THE GLOBAL EXCHANGE CONFERENCE 2023
ADDICTION • WELLNESS • MENTAL HEALTH • LEADERSHIP
Conference Schedule
*Agenda may be subject to change.
DAY 1
November 1, Tuesday
7:00 AM - 8:00 PM
- 7:00AM - 8:00PM - Registration Open
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Overview:
Join Dr. Stephen Porges and Deb Dana, LCSW for an exploration of the scientific foundations of Polyvagal Theory and integration of these organizing principles in clinical practice. Explore the unique art and science of Polyvagal Theory with a journey into understanding the principles that have revolutionized our understanding of how we are human and experimenting with the practices that bring theory into clinical application. Stephen Porges will set the stage for the workshop presenting the scientific basis and constructs of his ground-breaking Polyvagal Theory. Deb Dana will then translate the science using her own unique framework and explain the tools and techniques she has developed to integrate the theory into clinical work.In the second half of the workshop Deb will conduct a live session illustrating the elements of polyvagal guided clinical work. Following the demo, Stephen and Deb will deconstruct the experience with the client and the audience to delve into the principles and show the practical and universal applications of using a polyvagal lens in clinical work.
Learning Objectives:
- Categorize the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory
- Summarize the impact of trauma to the nervous system
- Evaluate the hierarchy of human autonomic responses
- Define the pathways of the social engagement system and face-heart connection
- Assess client autonomic profiles and patterns of protection
- Determine ways to help clients engage the regulating capacities of the autonomic nervous system to create an environment of safety
Overview:
Measurement is unquestionably the most significant issue facing Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment providers. Fundamental to any treatment science is an ability to effectively monitor and measure treatment progress. For example, individuals can monitor glucose levels in support of avoiding diabetic ketoacidosis. Unfortunately, there is only one standard for measurement in the psychological sciences: diagnosis. Issues that arise from the associated lack of measurement practices include: fewer quality standards, decreased ability to advocate for services, and an inability to broadly examine treatment effectiveness. Luckily, there have been significant improvements in both data science and technology accelerants that have increased our collective ability to measure treatment success. This workshop will provide the historical research findings that support our current SUD treatment practices, provide each participant with the tools necessary to measure individual provider level effectiveness, and outline the future application of these tools through NAATP’s FoRSE Outcomes Program.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the historical research context that supports SUD treatment effectiveness
- Analyse pragmatic measurement tools and technology accelerants available for provider use across any level of care
- Evaluate the strategic goals supporting NAATP’s FoRSE Outcomes Program
- Create individual tailormade measurement practices that can be applied within the audience member’s practice
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
- 7:00 PM - Food, Festival & Fireworks: Celebrating You!
DAY 2
November 2, Wednesday
6:00 AM - 7:00 AM
- 6:00 AM - Virtual Techno Gym Workout
- 6:00 AM - Yoga on the Beach
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
- 7:00 AM - 12-Step Meeting
7:00 AM - 6:30 PM
- 7:00 AM - 6:30 PM - Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
- 8:00 AM - Continental Breakfast - Sponsored by Fellowship Hall
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- 8:00 AM - Exhibit Hall Open
- 8:00 AM - Genesis 1 Clinics
- 8:00 AM - The AjoiA 270° Immersive Experience
"The Essence Of Being” LIVE Performance - 12:00pm - 12:35pm (Location: SouthernHemisphere III/IV & V)
8:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Overview:
Based on The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture, the title of Dr. Maté's next book, being released September 13 2022 and available for pre-order now.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify two separations imposed by Western Medicine on the health and wellbeing of the population
- Name three chronic conditions that are correlated with stressful social environments
- Describe one shift in focus that would support a healthier population
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Overview:
In 2018 The American Psychological Association (APA) published an article that stated, Stress affects all systems of the body including the musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, endocrine, gastrointestinal, nervous, and reproductive systems.
Learning Objectives:
- 4 types of Heart-Brain communications will be explained
- Self-regulating techniques will be demonstrated
- The relationship between the heart and brain will be described and assessed
- How energy states influence your body, mind and emotions
- The concept of Heart coherence will be discussed
Overview:
Did you know that beginning at the age of 40, the brain shrinks 5% every ten years? The aging process causes this shrinking, and it can have a devastating impact on daily focus, wellness, mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety, productivity, and day-to-day and long-term memory. But it doesn't have to be this way.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the latest breakthrough understandings and insights into mental health and lowering the risk of dementia
- Identify common mental health issues that significantly increase the risk of developing dementia
- Describe the links between brain health and other common physical health conditions
Overview:
The presentation will address the importance of assessing and treating dissociation with complex PTSD clients from an integrative, three-phase approach. An integration of evidence-based trauma treatment models such as EMDR, Somatic therapies, Gestalt, will be discussed. The aforementioned modalities offer resources and tools for clinicians to provide individualized, client-centered, body oriented and holistic trauma treatment.
The methodology follows three sequential phases beginning with stabilization through the therapeutic alliance, grounding, and resourcing.
The subsequent phase allows for processing memories in a contained way by utilizing an integration of EMDR, and a blend of body resources.
The third phase encompasses integration of phases 1 and 2 focusing on the trauma that has been worked through and maintenance of what has been achieved.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and assess the spectrum of dissociation
- Describe the three phase approach to trauma treatment
- Assess for the clients’ window of tolerance and appropriate timing for processing trauma memories
- Demonstrate appropriate use of mindfulness skill as well as somatic tracking skills to treatment of trauma and dissociation
Overview:
Join Nicole Golden, author of the Drug and Alcohol Recovery Fitness Specialist course, offered by the Medfit Education Foundation, for an informative session to explore exercise as medicine in the treatment of substance use disorders. Together, we will review the effectiveness of exercise as an adjunct therapy for drug/alcohol use disorders, evaluate which exercise modalities are most effective for which individuals depending on history and substance(s) used, review what is happening physiologically, and identify resources to aid in the development of fitness programs in the inpatient and outpatient treatment settings.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe recent research highlighting the efficacy of exercise as an adjunct treatment for substance use disorders
- Explain which exercise modalities/considerations apply to individuals with SUD depending on primary substance abused
- Identify 2 potential roles of the fitness professional as part of the treatment team for individuals with SUD
- Name educational resources to appropriately prepare fitness professionals to design/implement exercise programs appropriate for individuals with substance use disorders
Overview:
The regulation of the human genome by the epigenome is now regarded as a cornerstone, heritable, physiologic process, playing a key role in phenotypic expression of health and disease. DNA methylation is a well-researched, primary epigenetic process that has been used to establish biological age assessments, namely DNA methylation “clocks,” which act as possible surrogate markers of age-related morbidity and mortality risk. The potential to slow biological age as measured by these clocks is just beginning to be explored. Yet emerging research suggests that it is possible to do just that. This has profound implications for the growing health-related economic and social challenges of our rapidly aging population. A 2021 Nature Aging paper states that a slowdown in aging that results in one year of increased lifespan would save 38 trillion dollars in health care spending, and a deceleration by ten years would save 367 trillion dollars. This presentation will cover: Overview of epigenetics The state of the research on DNA methylation and biological age reversal Dietary and lifestyle interventions that have been shown, in both animals and humans, to favorably impact DNA methylation and biological age Plant phytochemical favorable effect on DNA methylation The intersection between metabolic and epigenomic methylation pathways and why we may need to be judicious in our use of high dose methyl donor supplements Biological embedding and the epigenetic impact of trauma over generations.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the fundamentals of epigenetic regulation of gene expression
- Describe the current landscape of research on DNA methylation, with an emphasis on DNA methylation changes in aging and chronic diseases
- Define biological age and explain how it is measured using DNA methylation
- Differentiate between biological age and chronological age
- Identify 3 dietary and lifestyle inputs may favorably affect DNA methylation under a variety of circumstances, from depression or PTSD to biological aging
Overview:
Until recently, scientific skepticism surrounding the clinical and public health utility of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and 12 step based clinical treatments designed to link patients with AA, was commonplace. During the last 30 years however, following a request from the U.S. Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of sciences for more research on 12 step treatment, AA, and its mechanisms, a flurry of rigorous federally funded research studies have emerged, including dozens of randomized clinical trials, cost effectiveness analyses, and studies of AA's mechanisms of behavior change. This body of work has revealed that 12 step clinical treatments confer benefits that are at least on par, if not often better, than other formal treatments (e.g., CBTs), while also producing substantial reductions in healthcare costs. Research investigating AA's mechanisms of behavior change also reveals that the way AA has been shown to confer this benefit is by mobilizing therapeutic mechanisms also mobilized by professional treatments, but is able to do so over the long term for free in the communities in which people live. This talk will review the latest evidence on the efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and mechanisms through which AA and 12 step treatments confer benefit. Implications for other mutual-help organizations and related treatments will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the state of the science on AA and 12 step treatments
- Name 3 major therapeutic mechanisms through which AA has been shown to confer recovery benefits
- Discuss how AA can work differently for different people despite conferring similar magnitude benefit
- Describe the mechanisms by which AA and other 12-step programs work
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
- 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM - Book Signing
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM - Lunch Break
Overview:
Coming Soon!
