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1. Email us to get the link.
2. Complete the evaluation form
3. Receive your certificate via email
Note: Your certificate will be sent immediately to the email address you provide in the evaluation form.
This conference has been approved by the MN board of psychology for 7.0 CE’s. MN Board of Psychology Approved: 7.0 CE (202405.397), the MN Board of MFT Approved: 7.0 CEU, 2.5 Ethics, 3 Cultural Competency (2024-201), and the MN BBHT Approved: 7.0 CEU (2024.CE.219)
Join us on September 20, 2024, for a day of learning clinical and personal skills to build resilience in us, our families, and our clients. The presentations and experiential exercises will focus on generational trauma and parenting, the impact of culture on stress and trauma responses, bodywork, and the transformative power of metaphors.
Every day, we wake up to a world that has become increasingly turbulent. Many social institutions, from families to global communities, are turning into battlegrounds where nobody wins, accompanied by worldwide anxiety, mass hysteria, large-scale traumatic experiences, and global threats. Our conference theme was prompted by seeking personal and clinical sources of emotional strengths and opportunities for renewed wholeness amidst global uncertainties.
Please join us on a day of reflection, renewal, greater clinical understanding, and courage-building skills.
Amy Lew, PhD, is an Adlerian therapist working with individuals, couples and families since 1977. She is a teacher, supervisor, and mentor. Amy has co-authored five books for parents, teachers, and couples. She lives in Manchester, Massachusetts. You know her name as a co-author of Crucial Cs. At the conference, she will present the power of Crucial Cs and how they relate to the ability to cope in stressful times, guide us in applying the crucial Cs in stressful situations, and demonstrate the use of family meetings to develop necessary coping skills.
Marina Bluvshtein, PhD, is an Adlerian therapist, researcher, supervisor, and writer. She took her teaching to 20 countries, and authored more than 30 articles. She is a professor at Adler University and co-founder of Adler Academy. At the conference, she will present “Blood and Bone Memories: Breaking Temporal Constraints in the Third Generation of Mass Trauma Survivors.” The discussion will be followed by live demonstration of working with postmemory.
Pamela Oberoi, MA LMFT, is the director of the Refugee Mental Health Program at Pathways Counseling Center in St. Paul. She also works in private practice and contracts with organizations that work with individuals and families experiencing domestic violence. In this capacity, she primarily works cross-culturally. At the conference, she will present “In the Shadow’s Light: Navigating Cultural Sensitivity in Trauma Work.” This session delves into the nuanced intersection of culture and trauma work, exploring how cultural considerations profoundly impact therapeutic approaches and outcomes.
Nicole Lovald, LAMFT, RYT500 is an integrative psychotherapist and the owner of Healing with Heart Psychotherapy. She is also one of the co-owners of Spirit of the Lake Yoga and Wellness Center in Shorewood, Minnesota. Nicole is a marriage and family therapist (LAMFT), certified life coach, reiki practitioner, and registered yoga teacher. She is the author of Om Sweet Om: A Corporate Junkies Search for Enlightenment. At the conference, she will help us to understand the physiology of stress and how the fear response impacts both physical and mental health. She will engage us in learning how to build resiliency and widen the window of tolerance to better navigate stressful times with standing movement, breathwork, a sound bath exercise, and meditation.
Clifton E. French Regional Park Oakwood Room – located in the French Visitor Center
12605 Rockford Rd, Plymouth, MN 55441
September 20, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. CDT
Space is limited. Register now to take advantage of the early bird registration ending Aug 19th
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Save the date for our 7th annual conference:
Adler Academy of MN
Fall 2023 Conference
Friday, September 29, 2023
MN Landscape Arboretum
“Helping clients change: Finding courage, with hope, humor, and happiness.”
with Craig Balfany, Erin Rafferty Bugher, and Marina Bluvshtein
Description:
Helping clients change takes movement and is a collaborative process. In this workshop, we will explore creative ways to encourage change. The day will start with a lecture and therapeutic demonstration inviting participants to revisit ideas of hope, humor, and a sense of happiness as fueling courage to overcome life impasses. The ethics of creative non-linear interventions (such as humor) will be addressed throughout. Following the lecture, participants will be guided in an active, hands-on weaving experiential that will result in both community and individual projects. The relevance of weaving from a variety of cultural perspectives will be discussed. We will demonstrate how therapists can engage clients in conversations around creative experiences that contain stories of hope, humor, and happiness. Participants will play with weaving as a metaphor for structure and support (the warp) and the individual uniqueness of clients (the colors and textures of the weft). Discussions about how therapists use encouragement, humor, hopefulness, and happiness in their work with clients will be woven into this workshop.
