Eastern Canada Mental Health and Education Catalogue

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Child & YOUTH Focused

• JAY BERK Working with Oppositional, Defiant & Angry Children

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Quality Workshops in Mental Health & Education

• Steven Olivas Emotional & Behavioural Problems • Lynne Kenney Self-Regulation Executive Function Strategies • Gordon Neufeld Making Sense of Aggression • Gordon Neufeld Bullies: Their Making & Unmaking counselling Focused

• Eboni Webb Trauma & Attachment • Eboni Webb DBT Skills Training

3 CONFERENCES • Canadian conference on trauma & addictions • School-Focused Mental Health Conference with Dr. Robert Brooks in Calgary • School-Focused Mental Health Conference in Saskatoon

Spring/Summer 2020 | EASTERN Canada Edition

Mental Health & Education Events Catalogue 5 cities OAKVILLE • OTTAWA • Thunder Bay Halifax • Charlottetown

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REGISTRATION CODE: SFCONF-YEG

Edmonton, Alberta May 27–29, 2020

DoubleTree by Hilton West Edmonton 16615 109th Avenue NW

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School-Focused

Mental Health Conference

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan April 27–29, 2020

REGISTRATION CODE: SFCONF-YXE

Dr. Robert Brooks is one of today’s leading speakers and authors on the themes of resilience, motivation, school climate, a positive work environment, and family relationships. During the past 35 years, Dr. Brooks has presented nationally and internationally to thousands of parents, educators, mental health professionals, and business people. His talks are filled with practical, realistic suggestions.

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School-Focused

Mental Health Conference

with Dr. Robert Brooks

Nurturing Resilience & Fostering Motivation in Children & Adolescents Calgary, Alberta May 11–13, 2020

REGISTRATION CODE: SFCONF-YYC

Hilton Garden Inn Saskatoon 90 22nd Street E

Best Western Premier Calgary Plaza Hotel 1316 33rd Street N

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Thunder Bay, ONtario Jay Berk, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and an internationally recognized expert in the child/ adolescent behavioural field who brings both a clinical and education perspective to his work with children, adolescents and their families. For over 25 years, Dr. Berk has been treating clients with ODD, ADHD, autism, anxiety and stress, depression, learning disabilities, Tourette’s Syndrome and individuals who have Autism Spectrum Disorder. He conducts 15 social skills/mental health groups for children and adolescents and works daily with school and community professionals, families and parents. Dr. Berk continually consults for several school districts. In his private practice, in Beachwood, Ohio, he provides therapy for children, adolescents, families, testing and evaluation, school consultation as well as designed and facilitates alternative educational program.

child & Youth FOCUSED WORKSHOPS

thunder bay, ontario

Working with Oppositional, Defiant, & Anger Issues with Children & Adolescents JAY BERK, Ph.D. Children diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) can present a monumental challenge to therapists, teachers, parents and siblings. ODD and other conduct problems are the single greatest reasons for referrals to outpatient and inpatient mental health settings for children, accounting for at least half of all referrals. Complicating the success of therapeutic interventions is the high rate of comorbidity with anxiety and depressive disorders or ADHD. Current research also correlates a variety of cognitive skill deficits including executive function, emotional regulation, language processing, and social processing. These complicating comorbidities and correlations mean that ODD often requires multidisciplinary assessment and components of mental health care, case management, and educational intervention for students and clients to improve.

This dynamic two day workshop will address a full range of behavioural disturbances, from mild to severe, in order to identify the therapeutic techniques that have proven effective. Participants will review and discuss strategies which can be immediately applied across a variety of settings including home, community, social groups, classrooms, or therapeutic. Participants will examine the intersection of ODD with a variety of issues such as trauma, ADD, learning disabilities, bipolar disorder, and depression and discuss how these affect and alter treatment decisions. Participants will leave this workshop with a much improved diagnostic and treatment approach to ODD and other behavioural disorders.

