A very special workshop*
How can gathering a deep, intuitive understanding and acceptance of the effect of trauma in your client, you and your workplace help you be more comfortable and effective in all areas of your work and life. A special, warm day with good food, a location with woods and water where we will do some very hard work and a nice gentle pace. There will be a little research, some presentations, much interaction among the participants* and connection with people presently working in a helping profession that are dealing with various aspects of trauma – vicarious, workplace and personal. You will receive information, affirmation, strength, practical skills and tools. And hope.
August 19th, 2010,
Lakefield, ON
$140 + HST = $158.20
includes parking, coffee, the beach, tea and a fine, healthy lunch.
*Participation limited to 18 people.
The day will includes a special presentation by Donna Hardacher, trauma survivor, speaker and regular guest at CAST canada workshops.
Accommodation: The Village Inn is in Lakefield, not far from our location and is offering a very generous 30% discount for participants ( $89 from $129 ) For information and to book a room contact the Inn directly : – Ask for Joseph — 1-800-827-5678 or 1-705- 652-1910. Email info@villageinn.ca. or visit the website http://www.villageinn.ca/index.html. –
To get the great rate mention the CAST Canada Trauma Retreat
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Learn Safe and Productive ways to help clients who have been stuck with employment, addiction,
housing and other issues due to trauma, loss and unresolved grief
This experience — Tomorrow Does Not Exist – was shared by many consumers, often in just those words.
A Dynamic Blend Of Reflective Experiences, Room Discussion And Delivery of Tools
~ For the General Helping Professional ~
One day Workshop –
Do You See People That Are Inexplicably Stuck With Addiction, Housing, Employment Or Other Issues ??
Or People That Are Unaccountably And Perpetually Angry ??
Do You Feel Frustrated And Wish You Had Ways To Help Them Get Unstuck ??
Gather A Deep Understanding Of These Clients and The Role Of Trauma And Loss In Your Clients
For Whom “Tomorrow Does Not Exist”
Learn Safe, Productive Ways To Move Ahead.
A morning of discussion and a moving, experiential exercise is followed by and afternoon filled with solid, practical, up-to-date tools.
August, 27th,
Hamilton, ON ( MAP COMING SOON ! )
$140 + HST = $158.20 — Includes lunch and handouts
participation limited to 44 people
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AGENDA
Morning: The “HeartSet Exercise” - Exploration And Experiential Exercise
- The heartset is a profound and moving exercise “ It touches your soul!”
- Gather a deep, intuitive understanding of the client who is paralyzed
- Shift your expectations and definition of what ‘progress’ might be.
Afternoon: Practical Tools – Lecture and Discussion“ Concrete - Easy to remember – Easy to use – Holistic – Helpful – Respectful “ ( from evaluations )
- How to identify clients for whom “Tomorrow Does Not Exist”
- How to talk to a client for whom Tomorrow Does Not Exist without causing anxiety
- How to move ahead safely, identify successes and
At the end of the day you will have more hope, focus, skill and patience
Who Should Attend? Any frontline worker or helping professional whose works with clients with addiction and/or trauma issues. The day is popular with shelter and housing support workers, O.W. , ODSP and Children’s Aid workers, therapists, counselors, correctional, probation and parole officers, professors and students, EAP professionals, all hospital staff, all outreach, educators, occupational therapists, emergency room social workers ….
The Organic Origin of the “Practical Tools” and “Tomorrow Does Not Exist” CAST Canada has held 60 Consumer Panel discussions in Ontario where there is a full afternoon of open, brave discussion among consumers and frontline workers around the nature of suffering, healing, what worked and what did not in helping relationships. This experience — Tomorrow Does Not Exist – was shared by many consumers, often in just those words. The tools around it were developed in these discussions. The day is infused with quotes and anecdotes from the consumers.
NEW ! 705-749-6145 regehr@cast-canada.ca ink