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SUMMARY:Body Justice: Addressing Sizeism and Fear of Fat
DESCRIPTION:Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs!\nBody Justice: Addressing Sizeism and Fear of Fat\nPresented by: Amber Rice\, LMFT\, MA\nWhen: Wednesday\, May 13\, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time\nWhere: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.\nContinuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs – counts toward Health Equity requirements and Cultural Competence requirements| $199.00\nTherapists are becoming increasingly aware of the harm that has been/is being done to clients when healthcare settings (including counseling practices) focus on weight and weight loss as a primary goal.  Most therapists\, however\, have not been trained in how to have conversations with their clients about body shame\, weight stigma\, healthism\, diet culture\, and sizeism. How\, then\, do therapists help clients heal body shame in a weight-obsessed world when our culture is obsessed with weight being an indicator of health?   This course introduces therapists to practical resources\, knowledge\, empowering interventions\, and the language needed to help challenge weight stigma\, connect weight stigma and negative health outcomes\, and support clients toward weight-neutral and compassionate self-care. \nMany providers have increased their awareness of the need to adjust their practice lens and use a more weight-inclusive\, fat-positive approach to addressing food and body issues. Mental health clinicians have become increasingly aware of the expanding body of research that says intentional weight loss and dieting just don’t work\, and find themselves no longer ethically comfortable participating in diet culture. Therapists understand that supporting clients in weight loss or lifestyle changes (even for health reasons) is frequently emotionally and metabolically damaging\, is not trauma-informed\, often results in eating disorders and poor health outcomes\, and is rooted in weight bias and the body hierarchy.  Ethical\, culturally competent mental health practitioners want to know how to help their clients have a more peaceful relationship with food and their bodies.  However\, even the best-intentioned clinician finds that the cultural climate of weight stigma is so prevalent in both medical and mental health fields that they don’t even know where to begin. \nThis course will help therapists have conversations about bodies\, weight\, and health without contributing to the body shaming and size bias that is commonplace in healthcare settings. Amber will introduce participants to knowledge that will help them ethically and compassionately address the impacts of weight stigma with their clients.  Workshop attendees will learn ways to help their clients reduce body shame\, improve their relationship with food\, and invite more satisfaction and joy in their lives in a culturally competent way so they can be more resilient and confident in their own skin. \nObjectives:\n\nDiscuss the use of “fat” as a reclaimed term\, ask for the avoidance of the “O” words (obese\, overweight)\, the use of “numbers” to describe weight\, and other guidelines to avoid microaggressions that may take place during the workshop.\nPresent research studies and lived experiences that provide evidence for the need to practice with a weight-inclusive approach.\nTeach the core values and principles of Health at Every Size and Body Trust approaches.\nProvide an overview of the HAES and Body Trust approaches\, along with practical clinical interventions for clients seeking a more peaceful relationship with food and their bodies.\nDiscuss with participants the ethical considerations and dilemmas present in the current medical and mental health models that support weight loss for health purposes.\nOffer a pathway toward becoming more culturally competent\, with an adjusted lens that actively seeks to eliminate implicit and explicit bias in assessment\, treatment\, and orientation.\nList action steps that participants can employ to create a more weight-neutral practice.\nAsk attendees to acknowledge possible body (thin) privilege.\nEvaluate therapeutic spaces and environments to ensure they are fat-friendly and free of pathologizing magazines and stigmatizing language/media/magazines.\nAdvocate for self-examination for fatphobia and anti-fat bias.\nIncrease the visibility of fat people and scour websites and waiting rooms for diet culture.\n\nREGISTER HERE\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/body-justice-may-2026/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cultural Competence,Health Equity,Neurodiversity
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SUMMARY:Attachment and the Neurobiology of Relationships
DESCRIPTION:Attachment and the Neurobiology of Relationships\nPresented by: Kristie Baber\, MSW\, LICSW\, CCTP\nWhen: Thursday\, May 14th\, 2026 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time\nWhere: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the event.\nContinuing Education Credits: 6 CEs | $190.00 \nThis workshop focuses on one of the most critical components in mental health\, social development\, and therapeutic intervention across our lifespan – attachment. \nThis class will demonstrate that attachment is a journey\, rather than the predetermined lifelong limitation a jaded clinical view might indicate. It typifies the astounding adaptability and hope inherent in humans – the reasons we believe in our work as therapists. \nThis workshop will give therapists and other helping professionals working with all age populations an understanding of attachment theory\, patterns and clinical presentations\, as well as practical tools to create sustainable and effective therapeutic change. We will explore how attachment develops and evolves across a lifespan\, influencing all of our relationships. Teaching modalities will include a mix of clinical discussion\, lecture with clinical examples\, video illustrations\, and individual/group case exercises. \nObjectives:\n\nIdentify key factors that impact and influence our baseline neurobiology such as brain development\, memory systems\, and trauma.\nUnderstand attachment theory\, as well as attachment patterns and clinical presentations.\nLearn the various ways attachment styles impact our lives and all types of relationships.\nRecognize attachment as one of core components in the therapeutic relationship.\nDiscuss attachment-based therapies for children\, adolescents\, adults\, and couples.\n\nREGISTER HERE\n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/attachment-and-the-neurobiology-of-relationships-may-2026/
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