Benefits to Attending • Beyond behaviour charts – Truly intervene with difficult behaviours • Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder & important DSM-5 updates • The #1 reason families inadvertently fuel defiant behaviours • How educators and clinicians may be fuelling exactly what they are trying to stop • Why child/adolescent “terrorist behaviours” work

“Excellent speaker, knowledgeable, kept audiences interest and gave practical usable suggestions. I have never been at a session in which I was so engaged for the entire 2 days”

Date & LOCATION

12 CEUS

THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO April 23–24, 2020 8:30am – 4:00pm Best Western Plus NorWester Hotel & Conference Centre 2080 Highway 61

Learning Objectives • Identify oppositional behaviour and causes • Implement strategies with the child/adolescent who refuses to talk • Describe why “regular” strategies (rewards, punishments) don’t work and ways to improve • Differentiate oppositional behaviours caused by ASD and ADHD • Design and implement intervention strategies to reduce passive aggressive, disruptive and violent behaviours • Write and implement effective behaviour plans for the classroom • Reduce the disruptive impact and risk to other children or adolescents in the classroom, family or group

Agenda & Key Topics Today’s Impact on Behaviour in Children/ Adolescents • DSM-5 updates • Diagnosis of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder • Impact of technology on behaviours • Changes in schools systems and mental health delivery • Non-verbal problem solving Why Children Become Oppositional & Defiant • Splitting issues • Problem solving errors • Rage cycles

Registration FEES Fee Type

Early Bird

Regular

Individual

$449

$469

Group: 3-7

$429

$449

Group: 8-14

$409

$429

Group: 15+

$389

$409

Ft Student

$389

$409

Early Bird Deadline: April 9, 2020 REGistration CODE: BER-YQT

The Diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder • Impact on service delivery • The important difference between ODD and conduct disorder Related Issues/Disorders that Impact Oppositional Behaviours • ASD, Sensory processing disorder • ADHD, OCD • Learning disabilities, Tourette’s • Poverty and others

The Impact of Medications • Efficacy • Medication trends • Essential considerations regarding side effects • Is there a medication for oppositional behaviours?

Intervention Strategies to Reduce Passive Aggressive, Disruptive & Violent Behaviours • Individual/group/classroom • Create immediate changes in behaviour • Strategies for aggressive behaviours without restraints • Ways to recognize and recover Intervention Strategies That Do Not Work & How to Fix Them • Pitfalls in behaviour plans and how to effectively revise • Effective strategies with minimal staff time Intervention Options in a Variety of Settings • Creative problem solving techniques • Methods to reduce maladaptive problem solving Strategies to Work with Parents & Staff Members • Resistant and non-disciplining parents • Keeping your team effective FULL WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE 3

child & Youth FOCUSED WORKSHOPS Steven T. Olivas, Ph.D., HSP, is a Licensed Psychologist in Private Practice in Middle Tennessee.

He began his practice career in 1991 when ADHD was exploding onto the scene, and has enjoyed working with the energy and spontaneous creativity of children ever since. Throughout his career, he has taught courses at nine colleges and universities, been a national public speaker, a regular columnist for a local newspaper, and co-host of a popular radio show. For nearly twenty years, he has been helping parents, clinicians, and school systems.

Date & LOCATION

12 CEUS

OAKVILLE, ONTARIO May 4–5, 2020 8:30am – 4:00pm

Oakville, Ontario | Halifax, Nova Scotia

oakville, ontario | halifax, nova scotia

Over 30 Proven & Effective Brief Interventions for Children & Adolescents with Emotional & Behavioural Problems Steven Olivas, Ph.D., hsp Over 30 Proven and Effective Brief Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioural Problems will guide you through focused, clear and proven approaches to working with children and youth. Every professional who seeks to fill their toolbox with tested methods will leave this seminar with a wealth of fresh ideas and rejuvenated spirits. With nearly 30 years of clinical experience and a background in improvisational comedy, Dr. Steve is a strong proponent of “Edu-tainment”. He uses wit and humour to enhance your learning experience, improving the retention and utilization of the skills covered. You will leave this workshop with new strategies for success and techniques to revitalize your interactions with students.

Learning Objectives • Utilize effective techniques for the treatment of behaviour disorders in children • Develop specific behavioural interventions that address the developmental stage of the child or adolescent • Consider the efficacy of biologically-based interventions to address behavioural and emotional disorders in children

Oakville Conference Centre 2515 Wyecroft Rd REGistration CODE: OLI-YTZ HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA June 4–5, 2020 8:30am – 4:00pm Dalhousie University 6135 University Ave, Marion McCain Arts & Science Bldg, Scotiabank Auditorium REGistration CODE: OLI-YHZ Registration FEES Fee Type

Early Bird

Regular

Individual

$449

$469

Group: 3-7

$429

$449

Group: 8-14

$409

$429

Group: 15+

$389

$409

Ft Student

$389

$409

Early Bird Deadlines Oakville: April 20, 2020 Halifax: May 21, 2020

Attend BOTH, Dr. Olivas & Dr. Kenney’s Workshops in OAKVILLE & SAVE! Fee Type

Early Bird

Regular

Individual

$619

$639

Group: 3-7

$599

$619

Group: 8-14

$579

$599

Group: 15+

$559

$579

Ft Student

$559

$579

Early Bird Deadline: April 20, 2020 REGistration CODE: KEo-YTZ 4 REgister online: jackhirose.com

