CEs On A Stick

A holistic, whole-person approach to empathize with, screen, diagnose and treat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder will be explored. A person living with OCD will be co-facilitating giving meaningful insights to participants.

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe what OCD is (and is not), including how to screen for diagnostic criteria.
• Understand what it’s like to have OCD and how professionals can be most supportive.
• Identify the most common evidence-based treatment interventions.
• Describe what “family accommodation” is and why it seems counter-intuitive to family and friends of someone with OCD.

This collaborative, restorative learning space will promote the consideration of working in, around, and against the DSM 5-TR as well as ways to think about differential diagnosis and clinical assessment through a trauma responsive and anti-oppressive lens.

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Expand their knowledge and skill in differential diagnosis utilizing the DSM system.
• Understand the importance of anti-oppressive and trauma responsive practice as it relates to diagnostic processes. 
• Recognize symptom presentations as criteria and understand diagnostic terminology.

Geared toward both new and experienced supervisors, this course focuses on developing, strengthening, and applying essential competencies for effective supervision. Foundational concepts, strategies, and skills will be introduced and practiced in this highly engaging and interactive two-day workshop.

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify, differentiate, and implement supervisory skills related to administrative and supportive supervision.
• Identify modalities to increase awareness and staff centered practices.
• Engage in skills of supervisory practice including reflective listening, holding to focus, and maintaining race and trauma informed boundaries with supervisees.
• Distinguish skills necessary for informed supervisory practice, addressing performance and decision making issues, and boundary issues.
• Evaluate their own supervisory experiences and styles in order to inform their developing supervisory styles.

Build your knowledge about the properties of cannabis so you can best educate adolescents and their caregivers as Minnesota becomes the next state to legalize its recreational use. Practitioners in any setting serving families and youth are encouraged to attend.

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Enhanced knowledge regarding core health- and medicinal-related issues of cannabis use and youth.
• Enhanced skills with effective approaches and techniques when educating teens regarding cannabis use issues.
• Stronger skills for supporting parents with an adolescent in treatment who seek to be effective preventionists in the home.  
• Appreciation of addressing adolescent cannabis use in the context of various ethnic/racial backgrounds​, cultures and community standards.

The concept, process, and ethical considerations of “use of self” in the context of clinical supervision will be explored in this interactive, applied workshop. Participants will gain tools to facilitate their own and supervisees’ self awareness.

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify personal attributes, beliefs, and potential triggers that influence the ways they function as a professional supervisor.
• Examine important ethical and clinical consequence of self-awareness and self- influence on supervisory effectiveness.
• Apply tools for identifying and evaluating reactions to supervisees.
• Recognize how interpersonal dynamics in the supervisory relationship are often replicated in the supervisee’s relationships with clients.
• Employ strategies for addressing personal insecurities that may limit supervisory effectiveness.
• Understand how the supervisor’s use of self can be a catalyst for professional growth and improved performance by the supervisee.

A variety of reflective activities will facilitate participants’ exploration of what STS is and is not. In this collaborative space, we will consider how to mitigate the impact of STS for ourselves and supervisees and find hope amid the suffering.

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Recognize signs, symptoms, and risk factors for Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS).
• Understand how culture, race, gender, other identities, lived experiences, systemic oppression, and implicit bias impact STS.
• Learn strategies to reduce the impact of STS.
• Identify how to support yourself, your team and/or supervisees in safely sharing the emotional experience of trauma work.

During this interactive workshop, practitioners will process intercultural and power dynamics inherent to the supervisory relationship and experience models of practice that serve as tools for engaging difference. 

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Process identity development with other participants in terms of how this informs their work.
• Distinguish theoretical information about interculturalism and power and its correlation to practice.
• Experience models of practice and personal narrative that serve as tools for engaging difference.

This workshop is designed to help clinical supervisors communicate more effectively while keeping power and identity within the supervision relationship at the fore.

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Apply practical tools and techniques in increase effective communication with supervisees.
• Learn “do’s” and “don’ts” of communicating with supervisees.
• Identify opportunities to use various communication strategies within the supervision dynamic.
• Recognize the position of power a supervisor has and be able to communicate openly and intentionally with supervisees about this dynamic.
• Engage effectively across difference in the supervision dynamic.