A Comprehensive Course for Clinical Professionals, EMDR Therapists, and Recovery Advocates
May 21-22, 2025
9:00am - 5:00pm GMT
includes a 1.5 hour lunch break
Description:
“Don’t let them dissociate!”
“Everybody has parts… that doesn’t mean you’re one of those people with DID.”
“Dissociation is the opposite of mindfulness.”
Myths, misconceptions, and cruel assessments of people who dissociate still abound in the helping professions and in the recovery community. Although dissociation, or severing/separating, is a natural part of all trauma response and the human experience, even seasoned professionals can find themselves baffled in addressing dissociation clinically. Your guide for this presentation addresses these problems from several angles—as a person with a dissociative disorder and intricate internal system, as a scholar-practitioner, as an EMDR Therapy practitioner and trainer, and as a long-time recipient of various approaches to trauma therapy as a client. Evidence and experience-based solutions are proposed for helping professionals become less afraid of dissociation by more fully embracing their own internal world of responses and parts and committing to address the abundance of stigma that exists toward people with dissociative identities in helping professions and in society at large. These paradigm shifts can lead us to more effectively serve our clients and to not judge all dissociative minds as the same.
As the workshop progresses and we conduct check-ins on what participants most need to learn, we will form breakout groups based on clinical interest, such as a group for EMDR Therapists, a group for recovery professionals, etc. For all audiences, the Addiction as Dissociation Model will be presented and woven into the discussion. Come with an open mind and heart. You will discover how to more effectively serve your clients over our 2 interactive days together while also connecting with new information about yourself and your responses to the world. Day 1 material is largely foundational in nature while Day 2 moves more deeply into applications within participants’ scopes of practice.
Cost of workshop:
$295.00: Thriving organizations or private practices
$195.00: Private practice clinicians or professionals in need of assistance at this time
$95.00: Public agency or organization professionals in extra need of assistance at this time
For full information and registration about the main conference, please go to:
https://friendlycircleberlin.org/recovery-reimagined-2025
The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an approved provider of continuing education by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board for counselors, social workers, and marriage/family therapists. Approval: #RCS091306
The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is approved by American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Creative Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The Institute for Creative Mindfulness has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6998. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Institute for Creative Mindfulness, #1735, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Institute for Creative Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/16/2021 – 03/16/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.
This course is APPROVED by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA)
The Institute for Creative Mindfulness is an approved training provider in EMDR Therapy by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) Approval: #10002. EMDRIA is not a provider of continuing education, although they do authorize training providers in EMDR therapy after a rigorous approval process. The EMDRIA approval number for this course is #10002-TBA.
Please also note that APA-approved sponsors are accepted by many state boards, such as California BBS and major licensure boards within the state of Pennsylvania. In both of these cases, separate paperwork does not need to be filled out. Many state boards also accept out-of-state providers, which is why our Ohio approvals appear on every training. In some states, pre- or post-program approval forms must be sent, and you are responsible for checking into the rules of the licensure board in your state as to what is required. Please let the Institute for Creative Mindfulness know if you need support documentation in any way for these pre or post-program approval applications.
If you have questions, concerns, or complaints, please contact [email protected]
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