• Explore clinical manifestations among anxiety disorders, ADHD, mood disorders, ODD, and conduct disorder as they relate to diagnoses • Develop skills for establishing an interpersonal rapport to overcome resistance to change in children and adolescents • Analyze the symptoms of behavioural and emotional disorders in children and adolescents and establish how this informs your intervention strategies

Agenda & Key Topics Introduction • Introduce speaker • Daily agenda • Defining Terms/Seminar Warm-ups Problem Solving Decision Tree Immediate Interventions: Physiological • Neuropsychology • Hormones • Gender/Relationship to School • Diagnosis/Terminology Primer • Medication Primer Tools to Manage Anger • Identify GOAL of misbehaviour • Creating Common Language • Expand Emotional Awareness/Vocabulary • Standing 8 Count • Tom McIntyre • Empathy Building • Time-In/Restitution General Mental Health • Physical Health • Mental Health • Privacy/Security Siphoning Energy/Counterconditioning • Settle Mind --Self-talk --Cognitive Reprogramming --Mental Imagery/Visualization • Settle Body --Progressive Muscle --Parasympathetic Engagement Rudolf Dreikurs’ Model • Reasons for poor behaviour

--Attention --Power --Revenge --Inadequacy • Strategies to deal with each/either Positive Reinforcement/Stabilization • Home: Listening Jar • School --Token Economies --Response Cost Hendrix Intentional Dialogue ADHD/ADD • • • •

Noise to the system Anticipation Games with rules Red light/Green light

Autism Spectrum • Read & React • Rules of Engagement • Building a Broader Structure • Temple Grandin Jay Haley – Prescribe the Symptom • Classroom Examples • Separate Behaviour from application Passive Aggressive Behaviour • Definition • Expressions/Signs • Strategies for Handling/Responding Ways Teachers Can Reinforce Negative Behaviour Handling Aggressive Behaviour

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Oakville, Ontario Lynne Kenney, Psy.D., is the nation’s leading pediatric psychologist in the development of classroom cognitive-physical activity programs for students grades K-6. 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 has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and HarborUCLA/UCLA Medical School.

She holds a master’s degree in Physical Education from the University of Southern California and a Doctorate in Psychology from Pepperdine University. educational program.

Date & LOCATION

6 CEUS

OAKVILLE, ONTARIO May 6, 2020 8:30am – 4:00pm Oakville Conference Centre 2515 Wyecroft Rd Registration FEES Fee Type

Early Bird

Individual

$249

Regular $269

Group: 3-7

$234

$254

Group: 8-14

$219

$239

Group: 15+

$204

$224

Ft Student

$204

$224

child & Youth FOCUSED WORKSHOPS

OAKVILLE, ontario

30 Proven and Effective Self-Regulation & Executive Function Strategies: For Children with Sensory Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Anxiety & ADHD lynne Kenney, Psy.D. This one-day workshop will give you 30 Proven and Effective Self-Regulation and Executive Function Strategies to better understand and intervene with children who have challenges with sensory processing, dysregulation, anxiety and executive function. Dr. Kenney will integrate research from neuroscience, kinesiology, occupational therapy, music and speech/language therapy. We will explore cognitive and movement activities to improve learning and behaviour.

With improvements in research utilizing fMRI to measure brain activation, we are quickly learning that the learning and behaviour management techniques commonly used in the past are not only ineffective but may increase stress which decrease both thinking skills and self-regulation in children and adolescents.

Establishing secure connections with kids, partnering with them in problem solving and using neurobiologically rooted strategies are more effective ways to improve both learning and behaviour.

Importantly, in the past 10 years we have learned that thinking skills in the brain are supported by cognitive-motor movement, rhythm-based learning, music, beat perception and cognitive skills coaching. Where we used to believe that IQ was stable, we now know that students from low-stimulation environments, students with ADHD, learning differences, trauma and concussion may improve their learning skills with coaching, cognitive-exercise and lifestyle improvements.

This workshop will give you 30+ effective cognitive-motor, executive function and self-regulation strategies to better understand and intervene with children who have challenges with executive function, learning, anxiety, sensory processing and dysregulation. Integrating research from neuroscience, kinesiology, occupational therapy, music and speech/language therapy, we will explore cutting edge cognitive-movement activities to improve learning and behaviour.