Overview:
Gabor and Daniel Maté will be inviting questions from the audience and sharing their experience in the writing together of The Myth of Normal and how it has shaped their father/son relationship. We will also find out what’s next for them on the back of this epic journey.
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Overview:
For both clinical and economic reasons, the increasing number of persons living with chronic health conditions such as chronic pain, Lyme disease, somatic symptom disorder and others, represents a public health concern of growing urgency. Emphasizing patient responsibility and acting in a collaborative nature in concert with the provider community, self-management represents a promising strategy for treating chronic disease. Clinically working with individuals to actively identify challenges and self-solve problems associated with their chronic illness decreases physician office visits, unnecessary surgical interventions and billions of unnecessary dollars spent on products claiming to cure the presenting disease. Self-management also shows potential as an effective paradigm across the prevention spectrum (primary, secondary, and tertiary) by establishing a pattern for health as early in the treatment episode as possible and providing strategies for mitigating illness and managing it in later life. Practical applications of self-management of chronic disease will be discussed in this presentation.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify six self-management intervention likely to improve health outcomes
- Describe cultural norms and traditions in patient care settings when treating chronic disease in a multidisciplinary practice setting
- List 10 differing disciplines who should be included in a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation setting when looking at treating chronic disease in a multidisciplinary practice setting
- identify and explain eight everyday stressors that often trigger physical symptoms
- Describe six major life changes that can often coincide with the development of new or worsening symptoms of the chronic disease process
Overview:
Developed over the past four decades, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model offers both a conceptual umbrella under which a variety of practices and different approaches can be grounded and guided, and a set of original techniques for creating safety and fostering Self connection.
We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t match the ideal of who we think we should be. IFS challenges the mono-mind theory and offers a non-pathologizing model that delivers a route to loving, honouring, and understand all our “parts”.
IFS has been transforming psychology for decades and has been effective in areas such as trauma recovery, addiction therapy, and depression treatment. This presentation will provide an introduction to the basics of the IFS model and its use with attachment and trauma. An overview of IFS and its clinical applications will be presented.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe basic theory and principles of Internal Family Systems therapy as they apply to working with trauma
- Define the IFS model as an internal attachment model
- Identify three effects of trauma on parts and Self
- Decribe their own parts and how those parts impact therapy
- Explain the history and development of the Internal Family Systems model of therapy.
Overview:
In recent years there has been tremendous controversy about sexually compulsive behavior. Researchers and clinicians alike have argued about the best terminology to use, diagnostic criteria, and treatment approaches. In this presentation, Dr. Carnes discusses the concerns about labeling out control sexual behavior and the examines the new research and appropriate diagnostic categories. Differential Diagnosis, etiological factors and treatment will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify a differential diagnosis of Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder
- Describe the role of trauma and attachment disruption as etiological factors in the development of compulsive and addictive sexual behavior
- Describe new research on neuroscience, and cultural and gender differences.
- Name 2 types of treatment approaches
Overview:
Leading during times of unprecedented change and upheaval is challenging leaders from every imaginable field. An increasing remote work force puts additional strain on organizations. Leaders of both small business and large organizations are being challenged on a multitude of fronts. As always, with change and upheaval comes opportunity. Organizations are now rethinking every aspect of their business; The nature of work, how to provide additional services for employees for performance and retention, and what skills required from current leaders now, and in the future.
This presentation will look at how emerging technology is reshaping leadership practices and emerging importance of emotional intelligence among leadership. This presentation will look at the new remote hybrid work force and what that means for the mental health of employees when many are now working from home, at least part time. How can we utilize technology platforms to effectively, lead, communicate and support employees within organization as many people, especially women have additional stressors and trauma present at home? How do we effectively lead our businesses while battling the individual and group trauma of a global pandemic, climate change and a divided country all of which has created an unprecedented level of anxiety on a global scale.
Overview:
If physical wellness is an integral part of the continuum of care towards achieving and maintaining mental health and wellness, where’s the expert and where’s the plan? We will define and discuss wellness, including the history and the pillars and how important it is to include the physical side of wellness to achieve overall wellness in an Integrated Mental Health program. We will dive into the science and benefits of physical activity and its significant importance as a tool in a plan of care. We will define a Physical Wellness Expert and explain why they should be part of every interdisciplinary team.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the importance of physical wellness, focusing on the body and physical activity
- Discuss the physiological impact of physical activity to a body under stress
- Discuss the importance of systematic progressive physical activity within a mental health program
- Explaining the importance of a Physical Wellness Expert as part of the interdisciplinary team; including understanding dosing and adapting to different client status levels
Overview:
ADHD has gone viral on social media, creating a global community of influencers dedicated to spreading ADHD awareness and destigmatizing the condition. On TikTok alone, the #ADHD channel has already reached over 2.5 billion views, with other platforms such as YouTube, Instagram and Reddit not far behind.
As a result, many people are exposed to online content about ADHD, which can vary from helpful advice to potentially harmful misinformation–before they even seek a diagnosis. Recently, a wave of users claimed that social media helped them to ‘detect’ their ADHD after algorithms showed them relatable content about the condition and its symptoms. This talk will explore how influencers with ADHD created a global impact on increasing ADHD awareness through social media, how the information shared online compares with our scientific understanding of the condition and the potential clinical implications.
Learning Objectives:
- Compare knowledge that is spread on social media with the scientific research of the condition
- Identify 2 unmet needs for patients with ADHD in the diagnosis and care pathway
- Define ADHD and debunk stereotypes that are proliferated on social media sites
Overview:
If physical wellness is an integral part of the continuum of care towards achieving and maintaining mental health and wellness, where’s the expert and where’s the plan? We will define and discuss wellness, including the history and the pillars and how important it is to include the physical side of wellness to achieve overall wellness in an Integrated Mental Health program. We will dive into the science and benefits of physical activity and its significant importance as a tool in a plan of care. We will define a Physical Wellness Expert and explain why they should be part of every interdisciplinary team.
Learning Objectives:
- Define wellness including history, pillars, and importance in mental health
- Discuss the importance of physical wellness, focusing on the body and physical activity
- Discuss the physiological impact of physical activity to a body under stress
- Discuss the importance of systematic progressive physical activity within a mental health program
- Explaining the importance of a Physical Wellness Expert as part of the interdisciplinary team; including understanding dosing and adapting to different client status levels
Overview:
Our country faces an unprecedented mental health crisis among people of all ages. The trauma, grief, loss and isolation associated with the pandemic has driven Americans in all demographics to a breaking point with depression, substance abuse and suicide attempts increasing. Even prior to the pandemic, suicide attempts and completions were on the rise, especially among the young and older adults aged 65 and above. The CDC reports that there were 1.2 million suicide attempts in 2020 and 3.2 million Americans had a plan for suicide. A suicide and suicide attempts affect the health and well-being of friends, loved ones, co-workers, and the community. Our discussion will look at what happens when a suicide of a co-worker and/or family member occurs within our organization and how we best respond when a patient that is in our care dies by suicide.
Learning Objectives:
- Intervene with a suicidal employee by involving families and loved ones
- List 3 Steps to stabilize a traumatized workforce after a sentinel event
- List 3 patterns of sentinel events in behavioral health facilities and suggestions for safety protocols
- Describe current suicide research
- Describe a culture of safety for employees and patients that also builds protective factors for suicide prevention
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Overview:
Sign up for a complimentary 20-minute legal consultation session here. Spaces are limited and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
- 3:00 PM - Stay Free - Russell Brand
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Overview:
Join New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra as he guides you on how to develop new skills in awareness that will ultimately cultivate a clear vision, reduce suffering in your mind and body, and help recover who you really are.
