Caspersen Therapy & Training Center

02/26/2025

Don't miss Dr. Raviraj Shetty on March 7th! This will be our last workshop this season, and this one will be incredible! Here's the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foraging-for-stories-walking-alongside-communities-tickets-1015664037477?aff=erelexpmlt

In his workshop, Dr. Shetty will talk to us about their community work in India, which has traditionally been driven by experts with institutional training who believe that communities don’t know any better about their own health, rights, or dreams. Our history of colonization by European oppressors, casteist control over knowledge production, and industrial-medical complex subjugating lived experiences promote interventions that rob people of agency and locate problems in our rich practices of life.
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In this workshop, Raviraj will share practices of centering community knowledge in training and interventions informed by everyday living practices to hold space to practice agency over their language, bodies, and dreams. He will demonstrate this through stories of partnership with a group of Indigenous women and youth from rural India who are developing community-led mental health interventions for their own people.

Don't miss this opportunity for great storytelling, insightful discussion, and continuing education credits! Click the link and register right away!

Registration allows Online and/or Access to Recording by Contacting Organizer. Earn 3.5 CEUs (See details below)

02/20/2025

LESS THAN TWO WEEKS!
You won't want to miss this insightful and revealing workshop with Dr. Raviraj Shetty! He tells great stories and truly understands what it means to cultivate relationships.

In this workshop, Raviraj will share practices of centering community knowledges in trainings and interventions informed by everyday practices of living to hold space to practice agency over their language, bodies and dreams. He will demonstrate this through stories of partnership with a group of indigenous women and youth from rural India who are developing community led mental health interventions for their own people.

Click the link to register Today!

Registration allows Online and/or Access to Recording by Contacting Organizer. Earn 3.5 CEUs (See details below)

02/10/2025

What can we learn from nature and its relationship to therapy? Dr. Raviraj Shetty will discuss this with us at our next Narrative Therapy workshop on March 7th!

Using the metaphor of the mycelium network, the mushrooms, and foragers, Raviraj will offer reflections on the symbiotic enmeshment of stories and communities and on the stance as trainers ‘walking alongside’ with communities as foragers of preferred stories of know how’s and histories of people’s movements that are always present under the oppressive stories and always pop-out in people’s everyday lives in undetermined ways like the masutake mushrooms in a human ruined forests.
You won't want to miss this intriguing and insightful discussion! Register today:

Registration allows Online and/or Access to Recording by Contacting Organizer. Earn 3.5 CEUs (See details below)

02/03/2025

LESS THAN A WEEK AWAY!! REGISTER for this paradigm-shifting workshop to reinvigorate your Narrative Therapy practice! You won't want to miss it! Join via Zoom and rewatch later. Find out all the details by clicking the link. YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THIS!!! REGISTER NOW!

Registration allows Online and/or Access to Recording by Contacting Organizer. Earn 3.5 CEUs (See details below)

01/31/2025

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!
In 1 WEEK, we'll be looking at HEALING IN RELATIONSHIP with your NARRATIVE THERAPY practices and we DON'T WANT YOU TO MISS IT!! We'd love to have you join us! So don't hesitate! Join us in one week for a paradigm-shifting workshop with Alex Iantaffi looking at how we can change the narrative of therapy and mental health support to one of connection. If you are looking for another perspective to support your practice and need a jolt of energy, you've found it! Caffinate and rejuvinate your practice and recieve much needed CEU's. Don't miss it! Register today!

Registration allows Online and/or Access to Recording by Contacting Organizer. Earn 3.5 CEUs (See details below)

01/31/2025

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!

In 1 WEEK, we'll be looking at HEALING IN RELATIONSHIP with your NARRATIVE THERAPY practices and we DON'T WANT YOU TO MISS IT!! We'd love to have you join us! So don't hesitate! Join us in one week for a paradigm-shifting workshop with Alex Iantaffi looking at how we can change the narrative of therapy and mental health support to one of connection. If you are looking for another perspective to support your practice and need a jolt of energy, you've found it! Caffinate and rejuvinate your practice and recieve much needed CEU's. Don't miss it! Register today!

Registration allows Online and/or Access to Recording by Contacting Organizer. Earn 3.5 CEUs (See details below)

01/23/2025

SEATS ARE BOOKING FAST!
We're so excited to have Alex Iantaffi speak to us about the vital role of connection in the therapeutic world. YOU WON'T WANT MISS THIS! This is a rare opportunity to be close and personal with Iantaffi, connect with like-minded folks doing therapeutic work, and ask your burning questions. BOOK YOUR SEAT NOW! Click the image to register.