Teaching students how they think, learn and behave empowers them to play an active role in their own learning. When children with ADHD, anxiety, learning differences, oppositional tendencies and disinterest in school are taught how to be “Cognitive Scientists” coaching their own brains to plan, prioritize, attend and remember, they become more invested in school and motivated to learn.

Taking the mystery out of executive functions by showing students how to learn more efficiently while calming their defensive brains leads to better concentration, improved attention, higher academic achievement and competent social-emotional skills.

In this workshop, Lynne Kenney, Psy,D., pediatric psychologist, author and international educator, will show you how to integrate the newest research in neuroscience, kinesiology and cognitive education for students to learn more efficiently. You will discover over 30 developmentally progressive cognitiveexercises, worksheets and activities to enliven your classroom, office and clinic. Learn how to improve cognition, enhance learning and empower children to be better thinkers with motor movement, sequencing, attending, self-regulation and memory activities.

Dress comfortably, as we will be moving to think and calming to learn with balls, body percussion, rhythm activities, yoga and music.

Early Bird Deadline: April 20, 2020 REGistration CODE: KEN-YTZ

Attend BOTH, Dr. Olivas & Dr. Kenney’s Workshops in OAKVILLE & SAVE! Fee Type

Early Bird

Regular

Individual

$619

$639

Group: 3-7

$599

$619

Group: 8-14

$579

$599

Group: 15+

$559

$579

Ft Student

$559

$579

Early Bird Deadline: April 20, 2020 REGistration CODE: KEo-YTZ

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Agenda & Key Topics

• Implement research-based activities educators, teachers and clinicians can use to improve thinking, self-regulation, learning and behaviour.

• Learn the relationship between cognition and motor movement.

• Explore bringing physical activity back to the classroom with coordinative cognitive-motor activities.

• Practice over 30 activities you can do to help children with ADHD, dyslexia, ODD, sensory processing challenges, dyspraxia, anxiety and behavioural issues.

• Learn how to enhance collaboration and cooperation in your classroom by teaching children applied neuroscience research.

• Learn the biological precursors to executive functions and learning • Learn how coordinated rhythmic beat-based motor movement engages executive function • Practice strategies to help children move out of the stress response into an alert state of calm • Experience proven cognitive-motor activities to enhance thinking and self-regulation • Improve how children learn by teaching them how their brains work • Close the education gap in poverty with movement and cognition

“This was a great balance of knowledgeconcepts and strategies. This was one of the best workshops I have been to. Thank you!”

FULL WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE 5

child & Youth FOCUSED WORKSHOPS Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., is a Vancouver-based developmental psychologist with over 45 years of experience with children and youth and those responsible for them. A foremost authority on child development, Dr. Neufeld is an international speaker, a bestselling author (Hold On To Your Kids) and a leading interpreter of the developmental paradigm. Dr. Neufeld has a widespread reputation for making sense of complex problems and for opening doors for change.

Date & LOCATION

12 CEUS

OAKVILLE, ONTARIO May 27–28, 2020 8:30am – 4:00pm Oakville Conference Centre 2515 Wyecroft Rd REGistration CODE: NE2-YTZ OTTAWA, ONTARIO June 1–2, 2020 8:30am – 4:00pm Holiday Inn – Ottawa East 1199 Joseph Cyr Street REGistration CODE: NE2-YOW Registration FEES Fee Type

Early Bird

Regular

Individual

$449

$469

Group: 3-7

$429

$449

Group: 8-14

$409

$429

Group: 15+

$389

$409

Ft Student

$389

$409

Early Bird Deadlines Oakville: May 13, 2020 Ottawa: May 18, 2020

3 day option: Attend BOTH, Dr. NEUFELD Workshops & SAVE! Fee Type

Early Bird

Regular

Individual

$619

$639

Group: 3-7

$599

$619

Group: 8-14

$579

$599

Group: 15+

$559

$579

Ft Student

$559

$579

OAKVILLE, May 27–29, 2020 REGistration CODE: NE3-YTZ OTTAWA, June 1–3, 2020 REGistration CODE: NE3-Yow 6 REgister online: jackhirose.com

Oakville, ONtario | Ottawa, Ontario

oakville, ontario | Ottawa, ontario

Making Sense of Aggression Gordon Neufeld, ph.d.

