Where
This is an online event.RC Webinar: Widening the Window of Tolerance - Strategies for Individual and Collective Healing
In many ways the world shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As trauma professionals, we can see this asa healthy and adaptive response. But, to effectively manage stress and heal trauma (especially during a global pandemic)we must also open up – by widening our individual and collective windows of tolerance.
This webinar will take a deeper look at the neurobiological window of tolerance (WOT), which represents an individual’soptimal zone of physiological arousal. In short, a wide window supports a normal threat response, executive function,social engagement, regulation and resilience. A narrow window, on the other hand, leads to a malfunctioning threatresponse, disruption of both social engagement and executive function, dysregulation and less resilience.
Together we will explore ways that the WOT can be narrowed, including exposure to adversity, trauma, and stress, We will also explore the surprising ways in which mindfulness practices, physical exercise, and even talk therapy can also narrow our windows. Strategies for widening our windows will be offered, including techniques for modifying treatment environments, promoting self-regulation, and facilitating full recovery from stress activation. We will also examine ways in which our collective window can both be narrowed and widened, with implications for organizations serving trauma survivors.
Presenters
John Engel is a Program Coordinator for the Traumatic Stress Institute of the Klingberg Family Centers, where he serves as a trainer and consultant for client agencies adopting whole system change to trauma-informed care. John also facilitates strategic change initiatives and product development for TSI, including development and launch of the Online ARTIC Scale. Additionally, John has been piloting mindfulness in the workplace, including design and delivery of a national training webinar, Mindfulness in the Workplace: Practices for Sustaining Trauma-Informed Care and design and facilitation of a day-long virtual training event, Mindfulness: The Inner Work of Racial Healing and Trauma-Informed Care. Since 2011, John has written a monthly column, The Fatherhood Journey, for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, with a mission of promoting public and private conversations about fatherhood.
Mary Jo Harwood, LSW, DNCCM, is a Program Coordinator for the Traumatic Stress Institute of Klingberg Family Centers. A significant part of her 30 years as a licensed social worker has been spent supporting the recovery of individuals and communities post-traumatic incidents. She has provided trauma-informed leadership to victim service organizations, mental health providers, and served in the capacity of a therapist, EMDR practitioner, crisis responder, and trainer. Mary Jo directed the Dialogue and Resolution Center, a division of the Center for Victims in Pittsburgh, PA providing training and coaching that addressed building conflict-competent teams in organizations. She is a member of Mediators Beyond Borders International and has worked in Liberia and South Sudan and consulted with teams in Northern Nigeria and Kenya to address the intersection of trauma and peace-building through the application of conflict and trauma-sensitive programming.
Continuing Education Credits
Cosponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars, P.O. Box 14473, Santa Rosa, CA 95402
Satisfactory Completion
Participants must have paid tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire webinar, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate. Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates will be available following course completion at www.ceuregistration.com.
Psychologists
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Psychoanalysts
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Social Workers
CA and Other States: Most states accept continuing education courses offered by approved providers with national providerships or will accept the approvals of other state licensing boards of the same license type. Others, either do not require pre-approval of courses, or will allow licensees to retroactively file for course approval themselves. R. Cassidy Seminars is an approved provider with two national providerships, as well as holding many individual state license type approvals. Check with your board to obtain a final ruling.
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Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists
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NY-LMFTs: R. Cassidy Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0011. Live online.
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Creative Arts Therapists
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Chemical Dependency Counselors
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Educators
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Nurses
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Dentists
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