Online Spring Trauma & Attachment Conference Featuring Guest Speakers
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ATTCH is pleased to be offering another leading-edge trauma and attachment conference series March 30 – April 3, 2020. This conference will be offered fully online unless otherwise indicated. This comprehensive conference will give you practical tools to take your trauma processing to a deeper level and learn effective tools and skills to work with grief and loss.
Gain insight into leading edge treatments including Kaiser's approach to healing trauma. Join us in learning proven, effective, concrete tools to help kids, teens and adults heal from trauma, grief & loss. Expand your trauma skills by learning new hacks that kids, teens and adults welcome in their recovery (including so called “resistant” clients). Strengthen your repertoire of tools for creating safety and rapport with children, teens and adults who have experienced trauma and learn new integrative approaches for working with grief and loss.
This comprehensive conference will cover the following topics:
Conference Workshop Overview:
Learn more and register via the linked paper registration form or online . *Please note that due to travel restrictions for our presenters this conference will now be offered online unless otherwise noted above.
Gain insight into leading edge treatments including Kaiser's approach to healing trauma. Join us in learning proven, effective, concrete tools to help kids, teens and adults heal from trauma, grief & loss. Expand your trauma skills by learning new hacks that kids, teens and adults welcome in their recovery (including so called “resistant” clients). Strengthen your repertoire of tools for creating safety and rapport with children, teens and adults who have experienced trauma and learn new integrative approaches for working with grief and loss.
This comprehensive conference will cover the following topics:
- Trauma Processing using the ATTCH Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM)* (In person only)
- Learn tips and techniques for working with works with immigrant and refugees/ asylum seekers.
- Learn evidence based one-time crisis intervention strategies that are effective in healing.
- Taking you through an experiential practice of evidence-based techniques to process unresolved grief with clients.
- Explore how trauma affects a child during the different developmental stages and how to invite parents to support their child’s recovery.
- Deepen your knowledge and capacity to speak about neuroplasticity and the tremendous capacity for healing in terms parents and kids can hear.
- Recognize impact of Kaiser’s ACEs study and significant health risks associated with unhealed trauma and effective tools to help mitigate risk and promote resilience.
- Augment your therapeutic tool kit within a research based expressive arts practice.
- Recognize the therapeutic power of group work in healing, opening, decreasing shame and building. resilience.
- Aquire skills for supporting the trauma therapist to resource and decrease compassion fatigue.
Conference Workshop Overview:
- Pre-Conference Event ~ March 29, 2020 Drum Making Workshop. Make your own hand drum and learn about traditional Indigenous practices during the process (Rescheduled to a later date)
- Day 1
- Stream A: Healing Trauma: Cool Hacks for Kids, Teens, their parents, and Adults Part 1 (Online only)
- Stream B: Trauma Processing Demonstration and Applied Practice Part 2* (Rescheduled to a later date)
- Day 2
- Stream A: Healing Trauma: Cool Hacks for Kids, Teens, their parents, and Adults Part 2 (Online only)
- Stream B: Trauma Processing and Applied Practice Part 3* (Rescheduled to a later date)
- Days 3 & 4 ~ Strategies for Processing and Healing Grief with Anne-Marie Lockmyer 2 day training (Online only)
- Day 5 ~ When Words Fail: Expressive Arts Approaches to Grief and Loss with Cher Curshen (Online only)
Learn more and register via the linked paper registration form or online . *Please note that due to travel restrictions for our presenters this conference will now be offered online unless otherwise noted above.
Pre-Conference Event:
Hand Drum Making Workshop with Oliver and Jackie Labonte (In Person Only NOTL Hilton Garden Inn)
This is a fabulous opportunity for a hands on experience at making your own hand drum while learning a little about the Indigenous culture and practices during the process. Participants are guided through the process step-by-step and leave with their very own handmade drum. Advance registration is required and limited spaces are available.
Days 1 & 2 Stream A: Healing Trauma: Cool Hacks for Kids, Teens (their Parents), and Adults
Featuring Guest Speakers: Christin Mullen, LMFT and Liliana Casas Hernandez, LMFT (Online Only)
Gain insight into leading edge treatments including integrative approaches to healing trauma. Join us in learning proven, effective, concrete tools to help kids, teens and adults heal from trauma. Expand your trauma skills by learning new hacks that kids, teens and adults welcome in their recovery (including so called “resistant” clients). Strengthen your repertoire of tools for creating safety and rapport with children, teens and adults who have experienced trauma. Participants will:
Days 1 & 2 Stream B: Trauma Processing Experiential & Applied Practice Parts 2 & 3 * (In Person Only NOTL Hilton Garden Inn)
Featuring ATTCH Founder & Clinical Director: Lori Gill, MACP, Certified Trauma Specialist, Consultant Supervisor and Trainer
This workshop takes participants through the trauma processing practices introduced in the core training. This workshop takes participants through experiential of our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) from start to finish and includes various techniques (from brief assessment, grounding, trauma processing, somatic discharging and shifting affect for completion of session in an emotionally regulated manner). Participants will experience various experiential activities inclusive of a live demonstration and further opportunities to practice trauma processing (as both the counsellor and the client) in a partner format with guidance from the facilitator. This experiential days allow for discussion, questions and reflections from participants at a deeper level as it is facilitated in a small group format.