One of the foremost interpreters of the developmental approach tackles one of the oldest and most perplexing of human problems, exposing its deep developmental roots and revealing why conventional approaches to the problem are so ineffective. There are many indications that this problem is escalating among our children and youth. What tends to grab our attention is the more violating acts of aggression but what is truly alarming is the ground swell of attacking energy within and between our kids that erupts in their interaction, music, language, play, games and fantasies. This attacking energy is also fueling an alarming increase in suicide and suicidal ideation among children. Dr. Neufeld provides a way of understanding that not only explains what is happening around us but also provides insight into the individuals – both children and adults – who present with these problems. His approach is refreshingly sensible, historically accountable, and congruent with today’s science of the brain. His conceptual model has clear implications for practice and treatment and is applicable in any arena: home, school or in treatment.

The key to making sense of aggression is to get past the violating behaviour to the emotional experience of the child and to what is missing in the child’s processing or functioning. The underlying experience is one of frustration, not anger as is commonly supposed. What is missing are vulnerable feelings as well as a consciousness of anything that would counter the impulses to attack. Such children are inclined to attack when up against things they cannot change. Such children are also unable to benefit from traditional means of discipline such as correction, confrontation, consequences and isolation. It is only as the roots of the problem are addressed that aggression can be effectively cured.

Aggression is one of the oldest and most challenging of human problems and indications are, that in children at least, it is on the rise. What tends to grab our attention is the more violating acts of aggression but what is truly alarming is the ground swell of attacking energy within and between our kids that erupts in their interaction, their music, their language, their play, their games and their fantasies. It is the rare parent or teacher that does not encounter aggression in one form or another, be it tantrums, tempers, fits, abrasiveness, abusive language, rude gestures, hostility, racism, taunts, putdowns, bullying, fighting, shaming, belittling, name calling, vicarious enjoyment of violence or the selfattacking forms of self-deprecation, death wishes and self-harm. It is a sobering reality that the kids who fail to grow out of aggression by school age will most likely bring their problem into adulthood, unless the underlying dynamics are addressed.

Agenda & Key Topics

Learning Objectives

Frustration, Attachment & Aggression • A working definition of aggression • The many faces of aggression, including suicide • Recognizing the nonviolent forms of aggression • The role of frustration in aggression • The role of attachment in aggression

• Uncover the psychological roots of the aggression problem

Tears, Temper and Attack • Aggression as problem of adaptation • Impulsiveness, integration and the aggression problem • The displacement effect in aggression • The flight from vulnerability and the temper problem • The role of the prefrontal cortex in aggression Handling and Reducing Incidents & Violence • Why conventional approaches backfires with aggression • Why consequences and time-outs are counterindicated in the treatment of aggression • How to differentiate between aggressive behaviour and an aggression problem • Differentiating between incident management and addressing the aggression problem • Guidelines for incident management Facilitating Alternate Outcomes to Aggression • How to shift the focus from aggression to frustration • How to foster a relationship with frustration • How to uncover frustration from the camouflage of behaviour and emotion • How to help children form nonviolent intentions

• Recognize aggression in its many forms • Provide a working model of aggression for purposes of assessment and intervention • Appreciate the roots of the gender differences in aggression • Learn to `read` aggression effectively • Reveal the role of the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex in aggression • Differentiate between incident management and developmental progress • Outline three basic steps towards addressing any aggression problem • Provide an appreciation of the inverse relationship between adaptation and aggression • Provide an understanding of why aggression is increasing among children and why aggression is a part of so many syndromes and disorders • Outline six pivotal points of intervention in the aggression problem • Provide an appreciation of why the conventional methods of behaviour management don`t work with aggression • Equip participants to handle personal attacks • Equip with strategies to help the immature grow out of their aggression problem

Oakville, ONtario | Ottawa, Ontario Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., is a Vancouver-based developmental psychologist with over 45 years of experience with children and youth and those responsible for them. A foremost authority on child development, Dr. Neufeld is an international speaker, a bestselling author (Hold On To Your Kids) and a leading interpreter of the developmental paradigm. Dr. Neufeld has a widespread reputation for making sense of complex problems and for opening doors for change.

