Cascadia Training for Professional Development

🆕BRAND-NEW! Lunch & Learn: Clinical Hypnosis 101: Ethical Tools and Techniques for Lasting Therapeutic Change🆕
2025-07-14 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
🆕Brand-New Lunch & Learn Series!🆕
Law & Ethics CEs!
Lunch & Learn: Clinical Hypnosis 101: Ethical Tools and Techniques for Lasting Therapeutic Change
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Monday, July 14th, 2025 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Pacific Time
Where:Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 1.5 CEs Meets Criteria for Law & Ethics CEs | $35.00
What if you could help clients unlock deep inner resources for healing and change with just the power of words? Clinical hypnosis is a research-backed therapeutic tool that enhances neuroplasticity, fosters emotional regulation, and accelerates transformation. In this engaging introductory training, we will explore the principles and mechanisms of hypnosis as you learn how to ethically and effectively guide clients into hypnotic states to reduce anxiety, manage pain, overcome habits, and strengthen resilience. Through psychoeducation and experiential exercises, you will gain confidence in integrating hypnosis into your therapeutic work, expanding your clinical toolkit with powerful, evidence-based techniques for facilitating change.
OBJECTIVES:

Develop a foundational understanding of clinical hypnosis, including its history, scientific basis, and applications in psychotherapy.
Learn essential hypnotic inductions, deepening techniques, and therapeutic suggestions to support client change.
Identify ethical considerations, contraindications, and best practices for using hypnosis safely and effectively in clinical work.
Learn how to guide clients through hypnotic experiences to enhance relaxation, behavioral change, and emotional healing.

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MEETS HEALTH EQUITY REQUIREMENTS! Implicit Bias: Implications for Gender Diversity
2025-07-17 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Meets New Health Equity CE Requirements!
Implicit Bias: Implications for Gender Diversity
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Thursday, July 17th 2025 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 Health Equity CEs | $99.00
In this experiential and interactive training, we will discuss the nature of implicit bias against people who are gender non-conforming. We will explore why it is important to recognize negative attitudes we might hold toward this group and how to best address hurtful and limiting beliefs that we might initially be unaware of.
We will also examine the inequities and disparities experienced by those who are gender non-conforming. This knowledge will help participants understand how to better support and respect their gender-diverse clients.
Objectives
Participants in this workshop will be able to:

Understand the definition of implicit bias
Discuss how to become aware of our own implicit biases towards people who are gender non-conforming
Identify ways in which the gender-diverse community is discriminated against
Practice ways to combat our implicit biases towards people who are gender non-conforming
Explore ways to provide a more welcoming clinical environment to the gender diverse community

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Ethics of Simple Self-Care in Nature, Day 1
2025-07-18 09:00 - 16:30 | ONE-Olympia, 7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA, 98502, United States
Law & Ethics CEs!
The Ethics of Simple Self-Care in Nature, Day 1
Presented by: Dr. Brenda Butterfield, EdD, MSW, LMHC
When: Friday, July 18th, 2025 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live in person at the ONE Center (7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA 98502)
Lodging Options: If you are coming to the area from out of town, several lodging options at reduced rates for Cascadia attendees are available, including staying at the ONE Center. For all lodging accommodation options, please visit the ONE Center website here and email the ONE Center at ournewexperiences@gmail.com.
***Attendees of this workshop are invited to stay over at the ONE Center and attend our brand-new Mindfulness on Land and Water workshop taking place on Saturday, July 19th. For more information on this brand-new, 6 CE workshop, please visit this page for more information.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 Law and Ethics CEs | $199.00
All 2025 Dates for The Ethics of Simple Self-Care in Nature at the ONE Center:

Friday, May 2, 2025: Click here for more info >>>
Friday, June 6, 2025: Click here for more info >>>
Friday, July 18, 2025: Click here for more info >>>
Friday, August 22, 2025: Click here for more info >>>
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Friday, October 3, 2025: Click here for more info >>>

