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SUMMARY:ILCA Workshop: Integrating Emotion-Focused Therapy Principles and Interventions in Working with Older Adults
DESCRIPTION:AN ONLINE WORKSHOP FOR HEALTHCARE & OTHER PROFESSIONALS\nWhen: Monday\, Jan 19 – Sunday\, Feb 15\, 2026 (4 weeks) ONLINE weekly at your discretion\nCost:    $240 (Students $120) Sufficient Enrolment Decision Deadline: Mon\, Jan 12\, 2026\nThis workshop will be offered only if there is sufficient enrolment. \nClinicians and care providers often encounter emotional reactions that are hard to access\, regulate\, or process. These moments can feel complex and hard to navigate\, especially when working with older adults who may have an impaired emotion system. \nThis science-informed workshop with Dr. Carmine Malfitano offers a clear\, practical approach to understanding and working with emotion in therapy. Drawing from the principles of Emotion Focused Therapy and tailored specifically to older adults\, the training introduces a foundational framework for identifying and assessing difficult emotional processes\, deepening emotional experience\, and applying targeted interventions that support movement and change. \nWhether you are a therapist or care provider who is looking to strengthen your effectiveness in working with emotion\, this four-week course offers both conceptual clarity and practical strategies you can immediately integrate into your work. \nObjectives: \nThrough case presentations and didactic learning\, participants will learn how to: \n\nAssess different types of emotional responses in session (e.g.\, primary adaptive\, primary maladaptive\, secondary/symptomatic\, instrumental) and apply differential interventions for each type.\nUse practical empathic attunement skills to help clients access and deepen emotional experience.\nSupport clients in moving from secondary or symptomatic emotions to core emotional experiences that hold therapeutic potential.\nApply principles of emotion change and tailored interventions based on in-the-moment client needs.\nUse targeted techniques to support emotion regulation when clients feel overwhelmed or shut down.\n\nOutline:\nWeek 1: Emotion Assessment \n\nAffective neuroscience: a bio-evolutionary view of emotion\nIdentifying and differentiating types of emotional responses (primary adaptive\, primary maladaptive\, secondary/symptomatic\, instrumental)\nMatching intervention strategies to emotional response types\n\nWeek 2: Empathic Attunement \n\nPractical skills to increase emotional attunement\nIncreasing client awareness and articulation of emotion\nTechniques to support the shift from secondary to primary emotions\n\nWeek 3: Principles of Emotion Change \n\nUsing ongoing case formulation to guide emotional interventions\nTechniques for increasing emotional arousal when clients are disengaged or emotionally flat\nTechniques for decreasing emotion arousal when clients are overwhelmed or dysregulated\n\nWeek 4: Emotion Transformation \n\nUnderstanding core emotion change processes in Emotion Focused Therapy\nUnderstanding how chair work and other experiential methods are used to support transformation\n\nInstructor: Carmine Malfitano\, PhD\, MSW\, RSW is a registered social worker with extensive experience in clinical practice\, education\, and research. He earned his Master of Social Work from the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto in 2014 and completed his PhD in 2021. \nHe currently serves as the Director of Training and Education at the Centre for Psychology and Emotional Health\, where he supports the advancement of Emotion Focused Therapy research\, training\, clinical practice\, and international dissemination. He is also a Clinical Social Work Specialist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and a sessional lecturer at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work\, where he teaches Emotion Focused Therapy to Master of Social Work students. \nVisit the ILCA workshop website for registration information.
