Join CAMFT Executive Director, Joy Alafia, CAE for an understanding about events, legislation, and internal association processes that are currently impacting CAMFT members.

1.5 CEUs
This is a CAMFT sponsored live streaming event. A recording will be available for viewing for 21 days afterward for anyone who can't attend the live streaming event.

Educational Goals

Designed for Mental Health Professionals, this presentation will discuss general CAMFT issues and the importance of a Professional Will. There will also be updates from BBS, as well as California and Federal legislative updates. Finally, discussion on why it is important to avail yourself of the Legal Consultation service CAMFT provides. There will be ample time for Q&A.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to:
• Recall at least 3 recent/pending legislations and how marriage and family therapists may be impacted by the bills
• Identify 1 resource for legal consultation for therapists
• Identify important components of a Professional Will

Outline

• CAMFT Updates (15 minutes – no CEUs given)
• • CAMFT & COVID-19
  • Executive Director’s Background
  • Live Education Events
  • On Demand Learning Library
  • CAMFT Leadership Conference
  • Ethics Revision 2019
  • Pre-Licensee Information
  • CAMFT PAC
  • Secrets to CAMFT’s Success
  • Volunteer with CAMFT
  • Demographic Survey
• Professional Will (10 min)
  
• BBS Updates (15 min)
• Topics of Interest Federal Level (10 min)
• • Medicare
• Veterans Affairs State Level (15 min)
• • 2019 California Advocacy
    
  • 2020 California Advocacy
  • Health Care Plans
• Legal Resources (15 min)
• • Why call CAMFT for legal consultation
• Questions? (25 min)
  

About the Presenter

Joy Alafia, CAE brings more than 17 years of association leadership experience to her new position. She begins her new role at CAMFT after her tenure as the President and CEO of the Western Propane Gas Association (WPGA), where she has advocated for renewable propane and equitable access for alternative sources of clean energy. Joy has spoken around the world about the importance of sustainable energy and is credited with transforming the propane industry’s focus and shifting its priorities to the commercialization of net zero-carbon energy solutions. Prior to her work at WPGA, she served as the Director of Business Products for the California Association of Realtors®, where she created innovative partnerships and business solutions for industry practitioners.

Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hour of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. RRC CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. RRC CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

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Parenthood calls upon us to lead dependent, vulnerable, less developed human beings through mundane as well as extraordinary life experiences, with complicated goals that include keeping our children safe, supporting them in becoming contributing members of society, actualizing their talents, and developing rich, meaningful relationships. Embarking on this long, complex and high stakes journey alongside our children evokes all of our own agendas and unfinished business around identity, accomplishment, worthiness, connection and power. Because we experience our children as parts of ourselves, parents have a unique opportunity to gaze upon our own wounds, our unmet longing, our deepest fears and our darkest shame, reflected back in the lives of our kids. How do we understand and work effectively with all that is activated and unsettled in our clients who are parenting?

Join Jessica Sorci, LMFT, PMH-C and Rebecca Geshuri, LMFT, PMH-C for a 3 hour experiential & educational workshop designed to offer an introduction to Internal Family Systems, specific to parenthood, with a focus on parts that function as inner critics and parts that hold shame, brought on and exacerbated by patriarchy. Patriarchy, an inherent and ubiquitous form of cultural oppression, creates and sustains systems of shame in people; this workshop will define and highlight the painful impacts of patriarchy on families. Utilizing Internal Family Systems, we will explore our own inner shame systems and apply that learning to a broader appreciation of inner critics.

This workshop offers a didactic component as well as a powerful guided IFS meditation, time to reflect, and sharing in smaller groups.
California therapists can earn 3 CEUs upon completion of this course.

Program Goals

The goal of this program is for participants to learn how patriarchy, an inherent and ubiquitous form of cultural oppression, creates and sustains systems of shame in parents, and how to bring healing to those shame systems that negatively inform and influence relationships. By implementing basic concepts of Internal Family Systems, participants will be able to identify components of the client’s (and the therapist’s own) inner shame system and interact with those parts in meaningful, healing ways. Participants will be given a more compassionate and empowered stance for understanding common parenting problems that include anger, power dynamics, humiliation and grief. This workshop is foundational for future workshops that will focus in greater depth on authentic fathering and on the Mothercentric™️ approach to working with perinatal women.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:

About the Presenters

Rebecca Geshuri and Jessica Sorci are both Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Internal Family Systems Therapists and also Perinatal Mental Health Certified. As Co-Founders of Family Tree Wellness in Silicon Valley, California, Rebecca and Jessica lead their one-of-a-kind IFS-informed group psychotherapy practice that provides counseling, education and support for people who are in the family building phase of life. They are wildly enthusiastic about creating trainings and supporting other therapists and providers who want to deepen their knowledge and skill with using IFS and working in Reproductive Mental Health. Most importantly, they are mothers on their own healing journeys who bring their personal experiences with grief and growing, mixed with creative expression and spirituality to their work. Their goal is nothing short of healing humanity's intergenerational burdens.

