Empowering Individuals & Communities: An Ethical and Holistic Approach to Wellbeing

The MSPI Mindful Psychotherapy 6-day skills-based workshop trains participants in how to clinically apply and teach mindfulness meditation in psychotherapy, using an emotion-focused mindfulness therapy approach that emphasizes therapeutic presence and empathic following and responding to emotions as adaptive resources in meditation and therapeutic encounters with clients. Emotion-focused mindfulness therapy integrates emerging secular Buddhist perspectives and meditation practice into emotion-focused therapy to enhance the ability of clinical mindfulness to deepen experiencing, transform deeply conditioned maladaptive emotional patterns, and cultivate human…

The Peace of Minds Walk is Schizophrenia Society of Ontario's signature fundraising event, held in communities across Ontario. Over the years the Peace of Minds Walk has raised over $1 Million in support of the programs and services that directly assist those affected by schizophrenia and psychosis.

Beyond Prisons: The Way Forward

LEPH2018 is a must attend conference for you. Be part of this biennial conference exploring the complex and diverse intersections of law enforcement and public health, involving practitioners, policy makers and researchers from these and other related sectors. Understanding this common ground is critically important, with many current social, humanitarian, security and broad public health issues requiring an inter-sectoral approach. In this emerging field it is important to bring together practitioners, policymakers and academics to explore the nature of the…

The Mental Health for All (MH4A) Conference plays a unique role in uniting the people and ideas that exemplify mental health in Canada. Now in its third year, the MH4A Conference is an important place of convergence, where service providers, front-line workers, researchers, funders, policy makers and people with lived experience of mental health problems and illnesses come together to set the agenda. The theme of this year’s conference is “Ahead by a century: the shape of things to come”.…

Anxious and disorganized early attachment patterns intertwined with early childhood trauma (emotional deprivation, physical /sexual abuse) and the strain of adversity or ongoing victimization may lead some clients to experience chronic and complex intrapsychic and interpersonal reactions. For some individuals, their adult lives are filled with a pool of unmet needs, a legacy of interpersonal turmoil, a range of disruptive trauma reactions and a deficit of skill, motivation and support to move beyond their past. These individuals may become chronically…

The intensive five-day train-the-trainer course provides care staff with an in-house training capacity in the TCI curriculum which is an approved crisis intervention training program of the Ontario government. Note you can decide whether or not you want training for certification in the physical portion of the training. The purpose of TCI is to provide a crisis prevention and intervention model which will assist an organization in: > Preventing crises from occurring > De-escalating potential crises > Effectively managing acute…

One of the most common reasons for poor outcome, early termination or even open hostility in sessions is related to a wall existing between the client and the service provider. This wall is known as “resistance.” Attempting to tear down the wall can lead to further distance being created in the therapeutic relationship, early termination or regression. Resistance is a response to a perceived threat. When we find that a client is not moving towards goal achievement, resistance may be…

The Ontario Association of ACT and FACT invites you to join us in Niagara Falls, Ontario for its biannual conference: Refresh Renew Refocus. You will enjoy two and a half full days of keynote presentations as well as workshop and poster presentations.

The Ontario Psychiatric Outreach Program (OPOP) is pleased to announce its 20th annual conference, “Innovative Approaches to Outreach.” The OPOP conference is a two day interactive event that brings together the OPOP network of collaborators and key stakeholders. The annual OPOP conference is an opportunity to participate in shared professional development, thought provoking presentations and interactive discussions to support and challenge each other to provide the highest quality service possible to the areas we serve.

This year’s conference is directed to helping non-neurologists like general practitioners, general internists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, emergency physicians and others improve their skills and knowledge with regards to evaluating patients with common neurological presentations. Plenary sessions and workshops will cover topics in Stroke, Headache, Movement Disorders, Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis and Dementia, and will also include skills workshops allowing participants to improve their neurological examination.

This webinar describes the building blocks of Ontario’s health system, as well as how those building blocks are used to provide care in the province. The material covered will ensure citizens, patients and caregivers are better positioned to advocate for the changes they want to see in their system when opportunities arise.

Cannabis is legal ... but is it safe to use? Early and regular marijuana use has been associated with an increased risk of psychosis and schizophrenia. Youth are especially vulnerable.

The Ontario Association of Social Workers' (OASW) Biennial Provincial Conference is the largest knowledge mobilization event of its kind for social workers and social service workers in Ontario. This year's event will draw over 300 practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, academics and social work students for 1.5 days of interactive discussions on current and innovative best practice in mental health across settings. The curated conference program will facilitate a multi-directional flow of information amongst and between attendees and leaders in the field,…

The National Conference on Ending Homelessness arms policy makers, funders, researchers, advocates, community leaders and front line workers with the inspiration, information, tools and training they need to end homelessness.

About the Community of Practice meetings The community of practice meetings are conducted twice a year (May, after the conference & November) and provide an opportunity for colleagues to meet and share information around innovative program delivery, challenges in program delivery, current trends and much more. The break-out meetings are currently divided into residential treatment, community treatment, withdrawal management services, supportive housing, and youth services. About the Leadership Forum Our Leadership Forum will focus on how we can work together…