|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
About the CentreWHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY |
Upcoming Events:Centre for Counselling & Community Safety Special EventsRegistration is now open for the following events:
Journey Through Complex Trauma: Focusing, Treatment & Healing (SPE114) Focusing is a body-centred and person-centred approach to healing, developed two decades ago at the University of Chicago by Eugene Gendlin. Focusing oriented psychotherapy allows clients total control of the pace and the direction of their healing journey. It is particularly effective in the treatment and healing of complex trauma and posttraumatic stress disorders caused by residential school abuse, family violence, addictions, witnessing violence, death, loss and grieving, suicides, and sexual, physical and emotional abuse and neglect. Focusing can be used alone or integrated into a variety of other treatment methods. In this two-day course we will explore the dynamics of trauma-based families, the relationship between the body and memory; traumatic bonding and “brainwashing”; the impacts of complex trauma on individuals; the reliability of memory and “false” memory; self-injury; flashbacks, projections and re-enactments of trauma. This course is intended for counsellors, social workers, crisis teams, healers and therapists who work in/with Aboriginal agencies and/or communities or in various other cross-cultural situations/settings. Includes networking lunch.
Read articles written by Shirley Turcotte.
Understanding the Impact of Trauma and Neglect on the Developing Child: Clinical Implications and Application of Neurodevelopmentally-informed Treatment Strategies (SPE104) The development of a young child is profoundly influenced by experience. Experiences shape the organization of the brain, which, in turn, influences the emotional, social, cognitive and physiological activities. Insights into this process come from understanding brain development. Both trauma and neglect, pervasive problems in our culture, result in the absence of essential developmental experiences required to express the fundamental potential of a child. Various forms of neglect are possible and include splinter neglect, total global neglect and emotional or relational neglect. Chaos, threat and abnormal patterns of emotional, social, cognitive and physical interactions with young children lead to an array of brain-related problems. This course will review clinical work and research that can help us better understand developmental trauma, neglect and the relational problems that arise from neglect and threat. An overview will be provided that suggests new directions for clinical practice, program development and policy. Includes networking lunch
Read articles written by Dr. Perry: Three easy ways to register:
Would you like to be the first to hear about upcoming Community and Social Justice Dspecial events? Join our First Call List and you will receive advance notice of all Community and Social Justice Division events.
Do you have an idea for a special event? Is there a speaker or trainer you would love to hear? Our staff has the creativity, persistence, and expertise to undertake and manage high-profile events on new and emerging issues in the field. Please contact Caroline White, Program Director at 604.528.5620 or e-mail cccs@jibc.ca with your ideas.
|
Other Resources:
  Enter to win a free course and have the latest information delivered to your inbox. > Sign up now > Recent winners |
||||||||||||||||||||||
© JIBC |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shirley Turcotte, RCC has worked with survivors of sexual abuse and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders and child-hood abuse in adults for the last two decades. She has been a pioneering activist in the areas of therapeutic treatment and program development for survivors of childhood abuse. Shirley, who is semi-retired, was the Director of International Programmes at The Prairie Region Centre For Focusing in Winnipeg, Manitoba; the Aboriginal Community Training Centre in Timmins, Ontario; and is a founder of The Pacific Centre for Focusing in Vancouver, B.C. Shirley is nationally renowned as a col-laborating writer and director of the NFB film, To a Safer Place, which describes her own experiences of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. She is a recipient of many awards, including British Columbia’s Woman of Distinction in Health and Education Award.
Alannah Earl Young, MA, is Opaskwayak Cree/Peguis Anishnabe. She is an advisor with University of British Columbia’s First Nations House of Learning in Vancouver. She is trained in complex trauma and specializes in focusing – a body centered therapy, expressive art therapies, and body mind psychotherapies. She is informed by social suffering, critical race and Indigenous Knowledge theoretical frameworks. Her co-authored works include: Unsettling Pastoral Educational Sociology: Asylum-making, Medicalized Colonialism in British Columbia (1859-1897) and Artistic Praxis for Social Transformation (2009); Education Bodies for Self-determination: A decolonizing strategy (2006); and Ways of Knowing: Focusing and Trauma (1998). Her current projects include seeking balance for the truth and reconciliation process. She has also worked for VISAC; Vancouver Coastal Health; Aboriginal Child & Family Services and the Indian Residential School Survivors Society. 
Bruce D. Perry, PhD, is the Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, a Houston-based not-for-profit organization that promotes innovations in service, research, and education in child maltreatment and childhood trauma (