Objectives:
1) Participants will explain the history of the use of humor in psychotherapy and its connection to optimism and courage.
2) Participants will notice and articulate examples of the therapeutic uses of hope, humor, and the inherent feeling of happiness described in the major therapeutic theories and highlighted in Adlerian psychotherapy.
3) Participants will examine the risks and benefits of humor and other non-linear interventions, including with respect to cultural traditions and the level of acculturation.
4) Participants will be able to articulate three uses of the weaving process and products in creating awareness of the therapist’s and client’s cultural identity.
5) Participants will create intentions on each of the following topics: encouragement, hopefulness, humor, and happiness, and contribute to the social interest community weaving (project), all in a cultural context.
6) Participants will identify three techniques that utilize encouragement, humor, and/or creative processes that can support clients’ movement toward change.
Presenters:
Craig Balfany, ATR-BC, LPC
Biographical statement
Craig Balfany is a Registered and Board-Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor.
He has many years of graduate teaching and clinical supervision from an Adlerian perspective. His twenty years of clinical experience includes conducting both group, individual, and community art therapy in mental/chemical health and rehabilitation settings. Active engagement in the creative process is a core value for facilitating expression, useful movement, and social connectedness in his work. His artistic identity is rooted in working with natural and found objects, clay, photography, and metaphors as a grounding and transformational experience.
Erin Rafferty-Bugher ATR-BC, LPCC
Education and training. I received an MA Degree in Art Therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and have been actively engaged in the mental health field providing art therapy and creativity in health since 1998.
Experience. Includes trauma-focused mental health services with children and adolescents in long-term educational/ therapeutic settings as well as in clinical behavioral mental health hospital settings. I have experience implementing and supporting the development of art therapy programming into numerous mental health agencies around the twin cities. My experience has expanded over the years to include working with folks to empower and encourage creative and healing potentialities in areas of cognitive and developmental abilities, dementia and Alzheimer’s care, oncology and school-based SEL programming. As an educator, I have dedicated my life’s work to expanding and advocating for art therapy and have collaborated in the development of the art therapy program at Adler Graduate School, MN since 2009. I have supervised and consulted with countless mental health and art therapy professionals over the years supporting their professional development and identity journey.
Dr. Marina Bluvshtein – PhD LP (MN) and MA LMFT (MN) Marina is a director of the Center for Adlerian Practice and Scholarship at Adler University in Chicago. She is a NASAP Diplomate in Adlerian Psychology and a President of the International Association of Individual Psychology and an associate editor of the Journal of Individual Psychology. Her areas of expertise include Early Recollections, Metaphors, and Nonlinear Interventions.
Register before August 29th for Early bird pricing: $150 for Professionals, $125 for Students
Lunch & Arboretum entrance fee included
After August 29th: $165
Places to stay:
| 1. HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS CHANHASSEN 7855 Century Blvd.Chanhassen, MN United States 55317 |
| 2. AmericInn by Wyndham Chanhassen 570 Pond Promenade, Chanhassen, MN 55317 |
Registration is open for the 6th Annual Conference hosted by the Adler Academy of Minnesota on September 16, 2022 at the MN Landscape Arboretum.
The 6th Annual Minnesota Adlerian Conference
Helping Clients Change: Honoring Their Grieving Process
September 16, 2022
The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Presented by
Brittany Trauthwein, PsyD, LCP (IL), Elaine Carey, PsyD, LCP (IN), Heather Leigh, DAT, ATR-BC, LCPC (IL), Marina Bluvshtein, MA LMFT, PhD LP (MN)
Description
This highly experiential training will be taught by a team of four – with an exciting combination of expertise in grief and Adlerian therapy. Participants will learn how the grief process is different from other human experiences and life transitions. Participants will learn about grief and grief work from an ethical, cultural, and systemic perspective with an Adlerian focus. Participants will learn interventions and engage in experiential learning that is appropriate for helping professionals, who also experience their own grief processes. The major approach used in this training – both its theoretical and its experiential components – is the systems approach, from family to lifespan to greater social systems impacting and being impacted by grief processes. Art therapy approaches to grief will be used throughout.
The training has been approved for 6.5 CEU by the MN Board of Psychology, the MN Board of MFT, and the MN Board of BHT.
We are planning for a live conference, so seating will be limited to 50 people. Participants will receive breakfast, lunch, and a snack. Registration is open until Sept 14th. Early bird pricing ends on Sept 1st.
The last day to cancel your registration is September 9th. There will be no refunds after this date.
Please save the date and keep an eye on more news from us as we draw closer to the date.
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