Movie + Discussion on Sunday Afternoons
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These learning events are designed for helping professionals including, but not limited to, social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage & family therapists, and nurses. We choose films and design the learning methodology to further develop beginning, intermediate, and advanced helping professionals by expanding their knowledge base on important individual and societal issues for direct practice, supervision, and management positions.
Cost
$55 to participate in the learning discussion and receive 3 CEs
NEAFAST, Black Therapist Rock, National Association of Black Counselors members and all BIPOC clinicians may access a fee of $45.
Contact us for discount code. No application required.
Please register in advance to save your space.
NEAFAST, Black Therapist Rock, National Association of Black Counselors members and all BIPOC clinicians may access a fee of $45.
Contact us for discount code. No application required.
Please register in advance to save your space.
Event Policies
Event CEs
Participants MUST attend 100% of the program to earn the 3 CEs approved. CE 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: 3 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 3 CEs 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. For more detailed information about CEs, read this.
Event Schedule, Content and Registration
Learning from the film: Bending The Arc
Sunday, February 21, 2021 - 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm, 3 CEs
Location: live on Zoom
Description: Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, activist Ophelia Dahl, Todd McCormack, and investor Thomas White began a movement in the 1980s that changed global health forever. Bending the Arc tells their story. In 1983, these three young people barely out of their teens began a public health revolution by treating patients who had been abandoned by the health establishment. The community health model they developed to treat diseases like tuberculosis & HIV/AIDS has saved millions of lives in the developing world. Their fight for universal health equity became a global battle in the highest halls of power for the right to health for all. Reaching far beyond the issue of health care, Bending the Arc shows how moral imagination, strategy, and sheer will together can change the trajectory of the world, bending the arc of the moral universe closer to justice.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
1. Describe how you can apply the idea behind this statement to your work: Jim Kim says towards the end of the documentary that a “pessimism of the intellect, but an optimism of the will” is key in his line of work.
2. List two ways that watching the film impacts the way you see the landscape of global health changing in the face of COVID-19 as well as how this change impacts your work.
3. Define a minimum of two practices needed to utilize a dialogic methodology that includes all voices inviting clinicians to share their perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” exchange so that they can use these practices in their work.
Reviews:
"A feel-good documentary that’s literally about making people feel good.” – The New York Times
“Bending the Arc stretches and soars to the highest documentary dimension.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“[Their] quiet outrage over the widely-held assumption that it’s futile to treat the global poor drives this story, which is as much about the triumph of a philosophy as of medicine.” – The Boston Globe
“As debates rage about whether healthcare is a right for all or a privilege for those who can afford it, ‘Bending the Arc’ goes beyond rhetoric to give viewers an inside look at doctors who simply want to make a difference.” – Variety
Sunday, February 21, 2021 - 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm, 3 CEs
Location: live on Zoom
Description: Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, activist Ophelia Dahl, Todd McCormack, and investor Thomas White began a movement in the 1980s that changed global health forever. Bending the Arc tells their story. In 1983, these three young people barely out of their teens began a public health revolution by treating patients who had been abandoned by the health establishment. The community health model they developed to treat diseases like tuberculosis & HIV/AIDS has saved millions of lives in the developing world. Their fight for universal health equity became a global battle in the highest halls of power for the right to health for all. Reaching far beyond the issue of health care, Bending the Arc shows how moral imagination, strategy, and sheer will together can change the trajectory of the world, bending the arc of the moral universe closer to justice.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
1. Describe how you can apply the idea behind this statement to your work: Jim Kim says towards the end of the documentary that a “pessimism of the intellect, but an optimism of the will” is key in his line of work.
2. List two ways that watching the film impacts the way you see the landscape of global health changing in the face of COVID-19 as well as how this change impacts your work.
3. Define a minimum of two practices needed to utilize a dialogic methodology that includes all voices inviting clinicians to share their perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” exchange so that they can use these practices in their work.
Reviews:
"A feel-good documentary that’s literally about making people feel good.” – The New York Times
“Bending the Arc stretches and soars to the highest documentary dimension.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“[Their] quiet outrage over the widely-held assumption that it’s futile to treat the global poor drives this story, which is as much about the triumph of a philosophy as of medicine.” – The Boston Globe
“As debates rage about whether healthcare is a right for all or a privilege for those who can afford it, ‘Bending the Arc’ goes beyond rhetoric to give viewers an inside look at doctors who simply want to make a difference.” – Variety
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 at the above link even if you will be mailing a check for payment. Your registration is not complete until payment is received.
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Learning from the film: My Octopus Teacher
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2021 - 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm, 3 CEs
Location: live on Zoom
Description: This engaging and crowd pleasing documentary by South African filmmaker and conservationist Craig Foster follows his unexpected kinship with a single octopus, encountered while diving in the richly populated kelp forest of South Africa’s Cape of Storms, provides narrative thrust and emotional heft. The story, a word-of-mouth phenomenon since its premiere in September, combines ravishingly filmed underwater observation and unabashed but earnest psychological projection. After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal's trust and they develop a never before seen bond between human and wild animal which helps him learn and grow in relation to his human struggles. The film discussion will focus on how this relationship is relevant to our helping relationships with clients.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
1. Describe how they can apply the lessons from the film to support clinical work with people who are struggling.
2. List two ways that watching the film impacts the way they see possibilities for client healing to occur in session and in natural environments between sessions.
