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TRACK WORKSHOPS

Shelley Coleman, Ph.D. Townsend Institute, Concordia University-Irvine

balancing the needs of individual participants, ensuring both group cohesion and personal support. 625. Shaping Team Cohesion and Overall Performance: Daily Leadership Rhythms for Building Trust with Their Teams 1.25 credit hours Continuing Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: IBCC Educational CEUs applicable to this workshop: ACSI Level: Intermediate Jennifer Rowland, M.A. Rowland Leadership Training and Consulting Summary Trust is the foundation of effective leadership and high-per forming teams. This workshop is designed to help coaches and ministry leaders help other leaders recognize how their everyday actions—whether big or small—directly influence the level of trust within their teams. Participants will deepen their understanding of the power of trust in shaping team cohesion and overall performance. The workshop will also provide participants with practical tools and strategies to help leaders intentionally build trust in routine interactions, promoting stronger collaboration and unity. Additionally, participants will help leaders to identify and leverage every day moments to foster trust and enhance team dynamics, ultimately creating a more harmonious and efficient work place. By focusing on the impact of consistent, intentional leadership rhythms, participants will walk away equipped to help leaders cultivate a trust-driven culture that drives last ing success for both themselves and their teams. Learning Objectives 1. Analyze the impact of leaders’ daily actions on trust, team cohesion, and overall performance. 2. Outline how to teach leaders to identify and utilize every day opportunities to foster trust, evaluate team dynamics, and enhance collaboration within their organizations. 3. Assess practical, evidence-based tools and strategies and demonstrate their ability to create trust-driven environments that strengthen team cohesion and client relationships. 701. SAFELY GROW: Using a Transtheoretical, Trauma informed Approach to Counseling Highly Distressed Couples and Stopping Patterns of IPV and Coercive Control 1.25 credit hours Continuing Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: APA, ASWB, NBCC, IBCC, Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling Continuing Medical Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit, AOA Category 2A credits, Georgia Nurses Association, AAFP Level: Advanced

Summary Couples often enter therapy after enduring years of getting caught in rigid patterns of conflict. Over time, this breaks down the couple’s capacity to feel emotionally safe in the relationship (Johnson, 2004). This is exacerbated in couples who present with embodied trauma (Dana, 2018; Johnson & Best, 2003; Van der Kolk, 2014). This embodied trauma sets up each partner to get caught in re-enactments with one another, thus increasing the sense of threat in the relation ship (Levine, 2010; Porges & Furman, 2011; Seigel, 2001). Psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, and ministry leaders need a transtheoretical approach to pro vide care for these complex dynamics. This workshop will present a transtheoretical approach, SAFELY GROW, that offers a non-pathologizing path to create the conditions for individual nervous system regulation resulting in the inte gration of self, the imago Dei, work with the couple’s rigid pattern of conflict by supporting each partner to reach to and respond from new states of self-integration and stop the re-enactments of past trauma by facilitating the growth of new neural pathways resulting in new styles of relating as each partner begins to experience the relationship as safe (Allender, 2022; Johnson, 2004; Levine, 2010; Schwartz, 2021; Townsend,1996). The presenter will also address intimate partner violence (IPV) and coercive control, which are com mon forms of domestic abuse that create systemic patterns of power and control perpetuated by one romantic part ner against another (NCADV, 2022; Stark, 2007). If this pat tern emerges in highly distressed couples, the participants need to be equipped with knowledge and tools to move the abused partner toward safety (Brom et al., 2017; Herman, 2022). The presenter will discuss original research on the embodied somatic experience of women experiencing co ercive control by a domestic partner to inform the clinician on ways to support nervous system regulation to facilitate growth in self-efficacy and decision-making. Learning Objectives 1. Analyze the impact of embodied trauma on relational conflict and assess the neurobiological mechanisms driving maladaptive patterns in distressed couples. 2. Evaluate and apply the transtheoretical framework SAFE LY GROW, which integrates Emotionally Focused Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Narrative Focused Trauma Care, and the Townsend Model to facilitate co-regulation within and between partners and support safe relational interactions rooted in emotional security. 3. Describe how to recognize IPV and/or coercive control in highly distressed couples and apply the transtheoretical framework SAFELY GROW to help the abused partner build the nervous system capacity to navigate the complexity of living with and leaving an abusive partner.

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