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Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
Date: Sep 26, 2025
Time: 10:00am-1:00pm and 2:00pm-5:00pm (PST)
CEU: 6 hours
Location: Virtual – Zoom session
Cost: $180
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Audience:
This course is ideal for social workers and other professionals in healthcare and human services.
Description:
Neurodiversity-affirming care is not only about individual interactions; it is also a form of cultural competence embedded within professional practice. To be neurodiversity- and neurodivergent-affirming is to acknowledge that all brain types, including those that are different to what society considers the norm, are equal in value and valid in their right to exist without conforming. This means valuing an individual’s strengths, understanding and accommodating their challenges, and accepting differences in social interaction, communication, behaviour, and learning.
This 1-day course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to a neuro-affirming practice framework and tools for integrating its principles when working with individuals, families, and groups. The course will balance theoretical learning with interactive discussions, case scenarios, and guided practice.
Participants will learn about neuro-affirming care, including the neurodiversity movement; neurodivergent diversity; neurodivergence and gender; neurodivergence across the lifespan; neuronormativity and systemic ableism; domains of experience; masking/camouflaging; neurodivergence and mental health; and neurodivergent-affirming communication. This learning will then be applied through guided practice activities and debriefing.
This course is the first of a three-part series on neurodiversity-affirming care, and a recommended pre-requisite for the following two courses. In the event that a future certificate program in neurodiversity-affirming care is developed, these courses will count toward the required hours for the completion of that program.
Conflict Management Skills
Date: Oct 24, 2025
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-4:00pm (PST)
CEU: 6 hours
Location: Virtual – Zoom session
Cost: $180
Audience:
This course is ideal for therapists, social workers, and mental health practitioners in various fields of practice seeking to develop complex conflict management skills to apply to their practice.
Description:
This experiential course moves beyond basic de-escalation and into the deeper work of navigating conflict rooted in values, identity, and ethical complexity. The course offers applied, anti-oppressive tools for managing challenging conversations across systems, settings, and relationships. Participants will engage in interactive skill-building activities to apply frameworks and techniques that support grounded, relational responses to tension. Whether working in clinical, community, or private practice settings, this course helps practitioners build the confidence and competence to remain in dialogue when stakes are high and emotions run deep.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Apply anti-oppressive and trauma-informed frameworks to ethically complex interpersonal conflicts in a variety of professional contexts.
- Demonstrate de-escalation strategies that maintain connection across difference and reduce defensiveness.
- Assess their internal responses during conflict and implement regulation techniques to stay grounded.
- Demonstrate relational accountability by thoughtfully responding to feedback.
- Facilitate conversations that acknowledge harm and open opportunities to reconcile.
- Integrate co-regulation, bystander intervention, and restorative tools into professional settings.
Narrative Therapy II
Date: Nov 7, 2025
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-4:00pm (PST)
CEU: 6 hours
Location: Virtual – Zoom session
Cost: $180
Audience:
This second-level course is open to social workers, nurses, counsellors, mental health professionals, students and anyone working in the human services field who has a foundational understanding of Narrative Therapy and wants to continue developing and deepening their skills.
Building on the foundational principles of narrative practice, this session will focus specifically on deep and therapeutically meaningful reauthoring conversations - a central practice in Narrative Therapy that supports people to renegotiate their relationship to problem identities and to connect with their values, hopes, competencies and abilities. This includes a deepening of the skills of externalizing and deconstruction of oppressive forces acting on the individual.
Participants will have the opportunity to engage in experiential learning focused on the application of clinical skills, with the intention of bringing reauthoring conversations to life.
Learning objectives:
- Develop a deeper understanding of the key theoretical and ethical considerations that inform Narrative Therapy with a focus on the reauthoring process.
- Understand and apply skills in developing alternative storylines through therapeutic conversations using unique outcome, landscape of action and landscape of identity questions.
- Evaluate how to integrate reauthoring conversations into the learner’s own practice, with attention to both personal and systemic narratives.
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