3. Define a minimum of two practices needed to utilize a dialogic methodology that includes all voices inviting clinicians to share their perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” exchange so that they can use these practices in their work.
Reviews:
"Octopus befriends troubled diver and teaches him about life." Barbara Shulgasser, Common Sense Media
"No nature documentary you've ever seen will quite prepare you for My Octopus Teacher, a heart-gripping tale of a friendship (one might even call it a romance) between a human and a mollusk." Robert W. Butler, Robert's Cinema SceneOctopus befriends troubled diver and teaches him about life.
Date: Sunday, March 21, 2021 - 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm, 3 CEs
Location: live on Zoom
Description: This engaging and crowd pleasing documentary by South African filmmaker and conservationist Craig Foster follows his unexpected kinship with a single octopus, encountered while diving in the richly populated kelp forest of South Africa’s Cape of Storms, provides narrative thrust and emotional heft. The story, a word-of-mouth phenomenon since its premiere in September, combines ravishingly filmed underwater observation and unabashed but earnest psychological projection. After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal's trust and they develop a never before seen bond between human and wild animal which helps him learn and grow in relation to his human struggles. The film discussion will focus on how this relationship is relevant to our helping relationships with clients.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
1. Describe how they can apply the lessons from the film to support clinical work with people who are struggling.
2. List two ways that watching the film impacts the way they see possibilities for client healing to occur in session and in natural environments between sessions.
3. Define a minimum of two practices needed to utilize a dialogic methodology that includes all voices inviting clinicians to share their perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” exchange so that they can use these practices in their work.
Reviews:
"Octopus befriends troubled diver and teaches him about life." Barbara Shulgasser, Common Sense Media
"No nature documentary you've ever seen will quite prepare you for My Octopus Teacher, a heart-gripping tale of a friendship (one might even call it a romance) between a human and a mollusk." Robert W. Butler, Robert's Cinema SceneOctopus befriends troubled diver and teaches him about life.
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 at the above link even if you will be mailing a check for payment. Your registration is not complete until payment is received.
Learning from the film: A Life On Our Planet
Date: Sunday, April 11, 2021 - 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm, 3 CEs
Location: live on Zoom
Description: One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. In his 93 years, David Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. Now, for the first time he reflects upon both the defining moments of his lifetime as a naturalist and the devastating changes he has seen. Produced by WWF and award-winning wildlife film-makers Silverback Films, David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet is a first-hand account of humanity’s impact on nature and a message of hope for future generations. As we have seen worldwide by living with Covid 19, the lessons this film provides about learning to live with nature are relevant to the physical and mental health of all of us as well as our planet. The film discussion will focus on how these lessons are relevant to our clinical work.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
1. Describe how they can apply the lessons from the film to support clinical work with people who are struggling.
2. List two ways that watching the film impacts the way they see possibilities for client healing to occur in their relationship to nature and to improve ways to live within the natural world that humanity inhabits.
3. Define a minimum of two practices needed to utilize a dialogic methodology that includes all voices inviting clinicians to share their perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” exchange so that they can use these practices in their work.
Reviews:
"The film's tone is largely one of making reparation for harm done -- and is only partially hopeful about our prospects for emerging from the flames." India Bourke, New Statesman
"It is a universal message made all the more potent for being so profoundly personal." Brian Viner, Daily Mail (UK)
"The film's grand achievement is that it positions its subject as a mediator between humans and the natural world." Natalia Winkelman, NY Times
Date: Sunday, April 11, 2021 - 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm, 3 CEs
Location: live on Zoom
Description: One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. In his 93 years, David Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. Now, for the first time he reflects upon both the defining moments of his lifetime as a naturalist and the devastating changes he has seen. Produced by WWF and award-winning wildlife film-makers Silverback Films, David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet is a first-hand account of humanity’s impact on nature and a message of hope for future generations. As we have seen worldwide by living with Covid 19, the lessons this film provides about learning to live with nature are relevant to the physical and mental health of all of us as well as our planet. The film discussion will focus on how these lessons are relevant to our clinical work.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
1. Describe how they can apply the lessons from the film to support clinical work with people who are struggling.
2. List two ways that watching the film impacts the way they see possibilities for client healing to occur in their relationship to nature and to improve ways to live within the natural world that humanity inhabits.
3. Define a minimum of two practices needed to utilize a dialogic methodology that includes all voices inviting clinicians to share their perspectives about difficult and divisive issues in a “safe/respectful” exchange so that they can use these practices in their work.
Reviews:
"The film's tone is largely one of making reparation for harm done -- and is only partially hopeful about our prospects for emerging from the flames." India Bourke, New Statesman
"It is a universal message made all the more potent for being so profoundly personal." Brian Viner, Daily Mail (UK)
"The film's grand achievement is that it positions its subject as a mediator between humans and the natural world." Natalia Winkelman, NY Times