The Heart and Soul of Change Project is pleased to announce the annual Training of Trainers Conference. Come to sunny Florida at the best time to escape the cold arctic northland! But reserve your place early. Participants will be limited to 20 so that maximum interaction, discussion, and learning can occur.  The TOT will occur in West Palm Beach, close to the beach, and walking distance to the famous night spot, City Place.  The location:

Florida Department of Children and Families
Circuit 15 – Palm Beach County
111 South Sapodilla Avenue, 301-N
West Palm Beach, Florida 33401

Nearby hotels include Hilton Palm Beach Airport, West Palm Beach Marriott, and Crowne Plaza West Palm Beach.

HSCP Training of Trainers (TOT): January 31-February 4, 2011 (note date change) (24 hours of CEs) This intensive training experience intends to give you all you need to begin training others in CDOI and/or implementing CDOI in your agencies. And it provides the first step in becoming an HSCP Certified Trainer of CDOI. No waffling here. No testing the opinion polls or relying on “experts” who have never done an hour of therapy to tell you what to do to improve your practice. It starts with the common factors, and understanding the research that supports these pantheoretical elements that account for therapeutic transformation across models and schools of thought. This includes a thorough knowledge of the empirical research about evidence based treatments, and more importantly, how to understand and help others to understand, what can and cannot be claimed about model effectiveness. That’s the client directed part (the client’s resources and resiliencies, the client’s view of the alliance, and the client’s hope for recovery). Armed with this information, annotated PowerPoint presentations (including skill building role plays of the three skills of client directed work) will enable you make maximum impact at your agency and beyond.

Then there is the outcome informed part, truly a revolutionary development in the field for consumers and therapists. A complete coverage of the research supporting client based feedback is essential to conducting training and implementing the ORS and SRS, as well as understanding data collection and management via the ASIST program and MyOutcomes. Other topics will include agency implementation and what I call supervision for a change—supervision that intends to help both clients benefit from services and therapists accelerate their development and effectiveness. Supervision is key to implementation and therapist growth, and participants will walk away with the know how to facilitate both. Once again, annotated PowerPoint presentations which include the skill building role plays of the three skills of outcome informed work will provide the means for you to make a difference when you return to work.

This will be a rigorous 24 hours of training limited to only 20 participants. Readings will be circulated in advance and participants will be tested daily (Just kidding about the testing part! But you will be expected to read, study, and discuss the concepts). Given that this week intends to prepare participants to train, implement, consult, and supervise, folks should already be well versed in CDOI and already using the ORS and SRS. Through a combination of didactic presentations, training exercises/practice, and direct feedback, participants will learn the essentials of training and implementing CDOI ideas and practices. Training begins on Monday, the 31st at 1PM and ends on Friday the 4th at noon.  Detailed agendas and reading materials will be emailed before November 30.  

Participants of the TOT will receive training kits that include:

Subscription to CDOI Members Site (a $120 value)
Barry’s PowerPoint presentations for the whole week
Annotated PowerPoint presentations
Administration and scoring manual of the ORS/SRS (a $39.95)
The Revised 2010 Edition of the CDOI Manual which covers the whole gamut from clinical implementation to supervision and agency implementation—Heroic Clients, Heroic Agencies (a $39.95 value)
Certificate of attendance and 24 hours of CEUs

We are also going to have a lot fun in sunny, beautiful South Florida—dinner at Barry’s favorite beach restaurant, and a night of that famous South Florida night life.

Just $1095 US for 24 hours of small group intensive training so that you can teach and implement client directed outcome informed ideas and practices. Register Now!

Unfortunately, due to a change in venue that did not permit live clients, the Advanced CDOI Training scheduled for January 19-21 has been cancelled. Stay tuned for next year.