These workshops offer 6 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

Full Day Webinar 

June 3rd, 2024

10:00am  - 4:45pm EST

This Full Day Webinar includes two excellent classes, a total of 6 CE Credits. The cost of the full day is $99.99. You may attend an individual class for $59.99. 

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The Danger of Hope™: Creative Methods for Emotional Processing

10:00 am - 1:00 pm EST

After a Behavior Specialist starts using "creative methods" with 9th graders at a Detroit public high school, she is accused by the students of being a "witch." The students struggled to understand how the use of art could make them feel comfortable discussing traumas they had vowed to lock away forever.

The presentation will incorporate clips from the performance of “The Danger of Hope™” which chronicles some of the stories of these 9th graders' introductions to creative methods. The performance clips will be followed by a presentation of research about creative methods. After discussion and self-reflection activities, participants will have the opportunity to practice and facilitate the creative methods that are introduced. Participants will learn about two creative therapeutic methods that can be used with students for support in emotional processing.

Are YOU ready to help your clients journey to healing through art?

About the Presenter: MORGAN BREON, graduated from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor in 2011 (Dual Bachelors in Psychology and English), 2012 (Masters in Social Work) and 2013 (Masters in Education Policy and Leadership). Morgan’s core passion is fostering healing and support for Black youth and young adults. In addition to facilitating youth workshops for over 8 years, Morgan was the Behavior Specialist for the 9th Grade Academy at Denby High School in 2017, and most recently served as the Manager of Behavior and Culture for the Detroit Community Education Commission. In 2017, Morgan decided to incorporate her gift for acting and playwriting into her “healing work,” and founded heal.be.live., LLC. She is an award-winning playwright, a 2017 Mitten Lab Fellow, 2017-2018 University Musical Society (UMS) Artist in Residence, 2018 Playwriting Scholarship Recipient with PlayPenn Theatre in Philadelphia, PA, 2018 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellow, 2021 4.0 Essentials Fellow, 2022 Eastern Michigan University Porter Chair recipient and a 2022 4.0 Tiny Fellow.

Oh, You Got Jokes Now: The Role of Humor as Intervention in the Clinical Relationship

1:45 pm - 4:45 pm EST

This class provides a "deep dive" into the ethical and mindful use of humor as intervention in psychotherapy and other helping professions.  Over the course of the class, participants will learn about the known history of humor in our species and in the psychotherapy profession.  The research about humor, both as used in psychotherapy and as studied more widely, will be reviewed.  We will explore humor in light of various theories including power dynamics, CBT, DBT, and SFBT.  

Through all of this, several primary purposes and uses of humor will be identified.  We will also explore potential signs that humor is the wrong choice in the moment.  The instructor will share their own experiences with using humor well in session, and participants will have the chance to share their own stories.  

About the Presenter: GLENN MALONEY, LICSW, LADC C-DBT, is a father, psychotherapist, writer, and educator who is employed by the College of Saint Scholastica in Duluth, MN. Glenn has become increasingly engaged in study and writing about the role of humor in psychotherapy and the other helping professions over the past several years, and is working with publishers to release a book he recently completed on the topic. Glenn enjoys writing poetry as well, and released his first volume of collected works, "Twelve Poems" in 2023; he also enjoys hiking, camping, video games, and listening to hip hop.