Learning Objectives:
- To understand how Well Being can enhance our capacity for intuition, creativity, conscious choice making and healing
- Learn practical tools to enhance the capacity for total wellbeing (physical, emotional, spiritual, social, community, financial & ecological
- Design personal goals with priority and clarity in mind
DAY 3
November 3, Thursday
6:00 AM - 7:00 AM
- 6:00 AM - Yoga / Tai Chi / Meditation at EPCOT (Pre-Registration Required)
- 6:00 AM - Virtual Techno Gym Workout at Dolphin Hotel
- 6:00 AM - Fun Run
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
- 7:00 AM - 12-Step Meeting
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
- 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM - Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
- 8:00 AM - Continental Breakfast
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM
- 8:15 AM - Opening General Session
Overview:
At their peak, spirituality and psychotherapy offer healing when out of alignment with our natural state. Spirituality challenges the prevalence of indulgent self-reference at the core of much modern psychotherapy, positing that happiness stems not from further analysis of the self but rather from wholeness of the self. The journey to happiness lies not in a deeper understanding of the vicissitudes of darkness, but in a greater embrace - and experience - of the principles of light.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify 2 ways spiritual principles impact the paradigm of traditional psychotherapy
- Identify at least 2 spiritual keys that help overcome anxiety and depression
- Describe the importance relationships as assignments created by an intentional universe in both spirituality and psychotherapy
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- 8:00 AM - Exhibit Hall Open
- 8:00 AM - Genesis 1 Clinics
- 8:00 AM - The AjoiA 270° Immersive Experience
"The Essence Of Being” LIVE Performance - 11:30am - 12:05pm (Location: SouthernHemisphere III/IV & V)
9:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Pre-Registration Required
Overview:
Compassionate Inquiry is a psychotherapeutic method developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world. Using Compassionate Inquiry, the therapist unveils the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories, and body states that form the real message that words both express and conceal. Through Compassionate Inquiry, the client can recognize the unconscious dynamics that run their lives and how to liberate themselves from them. Dr. Maté will model the process of Compassionate Inquiry with course participants and instruct therapists in the practice of this powerful technique to help clients access deep healing and transformation. This will be both an experiential, participatory workshop where participants will be guided through their own personal process, as well as a training to teach the method of Compassionate Inquiry to health professionals, therapists, and social workers.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify 3 ways to cultivate presence
- Identify 2 techniques to access clients' emotional states through body awareness
- Describe 2 ways patience, respect, and choice are important in the therapeutic process
- Utilize Compassionate Inquiry to uncover early traumatic events of childhood and unconscious feeling states
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Overview:
In December 2021, the U.S. Surgeon General issued an Advisory on youth mental health. In this presentation, experts from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation will outline the factors noted in the Advisory as contributors to youth wellness both before and during the pandemic. Presenters will then explore the Advisory’s topline recommendations. By sharing how specific recommendations can apply within a continuum of care to include health promotion, risk and illness prevention, early intervention, and treatment of youth mental illness and substance use disorders, presenters will help attendees gain clarity and passion for their personal role in fostering youth resilience.
Learning Objectives:
- List 4 risk factors and protective factors that impact youth mental health, substance use, and wellness
- Explain data, trends, and stories of youth resiliency as well as youth substance use and mental illness
- Describe 2 impacts our changing society and the Covid-19 Pandemic have had on youth wellness
- Identify 3 techniques within our professional, personal, and community roles to support youth resilience
Overview:
Join doubles tennis legend, Murphy Jensen, alongside High Watch Media’s Emmy-winning Director/Producer, Jeff Reilly, and Executive Producer, Greg Williams as they preview and present never-before-seen segments of the innagural feature documentary film coming in 2023 from High Watch Media, Born To Serve. Born to Serve is a 30-for-30-esque character-driven sports docuseries about the life of tennis Grand-Slam Doubles Champion, Murphy and Luke Jensen who single-handly took doubles tennis mainstream. The film features appearances from many of Tennis' royalty including, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Patrick McEnroe, the Bryan Brothers, Katrina Adams, Brenda Shultz-McCarthy, and contains extraordinary access to the entire Jensen Family and archives. The film explores the cultural impact to the world of tennis of the Jensen brothers during the 1990's, and explores the untold story about Murphy’s disappearance from Wimbledon in 1995 that had the entire world asking, “Where’s Murphy”? It wasn’t Agassi, McEnroe, or Connors who was the genesis behind the term “Rock-n-Roll” tennis, it was the Jensen Brothers, and 25 years later addiction recovery has taken Murphy in a direction beyond his wildest dreams.
Overview:
Alcohol use and misuse among women is at an all time high as a result of the pandemic. Clinicians are experiencing an increase in clients seeking help to manage their relationship with alcohol. Many do not meet criteria for Alcohol Use Disorder but fall into a category Kitley has coined as “Gray Area Drinking.” In this presentation, you will view a film Kitley adapted from her autobiography, that she uses to travel around the country and educate communities about the effects alcohol misuse plays on the family system, before hitting rock bottom. Using a holistic approach with clients, attendees will learn tools to implement with their clients around self exploration including journaling, meditation and breathing exercises, cognitive restructuring, where they can direct clients to receive support outside of Alcoholics Anonymous, and community support for women. Kitley will also offer an open discussion about gray area drinking and how to approach the topic with clients in a culture that has normalized the drinking phenomenon.
Learning Objectives:
- Define gray area drinking and identify when to intervene
- Identify 3 tools to help clients assess their own gray area drinking patterns
- Identify 3 resources to help clients find support
- Describe how gray area drinking impacts the family unit
Overview:
The alarming rise in rates of workplace burnout, mental health challenges, and widespread languishing have created significant challenges for businesses and the people they employ. Dr. Bertram will present an overview of the science of flow state and discuss how it can be deployed for greater individual and corporate well-being. Flow is as an optimal state of consciousness in which people both feel their best and perform their best. Flow has been shown to be positively associated with decreased levels of stress, increased levels of workplace engagement and performance, as well as with a vast array of general measures of personal well-being. This presentation is designed to provide the audience with an evidence-based overview of both the psychology and neuroscience of flow state as well as actionable steps individuals and/or businesses can take to improve their overall well-being and perform more optimally.
Learning Objectives:
- Provide an evidence-based overview of the psychology of flow state
- Provide an overview of the current neuroscientific literature related to flow state
- Provide a summary of the demonstrated impact of flow on personal and employee well-being
- Provide evidence-based action steps individuals and business can take to improve overall well-being and more optimal performance
Overview:
In this presentation, Karen Odell-Barber, MS, CISD, the Founder of Neurologics, will share three things:
- how brain mapping helps practitioners see which areas of the brain aren’t working the way they should
- how neuroengineering allows for more targeted therapy
- and how Neurologics’ optimization program can heal the brain.
Attendees will learn how sophisticated qEEG brain mapping helps reveal what’s going on inside your brain and how these discoveries lead to powerful, targeted therapies that produce impressive and permanent gains in cognitive and emotional function.
For nearly two decades, practitioners & clients have found life-changing success using Neurologics’ brain mapping technology. This life-saving technology is the future of mental health care. Learn how this core technology can help you level up your practice.
Overview:
This will be a fast-paced, interactive discussion about the unique challenges faced by mental health, addiction, and holistic wellness providers in creating and maintaining workforce wellness in the wake of a global health emergency and the rising mental health crisis. This presentation will review recent significant legal developments and trends, including paid leave, sexual harassment, and other employment discrimination; COVID-19-related issues; and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. We will also provide an overview of other regulations, including 42 CFR Part 2 and HIPAA, that may apply to your workforce. Finally, we will talk with you about staff shortages and turnover and how to create a first-choice workplace for your staff.
Overview:
This presentation will look at various models to healing bias and racism by unifying The 12 Steps of Recovery with some of the latest developments in brain science.
Modalities that can compassionately address the underlying root causes of unconscious racial bias. Attendees will look at potential ways to bridge the gap between spirituality and diversity, equity and inclusion. and is an effective and loving path toward the transformation of systemic racism, while being true and consistent with our work in the world. Racism is systemic, but it is also spiritual and emotional in origin. When unconscious bias and racism is healed at the core level of identity, it radically shifts the way we serve those in need.
In this compelling presentation, Ester will discuss how intergenerational racism and bias must be addressed at the level of our deepest memories, emotions and concept of identity. She will also talk about how the foundational tools of "Soul Recovery" provides access to unconsciously held perceptions, beliefs and patterns of racism so that they can be discussed, processed and released.
