Outreach & Education

Available for consulting, workshops, presentations & training:

Primary Care Provider Training & Conferences

We know that it is difficult to access education and conferences on eating disorders. BridgePoint is working hard behind the scenes to change this in Saskatchewan. Contact us for your training needs and we can put together an inperson or virtual solution to meet your needs.

BridgePoint is proud to be a collaborating organization working on a national e-learning project with Body Brave, Eating Disorders Nova Scotia, and National Initiative for Eating Disorders and other organizations from across Canada. An innovative social learning platform will be launched shortly. We cannot wait to share this platform! There will be a huge opportunity to create a Community of Practice for Saskatchewan Providers. Contact us if you want to be involved!

What is Body Peace?

Body Peace is a first-of-its-kind international virtual body image and Eating Disorders conference creates a space where people can get practical training, inspiration and information about eating disorders and body image. Every year, Body Peace brings together survivors, caregivers, and health professionals to learn from keynotes, speakers, and panels, as well as from each other.

Body Peace takes place online through Zoom, so you can tune in from anywhere. Last year, 216 participants from 4 continents attended live!

SAVE THE DATE for Body Peace 2020 - November 19 & 20, 2020. https://bodypeaceconference.com/
BridgePoint Webinar Series

Hope-ology: The Study of Hope

Recovery 101

Finding Your Voice in Eating Disorder Recovery

Applying Mindful Eating to Your Life

Coping With Uncertainty (launched during COVID19)
Professional Experiences & Practicums

We have hosted many professionals over the years as they join us in programming to gain hands-on experience in a non-medical group-based residential setting.

If you are interested in learning onsite in a professional or intern capacity, please apply here and we will be in touch to determine availability and suitability. We ask all student applicants to submit a resume with a detailed cover letter about their interest in working with our program.

Meals and accommodation can be arranged on-site and we charge a small cost-recovery fee:

SHA Professionals $150 Private Professionals $75 Longer Student Practicums TBD
Applied Suicide Intervention Support Training
ASIST training is scheduled intermittently throughout the year. Or, please contact us to discuss your group's individual needs and we can arrange private ASIST training for your group or organization.

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Upcoming 2020 program dates: May 12-13 (Saskatoon - UofS Campus), and November 24-25 (Milden)

Description
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is an intensive, interactive, and practice-dominated course designed to help caregivers recognize and review risk, and intervene to prevent the immediate risk of suicide. It is by far the most widely used, acclaimed and researched suicide intervention training workshop in the world.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Recognize that caregivers and persons at risk are affected by personal and societal attitudes about suicide
- Discuss suicide with a person at risk in a direct manner
- Identify risk alerts and develop a safe plan related to them
- Demonstrate the skills required to intervene with a person at risk of suicide
- List the types of resources available to a person at risk of suicide, including themselves
- Make a commitment to improving community resources and networking
- Recognize that suicide prevention is broader than suicide intervention and, includes life promotion and self-care for persons at risk and for caregivers
AUDIENCE

Open to all. Ages 18+
Participants can include but not limited to: parents and caregivers; natural helpers and advisors; educators and ministers; health practitioners; justice, law enforcers, emergency workers, and community volunteers.

Student/group rate and other contract training dates are available. Contact Carla Chabot, Executive Director at (306) 935-2240 for more details.

CERTIFICATE AND ACCREDITATION

All participants who complete the course (14 hours of instruction time) will receive a certificate of participation.

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SafeTalk

Learn and practice powerful, life-saving skills in just four hours Using a simple yet effective model, LivingWorks safeTALK empowers everyone to make a difference. LivingWorks safeTALK is a four-hour face-to-face workshop featuring powerful presentations, audiovisuals, and skills practice. At a LivingWorks safeTALK workshop, you'll learn how to prevent suicide by recognizing signs, engaging someone, and connecting them to an intervention resource for further support. A skilled, supportive trainer will guide you through the course, and a community resource will be on hand to support your safety and comfort. What a great investment for yourself or your group. Call today 306-935-2240 to schedule!
Classroom presentations

We have had the privilege to be able to speak to classrooms from all over Saskatchewan. When time permits, we would love to join you in your classroom. Please call (306) 935-2240 and speak to Lauralyn or Carla to coordinate.

