DAY 3: November 29, 2023

Workshop #19: Trauma-Focused DBT

PRESENTED BY Eboni Webb, Psy.D., HSP

MORNING SESSION | 8:30am - 11:45am

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This session is available for live stream.

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.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

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.

MORNING SESSION | 8:30am - 11:45am

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This session is available for live stream.

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.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• 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.

MORNING SESSION | 8:30am - 11:45am

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This session is available for live stream.

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.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• 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