8:15 – 8:45 am | Registration and Breakfast | |||||||||
8:45 – 9:00 am | Welcome – Co-Presidents Ruth BZ Thomson & John Sherry | |||||||||
9:00 – 12:00 pm | Training 1: Intermediate Level for group leaders with 8-10 years of experience John Sherry, Ph.D., Assistant Professor/Clinical Director, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC,This didactic and experiential workshop will explore how to recognize, identify, and manage, countertransference as it emerges in group. The following will be focused on utilizing an attachment theory lens: recognizing and addressing group resistances; creating connection between group members; and methods for fostering immediacy in group.
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Workshop 5: Don’t Just Sit There – Do Something!– Enhancing group interaction through the use of activities. Kathleen Ryan, OT, Rehab Clinical Leader, Peter Lougheed Centre, Calgary, AB,Participants in this workshop will experience a wide range of activities, reflecting on how their use can amplify curative factors and facilitate helpful group processes. There will be some didactic presentation but the focus of the workshop will be doing, not sitting and listening. Participants should come prepared to be active.Learning Goals and Objectives:
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Workshop 6: How Do Your Group Session Notes Measure Up? Strategies To Make Your Notes Ethical, Useful, and Succinct!
Dawn McBride, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Lethbridge, Provisional Psychologist and Ethics Examiner, College of Alberta Psychologists, Lethbridge, AB, Learn ways to refine and enhance your group therapy notes so they are efficient, ethical, and succinct. We will examine strategies to write useful notes in under 5 minutes! The focus is on Canadian ethics for psychologists/registered counsellors – however the material generalizes to all group therapists. Extensive handout package. Learning Goals and Objectives:
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Workshop 7: Self-Awareness and Group Therapy
Allen Sheps, MSW, Private Practice, Allan Sheps Prof SW Corporation, Thornhill, ON, Our emotional reactions to our group members inevitably influence our therapeutic interventions. Some reactions we notice, while others remain elusively outside our conscious awareness. By broadening our understanding of our reactions and impulses, we are better able to facilitate our groups. Following a brief overview of current theory, a series of experiential exercises and a fish bowl will help participants\ gain insight into their countertransferencial patterns. We will then explore how this awareness information can be used in our groups. Learning Goals and Objectives:
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12:00 – 1:30 pm | Lunch | |||||||||
1:30-4:30 pm | Training 2: Beginner group leader – up to 7 years of experiences
Aida Cabecinha, OT Reg. (Ont.), Dip. FCGPA , Registered Occupational Therapist, Private Practice in Psychotherapy, Co-Director Toronto Institute of Group Studies, Toronto, ON, Groups are living human systems that have the potential to promote health and well being. Participants in the group training workshop will learn how to activate group properties, therapeutic factors and group dynamics that cultivate safety, connection and belonging, essential ingredients for wellness. Learning Goals and Objectives:
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Workshop 8: Leveraging Group Processes to Increase Resilience at Work
Jacqueline Kinley, MD, Air Institutes, Halifax, NS, Relationships can be a source of stress at work, contributing to psychological distress and injury. Group processes can be applied in corporate settings to build team and organizational resilience, health and safety. In this workshop participants will learn how to leverage group techniques to promote psychological health and safety at work, and extend the traditional reach of groups Learning Goals and Objectives:
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Workshop 9:Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis: Increasing Access Through Group Therapy
Karen Shin, MD, Medical Director of the Ambulatory Mental Health Service, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Hricha Rakshit, Occupational Therapist, Group Therapy Facilitator, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON This workshop will focus on advanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy skills for treating clients with trans-diagnostic psychotic symptoms in a group format. Often the management of clients with psychotic symptoms can focus exclusively on medications and create difficult therapeutic interactions. Obtaining skills in CBTp creates another type of therapeutic interaction with clients, and develops additional skills for addressing symptoms. Learning Goals and Objectives:
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Workshop 10: Increasing Population Health through Low-Barrier Mindfulness-based Group Therapy Daniel Farb, MEd, RP, Registered Psychotherapist, Burlington Family Health Team, Burlington, ON,Steven Selchen, MD, MSt, FRCPC, Chief of Psychiatry, Joseph Brant Hospital, Burlington, ON,“Mindfulness” has been popularized in recent years and mindfulness-based group psychotherapies have proliferated around the world. This workshop will explore Mindful Adaptive Practice (MAP) as a particular mindfulness-based group intervention designed to treat people actively suffering from depression, anxiety, and other common mental health challenges.Learning Goals and Objectives:
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4:30 – 4:45 pm | Free Time | |||||||||
5:00 – 6:00 pm | Annual General Meeting | |||||||||
6:30 pm | Social Gathering |