Learning Objectives:
- Guide participants through the concept of the 12 steps to examine awareness of beliefs and unconscious patterns of racial bias
- Prepare participants to implement the principles of Compassionate Accountability through their own self-examination of unconscious bias
- Demonstrate how to provide an environment of healing and safety for all people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status
- Demonstrate how to provide an environment of healing and safety for all people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
- 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM - Book Signing
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM - Lunch Break
Overview:
This talk will describe the revelatory new science of sleep, covering two topics: (1) the impact of sleep (e.g., efficient learning, enhanced memory, mental health stability), (2) the consequences of insufficient sleep on the brain (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease, depression, anxiety, poor educational performance), and (2) the consequences of insufficient sleep on the body (e.g., cancer, immune dysfunction, cardiovascular disease). In summary, there is not one organ within the body or process within the brain that isn’t enhanced by sleep when we get enough, or strikingly impaired when we don’t.
Learning Objectives:
- List 3 positive impacts of sleep
- List 4 negative consequences of insufficient sleep on the brain
- List 3 negative consequences of insufficient sleep on the body
- Identify 3 techniques for optimizing and improving sleep
11:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Overview:
Sign up for a complimentary 20-minute legal consultation session here. Spaces are limited and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Overview:
The research in neuropsychology has officially ended the era of talking heads and brought the body into the therapeutic room as a full and necessary part of the healing equation. Psychodrama, the first form of embodied therapy and sociometry, an early theory of group dynamics, allows the body as well as the mind to have a voice and participate in the healing milieu. Based on Dr. Dayton’s recent book Sociometrics, this workshop will teach user-friendly experiential processes that engage and bond groups, organically moving participants from states of dysregulation to self and co-regulation. Sociometrics activate the social engagement system in service of healing; they incorporate the research that needs to be taught in recovering from cPTSD into a lively format that gets people on their feet, connecting to their own inner world and sharing with each other in authentic ways. Sociometrics are easy to learn, they reduce the role of the therapist and enhance and empower group members to become stakeholders in their own recovery. They build emotional literacy, intelligence and resilience through structured, interactive “experiences" that feel welcoming, safe, moving and at times even playful. Sociometrics break down the categories of healing into manageable parts through processes such as floor check and timelines that are experiential and can warm clients up to focused, embodies role plays.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the experiential/embodied process that reduces the role of the therapist and increases the role of group members in each other’s healing and learning
- Incorporate experiential work and role play into treatment
- Utilize the principles of neurobiology to foster skills of resilience such as autonomy, engagement, self and co-regulation.
- Identify 3 skills needed in the treatment of cPTSD
Overview:
This panel will discuss the use of technology for mental health and substance use treatment and prevention. We will discuss evidence-based digital mental health technology that is relevant to prevention strategies along with approaches to critically assess technology. The panel will discuss the general landscape of digital mental health and propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions to enhance well-being across personal and population levels, including methods for enhancing stakeholder and community engagement in the implementation of technology. We will also review ethical issues associated with technological applications in mental health, including issues of equity and access.
Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate an understanding of technology that is relevant to mental health prevention and treatment.
- Identify technology that reflects evidence-based approaches in mental health
- List 3 ethical issues associated with technological applications in mental health
- Identify 2 methods for enhancing stakeholder and community engagement in the implementation of technology in research and public health practice
Overview:
This session delves into clinical information for working with the Trans Community by addressing the needs of LGBTQAIA2+/transgender individuals who seek treatment for mental health and/or substance use disorders. The presentation covers Clinical considerations, including best practices for trans youth and adults, body dysphoria as per the DSM-5, hormone readiness implications, body image management, and emotions and feelings those in the LGBTQIA2+ “Rainbow Community” may experience will be presented from both a clinical, as well as personal perspective through Kristina Padilla’s lived experience as a gay/trans/fluid person. CBTF will be discussed, MET will be gone over, and Trauma inform treatment will be presented to show clinicians how to work with queer populations.
As a refresher for some and a foundation for those new to working with this population, an “Introduction to the LGBTQ+ Community: LGBTQ+ 101,” will give basic information about definitions, best practices, and working with the Trans and non-binary population.
Effective tips and questions to ask as a potential clinician will be reviewed so that clinicians may self-assess their practice’s LGBTQIA2+ affirming levels and ways in which to improve this quality if necessary. Insights about how to run a successful support group for those who are coming out or questioning will also be outlined and discussed. To take participants beyond their practices to becoming potential advocates for their clients and within society as a whole, “Welcome to the Rainbow Community: What you didn’t know, and How to Become an Ally” will be presented. This important section of the presentation challenges practitioners to be leaders in their communities and to inspire clients and their families to end stigma that has so deeply impacted “Rainbow People.”
Many practitioners have a basic familiarity concerning LGBTQ clients. However, most are unfamiliar with the distinctions within the trans and non-binary populations. There is a strong need for practitioners to learn the unique attributes of the trans umbrella and how the histories and challenges each segment faces when entering treatment for addiction impacts the way in which each individual may succeed or fail. Clinicians can vastly improve service delivery by understanding that what they may not know what they do not know regarding this special population. With the incredible stress that isolation has created due to the pandemic, young trans people are at a historic risk for addiction and suicidality. It is urgent that practitioners increase their knowledge about this special population
Learning Objectives:
- Describe a positive or negative impact of a person’s coming out story regarding family
- Learn three categories typically placed under best practices for working with the LGBT
- Describe similarities between the stigmatization of “rainbow people” and stigmatization
Overview:
In this presentation, participants will analyze the importance of understanding a client’s unique background for successful relapse prevention. We will review current relapse prevention research and data to will examine effective strategies and approaches, as well as perceived gaps in knowledge, practice, and patient outcomes. Kalmenson will introduce his emerging Discovery Model – which envisions a next step forward in relapse prevention. Informed by the successes and failures reflected in research data, the Discovery Model offers a new holistic lens for viewing optimized patient outcomes based off of individualized treatment strategies. Research suggests that a critical element of relapse prevention is the identification of clients’ unique high-risk situations (Witkiewitz & Marlatt, 2007), and as such, the Discovery model proposes grouping relapse stressors into three categories: unresolved mental health, circumstantial, and intrinsic. Participants will examine the most effective and specialized strategies for reducing stressors and increasing patient outcomes for each unique category.
Learning Objectives:
- How understanding a client’s background can inform a more complete understanding of their high-risk situations, resulting in more successful patient outcomes
- Attendees will analyze how the current educational gap in effective relapse prevention leads to a gap in performance and patience outcomes, as evidenced by current relapse statistics
- Potential areas of improvement for relapse prevention according to the research data
Overview:
Fitness and wellness is a critical component of recovery that is overlooked within trauma and addiction treatment protocols. This presentation will help answer how we got to this point by sharing how the traditional fitness industry has created some unintended roadblocks to progress. Most importantly, the critical steps that trauma and addiction facilities need to take in order to maximize success and patient outcomes will be shared. Best practices from related healthcare initiatives will be shared along with lessons learned to help facilities avoid painful and expensive mistakes. The same investments made to serve patients can also be used to serve facility professional and support staff fitness and wellness needs too. This presentation provides a roadmap with clear and actionable insights to implement a successful fitness and wellness program.
Overview:
Social, family, and cultural backgrounds determine how we experience mental health, communicate symptoms, which healthcare interventions we prefer, and the support we get from family and friends. Culture, therefore, plays a significant role in mental health needs and expectations, especially as societies are becoming more multicultural. In a world where change is the only constant, we should also acknowledge that one size doesn’t fit all in mental health. Dr. Mouton explores how to design and deliver culturally-informed care in daily practice for addiction care and psychiatry, in particular, the effect of culture on addiction, ADHD and other co-occurring mental health challenges.
Learning Objectives:
- List 2 ways in which culture, history, politics and technology continues to influence psychiatric diagnoses and treatment.
- Describe the impact of cultural differences on clinical communication in clinical settings such as psychiatric or addiction services.
- Assess for relevant cultural information and produce a cultural formulation
- Determine readiness and motivation for change.