All days will be rich with research, practical examples, case studies, experiential activities, and opportunities for self-reflection.
*Pre-requisite: Must have completed core 3 day certification trainings in order to complete these trainings. See here for details.
Days 3 & 4 ~ Strategies for Processing and Healing Grief (Online Only)
Featuring Guest Speaker: Anne-Marie Lockmyer
Grief is often misunderstood in our society and many of the problems clients present with can be grief-related. This 2-day interactive workshop causes you to be grief informed and teach you how to process grief and loss by:
Day 5 ~ When Words Fail: Expressive Arts Therapy Approaches to Loss and Grief (Online Only)
Featuring Guest Speaker: Cher Curshen
This one day workshop will provide participants with expressive arts interventions for therapeutic work with children, adults and families, as well as an understanding of these interventions.
When words fail us, expressive arts therapy cultivates curiosity and openness and the possibility to discover something new and unexpected, making visible what is often invisible and beyond words. Carl Jung stated that, “Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain” (Jung, 1989). It points to the use of expressive arts therapy and creative outlets to shift the focus from problem to the realm of imagery, narrative, sound and movement where our creativity and hands may help us to find a way forward towards healing.
In this workshop, you’ll experience a highly interactive content including demonstration and practical application of expressive art interventions known to activate healing from grief, anticipatory grief and loss.
After participation in this workshop, participants will be able to:
Hand Drum Making Workshop with Oliver and Jackie Labonte (In Person Only NOTL Hilton Garden Inn)
This is a fabulous opportunity for a hands on experience at making your own hand drum while learning a little about the Indigenous culture and practices during the process. Participants are guided through the process step-by-step and leave with their very own handmade drum. Advance registration is required and limited spaces are available.
Days 1 & 2 Stream A: Healing Trauma: Cool Hacks for Kids, Teens (their Parents), and Adults
Featuring Guest Speakers: Christin Mullen, LMFT and Liliana Casas Hernandez, LMFT (Online Only)
Gain insight into leading edge treatments including integrative approaches to healing trauma. Join us in learning proven, effective, concrete tools to help kids, teens and adults heal from trauma. Expand your trauma skills by learning new hacks that kids, teens and adults welcome in their recovery (including so called “resistant” clients). Strengthen your repertoire of tools for creating safety and rapport with children, teens and adults who have experienced trauma. Participants will:
- Learn tips and techniques for working with works with immigrant and refugees/ asylum seekers.
- Learn evidence based one-time crisis intervention strategies that are effective in healing.
- Develop creative ways of resourcing kids and teens and helping them connect with their inner strengths.
- Experience rich, useful examples for working with kids, teens and their parents.
- Explore how trauma affects a child during the different developmental stages and how to invite parents to support their child’s recovery.
- Deepen your knowledge and capacity to speak about neuroplasticity and the tremendous capacity for healing in terms parents and kids can hear.
- Provide a concrete way of working with the child parent dyad to create safety, strengthen the relationship and enhance emotional well being.
- Recognize impact of Kaiser’s ACEs study and significant health risks associated with unhealed trauma and effective tools to help mitigate risk and promote resilience.
- Recognize the therapeutic power of group work in healing, opening, decreasing shame and building resilience.
- Develop a practice of using hacks for self recovery to decrease compassion fatigue.
- Aquire skills for supporting the trauma therapist to resource and decrease compassion fatigue.
Days 1 & 2 Stream B: Trauma Processing Experiential & Applied Practice Parts 2 & 3 * (In Person Only NOTL Hilton Garden Inn)
Featuring ATTCH Founder & Clinical Director: Lori Gill, MACP, Certified Trauma Specialist, Consultant Supervisor and Trainer
This workshop takes participants through the trauma processing practices introduced in the core training. This workshop takes participants through experiential of our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) from start to finish and includes various techniques (from brief assessment, grounding, trauma processing, somatic discharging and shifting affect for completion of session in an emotionally regulated manner). Participants will experience various experiential activities inclusive of a live demonstration and further opportunities to practice trauma processing (as both the counsellor and the client) in a partner format with guidance from the facilitator. This experiential days allow for discussion, questions and reflections from participants at a deeper level as it is facilitated in a small group format.
All days will be rich with research, practical examples, case studies, experiential activities, and opportunities for self-reflection.
*Pre-requisite: Must have completed core 3 day certification trainings in order to complete these trainings. See here for details.
