Practice and apply mindfulness techniques in your therapeutic work
Presented by Fiona Brandon, LMFT
2 CEs available
Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal chapter members!
|
PLEASE NOTE: Marin CAMFT has made a slight change to how our Zoom meetings work: After you sign up here, you'll be sent instructions on how to complete a separate registration step with Zoom. You'll need to complete that registration step in order to get your Zoom link. You can do it in advance, or right before the meeting begins. Each person will get their own personal Zoom link. This lets us more accurately track attendance in the Zoom meeting for our compliance purposes as a CE provider.
|
Workshop Description
This 2-hour experiential workshop will offer participants practical tools and inspiring ideas for integrating mindfulness and compassion practices into their work with clients. These practices can help clients regulate their nervous system while gaining new insights into their healing process. During the training participants will be guided in a mindfulness-based practice and a compassion-based practice. After each practice a case study will be presented. The case studies will illustrate practical ways for integrating the practices into clinical work in explicit and implicit ways. Participants will have time to integrate their learnings through brief writing exercises, larger group discussions and Q&A. The training is helpful for new and seasoned clinicians as well as beginner and advanced meditators. Therapists do not need to have a background in meditation to benefit from this training on using mindfulness techniques with clients.
Educational Goals
This presentation will teach a mindfulness-based practice and a compassion-based practice, both of which can be used with clients during session to help them regulate their nervous system. This training covers ways therapists can use contemplative practices to increase patient insight during clinical work.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- Describe 2 ways mindfulness uses "top-down" processing to regulate “bottom-up processing”
- Explain to clients at least 3 ways in which mindfulness meditation helps to regulate the nervous system and decrease depression and anxiety
- Describe at least 2 ways in which compassion-based meditations can be helpful for clients from non-dominant groups
Presenter Fiona Brandon
Fiona Brandon, MPS, MA, MFT, is the Director of the Nalanda Institute’s Compassion Based Resilience Training (CBRT) and core faculty of the Embodied Psychotherapy Program. As a licensed psychotherapist and clinical consultant, she integrates Buddhist psychology, depth psychology, expressive arts therapy, dream imagery, and sensorimotor psychotherapy in her work with adults and couples. Fiona is a co-editor and contributor to the 2023 anthology Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Healing and Transformation (2nd ed.) published by Routledge. She also contributed the chapter, Mindfulness: Self-healing Mechanism and Psychotherapeutic Ally to the forthcoming book Integrating Motivational Interviewing and Mindfulness: A Practitioner Guide to be published in 2025 by Oxford University Press. To learn more about Fiona visit www.fionabrandon.com
You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEUs).
Date: Friday, May 9
Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific
Cost: Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $30 for non-members.
Location: Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.
Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs Norman Hering.
- Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE units for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
- Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
- Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
- Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.
- Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
- Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
CAMFT