SESSION 1

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February 7, 2020

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Gifts of Imperfection: Letting Go of Who You Think

You’re Supposed to Be as a Helping Professional

and Learning to Live Wholeheartedly 

 

PURPOSE:

Based on the research of Brené Brown, this workshop

with discuss how to let go of who you think you’re supposed to be as a helping professional and embrace wholehearted living, understanding that working professionals are worthy of personal growth, self-discovery, and boundless love!

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  OBJECTIVES:

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• Examine each of the 10 Guideposts of Wholehearted Living in depth and discuss how they impact the helping professional.

• Learn and understand the purpose of setting intentions, carrying courage, compassion, and connection in living a wholehearted life as a helping professional.

• Learn, understand, and utilize permission slips in the professional role.

• Gain deeper understanding of wholeheartedly living as a professional through the use of the teaching/research of Brené Brown, and creative experiential exercises.

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INSTRUCTOR:

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Cheryl Childers, LISW-CP, LPCA, ATR-P, CDWF is a Certified Daring Way Facilitator and utilizes the research of Brené Brown to help her clients learn how to Show Up, Be Seen, Live Brave™. She practices with Beauty for Ashes Counseling in Taylors, SC and provides art, play and talk therapy to children, adolescents, adults and elders focusing on chronic illness, grief, and trauma.

*Please note: Attendance at this workshop does not mean you are being trained or certified in The Daring Way™ and you cannot promote yourself as a CDWF-Candidate or CDWF. To learn more about The Daring Way certification process, go to www.thedaringway.com

**All Daring Way™ assets such as the curriculum, marketing assets, the online store, etc. are exclusively for use by CDWFs and CDWF-Candidates.

For more information on this workshop and others go to www.beautyforashescounseling.org or to register call (864) 501-3633 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CREDITS: 3 CEUs

              SESSION 2

                      April 3, 2020

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                    ACT With Depression

 

PURPOSE:

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT pronounced as “act” not A-C-T) is an empirically validated “Third Wave” cognitive behavioral therapy that has shown an ability to address varied forms of human suffering through the development and promotion of psychological flexibility. ACT primarily facilitates the development of psychological flexibility by guiding client and therapist to accept, defuse and take valued action in session and in valued life domains outside of session. In clinical studies ACT has proven to be a good treatment for depression, and seems to continue producing benefits well after treatment is completed (Zettle and Rains 1989; Zetttle and Hayes; 1987). In this workshop, participants will be offered a clinical framework from which to conceptualize and treat depression from an ACT perspective. The information presented will be provided via didactic and experiential instruction to create a context for change by practicing. No prior understanding or training in ACT is needed as training materials and objectives are geared toward providing an initial and clinically applicable introduction to ACT, as well as to broaden the repertoire of clinicians who possess beginner to intermediate knowledge of the model.

 

OBJECTIVES: ​

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Participates will be able to identify primary processes of psychological inflexibility that lead to and exacerbate human suffering, including depression.

 

Participates will be able to identify the six core processes utilized in ACT to promote psychological flexibility, increase a sense of vitality and undermine depression.

 

Participates will learn how to begin targeting ACT relevant processes in session through functional case conceptualization.

 

Participates will learn experiential and didactic strategies for presenting, evoking and reinforcing the 6 core processes of ACT in-session.

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INSTRUCTOR:

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 Neal Vernon, LISW-CP completed the Masters Social Work program at the University of South Carolina in 2006. Since that time, he has performed clinical counseling responsibilities within the Palmetto Health Health Care System. Currently he is a program therapist and clinical coordinator at Prisma Health Behavioral Care where he provides individual, group and family counseling to a transdiagnostic population within the Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs. Over the past 11  years, Neal has utilized Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as a primary mode

  

                                 CREDITS: 3 CEUs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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           SESSION 3

             May 1, 2020

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Weaving a Reparative Tapestry informed by Brain-Wise Practices

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PURPOSE:

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Experiences that are traumatic literally disrupt the functioning of the brain, and when experienced early in life, can change the developmental trajectory of the shape and structures of the brain and nervous system.Our understanding of how trauma affects the brain has grown exponentially since the 1990’s, which is known as ‘the decade of the brain’. This presentation will discuss how trauma is encoded and impacts the brain; how these changes may be understood as they link with behavioral and affective symptomology; and what ‘best’ practices include, focusing on a few examples of these. Researchers and clinicians including Bessel Van Der Kolk, Dan Siegel, Stephen Porges, Bonnie Badenoch, and Allan Schore, will be referenced, among others. Participants are encouraged to check out the text, in preparation for the event.

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OBJECTIVES

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1. Participants will identify three ways in which the brain changes when trauma occurs.

2. Participants will identify three foundational skills required to calm a brain/nervous system that is triggered, within a session.

3. Participants will describe four examples of treatment approaches that are evidence-based trauma focused treatments.

4. Participants will articulate the rationale for infusing somatic practices into treatments for trauma, and name three examples that can fit into a ‘traditional’ talk therapy approach.

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 Instructor

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Deborah Armstrong, Ph.D., LMFT-S, RPT-S, REAT, REACE, has been practicing as a Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in Expressive and Play Therapies for over thirty-five years. She has been studying within the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology since the early 90’s when she was first introduced into the work of Bessel van Der Kolk and Dan Siegel, who she has taken classes from. She has been teaching about trauma, the brain, and IPNB since the 90’s; as a graduate school faculty member, at workshops and conferences, and out of her practice where she conducts training programs, in Greenville, SC.

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CREDITS: 3 CEUs

 

 

 

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