Spring Virtual Workshop 2024:
Here, Now, and Between Us: Functional Analytic Psychotherapy and the power of the therapeutic relationship
6 CE credits
Workshop Description:
Increase the emotional intensity, interpersonal focus and impact of your treatment. Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) uses functional analysis to create deep, meaningful and healing therapeutic relationships. By focusing on the subtle ways clients' daily life problems occur in the context of therapy and by augmenting the therapist repertoires identified as awareness, courage and love (behaviorally defined) in responding contingently to emotional and interpersonal target behaviors, clients are helped to resolve presenting symptoms and to delve into their purpose and passion for living. FAP calls for therapeutic stances and techniques that no single orientation would predict, and provides a conceptual and practical framework that concretely builds skills to help practitioners reach their highest aspirations. This workshop is appropriate for mental health professionals, including Psychologists, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, and Psychiatric Nurse-Practitioners. Instructor:
Mavis Tsai, PhD, co-creator of FAP (with the late Robert Kohlenberg, PhD ABPP), is a clinical psychologist and senior research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for Science of Social Connection. She is the co-author of five books on FAP (some of which have been translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Persian and Polish), and over 75 articles and book chapters. She is a recipient of Washington State Psychological Association’s Distinguished Psychologist Award and is a Fellow of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. As Founder of the nonprofit organization ‘Awareness, Courage & Love Global Project” which brings FAP to the general public, she trains volunteers to lead chapters in six continents to create a worldwide network of open-hearted change-seekers who strive to meet life’s challenges through deepening interpersonal connection and rising to live more true to themselves.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the five FAP rules that increase connection, intensity, and effectiveness in your interventions.
2. Identify when commonly used interventions can be inadvertently counter-therapeutic.
3. Explore and express the deeper recesses of your true self -- what feels unseen, unmet, and unheld -- so that you can increase depth and connection in your therapeutic relationships.
4. Identify and address how your clients can activate your own problematic behaviors such that you can enhance your target behaviors as a therapist
5. Practice using all five FAP rules to facilitate generalization of client in-session progress.
Course Schedule:
8:30am Virtual Rooms Open, Technical Check
9am-10:30am Overview of FAP; why the here and now relationship is a powerful mechanism of change; clinically relevant behaviors; follow function, not form
10:30am-10:45am Break
10:45am-12pm The Five FAP Rules; focus on Rules 1, 2, and 3
12pm-1pm Lunch
1pm-2:30pm Focus on Rules 4 and 5; noticing your impact; importance of FAP self work
2:30pm-2:45pm Break
2:45pm-4:30pm Practicing all 5 FAP rules; ethical considerations; generalization of FAP; Q&A
A recording of the event will be available to all registrants for 6 weeks after the workshop and CE credits can be verified through our Learning Hub.
The Manitoba Psychological Society is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Manitoba Psychological Society maintains responsibility for the program.
CE credits are awarded after completion of the full CE activity.
Cancellation policy: No refunds will be issued. You will have 6 weeks following the event to access the workshop and materials.
Greetings Members of the Legislative Assembly, Deputy Ministers, and other invited guests
You are cordially invited to join Manitoba Psychological Society (MPS) for wine and hors d’oeuvres.
Manitoba Psychological Society’s Legislative Reception
Thursday May 23, 20245:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Manitoba Legislative Building--Golden Boy Room
Thank you Minister Smith for being the host office for this event.
Did you know:
We invite you to join us for a short presentation to learn more about the important role psychologists play in the health of Manitobans, the benefits of psychological interventions (from both a health and fiscal perspective), and recommendations to address the current shortage of psychologists in Manitoba. Attendees will also have an opportunity to learn more about the various specialty areas of psychology and the experiences and perspectives of psychologists from across Canada. There will be ample opportunities to engage in informal conversations with members of MPS as well as members of the Council of Professional Associations of Psychologists (CPAP).
About:
The Manitoba Psychological Society (MPS) is a non-profit organization of Manitoba psychologists founded in 1966. Its purpose is to further the use of psychology, as a science and profession, in the service of human health, welfare, and quality of life. MPS advocates for the use of psychological knowledge in the formulation of public policy and in the implementation of services for the public in addition to promoting the advancement of psychological education, research, and training. For more details, please go to www.mps.ca.
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