Days 3 & 4 ~ Strategies for Processing and Healing Grief (Online Only)
Featuring Guest Speaker: Anne-Marie Lockmyer
Grief is often misunderstood in our society and many of the problems clients present with can be grief-related. This 2-day interactive workshop causes you to be grief informed and teach you how to process grief and loss by:
- Increasing your awareness of the many losses and hurts in life that can cause grief. Many client problems and issues are loss related.
- Educating you regarding the myths and misinformation we have received as a society regarding grief and the problems created because of this misinformation.
- Providing you with information, resources and tools to interact and respond to clients dealing with loss and grief to be more effective and supportive.
- Taking you through an experiential practice of evidence-based techniques to process unresolved grief with clients.
Day 5 ~ When Words Fail: Expressive Arts Therapy Approaches to Loss and Grief (Online Only)
Featuring Guest Speaker: Cher Curshen
This one day workshop will provide participants with expressive arts interventions for therapeutic work with children, adults and families, as well as an understanding of these interventions.
When words fail us, expressive arts therapy cultivates curiosity and openness and the possibility to discover something new and unexpected, making visible what is often invisible and beyond words. Carl Jung stated that, “Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain” (Jung, 1989). It points to the use of expressive arts therapy and creative outlets to shift the focus from problem to the realm of imagery, narrative, sound and movement where our creativity and hands may help us to find a way forward towards healing.
In this workshop, you’ll experience a highly interactive content including demonstration and practical application of expressive art interventions known to activate healing from grief, anticipatory grief and loss.
After participation in this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Augment their therapeutic tool kit within a research based expressive arts practice.
- Identify at lease four expressive arts interventions
- Articulate the basic premise behind the healing power of expressive arts therapy
Private Shopping Night @ Shannon Passero's
We will be holding a private shopping night at Shannon Passero's on April 1, 2020. A portion of all sales will be donated back to ATTCH Niagara (a Non-Profit in the region providing free and low cost trauma therapy). We hope you will join us to enjoy a favourite local shopping destination. It will be a fun evening of shopping, yummy bites, local wine and explore 6,500 square feet of retail space in the restored heritage building and experience Niagara’s destination lifestyle boutique. No fee but please register / rsvp.
We will be holding a private shopping night at Shannon Passero's on April 1, 2020. A portion of all sales will be donated back to ATTCH Niagara (a Non-Profit in the region providing free and low cost trauma therapy). We hope you will join us to enjoy a favourite local shopping destination. It will be a fun evening of shopping, yummy bites, local wine and explore 6,500 square feet of retail space in the restored heritage building and experience Niagara’s destination lifestyle boutique. No fee but please register / rsvp.
Private Shipping Night at Shannon Passero's
Private Shopping Night @ Shannon Passero's
April 1, 5-7
Please register in advance.
Full 5-Day Trauma and Attachment Conference - Stream A
CA$875.00
Full 5-Day conference stream A.
$850.00 +HST
*Price is inclusive of morning and afternoon refreshment breaks and lunch.
*Note an additional fee applies to online purchases to offset associated fees ($25.00 for full conference). There is no fee to complete an etransfer through online banking or to pay by cheque.
Full 5-Day Trauma and Attachment Conference - Stream B
CA$875.00
Full 5-Day conference core stream / stream B.
$850.00 +HST
*Price is inclusive of morning and afternoon refreshment breaks and lunch.
*Note an additional fee applies to online purchases to offset associated fees ($25.00 for full conference). There is no fee to complete an etransfer through online banking or to pay by cheque.
Conference Days 1 & 2 Stream A
CA$520.00
Conference Days 1 & 2 Stream A
$500 + HST
*Note an additional fee applies to online purchases to offset associated fees. There is no fee to complete an transfer through online banking.
Conference Days 1 & 2 Stream B
CA$520.00
Conference Days 1 & 2 Stream B
$500 + HST
*Note an additional fee applies to online purchases to offset associated fees. There is no fee to complete an transfer through online banking.
Conference Days 3 & 4 Only
CA$520.00
Days 3 & 4 only
$500 + HST
*Note an additional fee applies to online purchases to offset associated fees. There is no fee to complete an transfer through online banking.
Part 2 ITATM Model UK Trauma & Attachment Certification Series Clinical
CA$1,000.00
Days 3 - 5 only
$1000 CAD+ HST
*Must have completed core 2 day ITATM Training PRIOR to taking this training.
*Note an additional fee applies to online purchases to offset associated fees. There is no fee to complete an transfer through online banking.
Conference Day 5 Only
CA$315.00
Day 5 only
$300 + HST
*Note an additional fee applies to online purchases to offset associated fees. There is no fee to complete an transfer through online banking.
Hand Drum Making Workshop with Oliver and Jackie Labonte March 2020
CA$120.00
Hand Drum Making Workshop with Oliver and Jackie Labonte
This is a fabulous opportunity for a hands on experience at making your own hand drum while learning a little about the Indigenous culture and practices during the process. Participants are guided through the process step-by-step and leave with their very own handmade drum. Advance registration is required and limited spaces are available.