Courses
Our courses
We offer courses for consumers, clinicians and organizations. Online courses are in development. Contact us for a workshop for your organization.
Workshops for Consumers
Study Smarter,
Not Harder
Learn these research-tested, practical learning strategies and techniques to turbocharge your learning and make the best use of your time to master any subject (whatever your level of knowledge), change your way of thinking about study, and change your life.
Parenting with
Love and Logic
Wise parents give away the power they don't need to give their children the opportunity to learn from their mistakes while the cost is affordable. Master the principles of effective parenting to make parenting fun and give your children the best chance for success in life.
Overcoming Addiction Living in Recovery
Opioid addiction is the newest and possibly the most devastating in a series of drug epidemics, following meth, crack, cocaine, and alcohol. This course will show how you and your loved ones can beat addiction and maintain a life of recovery.
Storytelling for Change
People have been telling stories to motivate, inform, educate and inspire others since the birth of language. Learn how to use storytelling to help your children learn important life lessons the easy way!
Effective Communication
We learn how to communicate by listening to the conversations between our parents, older siblings, extended family members and their friends. Yet our ‘natural' communication is deeply flawed, rife with misunderstanding and the root cause of much individual and relationship dysfunction and suffering. In this course you will learn the key skills to communicate effectively, maximize understanding and improve your relationships in all areas of your life.
Special Play
Do you remember the fun you had, how time stopped, when playing as a child? Play is the activity in which children use their imagination to explore the world and experiment with new behavior and ideas. As we grow, we shift from 'free' play to play that becomes limited by rules and boundaries. Special play is a way to connect with your children while at the same time reconnecting with your own inner child.
Workshops for Clinicians
Basic Attending and Influencing Skills
Regardless of theoretical orientation or mode of treatment, mastering these basic attending, responding and influencing skills will significantly increase your ability to help clients make meaningful and lasting progress.
Developing Therapeutic Goals
Transform your treatment planning! Learn the SIX key questions to ask to create individualized, person-centered, outcome-focused, recovery-oriented and strengths-based SMARRT (specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic, relevant, time-framed) therapeutic goals, objectives and interventions, tailored for customers, complainers and visitors.
Clinical Documentation
Do you hate ‘filling out paperwork’ required by insurance companies or your agency? Learn how to transform your documentation into a person-centered, outcome-focused, recovery-oriented and strengths-based clinical tool for assessment, treatment planning and progress evaluation that helps move your clients from problems to lasting solutions.
Brief Solution Focused Therapy
This workshop provides a succinct yet comprehensive introduction to Brief Solution Focused Therapy. You will learn the theory and underlying principles of BSFT and how to use yourself creatively in the service of speedy but lasting change.
Family Therapy with Adolescents
Why family therapy with adolescents? Because people are relational beings, and the family unit is the most important set of relationships an adolescent has. This course presents effective, innovative, science-based family therapy interventions and techniques that help teens and their families achieve collaborative and proactive solutions to common adolescent relational, behavioral and emotional problems.
The Art and Science of Balancing Clinical and Administrative Supervision
In many settings, supervisors provide both administrative and clinical supervision. Yet the openness and trust required for effective clinical supervision often conflicts with the evaluation and gate-keeping responsibilities of administrative supervision. Learn the key principles of models for balancing those roles.
Therapeutic Storytelling
Therapeutic metaphor and storytelling can effectively influence change with an almost unlimited range of clients and issues in any setting. Learn to overcome resistance and help clients mobilize their own resources for positive change with one of the most respectful, non-threatening, non-judgmental techniques available.
Motivational Interviewing
MI is more than a collection of techniques to increase positive outcomes from a 20% baseline (untrained) to success rates ranging from 67% to more than 90% for patients suffering from chronic physical, emotional and substance use disorders, it but a client-centered, collaborative, solution-focused, philosophy of treatment.
Ethical Decision Making
As society has become more complicated by pluralistic, multi-cultural and competing beliefs, values and needs, clinicians face ever more complex ethical problems daily. With this course, you will clarify your own values and belief, and learn the key principles and a seven step model for ethical decision making.
Workshops for Everyone
Living the Creative Life
We were born to be creative, yet most of us lose touch with our creativity somewhere between first and fifth grade. In this course, you will learn to let go of those old fears, uncover and reclaim your creative genius.
Stress & Time Management
Despite having more leisure time, labor-saving technology and a higher standard of living than our ancestors, we are more stressed than ever. Up to 75% of all doctor's visits are stress-related and can lead to severe, chronic health problems like addiction, heart disease and even death. Yet stress also motivates us to action, and leads to innovative thinking and creative problem solving. In this course, you will assess your personal stress level and master SEVEN stress management skills and NINE time management tools. Sign up HERE and begin to manage your stress NOW.
Dare to Dream
'Ah, but man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for,' wrote the poet, Robert Browning. Many of us give up on our dreams before they have a chance to blossom, allowing fear and resistance to defeat them. This course will help you turn your dreams into goals, your goals into plans, your plans into action, and your actions into accomplishments so that you can realize your dreams and live the life you were born to live.