Gabor Maté's Blog, page 14

A workshop for health and allied professionals; presented by Alberta Health Services.

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Free public talk presented by Alberta Health Services.

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Workshop, presented by Human Services Forum and the Western Massachusetts Training Consortium.

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Keynote lecture at the 4th Annual University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research's Young Researchers' Conference ("Collaborations for Change").

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Presented by Comox Valley Child Development Association.

• Addictions: Friday, February 24 2012, 7 to 9 PM, Stan Hagen Theatre

• Kids In Chaos:  Child Development in a Stressed Society: Saturday, February 25 2012, 9 AM to 4:30 PM, Florence Filberg Centre

For complete details, including registration, follow this link.

Keynote Address and Plenary at Kekeenamawkayo 2012 Education Conference ("Creative Classrooms, Thriving Communities").

NB:  Dr. Maté will also lead an afternoon workshop on "Peer Orientation: Why Children Are Stressed, Why Parents and Teachers Are Disempowered, and How to Restore a Balance in Adult-Child Relationships", from 1:30-4:30pm.

Click here to view the event brochure, with complete registration information.

Dr. Maté will lead the following workshops on February 8th:

10-11:30am:  Self-Care for Caregivers

1-2:30pm: FASD, ADHD, or Both?

3-4:30pm:  FASD, ADHD, or Both? (repeat session)

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Public keynote address for the Regional FASD Conference of the Smithers Community Services Association (SCSA).

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"By combining lectures, gentle guided self-exploration, techniques to connect with the body, and mindful-awareness practice, this workshop enhances compassionate self-understanding. This program includes

Identifying how we unwittingly generate stress based on early childhood programming
Ways to recognize and drop hidden beliefs that drive us to stress ourselves
Exploring how and why people suppress emotion and find it impossible to say no to internal or external demands."

For full information about this 3-day , 2-night workshop, including a link to register, click here or call 1-800-741-7353.

Four-day, five-night workshop with Elizabeth Claire Burr.  Click here for complete program information.

“Underneath addictions as well as illness of all kinds are ingrained, habitual and constricting self-beliefs, emotional patterns and body states. These patterned and unconscious mechanisms are our major source of toxic stress. Healing means finding our wholeness—finding out who we are when not limited by the traits, self-negating thoughts, coping mechanisms, habitual defensive behaviors and body tensions. Let go of these legacies of trauma, and the traces of the unconsciousness of our early caregivers…”

Scholarships are available. Vist the website for more information.