW* The Care of Persons with Opioid use Disorder
October 18, 2018
Description: This workshop will focus on the care for persons who have opioid use disorder (OUD). Participants will receive the latest situational update on the "opioid crisis" morbidity and mortality affecting Ontario. Content will then focus on describing what opioids are and their effect on individuals, what opioid use disorder is and how to screen and assess for it. Assessing and managing opioid acute withdrawal utilizing pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions will be presented. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/2gq4kq.
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Working with Children, Youth & Families
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Applying Solution-Focused Strategies in Schools: Understanding of the Theoretical Base of a Solution-Focused Approach and Applications
October 4, 2018
Description: This workshop will offer an understanding of the theoretical base of a solution-focused approach and will explore a range of applications in the school context. Participants will gain tools for questioning practices when engaging marginalized youth, working with change behaviour and meaning frames, learn skills to manage parent meetings and how to successfully introduce solution-focused concepts in a school system. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/bgqncr.
Brief Therapy Approaches with Time-Sensitive Groups
October 5, 2018
Description: This workshop will explore the use of brief therapy practices with a wide variety of time-limited groups such as parent-teen conflict resolution groups, anti-anxiety groups, multi family groups and family adventure weekends. Specific tools and group leader practices and will be examined for the different stages of group development from pre-screening to endings and booster groups. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/zgqnmh.
Helping Families Heal: Addressing and Treating Trauma in Children, Youth and Families
October 15, 2018
Description: In this workshop, participants will explore the background of how trauma impacts children and families, as well as how to best work with these clients to identify myriad traumatic responses and encourage healing in the family system. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/bgqnck.
*NEW* Understanding the "Basics" of Concurrent Disorders for Teens and Adults
October 17, 2018
Description: Participants will gain an overview for assessment, practical applications and clinical tools and strategies when working with clients and concurrent disorders. This workshop will discuss effective clinical practices when working with the individual and the family, as well as building capacity within your agency to provide effective care for this complex population. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/dgq308.
Promoting Adaptive Anxiety in Children: Confronting the Rising Anxiety Disorders in Children & Youth
October 26, 2018
Description: This workshop will provide participants with a healthy perspective on anxiety, in which childhood anxiety is understood as a necessary building block of adaptation and an essential gateway to a child’s creative engagement with the world. Participants will learn how to work with parents caught between protecting their children and supporting their independence. Understanding and working with children and youth who have developed maladaptive forms of anxiety and tools for working with this group will be covered in detail. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/3gqnc2.
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| Community Events |
September 20th - Saturday, September 22nd, 2018
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