This is a nature based workshop in the gardens, forest and by the water, walking slowly (less than 1 mile total) on uneven ground at times, rain or shine.
It is finally here, the opportunity to take time to practice what we preach so often to clients, “Take good care of yourself.” Let us do it together at the beautiful ONE Center on the South Salish Sea just outside Olympia, WA, ONE is an incredibly special place designed just for healthcare providers like you! This day of learning supports OUR health and well-being. Finally, we have full permission to tend to our own health and well-being WHILE earning ethics credits.
This workshop is retreat-style, nature-based, and experiential. We’ll be walking slowly, short distances, and pausing all along the way because we’ve created this workshop for you to experience simple self-care practices to use anywhere and anytime. Some colleagues have come multiple times because this learning feels good, body, mind, and soul, AND because when we’re grounded, we can teach our clients to feel more connected to themselves, each other, nature, and the beyond human world too.
Providing mental health care in the past several years has required more from us than ever before. In addition to significant work-related changes, the added stress from so many daily challenges in our personal lives has been exhausting. Now providing telehealth, it’s common for colleagues to feel isolated and disconnected from others. If you have been running on empty for a while, pushing on to keep meeting the needs of others even though you know you need to pause and rest, you are not alone. Come to ONE for a soft, gentle landing and warm welcome. The ONE Center is a refuge, a sanctuary created specifically for those of us providing care to others. We’re building this community of care by reimagining mental health care, starting with caring for professional care providers. We got your back…we’re here for you.
Quite recently, the National Association of Social Workers updated the NASW Code of Ethics reflecting an ethical imperative to practice self-care. Now, all codes of ethics formally recognize clinician self-care as essential to providing quality care to others. The codes provide mandates to tend to one’s well-being and permit us to do just that through professional development. The Codes of Ethics are in alignment with current research findings indicating the therapist’s psychological health and well-being directly relate to treatment outcomes for clients. Yes, how we show up in the room with clients does indeed matter. Therefore, finding ways to practice caring for oneself is not only a personal responsibility and a gift to oneself, but also an ethical obligation for mental health clinicians. We explore this and so much more during our time together at ONE.
We start the day experiencing Nature Therapy through practices like Sit Spotting, What’s in Motion, and Pleasures of Presence. These practices are influenced by shinrin yoku in Japan and supported by research to decrease anxiety and depression, boost the immune system, and lower blood pressure. Together we experience mindfulness through practices taught in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) including breathing techniques, mindful movement, mindful meditation (sitting and walking), and self-reflective inquiry. From the practice of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) we explore the Self-Compassion Break, Soothing Touch, and Soles of the Feet. All are simple, easy-to-use, effective, evidence-based ways to practice caring for oneself that nourishes body, mind, and soul. The importance of developing a daily self-care practice will be explored along with ways to assess your well-being both in the moment and over time.
We know that practicing self-care improves our health and well-being. As it turns out, self-care benefits not only us but all those around us – including clients, coworkers, and family and friends too. Indeed, it is an essential prerequisite to providing care for others, care that helps them heal.
We hope you come this season of care to pause, drop in, and begin tending to what you need as a human being first and the mental health professional second. Come, like so many others have done, to find solace in the company of colleagues gathering in small groups outside in nature. Come and experience the healing power of the place we call ONE, a nature-based health and wellness center on the shore of the beautiful South Salish Sea. Come, be a part of this community of care.
Objectives
• Explore experientially a variety of ways to practice simple self-care
• Learn about the ethical implications of practicing self-care
• Understand research correlating clinician health and well-being to treatment outcomes for clients
• Assess your current overall health and well-being
• Assess your professional quality of life
• Identify lifestyle choices that are supportive or undermine health and wellbeing
• Develop a realistic action plan for improved health and wellbeing
What attendees of this workshop are saying:
“The beautiful time in nature and SLOWING DOWN! Thank you for curating a safe and nourishing environment to just BE.”
“Where to start! I enjoyed the land! The atmosphere of acceptance and compassion. The experiential approach. The connection to ethics. The opportunities to connect with ourselves and peers. The worksheets for reflection and self-assessment. I loved everything!”
“The beautiful and nurturing environment allowed everyone to feel safe and be vulnerable. I admire the bravery and ability of the other attendees to open up and share their experiences, struggles, and challenges. It helps us all feel less alone.”
“This workshop – and the ONE Center – is truly a gift that every mental health professional should give themselves! Hands down, this is the best continuing education workshop I’ve ever attended.”
***Attendees of this workshop are invited to stay over at the ONE Center and attend our brand-new Mindfulness on Land and Water workshop taking place on Saturday, July 19th. For more information on this brand-new, 6 CE workshop, please visit this page for more information.
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Youth and Adult Suicide: Recognition, Assessment and Treatment of Suicidality
2025-07-18 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
This workshop meets the suicide assessment requirements for re-licensure.
Youth and Adult Suicide: Recognition, Assessment and Treatment of Suicidality
Presented by: Randi Jensen, MA, LMHC, CCDC
When: Friday, July 18th, 2025 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs | $199.00
*This workshop meets the Washington State suicide assessment requirements for re-licensure.
Historically mental health treatment for suicidal individuals has involved extensive psychopharmacology, repeated cognitive behavioral self-esteem and stress reduction exercises, or deep therapy into family of origin issues, all proven to be ineffective in long term prevention of suicide.
According to the World Health Organization (2009), there has been a 60 percent increase in the worldwide suicide rates in the last 45 years, with 1 million suicides worldwide each year, relating to someone dying by suicide every 40 second. Twenty-two US military veterans kill themselves every single day.
This workshop presents original concepts in the development of suicidality as an ingenious coping mechanism which develops over time. The brain’s neuroplasticity forms neural pathways which underpin the reinforcing suicidal thought pattern. Brain retraining provides formation of new healthful neural pathways. The healing process is directed, encouraged and supported through a specifically designed peer protocol based on existing evidence-based social support.
Research shows that the first suicide attempt is often the first time anyone intervenes. However, it is never the first time the danger has been known. Love ones just don’t know what to do. They take the suicidal individual to a hospital or professional where the treatment protocol has not changed for decades. When the suicidal individual comes home after the attempt, family and friends just don’t know how to help prevent the next one. The Jensen Suicide Peer Protocol (JSP3), based on evidence-based principles, is a prescribed method for the family members and concerned others to take an active part in the recovery of their loved one. Randi has used this method for decades and has saved lives.
Objectives:

