The San Francisco Bay Area EAPA chapter meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month (there is no meeting in August). Each training provides a minimum 1.5 continuing education units (CEU's) from the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) and/or 1.5 professional development hours (PDH's). The cost to attend an in-person meeting is $30.00 for EAPA members, $40.00 for non-members. Please, cash or check only. For Zoom meetings, there is no cost.
Title: KISS Your Holiday Stress Goodbye* From Self-Medications to Self-Regulation
Date and Time: 12 - 1:30 PM PST (group introductions at 11:30 AM)
Speaker: Michael Anne Conley, LMFT
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Description:
In the Before Times, the fall holiday season amplified stress — especially for families held hostage by alcoholism, other addictions and mental health issues. The human family has been living for a while in the house that Covid built, where up is down and down is sideways. More stressful.
As we head into another holiday season in this evolving pandemic, the people we serve are even more vulnerable to relapse and cross-addiction. We who serve them are stretched as well. In this month's gathering, Michael Anne will offer a reframe of the KISS acronym that's so familiar in recovery circles. She'll share how she uses this framework to support clients who are ready to pivot from their self-medication of choice and to adopt life affirming behaviors of self-regulation. Participants will have opportunities to engage in practical, contemplative exercises and to interact with the group.
* KISS is not what you think
Speaker Bio:
For 36 years, Michael Anne Conley has drawn from her holistic approach to wellness to support clients who want to unwind the trauma that hurts their health, risks their relationships and keeps them stuck in self-defeating habits.
Michael Anne's background includes a first career in journalism and decades of exploration in metaphysics, food as medicine, body-centered therapies and addiction issues, along with an appreciation of family-as-incubator for human learning and behavior.
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and founder of Stillpoint Integrative Health Center in Lafayette, California. This experience, along with her Clinical Holistic Health Education master's degree have been a natural fit with the addiction treatment field, which included 18 years teaching in the Addiction Studies Certificate Program at Diablo Valley College and 20 years as a clinical supervisor at the JFK University Center for Holistic Counseling.
Michael Anne’s Habits Into Health framework is a depth-oriented, skills-based process that helps clients find recovery from chronic health and addiction issues — as well as the trauma they have in common.
The San Francisco Chapter of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs and/or LEPs. The San Francisco Chapter of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. The Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
The San Francisco Chapter of EAPA can be reached via our website sfeapa.org or by writing us at PO Box 5370 Walnut Creek, CA 94596. Contact us for any needed accommodations or to address any grievances. Our CAMFT Continuing Education Provider Approval Number is 57003.
Click here to register for the Nov. 9th event
This does not apply for our virtual meetings! Our virtual meetings will be held from noon - 1:30 pm PST.
Our meeting location is Skates on the Bay in Berkeley, CA. Networking is 11:20 am - 11:50; the presentation is 11:50 am - 1:30 pm. Come and enjoy a nice lunch with beautiful San Francisco Bay views!