Date & Location
Monday, July 7, 2025 – Thursday, July 10, 2025
8:15am – 12:30pm
Canmore Recreation Center
1900 8 Ave, Canmore, AB T1W 1Y2
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Integrated Trauma Informed Healing Intensive in Canmore AB: Neuroscience, Attachment and Evidence-Based Practices
Presented by John Arden, Ph.D.
Monday, July 7, 2025 – Thursday, July 10, 2025 | Alberta, Canada, Canmore
Workshop Description
Super Earlybird ends on April 7, 2025
Registration on this page is for live in-person attendance only. To attend virtually please register here: https://webinars.jackhirose.com/product/trauma-informed-healing/
This intensive explores a groundbreaking shift in how trauma, anxiety, and depression are understood and treated. It synthesizes research from various fields—metabolism, psychoneuroimmunology, epigenetics, and neuroscience—into an integrated model of mental health care. This model emphasizes the critical connections between the immune system, diet, brain structure, and even gut bacteria, offering a comprehensive vision of how these factors influence mental health and emotional well-being.
A key aspect of the intensive is its focus on clarifying fundamental terms like energy, mind, and self, which have been used ambiguously in both scientific and therapeutic contexts for over a century. By drawing on the latest research, the intensive proposes a more unified understanding of these concepts, offering a more precise framework for mental health professionals. It highlights how the brain’s mental operating networks create and influence our states of mind, which interact in feedback loops to form what we think of as the mind.
Therapists of the 21st century are increasingly expected to play a more holistic role in mental health care, akin to healthcare workers addressing the full range of mind-body-brain interactions. This intensive reflects that shift, encouraging practitioners to expand their toolkit to include an awareness of the body’s physiological processes and how they influence mental health.
The intensive concludes with an exploration of positive psychology and the role of contemplative practices like mindfulness, offering insights into how these approaches can enhance therapeutic work and promote resilience and healing.
Ultimately, this intensive is about rethinking how we approach mental health treatment, integrating a wide array of scientific disciplines to provide a more holistic and effective model for healing.
Workshop Topics:
Agenda & Learning Objectives
July 7 – Explore the Synthesized Model and Understanding Neuroscientific Foundations, 8:15AM to 12:30PM:
- The abandonment of the DSMs
- NIMH launches an alternative
- Problems with long-term efficacy of psychotropic medications
- Down regulation versus upregulation
- The Systems-Complexity approach
- Feedback loops between and within body systems
- Lessons from psychotherapy research
- The principal role of biological energy
- Metabolic Foundation of health
- ATP versus free radicals
- Epigenetics
- Nature and Nurture of gene expression
July 8 – 4 hours: 8:15AM to 12:30PM:
- Immune system and mental health
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- The dominant role of chronic inflammation in mental health
- The mental operating networks
- The Salient Network
- The Default Mode Network
- The Executive Network
July 9 – 8:15AM to 12:30PM:
- Allostasis versus Allostatic Load
- How stress systems undermine mental health
- The Memory Networks
- The implicit and Explicit Networks
- Dysregulation of memory = impaired mental health
- How to integrate memory networks
- Autostress—the ramping up of stress
- Anxiety variations
- Navigate Neurodynamics of PTSD
- The integration of therapeutic approaches
July 10 – 4 hours: 8:15AM to 12:30PM:
- Depression in its many forms
- Bolstering the feedback loops
- The role of lifestyle
- Sleep, Diet, and Exercise
- Positive Psychology
- Mindfulness and Contemplative Practices
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the changing view of diagnosis
- Learn about the limitations of reductionism with psychopharmacology
- Explain how energy is produced and maintained
- Discuss how excessive reactive oxygen species can result in ill health
- Understand the relationship between health and mental health
- Learn about the interaction between the immune system, genes, brain dynamics, and mental health
- Understand how genes can be expressed or suppressed
- Understand how autoimmune disorders contribute to depression, anxiety, and cognitive problems
- Identify the mental operating networks
Continuing Education Credits
This workshop has been formally approved by the following associations:
- Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)
Jack Hirose & Associates is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Jack Hirose & Associates maintains responsibility for the program.
† The Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) and the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Social Workers (NLASW) accept CPA-approved CEUs.
* Participants will receive a certificate of completion after every workshop. Workshops are pre-approved for 5.5 or 6 credits per day unless otherwise specified.
Your Presenter(s)
John Arden, PhD, ABPP is the author of 15 books, including his most recent, Mind-Brain-Gene: Toward Psychotherapy Integration. His other books include: Brain2Brain, The Brain Bible, as well as Rewire Your Brain 2.0, and Brain-Based Therapy with Adults and Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents. He previously served as Director of Training in Mental Health for Kaiser Permanente in the Northern California region where now over 300 postdoctoral residents and interns are trained each year in 24 medical centers. He has presented seminars in over 30 countries and in all US States.
Testimonials
“This was the best workshop I have been to. Dr. Arden is so engaging. He makes complex information accessible and available.”
– Alyssa Ryan | Edmonton, AB | November 16 & 17, 2015“Great use of video to emphasize a concept. Emphasis on amygdala and hippocampus interactions. I have been on the right track working with clients with PTSD and anxiety. The research is reassuring. I liked assimilating the old research. Part of celebrating their research and how we can prove it. His personal experiences were entertaining, thoughtful, and relative.”
– Angie Smith-McMenemy | Oakville, ON | November 5, 2015
Who Should Attend
Clinical Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers, School Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.
Recommended Accommodation
Coast Canmore Hotel & Conference Centre
511 Bow Valley Trail, Canmore, AB T1W 1N7
When booking hotel rooms, ask for the Jack Hirose and Associates corporate rate. To receive our corporate rate, rooms must be booked one month prior to the workshop date. Please keep in mind hotel rates may fluctuate.
Registration & Fees
| Registration | Early bird Fee | Regular Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Individual Enrollment | $759.00 | $779.00 |
| Group 3-7 | $709.00 | $729.00 |
| Group 8-14 | $684.00 | $704.00 |
| Group 15+ | $659.00 | $679.00 |
| Full-Time Student | $659.00 | $679.00 |
All fees are per person and in Canadian Dollars ($CAD)
Fees do not include applicable taxes (5% GST).
Early bird cutoff date: June 10, 2025
To receive the early bird rate, registration and payment must be received by Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
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