Describe the extent of suicide in the general and special populations, including children, adolescents and military
Distinguish what suicidality is and the difference between self-harm and suicidality
Explain the psychobiology of suicidality and its progression
Articulate warning signs and symptoms using a simple and effective suicide assessment tool
Express and practice Motivational Interviewing techniques used in counseling suicidal individuals
Explain a life-saving peer support protocol and how to implement it
Describe ethical considerations, documentation and confidentiality issues.

This 6 hour workshop has been approved by the Washington State Department of Health for its 2017 Model List, and satisfies continuing education requirements set by the Department of Health related to suicide assessment, management, and treatment.
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🆕BRAND-NEW! Love What Hurts🆕
2025-07-18 09:00 - 16:30 | Zoom
🆕BRAND-NEW WORKSHOP!🆕
Love What Hurts
Presented by: Lisha Song, LMHC
When: Friday, July 18th, 2025 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CE | $195.00
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to notice where emotions are felt in the body from an observer’s point of view, recognize negative beliefs that are attached to these emotions (i.e. “I’m not good enough”), and identify the past events/experiences that are related to these emotions. Attendees will also learn how to neutralize these emotions and negative cognitions through an ego state practice called the “Clearing Exercise.” Clinicians who attend will gain techniques to enhance any positive feelings, sensations, or beliefs with bilateral stimulation (tapping).
By the end of this one-day training, you will be able to teach your clients these skills, so that they can experience self-compassion, clarity of thought, and learn to follow their own inner guidance to make better decisions for themselves.
OBJECTIVES:

Understanding how the body stores past emotional wounding and traumatic experiences, noticing where those emotions are felt specifically in the body by becoming an “observer” of the experience, and learning how to neutralize those feelings and sensations.
Exercising the power of imagination or a “felt sense” and befriending those wounded parts of Self and learn how to nurture those parts.
Understanding our ever-sophisticated nervous system through the lens of the Polyvagal Theory and utilizing its tools to further our management of the nervous system.
Recognizing how negative beliefs about Self manifest over time and become part of our identity.
Learning to awaken the unconscious through the “sixth sense” of intuition and spiritual connection and adopt more trust in your own inner knowing. When nervous systems are hijacked by emotional triggers, we tend to not trust our intuition.
Feeling more empowered and compassionate when triggers from past experiences hijack the nervous system by practicing Lisha’s Clearing Exercise and teaching it to clients.

