Registration

• Finding Solutions in the Sandtray. 9-12pm – $40.00
  Presenters: Courtney Guhl Huckabay & Elizabeth Taylor
  
  Sandtray is a modality through which clients or participants can speak and create their preferred futures, address challenges, and identify resources. This constructivist approach allows the child, adolescent, or adult client to be the expert of their challenges and solutions as they create their own perspectives and worlds in the Sandtray. The therapist acts as a witness, encourager, and facilitator to assist the client in finding their strengths, possibilities, and solutions. Participants will have the opportunity to practice as they learn the basics of solution-focused Sandtray and how it may be useful with different populations.
• Research Day. 9-12pm – $40.00
  The Research Day is hosted by the SFBTA Research Committee
• SFBT 101. 9-4:30pm (lunch break on own) – $60.00
  Presenter: Joel Simon
  
  Since the second conference in 2004, SFBTA has offered an introductory workshop for those who have had little or no prior solution-focused experience and who want to learn the philosophy, assumptions, and practice of this approach so that they can better enjoy the conference. The workshop includes experiential exercises, discussion, presentation, and video examples of the model.
• Solution Focused Communication: A Powerful Tool in Creating Psychologically Safe and Trauma-Informed Cultures that Foster a Sense of Community. 1:30-4:30pm – $40.00
  Presenters: Nilusha Jiwani-Ebrahim, Kavita Bhatla, Valerie D’Paiva
  
  We know that the pandemic has had a significant impact on many organizations, from the workforce it employs to the clients it serves. Business organizations are increasingly required to shift toward better mental health support in the workplace, improving employee well-being, mitigating burnout, enhancing organizational effectiveness, and, ultimately, the client experience. In this workshop, facilitators will explore how the core principles of solution-focused communication support a trauma-informed lens to our work and how we create a sense of psychological safety in doing so. A trauma-informed approach, different from trauma-specific therapy, is when there is a universal acknowledgment that a high prevalence and impact of trauma in both clients and the workforce exists; it seeks ways to reduce re-traumatization and fosters psychological safety by aligning with the trauma-informed approach principles. Both these concepts are critical in creating a culture where a sense of community flourishes and where organizations can thrive in increasingly complex environments. The facilitators will use experiences from their own organization and engage participants in reflection, dialogue, and practice to explore and illustrate why this matters, what difference it can make to us and others, and how to integrate key insights into their own settings.