Date & LOCATION

6 CEUS

OAKVILLE, ONTARIO May 29, 2020 8:30am – 4:00pm Oakville Conference Centre 2515 Wyecroft Rd REGistration CODE: NE1-YTZ OTTAWA, ONTARIO June 3, 2020 8:30am – 4:00pm Holiday Inn – Ottawa East 1199 Joseph Cyr Street REGistration CODE: NE1-YOW Registration FEES Fee Type

Early Bird

Individual

$249

Regular $269

Group: 3-7

$234

$254

Group: 8-14

$219

$239

Group: 15+

$204

$224

Ft Student

$204

$224

Early Bird Deadlines Oakville: May 13, 2020 Ottawa: May 18, 2020

3 day option: Attend BOTH, Dr. NEUFELD Workshops & SAVE! Fee Type

Early Bird

Regular

Individual

$619

$639

Group: 3-7

$599

$619

Group: 8-14

$579

$599

Group: 15+

$559

$579

Ft Student

$559

$579

OAKVILLE, May 27–29, 2020 REGistration CODE: NE3-YTZ OTTAWA, June 1–3, 2020 REGistration CODE: NE3-Yow

COUNSELLING FOCUSED WORKSHOPS

oakville, ontario | Ottawa, ontario

Bullies: Their Making & Unmaking Gordon Neufeld, ph.d.

Once we understand how bullies are made, our attempts to unmake them can be truly effective and longlasting. Most prevailing approaches to this problem assume that bullying is either learned behaviour or the result of failure to acquire social skills. In contrast, Dr. Neufeld dissects the bully syndrome to reveal its deep instinctive roots in the dynamics of attachment and vulnerability.

Most attempts to change bullies, or even to teach them a lesson, are not only futile but counterproductive.

The reason for this is that most interventions are blind, devoid of an understanding of what makes a bully in the first place. Part of the problem is that the bully is an enigma. There are at least three reasons for this.

First of all, very few bullies would identify themselves as such or confess to the act. Secondly, bullies lack self-reflection and so cannot tell us about themselves. Thirdly, the violating nature of the bully’s behaviour distracts from the salient issues and underlying dynamics. The symptoms are social but the dysfunction is psychological. The arena of violation is in children`s relating to each other but the genesis of the problem is in relationship to adults. The demeanour is one of toughness yet the sensitivity to slight is acute. The behaviour is pushy and demanding yet the personality is highly dependent and immature. Unless we can shed some light into the internal workings of the bully, our interventions will inevitably be off base.

The key to making sense of the bully is not in what the bully does, but rather in what is missing in the bully.

When one gets past the violating behaviour to the underlying functioning, gaping holes become apparent.

Firstly, the bully lacks a sense of responsibility. There are usually two reasons for this deficiency: a) a lack of an underlying sense of agency or b) the child is too defended against vulnerability to feel responsible. Both appear to be true in the bully. To spend effort trying to make the bully accountable does little to change this state of affairs and only convinces the bully that adults are against him or her, which hardens the bully even further. If the bully was capable of feeling responsible, he or she would not be a bully in the first place.

Secondly, the bully lacks adaptive functioning. The bully cannot deal with change and therefore seeks the familiar. The bully does not learn from mistakes, benefit from negative experience, or change as a result of failure. Bullies are neither resourceful nor resilient. Adults who are unaware of this dysfunction will inevitably insist on upping the ante: applying more consequences, teaching a lesson they hope the bully will never forget. If the child was adaptive, he or she would not be a bully in first place. Consequences work wonders for those who can feel the futility of a course of action. On the other hand, consequences only enrage and provoke those who cannot.

Agenda & Key Topics

Learning Objectives

Introduction • How bullies are begotten: the overview • Bullying rooted in instinct and emotion • Bullying as alpha instincts gone awry • The modus operandi of the bully

The primary objective of this course is to make sense of the bully from inside out, and from this foundation of insight, prepare the way for change.

The Bully’s Vulnerability Problem • The making of the bully’s vulnerability problem • The traits deriving from the vulnerability problem • The bully and immaturity The Bully’s Attachment Problem • The making of the bully’s attachment problems • The traits deriving from the attachment problems • The union of the two problems – attachment and vulnerability • Peer orientation and bullying Challenges In The Unmaking Of Bullies • Bully behaviour – the tip of the iceberg • What doesn’t work • The unmaking of bullies • Best prevention

“I have no words to express my appreciation to Gordon Neufeld and to Hirose for bringing this valuable, life-changing information. The material taught resonates professionally and personally too. Thank you!”

• Provide a working definition of bullying that will enable participants to recognize the bully dynamic in its myriad manifestations and across a multitude of settings • Make sense of the bully from inside out and from a foundation of understanding, to outline the steps required for lasting change • Create an understanding of the role of escalating peer orientation and of current parenting practices in fostering the bullying dynamic • Convey why conventional discipline and social learning approaches can make matters worse • Provide the conceptual tools – specifically attachment theory and vulnerability theory – to dissect the bully syndrome and uncover its instinctive roots • Provide basic guidelines for addressing the bully problem that can be employed in a variety of venues and settings • Outline the most significant factors in keeping students safe • 12 traits of the bully syndrome traced to their roots • Role of the limbic system (emotional brain) in bully making FULL WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE 7

COUNSELLING FOCUSED WORKSHOPS 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 DBToriented treatment programs for clients with developmental disabilities and borderlineintellectual functioning.

Date & LOCATION

12 CEUS

CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI July 13–14, 2020 8:30am – 4:00pm

Charlottetown, PEI

Charlottetown, PEI

Trauma & Attachment Across the Lifespan: Tools & Strategies to Help Adolescents & Adults eboni webb, Psy.D. Many of the clients that we serve have such complex problems due to extensive trauma and attachment disturbances. These early wounds have informed their adult presentations resulting in mental illness and personality disorders. The poet William Wordsworth wrote in his poem, My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold (1802), “..the Child is father of the Man.” Future pioneering psychologists would be inspired by this passage as they came to understand that both function and dysfunction are born in childhood and guide us in our adult lives.

In this course you will come to understand the impact of trauma on the developing mind and how attachment is formed or lost through traumatic events. You will learn how the brain is organized through healthy attachment and the critical elements of healthy attachment. We will examine the current neuroscience behind both trauma and attachment and the top evidence-based strategies to address key DSM-V disorder through the lens of trauma.

Learning Objectives • Learn the impact of trauma on the developing mind.

• Identify the key features of healthy attachment and its impact neurologically.

• Identify the key defensive survival strategies in trauma.

• Learn how relational character strategies are formed that can be effective adaptations to relationship disturbances.

• Develop strategies to address key disorders across the lifespan that are influenced by trauma and attachment disturbances (ADD/ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, etc.)

• Develop strategies to address key personality disorders across the adult lifespan that are influenced by trauma and attachment disturbances (Antisocial, Borderline, Obsessive Compulsive Personality, etc.)

• Understand how to establish a safe therapeutic environment that reestablishes healthy boundaries, connected communication and validates a client’s survival journey.

Agenda & Key Topics

Rodd Charlottetown Hotel 75 Kent Street Registration FEES Fee Type

Early Bird

Regular

Individual

$449

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Early Bird Deadline: June 30, 2020 REGistration CODE: WE2-YYG

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DAY ONE Neurological Building Blocks • Neurotransmitters of connection • Cortisol vs. Oxytocin • The importance of touch • The Polyvagal system • Healthy attachment Defining trauma and attachment • Developmental vs. attachment trauma • Single-incident trauma • Common sources of trauma • Parenting Styles • Attachment Styles Trauma and Brain Development • Biopsychosocial model • Biphasic arousal model • Core organizers of experience

DAY TWO Common survival resources • Survival resources • Somatic resources Relational Character Strategies and the DSM-V • Sensitive Strategies • Oral Strategies • Psychopathic Strategies • Industrious/Organizational Strategies Critical Interventions • Proximity maintenance: Restructuring boundaries • Prosody: Modulating vocal intensity • Creating a secure therapeutic base • Creating a safe therapeutic haven • Validation: Connection before Redirection

Who Should Attend Clinical Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to: • Clinical Counsellors • Psychologists, • Psychotherapists, • Social Workers, • Nurses, • Occupational Therapists, • Hospice and Palliative Care Workers,

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School Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.

“Eboni is a dynamic + knowledgeable presenter. She was able to maintain our interest through the use of information and personal stories. I learned a lot and I am intrigued to learn more.”

Charlottetown, PEI 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 DBToriented treatment programs for clients with developmental disabilities and borderlineintellectual functioning.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI July 15, 2020 8:30am – 4:00pm Rodd Charlottetown Hotel 75 Kent Street Registration FEES Fee Type

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DBT Skills Training for Mental Health Professionals eboni webb, Psy.D. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a highly effective form of treatment for clients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). However, many of these individuals have rarely developed life skills to build a proactive and responsive life versus a defensive and reactive one. Dr. Eboni Webb will introduce a holistic approach to treatment and will expand on key concepts including skills acquisition, daily practice, and generalization. These skills are critical for our clients to develop an effective interdependent adult life. Dr. Webb will provide a brief discussion of DBT and its relationship to the Biosocial model, the neurological impact of trauma on the developing brain and how to address specific diagnoses via the skills. She will discuss the importance of integrating DBT skills at the earliest point of treatment and utilizing skills as a foundation for life.

Learning Objectives • Learn each standard DBT skills module and two supplemental modules.

