Our LIVE virtual event is back!
Mindfulness for Trauma, Addiction, and Self-Regulation: A Live Virtual Daylong for Helping Professionals
Tuesday 10.31.2023 9AM – 4PM PST!
5.5 CEs – Live On Zoom – $149
Mindfulness is a powerful tool, especially when we’re introducing to our students, clients, and patients, who struggle with trauma and addiction. This 6-hour virtual event is a great chance to come together in community and learn how to support our young people!
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Mindfulness is a powerful tool for those struggling with substance use disorder and trauma. This self-paced, recorded course was from our daylong on mindfulness for addiction and trauma. It is also the prerequisite for our MBSAT Facilitator Certification (it counts as day 1). If you work with youth and/or young adults who struggle with trauma and/or addiction, this daylong is a great introduction for how to share mindfulness in an innovative, impactful, and evidence-based way.
- DEFINE: Trauma-informed mindfulness
- DEMONSTRATE: At least one mindfulness meditation and one mindfulness “beyond” meditation technique
- DEFINE: The window of tolerance
- REVIEW: The necessary steps in creating and maintaining a trauma-informed mindfulness practice
- DEMONSTRATE: A concrete example of a mindfulness-based, trauma-informed, substance use disorder curriculum
- DISCUSS: The role of self-care in sustained, trauma-informed work
American Psychological Association (APA)
5.5 continuing education (CE) credits for psychologists in the United States. The Center for Adolescent Studies is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor CE for psychologists. The Center for Adolescent Studies maintains responsibility for all programs and its content. The State of California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE from APA sponsors for LMFTs, LEPs, LPCs, and LCSWs. Learn more here. Please note: If you are a non-psychologist mental health professional from a state outside of California, check with your licensing committee as many accept CE from APA approved sponsors.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
The Center for Adolescent Studies Inc. (1640) is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. The Center for Adolescent Studies Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. ACE Approval Period: (7/2022 – 7/2025). Social Workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits. Social workers participating in this course will receive 5.5 continuing education clock hours.
Teachers seeking professional development (PD) please get this course approved by your school board.
If you have a specific request, training accommodation, or grievance you need to submit, please visit our requests page and all efforts will be made to address your needs.
Your Instructor
Sam Himelstein, Ph.D., is a Licensed Psychologist (PSY25229) based in Oakland, CA. He has worked in juvenile halls, chemical dependency settings, schools, outpatient hospitals, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, in community settings, and in private practice with teens and their families. He is passionate about training professionals from multiple disciplines in creating authentic, healing relationships with adolescents that contribute to positive outcomes. A formerly incarcerated youth himself, Dr. Himelstein was privileged to change his life from a path of drugs, violence, crime, and self-destruction to that of healing and transformation. His mission is to help young people become aware of the power of self-awareness and transformation, and train professionals with similar interests. Learn more about his philosophy and approach in his books: A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working with High-Risk Adolescents (Routledge, 2013), Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: A 12-Session Curriculum (Routledge, 2015), and Trauma-Informed Mindfulness With Teens: A Guide for Mental Health Clinicians (Norton, 2019).
If you have a specific request, training accommodation, or grievance you need to submit, please visit our requests page and all efforts will be made to address your needs.