September 23rd Trainings with St�phanie Wahab PhD & Denise Ernst Ph.D. and Brad Osborn, CADC II, CAC III, Mindfulness in Recovery Facilitator

Please join us for the upcoming trainings on Thursday, September 23rd for Finding and Evoking Hope with Clients in Practice with Stephanie Wahab PhD & Denise Ernst PhD and Mindfulness in Recovery with Brad Osborn, CADC II, CAC III, Mindfulness in Recovery Facilitator.

All proceeds go towards the Al Forthan Scholarship.

Cost: $110 for full day of trainings (6 CEUs); $60 for AM or PM training (3 CEUs).

Finding and Evoking Hope with Clients in Practice

Featuring: St�phanie Wahab PhD & Denise Ernst Ph.D.

When: 8:30am-12:00pm

Purpose

Hope has long been recognized, in research and practice wisdom, as a key ingredient to helping people change. Consider the placebo effect, optimism, self-efficacy. Cultivating hope includes finding it, recognizing it, growing it, and lending it. This training will focus on the place of hope within motivational interviewing, followed by exercises and practices to support service providers and other helpers, to cultivate hope in themselves and consequently in their clients.

St�phanie Wahab PhD, MSW

Prior to entering graduate school, I worked as an advocate in shelters for 'women and children' experiencing intimate partner violence. Most of my social work practice, teaching and research experience revolves around issues of violence- at the individual, community and state level. In addition to being active in a range of anti-violence movements in and out of the U.S., I've been engaged in anti-criminalization movements including the sex workers' rights movements since the early 1990s. I also have experience with motivational interviewing. I'm a MINT Certified Trainer and have been training individuals, groups and organizations in MI since 2000.

Denise Ernst, Ph.D.

Denise Ernst, Ph.D. received her doctorate from the University of New Mexico under the renowned Dr. William Miller, co-founder of motivational interviewing (MI), with a research focus on the application of MI in real clinical practice. She has been involved in efforts to increase the effectiveness of training, has provided structured feedback and coaching to a variety of professionals, and has developed and delivered several levels of advanced MI curriculum. Dr. Ernst has participated in the development and refinement of the family of MI coding instruments, including the Motivational Interviewing Skill Code (MISC) and the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) coding system, to determine treatment fidelity, practitioner skills and the critical elements of good MI practice. She has developed, trained, and overseen coding labs. With strong quantitative and analytic training and experience, she is committed to ensuring interrater reliability, utilizing a variety of methods to accurately assess that reliability. A member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), Dr. Ernst trained as a MI trainer in 1993. She has conducted trainings internationally in MI to a wide variety of professionals working in substance abuse, criminal justice, medical care, and public health.

Mindfulness in Recovery

Featuring: Brad Osborn, CADC II, CAC III, Mindfulness in Recovery Facilitator

When: 1:00pm – 4:30pm

Purpose

Mindfulness in Recovery is designed to help you develop the specific skills that empower you to succeed. You really can change, find freedom, and live the life you find most meaningful.

This training will focus on understanding Mindfulness as both a clinical tool and a source of self-care, cultivating the ability to make healthy choices that foster genuine happiness and a meaningful life for ourselves and those we work with.

Brad Osborn, CADC II, CAC III, Mindfulness in Recovery Facilitator

Brad has 25 years of substance use disorder, trauma, family counseling, case management, supervision, and intervention experience, here in Oregon for the past 2 years, and previously in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

He is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC II) in Oregon and a Senior Certified Addiction Counselor (CAC III) in Colorado.

He serves as a board member of Oregon Association of Addiction Professionals (ORAAP). He is a past President and board member of the Colorado Association of Addiction Professionals (CAAP), the Colorado Affiliate of NAADAC.

He is currently working in support of families in his private practice Elk Family Reflections after recently stepping down as Clinical Supervisor and Counselor with the Volunteers of America Oregon Treatment Readiness Program at the Inverness Jail and the Batterers Intervention Program.

He is a certified Mindfulness in Recovery facilitator of the Mindful Life Program, a trained ARISE Interventionist, and is trained in the EAGALA tradition of Equine Therapy.

Brad has witnessed, both professionally and personally, the significant family healing resulting from having a holistic approach to recovery. He believes the journey of our work, when allowing for collaborative self-determination for those who are affected by the negative consequences of those who struggle with mental health, substance use, domestic issues and the resulting traumas, creates opportunities where everyone can find the path to recovery.

Brad is passionate about Recovery, Family, his Huskey, his Home, Fishing, Golf, Hiking, and Skiing.

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If you have any questions please contact Alex Rice at arice@voaor.org or 503-802-0299