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🆕 SOLD OUT! BRAND-NEW! Mindfulness on Land and Water 🆕
2025-07-19 10:00 - 17:30 | ONE-Olympia, 7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA, 98502, United States
This workshop is now sold out. Please consider registering for our 2-day Mindfulness on Land and Water Retreat. MORE INFO HERE>>>
🆕BRAND-NEW!🆕
Space Limited to 12 People!
Mindfulness on Land and Water
Presented by: Dr. Brenda Butterfield, EdD, MSW, LMHC
When: Saturday, July 19th, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live in person at the ONE Center (7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA 98502)
Lodging Options: If you are coming to the area from out of town, several lodging options at reduced rates for Cascadia attendees are available, including staying at the ONE Center. For all lodging accommodation options, please visit the ONE Center website here and email the ONE Center at ournewexperiences@gmail.com.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs | $229.00
All 2025 Dates for Mindfulness on Land and Water at the ONE Center:

Saturday, July 19, 2025: Click here for more info >>>
Saturday, August 2, 2025: Click here for more info >>>

This workshop is for colleagues ready to experience new ways of learning and growing in real-time by taking the practice of mindfulness off the cushion and onto the water. You’re invited to ONE, a nature-based retreat center for health care professionals on the beautiful South Salish Sea outside Olympia, WA. During this professional development workshop, we will be exploring and experiencing the practice of mindfulness on both land and water!
The first part of the day is in our lovely flower-filled Courtyard Garden focused on learning what mindfulness is, how it’s different from meditation, and reviewing research supporting this practice. You’ll learn how stress plays a key role in illness and disease (physical and mental) and how to prevent and reduce illness for yourself and your clients, too. We’ll share simple, evidence-based practices to increase awareness, empowering you to recognize and reduce stress in daily life. You’ll learn how to effectively pull the rip cord on the parasympathetic nervous system to bring yourself back to center whenever and wherever stress shows up. We’ll help you develop the language of mindfulness and explore ways of integrating these practices into your work with clients.
After lunch, we will head to beautiful Gallagher Cove for sea kayaking 101 skills training. You’ll learn about mindful kayaking, which is an invitation to practice non-strimming on the water. “There is no place to go, and no place be. This is it, right here, right now.” Together, we’ll enjoy a slow, gentle paddle while “field testing” our newfound skills for stress management. By paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, we’ll learn how to navigate the stress of unpleasant emotions, body sensations, and distorted thinking by choosing new ways of being through the practice of mindfulness. And won’t it be fun to also cultivate mindfulness by noticing the awe and wonder of beauty all around us in nature, in community with colleagues? After all, noticing the pleasant is a practice, too, and one that serves us very well.
Whether you’re an avid paddler or have no experience but feel called from the South Salish Sea, we got you! Gallagher Cove is a protected, beautiful place to learn and grow. We’ll provide thorough instruction focused on safety and all the equipment needed (sea kayak, pdf, paddle). We invite you to camp on the land before and/or after the workshop to really drop in and enjoy mindfulness on land and water.
OBJECTIVES:

Understand the research-based benefits of integrating Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) in clinical practice.
Learn what mindfulness is and how to practice it for yourself so you can teach your clients.
Explore the language, concepts, and phenomena of mindfulness.
Learn about the mind/body relationship between chronic stress (CBT Thinking Errors) & health (depression/anxiety/panic attacks), enabling you to explain the Autonomic, Sympathetic, and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems to clients.
Learn simple, accessible practices to recognize stress reactions and effective ways to activate the parasympathetic nervous system.
Learn emotional regulation skills through mindfulness practice.

What attendees of this workshop are saying:
“I am leaving here today lighter, refreshed and restored. I wish everyone providing any mental health care could come here and have the opportunity to rebuild themselves. What I experienced today supports my work as a professional care provider by providing me with the ability to be more mindful of how I am feeling, allowing me to be more present for the families I serve.”
“I LOVED the time on the water, the energy of this place and of Brenda & Heidi. I have begun to introduce mindfulness to my clients and this workshop gave more tools and insights about how to build in more mindfulness when working with youth.”
“I enjoyed ALL of it! Never felt pressured. I learned so much about mindfulness and tips for myself and others to be present, aware, and to change. Brenda and Heidi were amazing guides who care deeply about the subject matter. I learned to be more mindful and cope with stress better. This will help my attitude and health (mental, physical, and spiritual).”