- Utilize the family’s knowledge and skills in order to motivate patients to enter and complete treatment in a culturally respectful manner
- Provide Culturally Responsive Case Management
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
- 2:30 PM - A Conversation with Margaret Trudeau - Margaret Trudeau
Overview:
This workshop will use opera as a jumping off point to discuss how mental illness has been presented historically through art and in media. The way that artists depict mental illness has changed over time, but is still an important element in how our culture views mental illness and treats people who struggle with these issues. The discussion will link operatic depictions of madness to current treatment issues. Participants do not need to be familiar with opera to enjoy, learn from, and engage with this workshop.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify 3 changes in understanding about mental illness in the 19th century
- List 3 ways madness was represented in 19th-century opera
- Describe 2 ways artist representations of mental illness are relevant today
Overview:
When people think of trauma they often think of acute dramatic situations such as a natural disaster or car accident, yet the majority of people who experience trauma experience a more subtle and chronic form that exists within their own family. Beginning with a genogram, Claudia will give a portrait of addiction in the family, offering an overlay of how adverse child experiences, emotional abandonment and blatant violence are the foundation of emotional dysregulation fueling traumatic responses. She concludes the presentation offering a 7step process for healing.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify how the trauma responses to flight, fight and freeze become acted out in the family impacted by addiction
- Differentiate between the more blatant (Big T) and the more subtle (small t) traumas in the addicted family
- Describe the relationship between emotional dysregulation and addictions
- Describe a seven step process for healing
Overview:
This educational panel will provide insight into the clinical trajectory of professional intervention services. Panelists will discuss the evolution from Vernon Johnson’s office based interventions of the 60’s, to todays clinically driven, and specialized, modalities of intervention. This diverse panel will tackle a series of topics from clinically sophisticated cases, ethical challenges, professional certification and oversite, utilizing different intervention modalities and more. While this presentation is appropriate for general attendees, it will provide content relevant to intermediate and advanced clinicians, counselors and interventionists in all sectors of behavioral health.
- Attendees will gain knowledge related to the accreditation and certification of professional interventionists.
- Attendees will learn skills necessary to provide services within the Pennsylvania Certification Boards requirements for Certified Intervention Professionals.
- Attendees will gain information related to specific models of intervention services.
- Attendees will gain skills necessary to properly screen and assess potential intervention cases.
- Attendees will gain information related to the ethical practices of intervention services.
Overview:
Behavioral health providers are on the frontlines of our current mental health crisis and social justice issues. This workshop will explore how providers can intervene around the impact of socio- political factors with their clients and integrate social justice into their clinical work. We will review the liberation health framework which merges clinical and macro work into a unified way of working with individuals, families, and communities. We will review the concepts of liberation psychology which acknowledges the confluence of clients’ internal world with the systemic social political forces affecting health and well being.
Learning Objectives:
- Providers will learn how liberation based practices integrates lived experiences to build on clients’ resiliency and capabilities to heal.
- Learn about culturally responsive tools that address race- based stress and cultural trauma
- Review strategies to address cultural differences as well as reduce and repair offenses that can damage the therapeutic relationship Discuss how therapeutic conversations can promote healing and strength for marginalized communities who are exposed to daily macro- and microaggressions.
Overview:
The journey to cannabis recovery is far from linear and everyone, from the people looking to begin their journey to those looking to support someone in recovery, struggles with the question of where to start and what it means to be in recovery. This lack of understanding impacts individuals seeking cannabis recovery as it affects the public and medical community that produce the infrastructures meant to support and help individuals along their path in cannabis recovery. This workshop will delve into each stage of cannabis recovery and help attendees understand the journey one embarks on when seeking treatment and recovery. It takes them through the perspectives of those on this journey and gives them a global perspective on the significance of providing resources that support recovery across all stages of that journey.
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the recovery continuum through the trantheorectial model, stages of change
- Identify 4 internal obstacles and motivators an individual in recovery may face across their journey into and through recovery
- Describe the way individuals in recovery interact with the resources (medical and otherwise) throughout the stages of change
Overview:
Performance psychology skills, or mental skills are used primarily in the sports world and with certain populations that experience increased pressure from their occupation. These concepts and the psychology behind mental skills training has a direct impact on mental health and addictions populations as well. The structured, positive approach along with increased focus on accountability, serve as a guide to improved performance and quality of life. Dr. Derick Anderson and Jim Soda will discuss the concepts and the application in various settings of these skills over different populations.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify two differences in practicing psychology within the environments of high performance
- Differentiate between performance and clinical psychology
- Describe how traditional ethics and boundaries can be challenged within the world of organized sports
- Identify 3 ways to utilize performance skills to encourage and support mental health and addiction patients
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Overview:
Gabby Bernstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author and spiritual teacher offers methods on connecting to spirit in session. You’ll learn how to attune your energy to a spiritual connection of your own understanding to elevate your impact and deepen your work. Gabby will speak on behalf of the patient in recovery with first hand experience from her own seventeen year sober recovery.
Learning Objectives:
- Develop an unshakable trust in your inner wisdom.
- Learn to work with an energy beyond your own to no longer feel depleted after a session.
- Understand what it means to lead from Self.
Overview:
The COVID-19 pandemic had many mental health providers working virtually through telehealth services. Today, many professionals continue to use a hybrid approach for engaging clients. With the prevelance of our mental health crisis, therapists’ burnout can add to the ongoing pressure felt by many professionals providing both face to face and virtual therapeutic services online. Integrating creative and expressive art techniques can bolster therapeutic rapport and connection to deepen the healing experience of traditional " talk therapy".
Join us in a unique experiential and interactive workshop where you will learn to use creative interventions in both virtual and face to face therapy sessions. Attendees will be actively engaged and will leave the workshop with creative techniques that can be applied and modified across diagnoses, populations, ages, and situations.
Description: Play therapists and expressive art therapists often use a variety of art and creative activities in their work with children, teens, and adults. This workshop will introduce creative and expressive art activities to be used in therapy.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify at least one activity for establishing a therapeutic rapport with clients virtually and face to face
- Identify basic supplies needed to incorporate creative techniques in virtual therapy
- Identify at least one activity for assessment with clients virtually and face to face using creative activities
- Utilize at least three activities as a measurement tool virtually or in person
Overview:
Participants will know at least four specific clinically-related programming questions to ask to determine the best clinical fit for a patient at a residential treatment program.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will identify and understand five levels of care in the mental health continuum
- Participants will identify and understand three collateral recovery support options
- Participants will identify and understand two nefarious marketing and advertising practices designed to deceive a consumer/family and professional referent
Overview:
Pain and suffering are ubiquitous, and the great secret is that many of us have an inner experience so unpleasant that we act in ways that temporarily please, but ultimately destroy us - body, mind, and spirit. Once an addiction or other disorder manifests, even the strongest motivation to change often results in countless unsuccessful efforts to recover. Understanding the various manifestations of the self-destructive urge, as well as theories describing its causes, is key to helping people move in valued directions in the presence of pain. This presentation will provide a summary of the ACT approach to addiction treatment and the research supporting it. Participants will practice evidence-based ACT techniques designed to build awareness of self-destructive thoughts, develop psychological flexibility, and create new cognitive-behavioral pathways to recovery-oriented living.
Learning Objectives:
- Define 2 ACT principles
- Describe the empirical evidence and theoretical models supporting ACT as an effective intervention for people with substance use disorders
- Utilize cognitive exercises to build awareness and acceptance of self-destructive thoughts and respond with self-compassion and value-focused action
Overview:
Trauma tends to fragment and/or diminish our sense of self. This presentation will offer simple exercises to enhance sensory skills by exploring the musculoskeletal, respiratory, and nervous systems, and how they relate to the larger universe, and to trauma. Learn to awaken inherent potential by finding the support from the ground that can lead to full stature and the expanded Self, while noting how trauma and overwhelm can interfere with this process.
Learning Objectives:
- Experience the value of bottom-up processing.
- Understand the multi-dimensional breathing process.
- Differentiate between “support” and “grounding.”
Overview:
The last two decades have seen a massive increase in innovation research relating to drugs that were (and in most cases still are) banned under the UN Conventions and national drugs legislation. Many of these drugs, particularly the psychedelics such as psilocybin and LSD, had been shown to have significant benefits for mental health and addictions before they were banned in the 1960s/70s These early observations have since been confirmed with new studies of psilocybin in depression and addictions. More recently cannabis, ketamine, and MDMA have revealed efficacy in disorders such as PTSD, depression, and addiction. We are now in a new era of psychedelic-psychotherapy that offers a major advance for many patients who hitherto have not responded well to conventional treatments. Also, brain imaging research now helps us understand how these drugs work to facilitate the person engaging with the therapeutic process and why the impact of just one or two psychedelic interventions can lead to long-term benefits.
