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List of workshops in chronological order...
Developmental Trauma: When childhood adaptive styles become adulthood maladaptive behaviors
Friday June 28, 2019
9:00am - 4:30pm
6 contact hours total:
- 6 NBCC credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and psychopathology training (PSY)
Description: Ann takes care of everyone else and often to her own detriment, Bridget is afraid she will be rejected if people knew the “real” her, and Craig is concerned that he cannot maintain a relationship for longer than six months. Although clients present with a variety of issues, there may be a common denominator, developmental trauma. In this workshop, we will explore early childhood attachment trauma, adaptive survival styles and long term impact into adulthood. We will learn how developmental trauma affects future substance use. We will explore how early trauma impacts self-image, connection and self-regulation and how we as clinicians can promote healing and connection.
Objectives:
- Become familiar with the five adaptive survival styles as proposed by the Neuro-Affective Relational Model.
- Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experience study and correlation between early trauma and increased risk of mental health and substance use issues.
- Identify best practice and be able to apply therapies which promote connection, healing and resiliency.
- Be able to describe how developmental trauma affects future substance use in individuals.
Lunch, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by:
Jolene Gervasi, LPC, LCAS, CSI
Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Friday July 19, 2019
1:00pm - 4:15pm
3 contact hours total:
- 3 NBCC credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and evidence based treatment (EBT)
ACT is considered a "third wave" CBT theory. It contains hard science via behaviorism, while also incorporating the use of mindfulness and present moment experience to support clients in developing psychological flexibility. ACT is an evidence-based approach, and shows significant benefit for a range of mental health issues, including substance use, anxiety, OCD, depression, and borderline personality disorder.
This workshop will provide an introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, covering its philosophy, approach, and basis for interventions. It will include both lecture and active practice. Participants will walk away with a clear understanding of ACT theory and its application as well as with practical ACT tools and skills.
Objectives:
- Conceptualize a client's issues according to ACT principles
- Form a treatment plan according to ACT principles
- Practice ACT interventions
Snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by:
Papillon DeBoer is an LPC in private practice in Asheville, and provides counseling for survivors of sexual trauma.
Supervising Peer Support Specialists
Friday August 16
9:00am - 12:15pm
3 NBCC approved credit hours
This workshop will focus on supervising Peer Support Specialists in the substance use and mental health workforce. Peer Supports perform a unique role and many agencies and staff are unsure how to provide appropriate supervision. We will discuss what appropriate supervision looks like and how that can be vary depending on job duties. This workshop is for Peer Supports and the professionals who supervise them… either clinically or administratively. The goal is to integrate Peer Supports in to multi-disciplinary teams and to provide an atmosphere where they can grow personally and professionally. We will draw from professional experience, theoretical frameworks, and the collective experience of the workshop attendees. We will explore areas for growth in our agencies and supervision practices and discuss some of the “gray areas” of overlap between disciplines.
Objectives:
- Learn areas for growth in Peer Support supervision.
- Identify “gray areas” in you agency or supervision practice.
- Discuss and receive input from other professionals as to appropriate supervision.
- Make an action plan to improve Peer Support supervision in your agency.
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by John Sanders, LCSW, LCAS, CCS
and Richie Tannerhill, CPSS
The Gifts of Giving: Forms of Compassion Fatigue and Alternative Outcomes for Helpers
Friday August 30, 2019
9:00am - 12:15pm
3 NBCC approved credit hours
We all know burnout…probably a bit too familiarly. What we may not know are its many faces, or the numerous factors contributing to its onset. Caregiving professionals are vulnerable to a spectrum of burnout syndromes including vicarious traumatization, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress. Outcomes can be pretty dire: substance use, PTSD, impairment, stigma, loss of career, isolation, unethical decision-making, and hopelessness.
Mental health professionals could be regarded as an underserved population, if we weren’t so busy caring for highly vulnerable people! Considering the lack of research and prevention resources available, and the low priority employers sometimes place on staff wellness, the potential for suffering is great among human service professionals.
When serving individuals who have addictions, watching one more relapse can be disheartening. It can make us feel like our work is going nowhere. It’s hard to show up for clients and families in their most vulnerable state, when we often do not get to see how the story ends.
Yet we are resilient and powerful! Our experience of the helping professions doesn’t have to be this way. This talk will outline symptoms of four burnout syndromes, provide reflection time with prompts for self-exploration, and a collaborative brainstorm session to apply as individuals and organizations. Finally, a discussion of compassion satisfaction and post-traumatic growth will foster hope, positivity, and a sense of community. Come take some space for yourself and the workplaces that make your amazing work possible.
The objectives of this workshop:
- Practitioners will gain knowledge of four types of caregiver burnout.
- Practitioners will increase awareness of burnout syndromes in themselves, their coworkers, and the organizations in which they work.
- Practitioners will collaborate with colleagues to innovate ideas for individual and organizational caretaking.
- Practitioners will reconnect to their professional motivations and empowerment to enact positive initiatives in the workplace.