• Learn creative and innovative techniques to keep client’s engaged in today’s technologycentered world.

• Explore the different modes of skills groups to set up the most effective program for your practice.

• Set up skills group treatment expectations and behavioural contracts.

Agenda & Key Topics Neurological Building Blocks • Why DBT skills?

• Trauma and Development • The benefit of top-down and bottom-up process learning Creating the Learning Container • Importance of skills as a form of self-advocacy and consultation • Setting up a group • Establishing safety • Making the environment conducive for learning The Foundational Skills: Mindfulness & Dialectics • Dialectical skills framework • States of Mind • WHAT skills • HOW skills Naming to Tame: Emotion Regulation • How emotions work in the body • 10 Universal emotions • Emotion action decision tree • Opposite action • Caring for the body • Resourcing the body with positive experiences and building mastery

Thriving in a Crisis: Distress Tolerance & SelfCompassion • Grounding: Self-Soothe • Skillful Distractions: ACCEPTS • Crisis Integration: IMPROVE • Pros and Cons • Radical Acceptance • Letting go of toxic shame in a crisis: SelfCompassion Connection in Community: Interpersonal Effectiveness • Wired for connection • FAST skills • GIVE skills • Validation (Self & Others) • Prioritizing Self and Others • DEARMAN

“Dr. Webb was excellent. She was knowledgeable and engaging. I thoroughly enjoyed her use of humour.”

“Dr. Webb is amazing. Great examples and excellent presenter.”

Who Should Attend Clinical Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to: • Clinical Counsellors • Psychologists, • Psychotherapists, • Social Workers, • Nurses, • Occupational Therapists, • Hospice and Palliative Care Workers,

• • • • • • •

School Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.

“Excellent speaker and presentation style. Lots of clinically useful tools and tips.

Provided relevant and memorable examples.”

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Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents

Ross Greene, ph.d.

Jennifer Wilke-Deaton, ma, lpa In real sessions, watch Dr. Greene help actual parents and kids solve the problems that contribute to challenging episodes, rather than simply modifying the behaviors that kids exhibit in response to those problems.

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Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical and parenting challenges.

Watch this recording and learn valuable nonmedication strategies for your clients.

Over 75 Quick “On-The-Spot” Techniques for Children and Adolescents with Emotional & Behavioral Problems

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Dr. Steve Olivas will guide you through focused, clear and successful methods for treating children.

Every professional who seeks to fill their toolbox with tested methods will leave this seminar with a wealth of fresh ideas and rejuvenated spirits.

Mental Health Issues in the Classroom

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Smart but Scattered: Executive Dysfunction at Home & at School

Jay Berk, ph.d

Mary Asper, ms, ccc-slp

Margaret M. Dawson, ed.d., ncsp

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Jay Berk, Ph.D., will help you learn how to best manage the students at your school diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, mood disorders, anxiety and depression.

You will learn how underlying deficits related to executive function, visual-perceptual and visual-motor skills, and auditory processing skills affect a student’s ability to read and write at grade and age appropriate levels. $290.86 + tax

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Dr. Dawson uses case examples along with interactive discussion to demonstrate how the executive skills manifest in daily home and school activities. Learn how to assess these skills and take home evidence-based strategies.

COUNSELLING FOCUSED DVDS Addiction, Trauma, & Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Nutritional & Integrative Interventions for Mental Health Disorders

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Bessel A van der Kolk, m.d. & Plus 8 Experts

Dr. Anne Procyk, nd

Linda Curran, bcpc, lpc, cacd, ccdpd

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Watch Anne Procyk, ND, as she teaches you how to think more holistically about diagnosis, nutritional deficiencies, and hormonal imbalances that may contribute to mental health disorders.

Nutritional psychology is an emerging field.

Walk the path to trauma resolution - Step by Step.

In addition to improved practice outcomes, effective integration of EMDR can lead to the long-term trauma resolution that your clients so desperately desire. $290.86 + tax

Chronic Anxiety: Powerful Treatment Methods to Break the Anxiety Cycle

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Tapping

Rewire the Anxious Brain: Neuroscience-Informed Treatment

David Carbonell, ph.d.

Robin Bilazarian, lcsw, dcsw, dcep, aamet

Catherine Pittman, ph.d., hspp

This recording will teach you to empower your anxious clients to see themselves as good, capable people who have been fooled by anxiety, rather than defective people who need protection. $290.86 + tax

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The anxiety spectrum exemplifies the disorders where emotions override thought. Fragmented memories get stored in the body. The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) collapse this uncomfortable emotional and physical reactivity.

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