Prairie St. John's 2021 Fall Conference

1080 28th Avenue South,Moorhead MN 56560

09 November, 2021

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Prairie St. John's 2021 Fall Conference Presents Cynthia Moreno-Tuohy. Register today for 6 CEU's. Rein In Your Brain: Retraining Neuropathways for Evidence Based Treatment Success of Addiction and Co-occurring Disorders Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, BSW, NCAC II, CDC III, SAP has worked as an addiction professional for over 40 years. This event will open the door to a whole new way to think about thinking. Learn proven techniques for intervening of faulty impulsive thinking and actions that have a negative impact on lives and relationships. This day will be filled with inspirational, informative, and simple, yet profound suggestions for professionals to implement into their practice. Tools to help those challenged from living a life filled with impulsive, instinctual reactions to ones marked by reflective, respectful responding. Title: Romancing the Brain Course overview: This course is appropriate for master level therapists/counselors and can also be useful for case workers, peer recovery support specialists and other direct care staff. Description: With funding from NIDA, Cynthia Moreno Tuohy worked with Danya International to conceptualize, develop, and evaluate a multi-component, multi-media tool for use by addiction and other helping professionals to assist adults and youth improve their life traumas and conflict through knowledge, attitudes and skills developed in the frontal cortex of the brain. Rein in Your Bran are an intensive set of psycho-emotional-social-spiritual Cogitative Behavioral Therapy (CBT) treatments that, if followed, will result in brain pathway and lifestyle changes. This program affects behavioral learning with emotional development and maturity that results in long-term changes in the brain and behavior. This training will be a short introduction into the foundational pieces of the curriculum focusing on the brain and its development in addiction and conflict, methods to change the neuropathways in the brain and reduce conflict with self and others. Course Outline: 1) Brain/Addiction/Conflict – Instinctual Development. 2) Stages of relationships people tend to traverse through in romantic and other relationships. (Honeymoon, Disillusion, Misery, Awaking, Peace/Calm). 3) The four types of agreements to lead persons out of the stage of misery. (Financial, Emotional/Psychological, Spiritual, Physical/Spatial). 4) Levels of Violence 5) Communication Styles in Conflict 6) Review of the 10 Tips to Healthy Living. 7) Wrap-up 6 CEU's will be provided upon completion. Confirmed Approval: ND Board of SW, North Dakota Board of Addiction Counselor Examiners (NDBACE) Pending Approval: MN Board of SW, ND Board of Counselor Examiners (NDBCE) Offering Hope and Healing to Those Individuals Facing Behavioral Health and Substance Use Challenges