Events
Events 2026
Two Day Clinical Workshop
Neuroscience Unlocked: A Transformative Comprehensive Clinical Framework for Trauma
In-person workshop by Ruth Lanius, M.D., Ph.D., Clinician-Scientist, Psychiatry Professor, and Harris-Woodman Chair in Mind-Body Medicine at Western University of Canada, where she is the Director of the Clinical Research Program for PTSD. Ruth has over 25 years of clinical and research experience with trauma-related disorders.
Workshop Description
What happens when trauma processing is rushed before clients are grounded in the present? Why do some clients destabilize despite sound interventions? Many trauma survivors have rarely experienced true safety. What does it mean, neurobiologically and experientially, to feel grounded and secure?
This workshop positions finding solid ground as the essential foundation for all trauma work. Participants will learn how trauma disrupts orienting, attachment, and bodily safety systems, and how clinicians can restore regulation and connection through sensory pathways to healing.
Clinically practical strategies, including the Finding Solid Ground program and parts-informed approaches, will guide participants in helping clients establish physical and internal safety, enhance presence, and build coherence. Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) will be introduced as a method to resolve traumatic shock at its neurophysiological roots, used only after stability is established, and contrasted with EMDR to clarify its unique approach.
Through theory, experiential practice, and hands-on application, attendees will leave with an actionable framework that integrates neuroscience, parts work, sensory pathways, and both bottom-up and top-down strategies. Clinicians will gain tools to reduce overwhelm, enhance readiness for trauma processing, and anchor therapy in the solid ground that makes lasting healing possible
When
Monday, April 20 and Tuesday April 21, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM daily.
Location
Hotel Arts, Calgary, AB
119 12 Ave SW
Calgary, AB, Canada
403.266.4611
info@hotelarts.ca
Registration
Early Bird Fee (cut-off date March 6, 2026): $495 per person
Regular Fee: $550 per person
Please note that the last day for registration is Thursday, April 16, 2026
Registration includes morning and afternoon coffee breaks and lunch on both days.
Register early as seating is limited to 70 attendees.
Please contact the hotel directly for current group rates, when booking please reference “Arnica Foundation.”
Hotel Arts Booking Link: Arnica Foundation
*please note, room reservations are subject to availability*
Sponsored by Arnica Foundation
Community Education Service
Growing Resilient Teens
Andrea Halwas Larsen, PhD, CT, REACE
Associate Therapist and Education Coordinator of Juno House
Before high school graduation, 1/3 of adolescent girls will experience depression, anxiety disorders, self-harm or an eating disorder. However, parents, coaches and teachers have extraordinary healing powers to support our teens as they develop into young adulthood. Resilience is not taught; it is grown in our children. There are ways that we can help our children become more resilient starting within our relationship first.
This session is facilitated by a therapist from Juno House who has years of both clinical and facilitating experience. Juno House was founded in 2008 as a Centre of Excellence for adolescent girls and young women who are experiencing anxiety-based mental health issues of self harm, obsessive compulsive disorders, depression and eating disorders.
This 90-minute session will provide participants with:
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a basic introduction of interpersonal neurobiology and anxiety,
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the essential role emotions play in mental well-being,
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how to identify emotions in your child,
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strategies to have a better relationship with your child including how to be an emotion coach.
WHEN
January 29, 2026
Presentation 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
REGISTRATION
Free
Sponsored by Arnica Foundation
Navigating Technology with our Youth
Andrea Halwas Larsen, PhD, CT, REACE
Associate Therapist and Education Coordinator of Juno House
Technology is everywhere: the good, the bad and the ugly. Our youth need to learn how to navigate this world and how to be critical about their relationship with tech. This session is not only about technology’s impact on youth, but is also about a child’s healthy brain development and the necessary parenting role in creating healthy, emotionally regulated and integrated brains. It will teach the foundation of a child’s emotional brain development, how to grow it, and how technology can dangerously hijack it.
This session is facilitated by a therapist from Juno House who has years of both clinical and facilitating experience. Juno House was founded in 2008 as a Centre of Excellence for adolescent girls and young women who are experiencing anxiety-based mental health issues of self harm, obsessive compulsive disorders, depression and eating disorders.
This 90-minute session will provide participants with:
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an understanding of the basic neuroscience behind healthy brain development,
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the dangers of technology for healthy brain development,
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technology use rules to help you and your child manage tech use,
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strategies to connect to your child including how to be an emotion coach and build a relationship that can be stronger than their relationship with their tech.
WHEN
February 26, 2026
Presentation 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
REGISTRATION
Free
Sponsored by Arnica Foundation
Growing Resilient Teens
Andrea Halwas Larsen, PhD, CT, REACE
Associate Therapist and Education Coordinator of Juno House
Before high school graduation, 1/3 of adolescent girls will experience depression, anxiety disorders, self-harm or an eating disorder. However, parents, coaches and teachers have extraordinary healing powers to support our teens as they develop into young adulthood. Resilience is not taught; it is grown in our children. There are ways that we can help our children become more resilient starting within our relationship first.
This session is facilitated by a therapist from Juno House who has years of both clinical and facilitating experience. Juno House was founded in 2008 as a Centre of Excellence for adolescent girls and young women who are experiencing anxiety-based mental health issues of self harm, obsessive compulsive disorders, depression and eating disorders.
This 90-minute session will provide participants with:
-
a basic introduction of interpersonal neurobiology and anxiety,
-
the essential role emotions play in mental well-being,
-
how to identify emotions in your child,
-
strategies to have a better relationship with your child including how to be an emotion coach.
WHEN
March 12, 2026
Presentation 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
REGISTRATION
Free
Sponsored by Arnica Foundation