URL:https://socialwork.utoronto.ca/event/ilca-workshop-integrating-emotion-focused-therapy-principles-and-interventions-in-working-with-older-adults/
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SUMMARY:FIFSW "Alumni Thrive Series" — Winter 2026
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to invite FIFSW Alumni to register for the complimentary “Alumni Thrive Series” — a set of in-person sessions created exclusively for our alumni community. These interactive gatherings will focus on promoting self-care and professional sustainability for social work professionals and creating opportunities to reconnect with peers and build new connections. \nJoin us in January and February 2026 for meaningful conversations\, practical strategies\, and a chance to strengthen the bonds that make our alumni network thrive. \nLocation\nLOCATION UPDATE: The last session on February 24\, 2026 will take place at Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work\, University of Toronto\, 700 Student lounge (7th floor) 246 Bloor Street W\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1V4 \n  \nRegister for sessions in the FIFSW Alumni Thrive Series\nAbout the sessions\nTherapeutic Yoga\nWednesday\, January 21 @ 6:00 pm\nLed by Julia Gibran\, FIFSW Alumna\, MSW Class of 2018\, this class is designed to support wellbeing and reduce stress. It will explore simple seated and standing poses to release tension and help soothe burnout. It will also practice calming breathwork and light tapping techniques to support the nervous system and cultivate a sense of levity\, clarity\, and calm. \nMeditation\nWednesday\, January 28 @ 6:00 pm\nLed by Dr. Ramona Alaggia\, Associate Dean\, Research & Professor\, FIFSW. This guided meditation session is designed to improve mental clarity and emotional balance. \nFlow\nWednesday\, February 4 @ 6:00 pm\nWednesday\, February 11 @ 6:00 pm\nLed by Arafat Opar\, fitness and Pilates expert\, specializing in core stabilization\, body coordination and flexibility\, this class is a gentle fusion of continuous rhythmic movement and breath designed to restore balance\, enhance flexibility and improve coordination. \nMindful Meditation\nTuesday\, February 24 @ 6:00 pm\nLed by Dr. Ellen Katz\, Professor Emerita\, FIFSW\, this session introduces relational mindfulness theory and skills for clinicians and clients. Emphasizing the therapeutic relationship and nervous system regulation\, it highlights how clinicians can use mindfulness to calm themselves and teach clients to regulate mind\, body\, and heart. The session explores sensations\, emotions\, feelings\, and thoughts—the four foundations of mindfulness—in relational practice. \n 
URL:https://socialwork.utoronto.ca/event/fifsw-alumni-thrive-series-winter-2026/
LOCATION:Private: Koffler House\,  569 Spadina Cres\,\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2J7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Alumni
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SUMMARY:Healing Through Connection: Experiential and Attachment-Based Approaches to Transforming Trauma
DESCRIPTION:An introduction to Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) \nRegister for Healing Through Connection \nMany of us in clinical practice are seeing the growing need for trauma-informed\, experiential approaches that go beyond insight and cognitive work\, and more into felt\, embodied change. Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is an integrative\, neuroscience-informed model that harnesses emotion\, attachment\, and the innate capacity for healing through the therapeutic relationship. \nIn this 90 minute advanced webinar\, participants will explore: \n\nHow to stay present and connected when clients shut down\, intellectualize\, or avoid emotion — using moment-to-moment attunement to create safety and deepen transformation.\nCore AEDP interventions that help clients move from defense to experience — learning to engage emotion as a pathway to healing rather than something to manage or contain.\nPractical ways to bring experiential and attachment-based principles into your existing framework — whether in ongoing psychotherapy or shorter-term client support\, to make sessions feel more alive\, embodied\, and effective.\n\nWhile the material is designed with psychotherapists in mind\, social workers and clinicians engaged in direct client care may also find the ideas applicable and enriching. \nParticipants will leave with both conceptual understanding and practical tools to bring more aliveness\, regulation\, and connection into their clinical work. \nAbout the presenter\nAmanda Neves\, MSW\, RSW\, is Clinical Director of Amanda Neves Therapy\, with locations in Toronto and Vaughan\, where she leads an integrative\, trauma- and attachment-informed group practice. A proud UofT alumna with over 10 years of clinical experience\, Amanda combines AEDP\, IFS\, somatic and mindfulness-informed approaches to support clients navigating trauma\, attachment wounds\, anxiety\, relational challenges\, and nervous-system dysregulation\, while helping clinicians deepen relational connection\, regulation\, and meaningful change. In addition to her psychotherapy work\, she runs monthly virtual supervision groups for psychotherapists across Canada\, is an Experiential Assistant with the AEDP Institute in New York\, and serves as a field instructor with the University of Toronto’s FIFSW.
URL:https://socialwork.utoronto.ca/event/healing-through-connection-experiential-and-attachment-based-approaches-to-transforming-trauma/
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