Nurturing Resilience: Full-Day Workshop for Mental Health Professionals

Nurturing Resilience: 12 Strategies Mental Health Professionals & Community Support Workers Can Use to Help People Thrive

Join us for a full-day Resilience Workshop on Sunday, May 5th, presented by Dr. Michael Ungar, Ph.D., at the Delta Hotels Guelph. This workshop is specifically designed for mental health professionals and community support workers and has been approved for 6 Continuing Education (CE) credits by the OAMHP and the OPA.

Registration Fee:

• Regular Rate: $150 (plus HST) per person.
• Dalton Associates Member Rate: $105 (plus HST) per person. Contact us for more information.
• Student Rate: $85 (plus HST) per person with promo code STUDENT.
• Fee includes hot buffet breakfast and lunch.

About the Workshop

In this fast-paced, story-filled presentation, Dr. Ungar will show that our resilience is much more than an individual’s ability to overcome adversity on their own (what he refers to as ruggedness). It is just as much the result of how well families, mental health services, workplaces and communities collaborate to help people find the resources they need to cope with experiences of stress and adversity. In addition to exploring what resilience means to people across the life span and from many different cultures and contexts, Dr. Ungar will provide twelve practical strategies mental health care providers can use to nurture people’s resilience (their ruggedness and their access to resources), no matter a person’s emotional, psychological or behavioral challenges. Building on Dr. Ungar’s recent works, Working With Children and Youth With Complex Needs: 20 Skills to Build Resilience (2nd Edition), and Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success, Dr. Ungar will show how multiple systems need to be part of case plans to help people overcome traumatic pasts and transform their lives despite the mental health and structural challenges they face. Participants will also have the opportunity to trial many open-source tools that they can add to their clinical and community practices, as well as be introduced to open-access resources available to build resilience.

Learning Outcomes

• To become familiar with a multisystemic understanding of resilience.
• To gain competence in using different tools to build resilience in clinical and community settings.
• To understand how 12 factors that build resilience can be enabled through mental health services.

Presented by Michael Ungar, Ph.D.

Michael Ungar, Ph.D., is a Family Therapist and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience. His research on resilience around the world and across cultures has made him the number one ranked Social Work scholar in the world. He the author of 17 books for parents, educators, mental health professionals, and employers, including his most recent work Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success, a book for adults experiencing stress at work and at home, Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs: 20 Skills to Build Resilience, a book for counselors now in its second edition, and I Still Love You: Nine Things Troubled Kids Need from their Parents, an accessible guide for parents seeking to build their children’s resilience. His blog, Nurturing Resilience, can be read on Psychology Today’s website.

Accreditation

Participation in this workshop allows OAMHP members to apply 6 hours (CECs) towards their required continuing education hours. OAMHP’s review of the general content of this workshop recognizes the learning objectives meet and support the criteria (1) for best known practice in continuing education and (2) for educational requirements for mental health professionals.

This workshop has been approved by the Ontario Psychological Association for 6 CE Credits.