Learning Objectives:
- List 3 reasons people use recreational drugs
- Describe the brain targets of 5 different drugs
- Explain the 4 brain circuits that drive drug use and addictions and how drug and behavioural addictions change these
- Differentiate between traditional approaches to addiction treatment and new approaches with psychedelics
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Animal Kingdom - Sponsored by J. Flowers Health Institute 
*Buses will begin departing from the Dolphin Resort, Disney’s Yacht Club and Beach Club Resort, Disney’s Pop Century Resort and Caribbean Beach Resort at 7:00pm
DAY 4
November 4, Friday
6:00 AM - 7:00 AM
- 6:00 AM - Yoga on the Beach
- 6:00 AM - Virtual Techno Gym Workout
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
- 7:00 AM - 12-Step Meeting
7:00 AM - 2:00 PM
- 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM - Registration Open
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
- 8:00 AM - Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
- 8:00 AM - Exhibit Hall Open
- 8:00 AM - The AjoiA 270° Immersive Experience
"The Essence Of Being” LIVE Performance - 12:00pm - 12:35pm (Location: SouthernHemisphere III/IV & V)
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- 8:00 AM - Genesis 1 Clinics
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Overview:
The autonomic nervous system is at the heart of daily living powerfully shaping our experiences of safety and influencing our capacity for connection. What begins with our biology becomes the story that shapes our days. Polyvagal Theory provides a guide to the autonomic circuits that underlie behaviors and beliefs and an understanding of the body to brain pathways that give birth to stories of safety and survival. Through this science of connection, we have a new understanding of the ways experience shapes the nervous system and the pathways that lead to healing.
In this time of deep disruptions to everyday life, we are confronted with experiences that challenge our ability to feel safe and find ways to connect. Polyvagal Theory offers us a roadmap to navigate this unfamiliar territory. Anchored in the safety of a regulated nervous system, pathways of connection come alive and we can travel those pathways in service of healing. In this presentation we will use the organizing principles of hierarchy, neuroception, and co-regulation to guide our exploration and answer the essential question, “What does the nervous system need in this moment to find safety in connection?”
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze three organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory
- Develop an understanding of how the autonomic nervous system shapes behaviors and beliefs
- Summarize the emergent properties of autonomic states
- Categorize the distinct stories that emerge from autonomic states
Overview:
AjoiA is a music and sound immersive therapy experience. AjoiA will present an introduction to sound and music therapy, focusing on who they are, what they do and how it can be used in all arenas including wellness and healthcare, hotels and corporate business, for all people of all ages. It is totally inclusive and anyone can engage; you do not have to have a background in music to experience this presentation’s beneficial effects. AjoiA’s presentation and multi-sensory experience at The Global Exchange Conference 2022, will include a live performance of music, percussion and visuals, mixing the technology of today and tomorrow with those of our ancestors.The mood-enhancing properties of music, performance, and design, can help any living being with a nervous system. It can help people of all ages to improve their mental health and overall well-being, creating an environment that positively influences their frame of mind, energy and enabling beneficial rest and productivity alike.Within the healthcare sector specifically, AjoiA’s music and sound therapy experience, can be used in early intervention and prevention of metal health issues, as well as being utilized for people with neuro-development issues, Alzheimer’s, ADHD and those with Major Depressive Disorder’s (MDD).We aim to improve how all individuals feel, to help people improve their mental health, their productivity, and lead them to an overall sense of positive energy and wellbeing.
Learning Objectives:
- You will learn about the different percussion instruments AjoiA use in their therapeutic presentation.
- Identify which colours relate to each of the different Chakra’s and how they can be used as a meditation guide through our body.
- Describe how vibrational frequency, meditation and visual imagery can have a profound effect on wellbeing
- Name 2 ways music can have a positive influence on emotions and feelings.
Overview:
When the search for what is within us is directed outside us instead, we begin to mistakenly believe that joy and fulfillment can be found in people, places, things, education, behaviors, substances or experiences – a path which inevitably dead ends in darkness and disconnection. This loss of self, due to trauma or unmet needs, is not only the root of addiction, eating disorders and co-dependent behavior, the ancient texts from yoga and Vedanta call it the root of all suffering, including the social ills of racism, sexism and gender based discrimination. We don’t have to suffer or cause suffering. We can reclaim our true selves. The self-reclamation process requires coming home to parts of ourselves that we’ve banished or covered up for far too long, with the intention of reclaiming the love, acceptance, and belonging that is our birthright.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain an understanding of the connection between addiction and trauma through the lens of yoga philosophy and how it applies at the personal, communal and systemic levels
- Describe a framework for healing based in ancient texts
- Explore ideas and resources for personal and communal healing based in trauma informed mind/body/spirit practices
Overview:
Despite a lot of scientific as well as clinical progress, there is a tremendous need for novel, effective therapeutic interventions to improve symptoms and quality of life in neuropsychiatric conditions. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has received increasing attention as it has shown a promising therapeutic potential for several neuropsychiatric conditions. The main goal of this presentation is to highlight the history as well as latest findings on how TMS protocols can significantly impact quality of life, as well as improve behavioral response as well as cognitive abilities in individuals with anxiety, depression, addictions and cognitive deficits, including Neuro-Covid-19.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the rationale of using TMS in substance use disorders, anxiety, depression and Neuro-Covid-19.
- Identify patient populations could benefit from TMS
- List the main components to TMS therapy
Overview:
Discover the power of the breath as an untapped vehicle for mental well-being and resilience from an international expert with over twenty years of experience teaching. In this interactive workshop, you will learn effective and evidence-based breathwork tools to foster emotional regulation, promote calm alertness, and support ease in settling into meditation. The workshop will allow participants to experience how breathwork and meditation techniques can create a sense of belonging and foster mindful leadership. Research from top universities on the techniques delivered in the workshop as well as the SKY breath meditation technique will be shared.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the connection between the breath, mind, and emotions
- Utilize 2 effective and evidence based breathwork and tools to foster emotional regulation, promote calm alertness, and support ease in settling into meditation
- List 3 benefits of breathwork on clients
- Describe the research on the techniques delivered in the workshop
Overview:
This presentation will explore the methods available for interventionists to assist clients and families to become more connected to families, to disarm defense mechanisms, and to create space for healing. This presentation will also explore the use of cognitive behavioral therapy as it applies to mindfulness and other techniques available to for Interventionists to utilize help prevent burnout.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify clinical resources useful to create therapeutic presence, alliance and connection
- Describe the importance of disarming defense mechanisms for healing to begin
- Develop skills to prevent burn out
Overview:
Overworking, or what some call “workaholism” is a complicated process addiction but one that is often viewed positively and even seen as a cornerstone of business success. As a woman in recovery from workaholism for over a decade, Dr. Dawn Nickel knows the topic well. When Dawn hit a physical and emotional bottom with anxiety and overworking in 2011, she was struck by how similar the experience was to the bottom she had hit with her substance use disorder two decades earlier. Her earlier recovery experiences informed how she approached her recovery from workaholism and combined, her two “recoveries” inspired her to spearhead an international women’s recovery movement that is based on the premise that “we are all recovering from something.”
In this inspiring talk, Dawn will speak into the challenges that individuals who overwork face including unrealistic expectations of perfectionism that are both imposed and self-imposed, the difficulties related to working in organizations that focus on hyper-productivity, and the general lack of awareness about what workaholism is, and how choosing recovery in this area of our lives can support us to move from anxiety and overwhelm to wellness.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe three characteristics of workaholism
- List 4 attendant risks of workaholism for individuals and organizations
- Recognize the unique “overworking” challenges for career-driven, leadership-focused individuals working in behavioral health spaces
- Critically assess evidence-informed approaches, practices, and resources for identifying and addressing overworking tendencies
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Overview:
This is a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting... The increased numbers, variety, and potency are staggering. As such, we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. Yet, it is possible to find contentment and connectedness by keeping dopamine in check.
