Safety planning is a crucial skill and intervention has the potential to save a life. Explore how to better understand what is behind suicidal thoughts and behaviours as well as how to plan for safety. Join presenter, Emily Harman, for this important topic.

A survey of the grieving brain and how practitioners can work with clients through a season of loss. Join presenter, Lyndsay Thompson, for this important topic.

This presentation will open a discussion around being culturally sensitive in working with clients. It includes going over terminology, understanding social location, and the therapists' role in dismantling systemic racism. Join presenter, Melissa Johari, for this important topic.

Disability, Theology and Spiritual Formation Certificate

This is an introductory program in Disability Theology. Students will examine the realities of living with a disability in contemporary society and their theological and spiritual implications. These modules will also delve into a practical theology regarding living and working with individuals with disabilities and their incorporation into our spiritual communities.

This certificate program is comprised of 3 independent courses rooted in biblical teachings and child development and one Intercultural Competency course.

Spiritual Formation Certificate

N.T. Wright has said, “Christian imagination rekindled by Scripture is vital to refresh our engagement with our contemporary culture.” The imagination is an important avenue for spiritual formation, but more than just a personal and private devotional practice, the imagination is the embodiment of hope. The imagination becomes a catalyst for living out the reality of the kingdom of God as an alternative to and a protest against adopting the culture that surrounds us.

This session offers an explanation of MAiD, enriched by an overview of its a) legal development (Criminal Code) and b) medical development (eligibility and safeguards and latest Health Canada report). It also introduces two tensions faced by clinicians and medical facilities: conscientious objection and the relationship between MAiD and other forms of end-of-life care, including palliative care.

This webinar will explore the contemporary multi-dimensional scope and implications of self-disclosure in psychotherapy. Participants will gain insights into critical ways that self-disclosure can be safely and intentionally used. Join presenter, Kern Stanberry, for this important topic.

This module will explore the nature of disenfranchised grief by understanding the language of grief and loss. Disenfranchised grief can include suicide, traumatic death, and other losses that are challenging to process because they are unacknowledged avoided or not legitimized. The second part of this module will provide training in setting up a support recovery group. This will include guidelines for groups, intake forms, the content of a good group, and learning to be a facilitator.