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Confessions of an Unconscious Man
By far Dan’s most vulnerable and poignant talk, it entails his exploring the challenges of navigating a public life of being a champion and leading voice for conscious masculinity and confronting the contradictions of being a man in the 21st century while navigating a private life driven by unaddressed trauma, mental health challenges, and as one who was causing harm in his most important relationships.
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The Missing Peace: Men and Trauma Men and women experience, respond to, exhibit the symptoms of and recover from trauma differently. Therefore, the interventions and treatment services we provide to men must also be different. Client centered treatment cannot mean avoiding the systemic impact of gender on our clients – male and female identified. Many treatment professionals may be unintentionally re-traumatizing male participants thereby increasing their risk of failure in the program. This presentation offers practical guidance and tools for professionals working with men in navigating these challenging areas.
The Four Horsemen: Navigating the Inextricable Connections Between Trauma, Shame, Mental Health, and Addiction Due to our advanced understanding of addiction, mental health, shame and trauma it is important to discuss how the four phenomena are distinct and also intricately related to one another. Unfortunately, too often our field discusses them as if they exist separately or focuses on one without considering the complex interaction with the others. This unique and provocative presentation challenges us to see the whole forest and create interventions accordingly.
What Do We Really Think Of Fathers This provocative presentation explores a unique perspective on fathers and how the unconscious biases that we carry with us and that exist in various parts of the system impact how we treat and support fathers. As men and women experience, respond to, and recover from trauma differently, the importance of trauma-informed services and gender responsive programming will also be addressed. This unique presentation also offers practical guidance and tools to better support dads in community-based and child protective services.
Men, Trauma, and Violence Could we ever possibly end men’s violence and abuse without addressing male trauma? Absolutely not. Yet the majority of conversations, research, and clinical interventions do not seem to truly appreciate this inextricable link. The challenge in having this conversation is that some rightly fear that trauma will be used as an excuse for violence. Clearly, that is unacceptable. But how can we attempt to understand much of the violence that men commit without understanding the role that trauma may play in the development of that behavior. How men have been raised – by men and women – is the problem. The problem is how much violence and emotional castration is endemic to how boys are raised, still to this day. The problem is how sex, sexuality, and intimacy have been corrupted for boys and men, and are often interwoven with control, power over, homophobia, violence, and the objectification of women. There is never an excuse for violence or abusiveness. No matter what the explanation for a man’s struggle to connect in peaceful and healthy ways and create loving and intimate relationships, he must be responsible for his behavior, for his healing, and doing the work it takes to overcome the negative effects of gender conditioning and trauma.
The 5 Cs – Enhancing Team Coordination and Collaboration This workshop explores the five important elements to creating effective teamwork: Collaboration, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Crisis Management, and Cross Training. Beginning with the stages of team development the presentation then looks at common challenges teams face in being able to operate at peak performance using these five critical skills. Bringing the offbeat humor for which he is known, Dan provides a thought-provoking presentation while also giving attendees some practical skills to immediately implement to improve team functionality.
Understanding the Culture of Recovery This presentation will provide attendees with a clear definition of recovery and a better understanding of the culture of recovery. Twelve Step groups are the most popular and the most available forms of ongoing recovery support in the community. However, most people do not have a great understanding of the distinct norms and values of the culture. The presentation will cover the stages of recovery and how they overlap with the stages of change and the transition process into the community. Attendees will leave with an understanding of the meanings and expectations of each Step and other components of 12 Step recovery (sponsorship, service work, etc.) In addition, attendees will leave with specific tools to help them better support the participants in achieving long-term sobriety.
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Training Titles The following titles are comprehensive curriculum trainings from our groundbreaking catalogue. These trainings are four days long and are unique experiential workshops that challenge our attendees professionally and personally. Attendees will leave not only with new skills for working with these groups but with the confidence to implement the curriculum for which they have been trained.
Healing Men’s Pain (4 days) – $20,000: this comprehensive and groundbreaking curriculum, meant as a compliment to Helping Men Recover, explores multiple facets of the intersection of masculinity and trauma. The curriculum is designed so that it can be used partially or in its entirety according to the duration of your program. Healing Men’s Pain is a unique trauma-informed curriculum designed specifically for men to explore their experiences with pain and trauma in a way that truly honors their masculinity and who they are.
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Amazing Dads (4 days) – $20,000: this is the first trauma informed curriculum for working with dads. The four-day training explores many of the topics of fatherhood that people don’t often address that are critical to helping fathers establish healthy and healing relationships with their children and themselves. Amazing Dads Fatherhood Curriculum teaches fathers with kids of all ages to become exceptional parents.
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Helping Men Recover (4 days) – $20,000: This newly revised groundbreaking curriculum was the first men’s trauma-informed addiction curriculum. With new sessions and new exercises, this training will not only teach attendees how to implement the curriculum and it will give a whole new appreciation for the challenges and opportunities working with men.
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Amazing Moms (4 days) – $20,000: COMING SOON – The four day training explores many of the topics of motherhood that people don’t often address that are critical to helping mothers establish healthy and healing relationships with their children, themselves, and their partners.
Healing Women’s Pain (4 days) – $20,000: COMING SOON – this comprehensive and groundbreaking curriculum explores multiple facets of the intersection of femininity and trauma. The curriculum is designed so that it can be used partially or in its entirety according to the duration of your program.
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