In this talk, Professor Anna Lembke will provide a practical, science-informed approach to addressing compulsive overconsumption of everything from food, to sex, to video games.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the neuroscience of pleasure and pain
- Explain homeostasis and how repeated exposure to intoxicants tilts the hedonic set-point to the side of pain
- Identify dopamine fasting as a practical, feasible, and effective way to reset reward pathways
- Recognize that intentionally engaging in pain/discomfort can improve mood and well-being (the science of hormesis)
Overview:
Though good nutrition has always been important for good mental health, the last 24 months has altered our discussion on what it means to truly fuel well. The way we snack, the way we utilize food, and the challenges we face to maintain a balanced immune system and a balanced brain is more important than ever. In this presentation, Meadows Behavorial Healthcare Senior Fellow and Nationally Recognized Registered Dietitian Kristin Kirkpatrick will cover the top nutrition needs to focus on for YOU, your family, and your therapy practice. She will break down the latest research, and give tools you can easily translate to your patient base on how to make sustainable behavior change.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the data on the latest studies on nutrition habits and behavior change that have occurred in the past 24 months
- Describe three nutrients associated with better mental health
- Name 2 tools on how to convey better nutrition habits to their patient base
- Describe five practical ways to support immunity
Overview:
The persistence and exacerbation of all our social ills are a result of the unconscious rules built into, and sabotaging, our ‘problem solving’ conversations. Our egos are the enforcers of these rules regarding what is safe or unsafe to include in our conversations, and they do so outside of our conscious awareness. If team members, while seeking healing solutions for our social ills, are unconsciously under the sway of the same ego driven rules that cause the persistence and exacerbation of these ills, well…not a great recipe for success. As Einstein said: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” To paraphrase his quote: “We cannot solve our problems at the same level of consciousness that existed when we created them.”
The primary way team members relate to each other is through their collective team conversations. This workshop is not about finding solutions to our social ills. Rather it is about discovering a way of creating those solutions through a radically different kind of ongoing team conversation. A collective conversation that is not unconsciously controlled by the same ego driven rules that cause their persistence and exacerbation in the first place.
Learning Objectives:
- List 3 reasons team conversations can be negative
- Identify 2 techniques to change the way we have team conversations
- List 2 barriers to effective communication in teams
- Utilize a conversational format for internal team feedback, learning, healing, and consciousness raising
Overview:
In this session, Jacki Hillios, MSW, PhD will share the theories and science underlying the Healing Community Model, related outcomes, and discuss implications for the future.
In America today there are 40.3 million individuals struggling with alcohol or drug use, yet only about 10% can access the care they need to recover. With a recent 30% increase in overdose deaths and 26% increase in alcohol related fatalities, we lost 195,000 of our loved ones just last year, that is the equivalent of one life lost unnecessarily every 3 minutes. While treatment saves lives, it isn’t accessible, it isn’t enough, and innovation is essential to stemming the tide and ending the crisis.
Over the last 15 years Dr. Hillios has developed and evaluated the Healing Community Model as both as a strategy for sustaining self initiated recovery and as an adjunct to treatment. During this session, people will learn about the powerful role that community plays in healing from substance use disorders and how when paired with meaningful activities like music, fitness and outdoor adventure, people’s lives are transformed. We will review theories underlying the model, including social cognitive theory, behavioural economics and more. During this session we will discuss the importance of psychological safety in promoting healing in community and through the lens of The CHIME Framework we will explore how community influences recovery capital. Physical and neurological health implications will also be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe The Phoenix Community Healing Model, along with research and theory informing the model
- Explain research linking meaningful activities such as physical activity and music to improved neurological functioning, physical health, and mental health
- Explain the role of psychological safety in mediating recovery outcomes within the Community Healing Model
- Integrate at least 1 aspect Community Healing into their practice and/or advance their research
Overview:
For chronic illnesses that need to be managed over time, not solely in acute instances, aligning the payment incentives to overall health and wellness re-orients care away from a fee-for-service volume-based focus. The vast majority of this in the market today is driven by CMS through the Medicare Accountable Care Programs, however, commercial insurers have now increasingly moved toward value-based primary care offerings and deploying other condition-specific episodes of care.
Emerging promising examples beginning in behavioral health – A number of new models have recently emerged including the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) model for non-profit mental health and addiction services, the P-COAT model from ASAM for Opioid Use Disorder episodes, and the Addiction Recovery Model Home - Alternative Payment Model (ARMH-APM) for integrated Substance Use Disorder care. Each model provides increased flexibility of payment to the provider in some kind of bundle-based or episode-of-care framework that packages together a more comprehensive set of services along the continuum and frees up the provider to care for an individual and their needs in flexible and independent ways versus the rigidity of independent CPT billing codes.
Learning Objectives:
- Attendees will learn from payers and providers what their vision for the transition to value looks like in the mental health and addiction
- The panel will discuss the core challenges that need to be overcome operationally and technologically
- How these services can and perhaps should be purchased and financed in the future
- A review of emerging models and pilots taking shape across the country
Overview:
The number of employees who work in behavioral health who have had personal experiences in substance use disorders, mental health, or other process addictions has not been determined. To date there is very little research on how relapse is handled within the behavioral healthcare setting, specifically process addictions. Increasing pressures within the behavioral health system can lead to burnout and compassion fatigue, which can exacerbate potential relapse if not addressed. Behavioral health leadership could be challenged with developing a means of support for employees in potential or actual relapse.
Learning Objectives:
- Create an employee relapse identification and prevention protocol within their organization
- Describe the relationship between burnout, compassion fatigue, and employee relapse
- Assess the number of employees in recovery for substance use, mental health, and process addiction, by utilizing voluntary anonymous surveys
- Utilize 2 strategies to address wellness and relapse with measurable goals that will be able to quantify relapse reduction
Overview:
In working with today’s youth, we need to create a space for understanding and safety within our walls of our facilities for these youths. This workshop will help clinicians grasp terms, ideas, and situation that trans & non-binary youth are experiencing today. Participants will be able to assess their own practices as it relates to transgender youth and be able to take with them an overarching understanding of the coming out process. Discussions will include policy & paperwork, talking to parents, creating safety within the group process, and how to effectively be an ally to trans and non-binary youth. Participants will be able to have a solid understanding of the basics of gender identity.
Participants will be able to explain the elements of disclosure. Participants will walk away with knowing how to make their spaces more affirming for trans young people.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the basics of gender identity
- Explain the elements of disclosure
- List 3 ways to make their spaces more affirming for trans people
- Identify their gender and bias more clearly
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
- 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM - Book Signing
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM - Lunch Break
Overview:
Comprehensive diagnostic evaluations gather 360 degrees of vital information about an individual’s strengths and challenges, resulting in what can be called a living MRI. Co-Occurring disorders such as addiction, mental health, chronic pain and other complex bio-psycho-social problems are at epidemic numbers. Hasty or uninformed clinical decisions for treatment and therapy, often result in misdiagnosed and untreated symptoms. CDE's provide multidisciplinary diagnostic testing pinpointing co-occurring difficulties. The clinician will learn what team is required for a full picture of the client's health medically, psychiatrically and psychologically. Substance Use, Trauma and spiritual evaluations are several other evaluations discussed, giving attendees opportunity to learn clinical techniques in one's practice. Clinicians will understand how the use of standardized testing techniques such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, as well as other diagnostic tools in clinical practice assist in practice skills.
Learning Objectives:
- Attendees will gain and understanding and appreciate the inter-relationship between physical and psychological symptoms, and the need to be aware of psychological factors in all medical conditions and understand that patients’ corresponding emotional responses to medical conditions may influence the presentation and management of mental illness.
- Attendees will discuss five clinical components of a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation in order to assist the clinician in discovering root causes of presenting concern or behavior.
- Attendees will apply clinical knowledge gained in this session on comprehensive diagnostic evaluations in order to improve clinical outcomes in practice.
- Attendees will be able to evaluate overall total life functioning of complex individuals and to communicate their evaluation findings to stakeholders.
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Prize Drawings in Exhibit Hall
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Overview:
A legacy burden is any harmful belief system or emotional pattern that is passed from one generation to the next. These include cultural or historical traumas and collective wounds resulting from systemic oppression. Deran Young (founder of Black Therapists Rock) and Dick Schwartz (founder of Internal Family Systems- IFS) have been working together for the past 5 years, to foster deep healing and cross cultural compassion through corrective experiences of collective self energy.
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the collective legacy burdens of racism, classism, patriarchy, and individualism and identify how these burdens influence power dynamics in therapeutic relationships.
- Utilize "parts language" as a common tool to build cultural humility and self awareness.
- Demonstrate the unburdening process
- Describe how the IFS model helps build compassion across various cultures
Overview:
On the job safety doesn’t just come from rules management makes, it comes from a total worker perspective taking into consideration substance misuse, mental health and any other lifestyle impacting issue. Research shows that a comprehensive effort to promote employee health and well-being, reduce health risks of the workforce, and lessen the complications of chronic disease for employees can reduce health care costs, increase productivity, and boost organizational performance. Approaching worker safety from a total worker health perspective, is not only beneficial, it is imperative as integrating total worker health programs into the workplace leads to healthier workers and workplaces as a whole.
