Holding Difficult Conversations: Uncover and Utilize Your Own Strengths and Style of Communication to Improve Your Management Skills
January 10, 2019
Facilitator: Marion Langford, M.Ed.
Description: Using a combination of self-awareness and conversational tools, participants of this workshop will have the opportunity to apply and practice the tools in a safe learning environment. Strategies on how to acquire effective listening and inquiry skills when engaging others in conversation, as well as how to develop clarity around needs assumptions during those conversations will be covered. Participants will leave the workshop with a communications toolkit that will increase confidence and preparation for future difficult conversations. This is learning module 4 from the Fall 2018 Management Certificate. This module may be taken separately from the certificate program as a stand-alone workshop.
For more information on this workshop and full registration details follow the link:  http://www.cvent.com/d/2tqyvk.

Becoming an Adult Attachment Focused Therapist: Shifting Framework in Therapeutic Work
January 11, 2019
Facilitator: Annette Kussin, MSW., RSW.
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.
For more information on this workshop and full registration details follow the link: http://www.cvent.com/d/6bqsvz.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
January 18, 2019
Facilitator: Noah Lazar, Ph.D., C.Psych.
Description: This 2-part workshop will consist of a didactic presentation that will be supplemented with case examples and role play exercises to further enhance the full learning experience. In the first part of this workshop, focus will be on CBT models and conceptualizations of GAD, addressing cognitive restructuring techniques, including adaptations to thought records, probability re-estimation, and challenging beliefs about worry as well as behavioural techniques will be covered. The second part of the workshop will focus on CBT conceptualizations for multiple presentations of OCD. The facilitator will describe and demonstrate cognitive techniques to challenge obsessional thinking, as well as the utility of compulsive behaviour. This is individual learning module 4 from the Fall 2018 Certificate in CBT Level 2. This module may be taken separate from the Certificate Program as a stand-alone workshop.
For more information on this workshop and full registration details follow the link: http://www.cvent.com/d/rgq9z3.

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Helping Families Heal: Addressing and Treating Trauma in Children, Youth and Families
January 30, 2019
Facilitator: Janine Lawford, MSW., RSW.
Description: Explore the background of how trauma impacts children and families and how best to work with these clients to identify myriad traumatic responses and encourage healing in the family system. By the end of this workshop participants will be able to recognize the effects of trauma in children and adolescents, understand the many manifestations of complex developmental trauma and how to incorporate this understanding into their work. Ms. Lawford will provide strategies to assist in the stabilization and support of youth with traumatic histories as well as steps in how to use relationship in order to promote healing in traumatized children.
For more information on this workshop and full registration details follow the link: http://www.cvent.com/d/2bqv3p.