We gratefully accept donations and per diems to cover our costs as this service is funded through generosity and giving back.
Equine Assisted Learning

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Emotion Focused Family Training
Part of the Emotion-Focused Therapy “family” (EFFT) and rooted in a deep and unwavering belief in the healing power of families, the essence of EFFT is to afford caregivers a significant role in their loved one’s mental health and well-being. The therapist’s role would then be to empower and support caregivers in mastering the skills, tasks, and, yes, the feelings involved in four main domains:
- Becoming their loved one’s behavior coach,
- Becoming their loved one’s emotion coach,
- Facilitating relationship repair and healing possible wounds from the child and family’s past, and
- Working through and resolving the fears and obstacles that surface in the caregiver.
Caregiver workshops, clinician trainings available. Call today to discuss your group's needs.

Visit www.mentalhealthfoundations.ca for more information about EFFT.
Daring Greatly & Rising Strong Workshops- Brene Brown

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Professional Retreats based on the work of Brene Brown will be offered this year! Consider this training as your next staff retreat or just a treat for yourself. Registration now OPEN!

This training is led by a Certified Daring Way™ facilitator, Lauralyn Blackburn, MSW, Clinical RSW, CEDS-S, APE, CDWF (Clinical Program Director BridgePoint Center for Eating Disorders)

The Daring Way™ - May 22-23, 2020

The Daring Way™ is a two-day, highly experiential intensive training based on the research of Dr. Brene Brown. This training is based on Dr. Brown’s book, Daring Greatly! The Daring Way™ method is designed to support men, women and young people to learn how to show up, be seen, and live braver lives. The primary focus is on developing shame resilience skills and daily practices that transform the way we live, love, parent, and lead.

During this intensive workshop we will explore topics such as vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness. We examine the thought, emotions, and behaviors that are holding us back and identify new choices and practices that will move us toward more authentic and wholehearted living.

Rising Strong Workshop™ - July 16-17, 2020

Rising Strong Workshop™ - This workshop is based on the research Dr. Brené Brown presents in her book Rising Strong. The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough, often enough, we will fall. This workshop is about getting back up. Rising Strong: The Reckoning, The Rumble, The Revolution teaches us what it takes to get back up and how owning our stories of struggle gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle can be our greatest call to courage and the clearest path to a wholehearted life.

The work is suitable for professionals, mental health therapists, teachers, individuals, couples, families, work teams and organizational leaders who enjoy doing deep work.

Training may be eligible for CanSask Job Grant funding that may cover two-thirds of the tuition cost for the training with the purchase of both programs. Apply for the Canada-Saskatchewan Job Grant here.

Training is taking place at BridgePoint in Milden, SK. Onsite accommodation can be arranged. We are approximately 1.5 hours from Saskatoon, 2.5 hours from Regina and 2 hours from Swift Current.

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Other Individualized Training Needs

Contact us today 306-935-2240 for a quote for a customized training session for your team! Meals and accommodation onsite available.

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Testimonials

I trust everyone and the confidentiality and the trust here. It's difficult at times, very emotional and it's hard dealing with a lot of feelings but it's what you have to do and it feels so better much and so supportive.

There's no comparison to anything else I've tried and it’s a real blessing and an opportunity to be able to come here and an opportunity not to be taken lightly. It's a privilege to be here and I know that I will leave here a different person.

I can identify the issues and accept them and be able to learn how to work with that. I think over time we can say goodbye to the eating disorder. There is freedom at the end of the tunnel, but it takes work.

It's not about being broken and getting fixed, it's that we are all individuals who have pain and we're learning how to cope in a very healthy way.

The fact that BridgePoint operates so differently than the traditional medical model was very refreshing, and proved to be vital to my experience and healing.