Outline

I. Introductions - (10 min)
II. Introduce Internal Family Systems (25 min)
III. Objective #1: Articulate two ways in which patriarchy causes and perpetuates symptoms in parents. (40 min)
IV. Objective #2: Name three IFS steps to bring healing to a person’s inner shame system. (40 min)
(15 minute break)
V. Objective 3: Describe the two components of the Two-Track Method. (55 min)
VI. Conclusion (10 min)
A. Questions and sharing

TARGET AUDIENCE: LCSW, LMFT, LPCC

SCV-CAMFT is a CAMFT-approved Continuing Education Provider (CEPA 052466). This course meets the qualifications of 3 continuing education credit for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs. SCV-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Event Policy Information

The de-stigmatization of mental health disorders in recent decades has been a positive development, allowing people who might otherwise feel too ashamed of their depression, for example, to seek professional help; on the other hand, our age is characterized by an anti-shame zeitgeist where the trend is to make shame an enemy, to see it as a uniformly malignant force imposed from without. Toxic shame (John Bradshaw) and the kind of social shame described by Brené Brown exemplify this view.

In this presentation, I’ll begin by introducing audience members to the concept of shame as a family of emotions that are part of our everyday emotional experience, all sharing a “painful awareness of self.” I’ll provide easily recognized examples from our daily lives and also illustrate the positive influence of healthy shame in childhood development. I’ll then describe a concept that is central to my work – core shame: the felt awareness that one has been damaged by one’s early life, often experienced as being ugly, deformed, or defective. Core shame is usually unconscious, and I’ll describe the ways clients might bring it into therapy through dreams and other material.

I’ll then describe the three common strategies for defending against unconscious shame, linking them to familiar psychological disorders such as social anxiety, narcissism, and masochism. I’ll offer clinical examples and describe ways to approach unconscious shame in clinical practice. In the final section, I’ll discuss how gender transition may offer, for some people, an idealized escape route from core shame.

The goal of this presentation is for participants to recognize shame as a family of emotions that are part of everyday life, and to understand the importance of healthy shame in developing authentic price. Participants will also learn to identify common psychological defenses against more profound types of shame, often unconscious, and how to work with them in clinical practice.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:

• Understand the three common coping strategies for defending against shame.
• Recognize the role of unconscious shame in common psychological disorders.
• Learn how to address unconscious shame in clinical practice and thereby help clients to build authentic pride.

About the Presenter

Joseph Burgo holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a graduate psychoanalyst who has been in private practice for 45 years. His articles and commentary have appeared in major publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and many major online publications; he’s regularly quoted in the media as an expert on narcissism and other mental health issues. In addition to his personal blog After Psychotherapy and his blog on the topic of Shame for Psychology Today, he has published three books in the realm of popular psychology: Why Do I Do That? The Narcissist You Know and, most recently, Building Self Esteem: How Learning from Shame Helps Us to Grow. 

Outline

• Intro – Welcome
• Current perspectives on shame in popular culture; shame vs. guilt
• The Shame Family of Emotions
• The positive role of shame in child rearing; learning from shame and the development of authentic pride
• Introduction to the concept of core shame with case material.

Break

• Three Defensive Strategies: avoiding, denying, and controlling shame
• Avoiding shame and anxiety disorders (clinical illustrations)
• Denying shame and narcissistic behaviors (clinical illustrations)
• Controlling shame in masochism and self-hatred (clinical illustrations)

• The concept of narcissistic flight into an idealized false self as applied to gender transition, including video interviews with young men and women who have de-transitioned.
• Closing and questions

TARGET AUDIENCE: LCSW, LMFT, LPCC

SCV-CAMFT is a CAMFT-approved Continuing Education Provider (CEPA 052466). This course meets the qualifications of 3 continuing education credit for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs. SCV-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

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