Registration allows Online and/or Access to Recording by Contacting Organizer. Earn 3.5 CEUs (See details below)

01/14/2025

LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY, we're holding an inspiring speaker, Alex Iantaffi, PhD, to present on the vital role CONNECTION plays in the NARRATIVE THERAPY space and process. JOIN US by clicking the link and registering. This is an excellent way to jump-start on Continuing Education credits and gather insights from a new perspective!
Therapy is becoming increasingly medicalized within Western dominant culture. At the same time, we are witnessing increased interest in somatic approaches to healing and more information on mental health is freely available to the general public on social media. It can be incredibly challenging for new and experienced therapists alike to navigate the pressure of providing “evidence-based interventions” to meet insurance requirements, while also staying up-to-date with new modalities and managing clients’ expectations, which are often based on colonial, capitalist and white supremacists frameworks. We might find ourselves asking for more interventions and tools in the hope they will help us feel more “effective” in the current challenging landscape within which we operate.

In this landscape, what does Narrative Therapy (NT) offer to providers, clients and our communities? In this workshop, we will explore how NT can provide us with vital tools to engage our clients in joining us as collaborative partners in their healing journeys and help us refocus on what we know is essential in this process: the therapeutic relationship. As well as going back to highlighting the importance of the therapeutic relationship, and how to nurture it, we will challenge the pathologizing paradigm that is inevitable within a medical context and practice how to engage with clients when they bring this paradigm into the therapy room.

You are invited to bring your curiosity, questions, skepticism, and a willingness to engage with both paradox and discernment as we explore why going back to foundational constructs, such as “joining”, “curiosity”, “externalizing”, and “exceptions to the problem”, might be more effective than we might be able to recognize in the current therapeutic terrain. Let’s re-member together the vital and healing role of connection within and outside the therapy room.

Registration allows Online and/or Access to Recording by Contacting Organizer. Earn 3.5 CEUs (See details below)

01/09/2025

Happy New Year! We have another wonderful workshop just ONE MONTH away! This is a great time to get an early jump on your Narrative Therapy journey as an educator, instructor, therapist, or carer.
We heal in relationship: The vital role of connection in the therapeutic process

Therapy is becoming increasingly medicalized within Western dominant culture. At the same time, we are witnessing increased interest in somatic approaches to healing and more information on mental health is freely available to the general public on social media. It can be incredibly challenging for new and experienced therapists alike to navigate the pressure of providing “evidence-based interventions” to meet insurance requirements, while also staying up-to-date with new modalities and managing clients’ expectations, which are often based on colonial, capitalist and white supremacists frameworks. We might find ourselves asking for more interventions and tools in the hope they will help us feel more “effective” in the current challenging landscape within which we operate.
In this landscape, what does Narrative Therapy (NT) offer to providers, clients and our communities? In this workshop, we will explore how NT can provide us with vital tools to engage our clients in joining us as collaborative partners in their healing journeys and help us refocus on what we know is essential in this process: the therapeutic relationship. As well as going back to highlighting the importance of the therapeutic relationship, and how to nurture it, we will challenge the pathologizing paradigm that is inevitable within a medical context and practice how to engage with clients when they bring this paradigm into the therapy room.

You are invited to bring your curiosity, questions, skepticism, and a willingness to engage with both paradox and discernment as we explore why going back to foundational constructs, such as “joining”, “curiosity”, “externalizing”, and “exceptions to the problem”, might be more effective than we might be able to recognize in the current therapeutic terrain. Let’s re-member together the vital and healing role of connection within and outside the therapy room.
CLICK THE LINK TO REGISTER TODAY!

Registration allows Online and/or Access to Recording by Contacting Organizer. Earn 3.5 CEUs (See details below)

11/30/2024

ONLY a FEW SEATS left!!

Lessons from the Pandemic: Making Meaning in the Aftermath of Loss. Workshops are conveniently online. This workshop invites participants to explore the impact of loss, especially the multiple losses created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the continuing silence that compounds the grief many of us feel today. What are our narratives of loss, and how can we create healing conversation that will help us make meaning of our loss experiences and heal wounds/release constrictions? This workshop will be a space for us to share strategies, explore places of confusion and resistance and co-create healing interventions for ourselves and our clients.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lessons-from-the-pandemic-making-meaning-in-the-aftermath-of-loss-tickets-1014688118477

11/22/2024

TIME IS RUNNING OUT!!

Lessons from the Pandemic: Making Meaning in the Aftermath of Loss. Workshops are conveniently online. This workshop invites participants to explore the impact of loss, especially the multiple losses created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the continuing silence that compounds the grief many of us feel today. What are our narratives of loss, and how can we create healing conversation that will help us make meaning of our loss experiences and heal wounds/release constrictions? This workshop will be a space for us to share strategies, explore places of confusion and resistance and co-create healing interventions for ourselves and our clients.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lessons-from-the-pandemic-making-meaning-in-the-aftermath-of-loss-tickets-1014688118477