August 27th – SOLD OUT - New date added – same location and agenda
Friday, October 1st, 2010 – 29 spaces left — email for up to date #’s
– 8:30 a.m. Registration, coffee & tea
– 9:00 a.m. Start of day
– 4:00 p.m. End of day
The Sheraton Centre Hotel,
—116 King Street West
— Hamilton, ON L8P 4V3
$158.20 = $140 + HST
— A fabulous lunch and parking included – Park under hotel.
Learn Safe and Productive ways to help clients who have been stuck with employment,addiction, housing and other large issues due to trauma, loss and unresolved grief
~ 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”
A Dynamic Blend Of Reflective Experiences, Room Discussion And Delivery of Tools
A morning of discussion and a moving, experiential exercise is followed by an afternoon filled with solid, practical, up-to-date tools.
participation limited to 44 people
AGENDA
Morning: The “HeartSet Exercise” - Exploration And Experiential Exercise
- The HeartSet is a profound and moving experiential exercise – “ It touches your soul!”
- Gather a deep, intuitive understanding of the client who is paralyzed or otherwise effected
- 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
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Harm Reduction: Let’s Start Talking !
Discussion Forum #2 ( #1 is in Victoria, BC., others are being planned )
Thursday, September 23th, 2010
9:00 p. m – 4:00 p.m.
YMCA, 20 Grosvenor St., 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON
Just west of Young, between College and Wellesley
$61.95+HST = $70.00 per day ( lunch not provided )
Participation limited to 38 people ( due to room size )
Things have changed since the need for ‘harm reduction’ was identified decades ago. A national conference will be held in winter 2011 to explore where we are with harm reduction, challenge some ideas, celebrate progress an work towards a positive future. This Toronto forum in September is intended to start a conversation, identify issues, collect stories and ideas.
Morning - Who is in the room? Learn about each other – what are you doing?
Afternoon - How can you do it better? What important questions are being raised, what issues need to be raised and the national conference in February.
This workshop provides the opportunity for you to share your confusions, fears, concerns and also your success with the harm reduction as a practice. It is an opportunity to unravel some of the past, present and future responses to the notion of reducing harm and update the concept so as to open up questions that ask,
- Is the term ‘harm reduction’ still effective and useful?
- What works, what progress has been made – what can we celebrate?
- What changes (if any) need to be made to ensure a flexible, compassionate and nuanced tool for those struggling with addiction.
The results will be collected and used to inform the conference process .
Discussion facilitated by Karena Kyne, CAST Canada
Friday, September 24th, 2010
9:00 a.m – 4:00 p.m.
YMCA, 20 Grosvenor St., 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON
$140+HST = $158.20 per day ( lunch not provided )
Participation limited to 38 people — Book Soon – These events sell out quickly
You will:
- Witness moving, open testimonials from consumers who have been helped by professionals.
- Spend a full afternoon in discussion with the entire room around worked, what did not and why.
- Explore solid, safe and effective tools that were developed in past panels.
Main Themes: These are ideas that often arise during discussions: Discussing relapse in a safe productive way. Explore ways to safely discuss this volatile topic. The nature of cravings. A crux of the addiction experience, asking hard questions around suspected substance abuse or trauma. What works and what does not in reaching and building relationship and in recovery.
Who Should Attend This Panel? Frontline workers or any helping professionals whose clients have addiction issues. The day is has been particularly useful for shelter and housing support workers, O.W. , ODSP. settlement and Children’s Aid workers, therapists, counselors, youth, adult and seniors workers, probation officers, professors and students, EAP professionals, all hospital
“What a great experience. Real people, real experiences, real working tools!” Cathy Loyst, United Way Ajax-Pickering-Uxbridge
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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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- SOLD OUT - A second workshop will be announced shortly. Email if you are interested.
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
$140 + HST = $158.20 – parking and lunch not including
participation limited to 44 people
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