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Ginelle Krummey, MA, LPCA, NCC
The 12 Core Functions of the Substance Use Counselor
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
9:00am - 4:30pm
- 6 NBCC approved credit hours
- 6 NCSAPPB approved credit hours of substance use specific (SS) & evidence-based treatment (EBT)
The 12 Core Functions of a Substance Use Counselor will cover all 12 core functions from screening through record-keeping. This is a great training for preparation of understanding the scope of practice of an SA counselor as well as prep for your certification or licensure exam.
Objectives:
- Identify and define the 12 core functions of a substance use counselor.
- Learn and discuss the core functions and scope of practice as well as examples of screening tools, samples of clinical assessments and how to obtain the most accurate history when doing an SA assessment.
Lunch, snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Friday October 11, 2019
9:00am - 4:30pm
6 contact hours total:
- 6 NBCC credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and evidence-based treatment (EBT)
Mindfulness Based Stress Reductions (MBSR) is a well-defined and systematic patient centered educational approach which uses relatively intensive training in mindfulness meditation as the core of the program to teach people how to take better care of themselves and live healthier, more adaptive lives. We will discuss how individuals in recovery from substance use disorders can use this technique as a positive coping strategy. The prototype program was developed at the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. This model has been successfully utilized with modifications in a number of other medical centers and non-medical centers such as schools, prisons, athletic training programs, professional programs and the workplace. In this introduction course, we will review the highlights of the MBSR program, gain better understanding of Mindfulness meditation and practice several forms of mindfulness. We will also review the benefits if this approach and ways to work with clients using Mindfulness therapy.
Objectives:
- Identify the benefits of mindfulness.
- Practice mindfulness in their own lives
- Explain the basic tenets of mindfulness
- Explain the program contents for the MBSR programs
- Begin to use mindfulness with clients
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Dr. Shannon South
Healing from Codependency: A Journey Home to the Self
Friday November 1, 2019
9:00am - 12:15pm
3 contact hours total:
- 3 NBCC credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS)
Codependency is referred to as the "core addiction of all addictions", therefore, it is not
something you just heal from in an instant and are forever done with. You can, however, learn
to recover and create a new relationship with yourself and others that empowers and honors
the authentic YOU. One of the keys to overcoming codependency is learning where to let go
and when to step into your power. Come find out more ways to love YOU and help your clients.
Objectives:
- Participants will understand what codependency is, its history and methods of treatment to
- free our clients and ourselves from this debilitating dis-ease.
- How codependency affects relationships plus a healthy relationship model will be covered.
- Ways to get to the core wounds and create a healthy sense of self are addressed.
- A psycho-spiritual model will be shared that gets to the core issues such as shame, fear,
- empowerment and self-love (or lack of these) and how to work with these in clients.
- Pathways to identifying and healing ourselves and our clients from this “compulsive
- behavior” will be explored and participants will leave with ideas on how to do this with their
- clients.
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Dr. Shannon South
HIV and Hepatitis C Counseling for Substance Use
Tuesday November 12, 2019
9:00am-12:15pm
3 credit hours total:
- 3 NBCC approved credit hours
- 3 NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and blood borne pathogens (HIV)
HIV and Hepatitis C Counseling in Substance Use will cover the basics of understanding how both communicable diseases present, their symptoms, prevention, screening, pre- and post-test counseling, treatment, and referral.
Objectives:
- Understand the basics of HIV and Hep C as communicable diseases, how they are transmitted and how they are linked to substance use.
- Develop an understanding and applicable skills for prevention, screening, pre- and post-test counseling, treatment, and referral.
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, BSW, MS,LPCS, CCS, MAC
Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Counseling
Tuesday November 12, 2019
1:00pm -5:15pm
4 credit hours total:
- 4 NBCC approved credit hours
- 4 NCSAPPB approved credit hours of substance use specific (SS) & evidence-based treatment (EBT)
Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Counseling will identify, define, and develop skills based on the 4 principle skills of OARS: open-ended questions, affirmation, reflection, and summarizing. We’ll then move to learn skills for supporting self-efficacy, rolling with the resistance, developing discrepancy, and expressing empathy. Lastly, we’ll learn and utilize the skills of scaling to identify barriers to accomplishing This workshop will cover both addiction and mental health case studies.
OBJECTIVES:
- Participants will learn and practice OARS, Scaling, and basic skills of MI.
- Participants will learn and practice expressing empathy, developing discrepancy, rolling with client resistance, and avoiding direct confrontation
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, BSW, MS,LPCS, CCS, MAC
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"Linda Harrison is a phenomenal trainer. She is real and engaging. I can't wait to learn more from her. John Sanders and the FIRST team provided an excellent environment for workshops. What a great opportunity to learn and to network with other WNC providers." - Attendee 10/13/15
100% refunds are available up to 48 hours before a workshop. 50% refund in the two days prior to the workshop. No refund for cancellations on the day of the workshop or for no-shows.
