The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Radical Approach for Treating Trauma and Addiction

This full day workshop will explore the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM), a radical approach to treating trauma and addiction that challenges the current models of treatment by deconstructing the conventional top-down, capitalistic, and white supremacy-based paradigms. Developed over forty years of clinical practice, the FSPM is rooted in five interconnected theoretical frameworks that celebrates the wisdom of the body.

Understanding and Addressing Black Racial Trauma in Communities

This webinar is designed to deepen social workers' understanding of Black racial trauma and its impact on relationship-building within the Black community. This session will explore the philosophical foundations of Black racial trauma, examining its root causes and how it manifests both at the community and individual levels. Participants will gain practical tools and strategies to support Black clients through racial trauma with sensitivity and cultural competence.

Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma: Elevating Agency, Resistance and Responses 

This full day workshop examines Narrative Therapy approaches that empower individuals to reclaim their lives from trauma stories by uncovering alternative narratives of hope, acts of resistance, skills in living and surviving and the many unacknowledged ways in which people respond to hardship.

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Trauma-Informed Leadership

A compassionate and trauma-informed approach to leadership is essential for creating healthy workplace cultures. Trauma is prevalent in our world and has an impact on many of the people we interact with, including staff and colleagues. This session explores how to lead with a trauma-informed approach and provides key insights for increasing psychological safety and creating greater resilience for all parts of an organization.

Webinar series details:

This training will assist participants in increasing their capacity with effective and actio

Webinar details: November 4, 2024 | Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET

Facilitator: Michel Jones, MSW, RSW, RP

Check out "Answering the Call" on CityTV this Sunday May 26 at 10pm to learn more about this innovative non-police led crisis response pilot.

You can also read more about the Toronto Community Crisis Service here.

Supporting the mental health needs of racialized young people
 

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Anti-Black racism is so embedded in the policies and practices of institutions that it has been functionally where racism becomes normalized and rendered invisible. Black professionals carry the unique burden of managing their own experiences of chronic racial trauma while simultaneously trying to help others navigate these same systems. Addressing Anti-Black racism can be a risk, leaving Black professionals feeling isolated and misunderstood. Chronic exposure to racial based traumatic stress, which experts equate with post-traumatic stress disorder, has a devastating impact.

Focusing on the relationship between mood management and the mind-body connection, sessions offer a combination of breathing, movement, postures and mindfulness. Participants will explore the physical, mental and emotional benefits of a yoga practice.

Ontario Technical University's Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism, in collaboration with Kimberly Cato, RP / CEO and Founder of True Roots Counselling Services and Kara Hart, Director of Program Development and Sustainability at John Howard Society of Peel-Halton-Dufferin, presents Hate Crime in Halton – A Community Perspective.

Healing the Wounds of Race Trauma: Examining Interventions for Professionals

February 10, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Nicole Perryman, MA, BSW, MSW, RSW, RP, CPT

WHERE / WHO WERE YOU BEFORE COLONIZATION?

The Black Mental Wealth Experience is excited about this Panel Discussion that intends to plant roots of our individual, communal, and societal identity in the understanding of who / where we were as a People, BEFORE COLONIZATION.

CBT Approaches for Racial Trauma

February 16, 2022 @ 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Dr. Sanjay Rao, MBBS, MD, FRCPsych, FRCPC, MBA

Racial trauma has an impact on people's identity. A cognitive behavioural approach combining the social psychology of racism, psychological impact of discrimination and a systematic approach to rebuilding identity despite adversity will be outlined in this workshop..