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Alberta Psychologists Competence

Cooperative Newsletter

New Webpage!! https://abpsychcoop.wordpress.com/

We’re excited to announce that our new and refreshed

website is live. The updated site includes changes to

navigation, with dropdown menus for both mobile and

desktop versions. There’s a whole host of smaller but

impactful changes, all to make your experience of the

adjust site that much better for you. Your feedback is

appreciated! Click here to leave feedback.

January 14, 2017 Volume 4, Issue 1

Inside this issue:

New Webpage 1

New Upcoming

Campuses

2

Upcoming Campuses 3

Campus Seeds 4

Seed Ideas 5

Book Clubs 6

Self Care Club 6

Peer Consultation 6

How to Register 6

Members’ Page 7

Last couple of

Self Care Events...

Next few Book

Club selections...

Terry is now seeking anyone interested in reading

and discussing “My Voice Will Go With You”. The

discussion will be on-line on February 28. Terry

remembers his own reading of this book years ago -

it made quite an impact on him back then. In a

word…. “intriguing”. You too can be a part of a

wonderful group of psychologists reading and

discussing together ground-breaking and inspiring

professional books.

Cooperative Campuses blend different approaches to learning. The gold box on each campus shows

by the proportion of the letters the learning styles incorporated into that campus activity.

C - a collaborative learning approach, sharing of experience and wisdom amongst equal

participants through facilitated discussion

D - a didactic approach in which expert knowledge and skills are provided to recipients.

E - an experiential learning involving activities that create a subjective experience useful

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Explaining the campus codes

Calling all Cooperative Members. We are beginning to

make the arrangements for our yearly Annual General

Meeting. This year, we are looking at adding an

overnight retreat component to this. We will review the

minutes from last year, address any new business and elect

Cooperative Coordinators. We will also incorporate time to connect and

rejuvenate!

Organizers: Chris Shorrock and Nicole Bratton.

Overnight Retreat / AGM— Date To Be Announced

CDE

Upcoming Campuses

Space

Online participant spot available!

Hypnosis — (Edmonton area) TBA (Tentative June 2017)

The word “hypnosis” can bring up feelings such as fear of mind

control or beliefs that it is a parlour trick. But those of us who use

hypnotherapy in our practice know that it can be a powerful tool. Let’s get

together and spend the day exploring together the joys and pitfalls that doing

hypnosis provides. (For practitioners who are already trained in hypnosis).

Organizers: Debbie Fillion and Linda Tilley

NEW

CDE Online participant spot available!

Sign up now for Campuses and you can help

choose what date they will run!!

Our ethical code and standards of practice charge us to keep

accurate records while also protecting our clients. We consider

the needs of society while also trying to promote our businesses.

Over the years, we begin to devise tricks to make these balancing acts easier.

At this campus, we will share our various tips and tricks—how we keep our files,

record keeping short cuts, report writing with confidentiality in mind, making our practices

thrive—while still meeting ethics and standards.

This campus will be organized as an online discussion. Sign up now !!!

Organizers—Kim Scott, Kim Law and Lisa Muhler

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Tricks of the Trade—2017—Online Campus!!!

Upcoming Campuses

CDE Space

EMDR with children—2017(Edmonton) *NEW*

Who would like to get together for a day or a series of afternoons and review

the Tinker and Wilson “EMDR with Children” training DVD’s? You can look

forward to comfy chairs, snacks and good conversation as we view the

videos and bounce questions and ideas off each other. Should have at least

level one training in EMDR. Organizers—Debbie Fillion and Nicole Bratton

Online Campus—Half Day

Space

CDE

We all know how it feels to work with a

client in a heightened state of anxiety.

This campus may look at the challenges

we face to remain present and engaged

while also being activated by our clients

(possible half day, combined with

Depression Campus)

Anxiety

Campus seeds are proposals for a campus with a brief description to gauge interest. Once we

have about 8 members expressing interest, the planning process can start… two members to

volunteer as organizers and who then set a date and plan the activities for the campus.

Group Process

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Campus Seeds

Coles Notes Group

NEEDS A VOLUNTEER TO HELP

ORGANIZE—Whether you have

attended a party, a lecture, or

been part of a sports team, you

have been in a group and

therefore you have experienced

group dynamics. What are the

stages of the group process?

From power sharing, to providing

constructive feedback to

establishing rules and

boundaries...these are just a few

topics that we will cover in this

campus. Please join us in

exploring the challenges and

strengths of this unique

treatment

format.

8/8 interested*

Couples Counselling

A campus focused on the

complexities of couples

counselling— this campus may

cover approaches, challenges,

ethics, and impact on the

therapist.

Many of us have numerous

books we would like to read,

but limited time to do so. This

campus would have members

presenting a “Coles Notes”

summary of different books -

so each member only has to

read one book!

Depressing Elements of Depression

This campus may look at how we

shake off the depressing elements

of depression when working with

this clientele in order to remain

present? (possible half day,

combined with Anxiety campus)

Motivational Interviewing Working with Conflict in the

Room This campus may include a

refresher on our motivational

interviewing skills along with

time to practice these skills

with each other.

There’s tension in the room…

and a knot in my stomach.

This campus is an

opportunity to explore our

reactions to conflict and how

to work with this in sessions.

Some Campus Seeds have been suggested, but they do not have a formal description. If

you have ideas for new seeds, click on this link… New Seed Ideas . Others have been

suggested, but have been slow to gain interest. If you are interested in signing up for any

of these topics, click on this link… Register for Campus Seed Consider submitting a

description for the newsletter to entice your fellow coop members to sign up as well!

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Campus Seed Ideas

Ideas generated at other campuses…

Specific clinical issues— (i.e. ADHD, Autism, Dissociative disorders, Personality

disorders, etc)

Self-help book Show-and-Tell (2/8)

What I learned my first year as a psychologist: Early lessons

that have endured (5/8)

When our openness to what our clients have to say hurts us

(4/8)

ABOUT TO BE PUT BACK INTO THE VAULT...

Being subpoenaed for court (2/8)

Therapeutic intuition…. (2/8)

Online Book Club meetings are the fourth Tuesday at 7pm. People can register by clicking this link for

Terry Wilton.

January 24—Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming

Experiences by Peter Lavine

February 28—(Classic) My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson by Sidney

Rosen

March 28— The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships by Patrick Carnes

April 25—Ego State Interventions: Strategies for Working With Parts by Robin Shaprio

May 23—(Classic) Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

June 27—Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Wellbeing by Martin Seligman

Click on these links to sign up for:

Campus or Campus Seed

Peer case consultation group

Organizing a campus

Online Book Club

Edmonton Book Club

Self Care Group

Submit a Seed Idea or a Campus Description

Book Club Online

Peer Case Consultation Group

Peer Case Consultation Group

meets online, on the third

Tuesday of every month from 1

to 2:30. Please email Terry if

you want to join this meeting.

How to Register

Self Care Club

Different activities will be planned each

month. Club members can sign up for

the activities they are most interested in.

We will sample a selection of self care

activities, and meet after to

discuss. People can register by clicking

this link for Debbie.

February—Cross country Skiing

March— Sensory Deprivation Float Tank

EDMONTON AREA—In person club

Book Club Edm.

Book Club meetings will be held in member’s homes

in the Edmonton are. People can register by clicking

this link for Nicole Bratton.

January 16—”Rosie Project” by Graeme Simsion

(Chris’ House)

February 27, 2017—Willpower Instinct by Kelly

McGonigal

April 10, 2017—The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel

Van Der Kolk

May 29, 2017—Are You My Mother? By Alison

Bechdel

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brief description of your practice

and areas of interest to our

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