A Workshop With Janina Fisher

7-Hour Online Workshop | 6 CEs Available  

6 APA/BBS CE Credits are available for an additional fee of $30. After you register for the workshop, your confirmation email from Eventbrite will contain a link to the site where you can purchase the APA/BBS CE Credits from our co-sponsor, Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA). APA/BBS CE Credits may be purchased at any time before the workshop, but only those who have purchased in advance will receive credits. Unfortunately, we are unable to issue CE Credits retroactively. See below for details. 

Despite having survived, traumatized individuals are left with a confused sense of what happened to them. Their continuing sense of threat keeps trauma alive by re-activating their survival defenses.  Unaware that these reactions are feeling memories held in the body, they assume that they are still in danger or somehow at fault.   

Without a way to understand their sensory and feeling memories, survivors of trauma come to either distrust themselves, distrust others, and still feel unsafe. They experience the same emotions of shame, fear, anger, and hopelessness over and over again. Telling the story of what they remember sometimes brings relief but does not resolve the living legacy of traumatic reactions that continue to torment them day after day. 

Join international trauma expert and clinical psychologist Janina Fisher for a workshop examining the living legacy of trauma. Drawing from her work developing the Fragmented Selves approach, or Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), Janina teaches participants how to assess and make sense of trauma-based symptoms, such as dysregulated autonomic arousal, overwhelming emotions and sensations, intrusive images, numbing, and disconnection. Discover how understanding these effects helps in managing these overwhelming reactions.  

Through a mix of presentation, videos, and experiential exercises, participants explore how to transform our relationship to painful feelings and events. We cannot change the past, but we can change how the past affects us in the present. 

Teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as the general public. Healthcare professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. 

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Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor at Harvard Medical School. An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation and the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022). She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based and somatic interventions into traditional talk therapies. More information can be found on her website.  

CE Information 

Teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as the general public. Healthcare professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. 

Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the autonomic, cognitive, affective and somatic effects of traumatic experiences 
• Identify psychoeducational interventions that support stabilization or offer relief  
• Apply mindfulness-based techniques to challenge conditioned patterns of response 
• Use somatic interventions that regulate a traumatized nervous system 
• Describe the benefits of changing the individual’s relationship to the symptoms 

Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals 

• CEUs for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 

• The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CEUs for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association. 

• LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association. 

• SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. 

• For questions about completing the CE evaluation materials for this course, as well as receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact CIIS Public Programs at publicprograms@ciis.edu. For other questions about CEUs, visit www.spiritualcompetency.com or contact Spiritual Competency Academy at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com. 

• CEUs are only available for participants who attend the live workshop in-person or on Zoom. CEUs cannot be issued to participants who view a recording of a workshop.  

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Accessibility

If you need to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@ciis.edu at least one week prior to the event. For more information, explore our Accessibility web page.

Recording Policy

Portions of this workshop will be recorded, and limited access to a recording will be made available to those who attend the live event. CEs are only available for participants who attend the live workshop in-person or on Zoom. CEs cannot be issued to participants who view a recording of a workshop.

Refund Policy

Tickets are fully refundable up to 7 days prior to the event start. Within 7 days of the event, a 50% refund is available. No refunds are available within 24 hours of the event start. Read our full refund policy at https://www.ciis.edu/ciis-in-the-world/public-programs/about#24326-FAQ.