Learning Objectives:
- To define what total worker health is
- Define what traditional safety in the workplace looks like
- How to engage workers
- What does the future look like with total worker health
Overview:
This innovative session hypothesizes that through a "perfect storm" our society experienced the convergence of epigenetic risk/intergenerational trauma, the pandemic, and social media, influences to bring about the epidemic of mental health issues eating disorders and body dysmorphia, which has particularly added stress to the developing adolescent. Participants will leave with an understanding of the risks that lead to mental health struggles, and with clear directions on treatment/innovations in the field. This talk is given by Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, a Board-Certified Psychiatrist with over 20 years in treating severe mental health conditions. Oliver-Pyatt is considered a thought leader in the eating disorders field, and founder of five distinctive eating disorder programs. Through this unique and integrative presentation, thought leader and clinician Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt will examine the intersection of the pandemic, trauma, transgenerational trauma eating disorders and body dysmorphia. Attendees will gain insight to the onset and development of eating disorders and body image disturbances within the context of the pandemic and the social crisis associated with the pandemic. A special focus of this presentation will be on the impact of trans-generational trauma and epigenetics on the development of mental health conditions including PTSD and Eating Disorders and Body Dysmorphia in adolescents. Firsthand accounts and stories of the impact of transgenerational trauma related to being a child of a Holocaust survivor will be shared by Wendy and related back to the current pandemic and environment we currently live in, which will be postulated to have impacted an entire generation of survivors of other forms of trauma from our shared history. Impact of social media on development of trauma responses will also be explored. Presentation will also discuss state of current research and potential treatments on the horizon.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to describe epigenetics and differentiate Darwinian from epigenetics and the impact on mental health
- Participants will gain understanding of the impact of trauma, transgenerational trauma, the pandemic and the impact on development of eating disorders, body dysmorphia and the mental health crisis
- Participants will gain insight to the methods and impact of social media on the exacerbation of body dysmorphia eating disorders and the mental health crisis. The intersection of social media, transgenerational trauma will be explored with curiosity
Overview:
Rooted in childhood relational trauma, the dynamic of this co-addicted relationship is obsessive and painful. Love addicts assign too much value, time, and attention to another person, while neglecting to care for or value themselves. Love avoidants systematically use relational walls during intimate contact in order to prevent feeling overwhelmed by the other person, associating “love” with duty or work. The love avoidant’s greatest fear is that of vulnerability, the love addict’s great fear is abandonment. In this workshop Jean will identify the origins and the attachment styles of both addict and avoidant, and delve into the intricacies of “The Dance” that occurs between them. The antidote for these destructive relationships will also be revealed.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to discuss the origins of the Love Addict and Love Avoidant
- Participants will be able to analyze the cycle of a co-addicted relationship
- Participants will be able to identify at least three elements of the Love Addiction/Love Avoidance cycle
- Participants will be able to examine treatment interventions
Overview:
Linda Clark, leader of Barclay Damon’s Health Care Controversies Team, will be presenting on the evolution of the opioid crisis and resulting litigation. Recent TV series, such as Dopesick and The Pharmacist, have featured these topics and may set important precedents for health care providers in the future.
Learning Objectives:
- This session will review, from a legal perspective how the opioid crisis accelerated and lead to State action to recoup costs.
- The session will identify the legal theories that have been used to support claims against supply chain participants.
- Participants will learn of the red flags that have proven relevant to opioid liability determinations and precedents
- The legal consequences of theses legal action and how they will fund treatment and recovery efforts will be reviewed.
3:15 PM - 6:00 PM
- Not So Late Show - Featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Rob Lowe, Musical Entertainment - Sponsored by Billing Solutions
*Agenda may be subject to change.
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Ruth Ann Rigby, CRS currently serves as the Chief Development Officer at BRC Healthcare in Austin, TX. She has been a leader in the behavioral health and addiction recovery field for over 24 years with 25 years in Recovery. She represents the very principles that she strives for every day—honesty, integrity, humility, and grace.
Barry Jacobson, a former Executive for the Walt Disney Company, is the principal owner of Barry Jacobson Consulting. The firm provides insight and hands-on training to companies in building a culture of excellence, focusing on leadership and management practices, employee engagement, event operations, and customer-centric experiences.
Marvin Ventrell became the CEO of the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) in 2015, continuing his 30-year career as a lawyer, association director, teacher, and addiction treatment executive. NAATP, founded in 1978, is professional membership association of addiction treatment providers whose mission is to provide leadership, advocacy, training, and member support services that ensure the availability and highest quality of addiction treatment.
Greg is the award-winning filmmaker of feature length documentaries, The Anonymous People and Generation Found. In 2015, he executive produced the historic UNITE to Face Addiction Rally on the National Mall when tens of thousands of people including from around the world gathered alongside major musicians to end the silence surrounding addiction. He also produced the launch of the first-ever Surgeon’s General Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health: Facing Addiction in America. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC World News, LA Times, and countless other news outlets. He also serves as a member of the United States of Care’s Voices of Real Life advisory group.
Jason is Vice President of Communications and Chief Marketing Officer at High Watch Recovery Center. He is a communications strategist with many years of experience in healthcare and advocacy.
Nanette Zumwalt is currently recognized as one of the top interventionists and an industry expert, both nationally and internationally. Nanette began working in the field of mental health and addiction treatment nearly three decades ago as a direct care technician at inpatient acute psychiatric hospitals. With her vibrant and engaging personality, knowledge, experience, and sincere desire to help those in need, it is no surprise that her career has included various management titles throughout top national therapeutic schools and recovery programs.
Daniel S. Valha is the CEO of KDV Consulting, a boutique consulting firm for the meetings industry.
Jerry Schwab is the CEO of High Watch Recovery Center in Kent, CT.
Dr. Boff is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, a Certified Athletic Trainer, and a Strength and Conditioning Coach who is not only an expert in his profession but is also extremely passionate about the intersection of health, wellness and function. With over 20 years of professional sports experience as a physical therapist and trainer for the NBA, he has been able to transform bodies and change lives with incredible success. His Los Angeles-based company, MHB (Manage your Health and Body) Fitness, grew from his own philosophy to take ownership of managing one’s health and body. MHB Fitness is a concierge health and wellness service that specializes in providing an elite level of individualized client care in addition to consulting services.
Samantha Quinlan works in the Behavioural, Mental and Emotional Health sector and is the founder of the international conference on Addiction -iCAAD. She has extensive knowledge and networks on specialist issues across the world on Addiction and mental health.
Nikki Soda is a passionate advocate for recovery, experienced marketer, and meeting planner. With over 10 years of nonprofit and corporate meeting planning, she brings an energy and level of professionalism used to create successful outcomes. Prior to working in the healthcare industry, Nikki was an event planner and organized large scale events while working for both corporate and nonprofit organizations. Her background in recovery led her to shifting into the behavioral health field. Previously, Nikki has worked in the capacity of Director of both Business Development and Marketing for nationally recognized treatment facilities, as well as overseeing several Alumni programs while being on the board of the Treatment Professionals and Alumni Services. Advocacy and Public Policy are two passions that Nikki continuously puts effort into, through volunteering and community engagement.
Gary Seidler has been one of the foremost advocates of the addictions. and mental health field for the past 40-plus years as a book, magazine publisher and professional conference organizer.
Robbin Mooney has served in the behavioral health industry since 1998, creating and implementing dynamic marketing solutions, design, and branding strategies for a variety of companies and institutions.
Hand-picked by Oprah Winfrey as one of her Super Soul 100 changemakers, Jeff helms Commune Media — offering an assemblage of in-depth wellness courses, podcasts, and other media featuring the field’s foremost experts, including Deepak Chopra, Russell Brand, and Sharon Salzberg. “Our goal is to democratize well-being,” says Jeff. As creator of the global Wanderlust festivals, host of the popular Commune podcast (120,000 monthly downloads), and the author of three books, Jeff presents his audience with knowledge and guideposts to becoming their best selves. Classes, podcasts, and books offer a roadmap to creating a better society through compassion, community-building, and hands-on activism. An expert in mindfulness and a sociopolitical commentator with a degree in political science and American history from Columbia University, Krasno digs to find common ground when people divide along political lines, and offers a path to connection.