Instructor: Mona Fishbane, PhD
Date and Time: April 23, 2021 - 9:00 am to 4:45 pm EST
Credits: 6 CEs
Location: Live on Zoom
Date and Time: April 23, 2021 - 9:00 am to 4:45 pm EST
Credits: 6 CEs
Location: Live on Zoom
Description:
Old wounds and resentments toward the family of origin can negatively affect adults in their current functioning, including in couple and parenting relationships. In this workshop, Dr. Fishbane will explore ways to facilitate healing and dialogue in distressed adult intergenerational relationships, and the positive impact such work can have on clients’ functioning in their own life as well as on legacies passed on to future generations. Utilizing a resilience-based view and a relational-intergenerational approach, topics to be addressed include intergenerational transmission of trauma and legacies, family loyalties, resentment and blame, cutoffs, differentiation, power, boundaries, guilt, repair, and forgiveness. The neurobiology underlying reactivity between adults and their parents will be explored, along with interventions to facilitate emotion regulation, relational empowerment, and compassion.
We will consider new thinking about relational ethics to help clients reach for their best self in family relationships. Dr. Fishbane will focus on helping adult clients “grow up” their view of parents, and their relationships with them. The workshop will address the larger sociocultural context in which families are embedded, exploring stressors and resources that impact intergenerational relationships for better or worse. Theory and techniques will be offered to facilitate intergenerational repair where possible, focusing on ways to honor and care for parents while protecting and caring for one’s self. The format will include lecture, case examples, experiential exercises, and small group discussion. The emphasis will be on practical skills for clinicians to facilitate healing intergenerational wounds.
We will consider new thinking about relational ethics to help clients reach for their best self in family relationships. Dr. Fishbane will focus on helping adult clients “grow up” their view of parents, and their relationships with them. The workshop will address the larger sociocultural context in which families are embedded, exploring stressors and resources that impact intergenerational relationships for better or worse. Theory and techniques will be offered to facilitate intergenerational repair where possible, focusing on ways to honor and care for parents while protecting and caring for one’s self. The format will include lecture, case examples, experiential exercises, and small group discussion. The emphasis will be on practical skills for clinicians to facilitate healing intergenerational wounds.
Instructor:
Mona Fishbane, PhD, a clinical psychologist licensed in Illinois and New Jersey, is the past director of the Couple Therapy Training Program at the Chicago Center for Family Health. Mona specializes in treating couples and adult individuals, as well as intergenerational work with adults and their siblings and parents. Her particular focus is on integrating "news from neuroscience" with a systemic approach to therapy. Mona lectures nationally and internationally, and has authored numerous articles and book chapters on couple therapy, intergenerational relationships, and interpersonal neurobiology. Mona received the 2017 Family Psychologist of the Year Award from the American Psychological Association (Society for Couple & Family Psychology).
Her book, Loving with the Brain in Mind: Neurobiology & Couple Therapy, was published by Norton in 2013, as part of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology.
Her book, Loving with the Brain in Mind: Neurobiology & Couple Therapy, was published by Norton in 2013, as part of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to identify cycles of reactivity in intergenerational relationships and the mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of wounds
2. Participants will be able to describe neurobiological processes underlying relationship reactivity
3. Participants will be able to utilize interventions to help clients increase self-responsibility and relational empowerment in relationships with family of origin
4. Participants will be able to facilitate empathy and dialogue between family members
5. Participants will be able to apply principles of relational ethics in their clinical practice
2. Participants will be able to describe neurobiological processes underlying relationship reactivity
3. Participants will be able to utilize interventions to help clients increase self-responsibility and relational empowerment in relationships with family of origin
4. Participants will be able to facilitate empathy and dialogue between family members
5. Participants will be able to apply principles of relational ethics in their clinical practice
Outline of the Day
Note: time zone is EST
9 am to 10:30 am: Intergenerational distress; impact of carrying old wounds and resentments from family of origin on one’s current life; dynamics and neurobiology of emotional reactivity
Break 10:30 to 10:45 am
10:45 am to 12:30 pm: Interventions I: From reactivity to reflectivity in family relationships; emotion regulation, differentiation, boundaries
Lunch: 12:30 to 1:30 pm
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm: Interventions II: Skills of relational empowerment in intergenerational relationships; repair, empathy
Break 2:45 to 3 pm
3 to 4:15 pm: Interventions III: Relational ethics; facilitating and maintaining relational transformation; life cycle challenges in the intergenerational family
4:15 to 4:30 Q & A and wrap up
4:30 to 4:45 Completion of online workshop evaluation
9 am to 10:30 am: Intergenerational distress; impact of carrying old wounds and resentments from family of origin on one’s current life; dynamics and neurobiology of emotional reactivity
Break 10:30 to 10:45 am
10:45 am to 12:30 pm: Interventions I: From reactivity to reflectivity in family relationships; emotion regulation, differentiation, boundaries
Lunch: 12:30 to 1:30 pm
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm: Interventions II: Skills of relational empowerment in intergenerational relationships; repair, empathy
Break 2:45 to 3 pm
3 to 4:15 pm: Interventions III: Relational ethics; facilitating and maintaining relational transformation; life cycle challenges in the intergenerational family
4:15 to 4:30 Q & A and wrap up
4:30 to 4:45 Completion of online workshop evaluation
Target Audience
This learning event is designed for helping professionals including, but not limited to, social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage & family therapists, and nurses. We design the learning methodology to further develop beginning, intermediate, and advanced helping professionals by supporting improvement of skills for direct practice, supervision, and management positions. People who attend from professions other than those we are able to provide CEs for may request a Certificate of Attendance.
Location
Live on Zoom
Cost
Individual Registration: $140, $130 early registration, received by 3.31.21.
Group Registration: $130 per person for groups of two or more, $125 per person early registration for groups of two or more, received by 3.31.21. Groups must register and pay together to receive the discount.
Members of NEAFAST, Black Therapists Rock, National Association of Black Counselors and all BIPOC clinicians may access an equity rate of $120. Please contact us for discount codes. No application is required.
Group Registration: $130 per person for groups of two or more, $125 per person early registration for groups of two or more, received by 3.31.21. Groups must register and pay together to receive the discount.
Members of NEAFAST, Black Therapists Rock, National Association of Black Counselors and all BIPOC clinicians may access an equity rate of $120. Please contact us for discount codes. No application is required.
Registration
Please note the online system allows you to register: using your Paypal account, using Paypal as a conduit to your credit card or provides instructions to mail a check. Please complete the online registration form even if you will be mailing a check for payment. Your space is not secure until payment is received.
Workshop CEs
Participants MUST attend 100% of the program to earn the 6 contact hours approved. Certificates will be given at the end of the event after you are fully paid and have completed the evaluation form. Details for approved professions: 6 CEs have been approved for licensed Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Psychology and Nursing professionals by Commonwealth Educational Seminars.
Licensed Mental Health Counselors can earn 6 contact hours as Therapy Training Boston has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6707. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Therapy Training Boston is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 6 CEs have been approved for Certified IFS practitioners.
For more detailed information about CEs, read this.
Licensed Mental Health Counselors can earn 6 contact hours as Therapy Training Boston has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6707. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Therapy Training Boston is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 6 CEs have been approved for Certified IFS practitioners.
For more detailed information about CEs, read this.
Cancellations and Refunds
Workshops and courses may be cancelled by Therapy Training Boston if minimum enrollment requirements are not met. In this case, full fees will be refunded or applied to future programs. Otherwise, no refunds are provided for registrants.
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