Professional development opportunities happening in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley
Non-Pathologizing Approach to Counselling – Listening to the Client’s Protest Language with Michael Towers
Reimagine counselling beyond diagnosis at this one-day, in-person workshop: Non-Pathologizing Approach to Counselling – Listening to the Client’s Protest Language with Michael Towers. This energized, immersive training will help you translate your existing modalities into non-pathologizing practice grounded in systems language, empowerment, and respect for client experience. You will learn to hear and work with clients’ protest language, drawing out preferred narratives and identities, and explore a new CORE clinical note model that meets ethical and legal requirements, including those of the new BC college.
Join us on April 24, 2026 at the Comfort Inn & Suites, 8255 166 St, Surrey, BC, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (doors open 8:30 a.m.). Early bird pricing is $100 + GST until February 28 (regular $150 + GST). Email [email protected] to register and e-transfer $105 to [email protected]. Coffee, tea, muffins, and pastries are included, and the workshop counts for 7 CECs, with additional CECs available through the companion textbooks.
10-day Experiential Training Program
November 21 – 23, 2025 and January 16-18, 2026
10-day Experiential Training Program
Held at CoWorks by Elevate, Langley, BC
60 CEC/CEU
Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)
Family Therapy Training
Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST) is rooted in the wisdom and work of world-renowned psychotherapist Virginia Satir. The Level 1 STST program provides:
- Practical skills for facilitating deep, transformational change with clients.
- Opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Ways to expand internal resources and develop congruent client connections.
STST integrates evidence-based experiential therapy with a systemic, positively directional, and change-focused approach, leading to neurological transformation.
Counsellors and therapists will learn to:
- Utilize experiential processes to access healing Life Energy.
- Facilitate change in clients’ intrapsychic and relational systems.
- Establish safety and connect with clients’ internal experiences.
- Identify and transform survival communication and coping patterns.
- Set positively directional therapeutic goals.
- Help clients access and strengthen internal resources.
- Map internal processes and guide behavioural, emotional, and perceptual change.
- Support clients in integrating and maintaining transformational change.
Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific
