Compassion Fatigue Solutions

Here are three upcoming events that have come across my desk. Please note that I am passing these along for information purposes only. I am not involved in these events and cannot endorse them as such. But, if you do end up attending one of these events and want to recommend them or write a brief feedback for others, please email me: (whp at cogeco dot ca).

Beautitude: Where Beauty and Attitude Meet
This one day workshop is designed for women of all ages to begin taking better care of themselves. Through interactive activities, tools for self-discovery, media comedy and take-home materials you will learn strategies for refueling those empty tanks and enjoy a day of pampering and fun.

Where: Spa on Adelhi - 186 Adelphi Street, Napanee
When: Saturday, November 7, 2009; 9:30am-3:00pm. Morning refreshments and lunch included
Fee: $50 includes refreshments, lunch and materials
For more information or to register please contact:
Cheryl Shurtliffe at 613-358-2571 or beautitude@roomtomove.com

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Practical Tools – Addiction and Trauma Tools for General Helping Professionals

With Tom Regehr, Director CAST-Canada
Date: 20 Nov 2009 - 09:00
Where: Kingston ON
Cost: $140.00 + GST = $147.00 CAD
Click here for more information

Since 2004 CAST Canada has held 49 Consumer Panel discussions around central Ontario. Over 1,800 frontline workers have worked directly with CAST Canada volunteer consumers to identify these special ideas as valuable and work together with them to create relevant, practical tools. The ideas were then workshopped further in the ToolBuilder series of small groups of workers around the province. The product is a set of finely tuned, extremely practical tools.

Tom Regehr began offering speeches about his healing from trauma, addiction and homelessness in 2003 while promoting a self-help group he founded named “Come And Sit Together” (CAST). After noticing high energy and emotion in the questions around these issues he held events with several friends healing from the same issues to answer this need.

“We call ourselves addicts usually, but it is more than that, you might say ‘Addicts, healing and helping.’ “

Audiences include frontline helping professionals, universities and corporations. From this process has evolved specialized trainings and workshop based on women’s issues, youth and homelessness.

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Providing Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse

Mondays, September 28 - December 15, 2009
5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: 234 Concession St, Suite #200
Fee: $600 for 12 Weeks

This course is intended for professionals who work with, or want to work with, clients who are adult survivors of childhood abuse. It will provide practical training in various aspects of how to do this specialized therapy. Each class includes explanations of the main topic and what to do about it in session with the client. It is organized as a small group, in a comfortable setting, to encourage maximum participant involvement in questions and discussing the course material.

This training will cover topics including:

* How this work changes you as a therapist
* How it is different to be raised by abusive people, by rapists
* Why children blame themselves
* Traumatic bonding
* Adult symptoms of child abuse
* Problem therapies and problems with some therapies
* Why & how therapy works
* The practical details of how to conduct client-centred therapy through the three main stages of good child abuse therapy

Class for the first session begins Monday, September 28 to Monday, December 15/2009.
12 weekly evening classes are from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm at the Centre’s office.
The cost for all 12 classes is $600. This is an introductory price for the first ever offering of these classes. Space is limited.
Certificates will be presented upon completion, and this course can be used as a tax deduction.

Download a registration form here
For more info email: therapycentre@cogeco.ca