The Heroic Journey | Clinical Seminars/Webinars

Clinical Seminars/Webinars

Over 150 seminars have been developed for clinical settings such as the Veteran’s Administration, hospitals, ER personnel, Chaplin services, different branches of the service, in-patient treatment centers, churches, adoption agencies, foster parents and behavioral health organizations. If you have a request or questions, Melissa Bradley-Ball can tailor-make a seminar on resilience, trauma, specific traumas, grief and healing that specifically fits the needs of your organization. The seminars listed below are current and available continuing education seminars in audio/CD/DVD and On-demand format and are available through the NEW Cross Country Education – www.vyneeducation.com In the search, put in “Melissa Bradley-Ball” and all available continuing education seminars from 1 hour to full-day will be available to you.

PRIVATE CONFERENCES BY ORGANIZATIONS

July 31-August 2, 2017 - Baton Rouge, LA - Louisiana Association of Substance Abuse Counselors and Trainers (LASACT) - Keynote - The Heroic Journey of Recovery; Understanding Betrayal Trauma

July 13, 2017 - Parris Island, SC - U.S. Marine Corps Family Services - Breaking the Bonds of Sexual Trauma

May 22-24, 2017 - 5-person panel of experts - United States Pentagon - Sexual abuse, sexual harrassment

and leadership for all branches of the service.

January 27, 2017 - National webinar - Lorman Professional Education - Recognizing Child Abuse (clinical)

April 22, 2016 – Archbold, OH – The Behavioral Health Professionals of Northwest Ohio – The Three Stages of Healing Trauma: Trauma Conversion and Resilience

March 27, 2013 – Alexandria, LA – Staff at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Alexandria, Louisiana – Trauma Conversion, Resilience & The Heroic Journey Framework for Healing Warriors – Full day CE training

May 13, 2013 – Everett, WA – Clinical and Chaplain staff of Providence Northwest Regional Medical Center – Navigating the Waters of Medical Crisis: A Framework for Helping Patients and Families Through the Storm (Full day CE training)

October 29, 2013 – Knoxville, TN – For clergy, church staffs and others of the East Tennessee Presbytery – Sexual Misconduct in the Church: A Soul Wound BROCHURE

October 31, 2013 – Nashville, TN – Veterans Administration Medical Center (clinical staff) – The Heroic Journey Framework To Integrate the Combat Experience

January 29, 2014 – Brentwood, TN – Mindmapping for Creativity and Productivity – open to the public but sponsored by Allies in Biz

April 15, 2014 – Mt. Pleasant, TN – (Private) – Diversity Training; Employee Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Awareness & Supervisory Training on Substance Abuse in the Workplace

September 30, 2014 – Nashville, TN – Middle TN Presbytery Clergy & Staff – The Soul Wound: Sexual Misconduct and Betrayal in the Church – sign up at: http://www.presbyterymiddletennessee.org/

October 8, 2014 – Brentwood, TN – (Contact for location and registration heroicjourney@me.com) – Revealing the Hero Within: Helping Others Discovery Their Resilience (9am – Noon) Cost $30 includes manual

October 8, 2014 – Brentwood, TN (Contact for location and registration heroicjourney@me.com) – Helping Someone Who Has Experienced Sexual Trauma (2pm-4pm) FREE – for general public for prevention & post-vention

ALL AVAILABLE WITH CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS – www.vyneeducation.com (formerly Cross Country Education) – in Audio, CD, DVD, On-demand

RESILIENCE: Helping Clients Navigate the Heroic Journey

Human beings have an innate desire to make order and sense out of chaos but are often unable to do this effectively. The Heroic Journey is a template for describing the process of moving through challenging life events and coming through those events stronger, wiser, healthier, and more resilient. This framework is often portrayed in movies and literature where the primary character, the “initiate,” is being tested with challenges beyond what he/she thinks can be overcome. The information in this seminar can be utilized with widely diverse populations. Therapists and non-clinicians need techniques and tools to help empower self and others to overcome adversity, embrace change, and thrive. The Heroic Journey is utilized worldwide to promote resilience and drive individuals to thrive. Clinicians and other professionals can use these timeless concepts to help patients, clients, and students manage the normal passages of life as well as overcome painful and traumatic experiences, including loss, grief, family and life transitions, crises, financial devastation, natural disaster, recovery from addiction or other health issues, and more. Participants in this one-day seminar will examine the four steps universally found in great literature, spiritual texts, and popular culture—known as the Heroic Journey—and learn how to utilize these concepts in a variety of client situations to help motivate and inspire. Attendees will identify the eight micro-stages and focus on the developmental needs and the treatment modalities to effectively move through the stages. In addition, attendees will learn how to utilize and adapt a multi-modal approach, including Cognitive-Behavioral, Solution-Focused, Jungian, expressive, experiential, somatic, internal resource development, and narrative therapies, for most types of clients (or yourself). Participants will also be given an opportunity to reflect experientially, privately or with others, on some of the applications of this seminar and may wish to bring a journal for reflective writing. You will leave with a new set of tools to put to work immediately to enhance your repertoire!

Always available ON DEMAND – RESILIENCE: Helping Clients Navigate the Heroic Journey (clinical CEs given and appropriate for general public with a practice of self-awareness) www.vyneeducation.com and also via DVD and CD self-study (includes 100 page manual).

Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults and Couples (offered via Cross Country Education/Vyne Education – www.Vyneeducation.com now in audio/on-demand and DVD 6.5 continuing education hours)

Sexual trauma is a seismic event which impacts the person emotionally, somatically, cognitively, spiritually and philosophically/spiritually. Someone is sexually assaulted every two minutes – both male and female in the United States. An overwhelming number will experience this trauma sometime in their lifetime with age five being the most common age for assault. Most victim do not get help for years following and even those who undergo counseling will likely experience some trauma reactivation during adulthood. Victims who go untreated statically have higher rates of depression, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, are more likely to smoke, struggle with addiction and experience more than average relationship challenges and low immune function. Essentially, they are grieving the vital qualities of life.

Help your clients take their lives back! This seminar is a resilience-based, multi-modal approach using evidence-based models to help late adolescent and adult sexual trauma victims reclaim and restore their lives. Many common sexual trauma approaches miss several of the essential and most complicating factors and often cause people to regress and identify more strongly with their trauma. Often times, the sexual trauma itself is a secondary trauma. Learn what the PRIMARY trauma often is which disrupts ability to be intimate. Attendees will learn a holistic and post-traumatic growth approach so trauma work doesn’t have to be more painful than it inherently is. This seminar focuses on strengths – not pathology – and uses a healing perspective versus a curing perspective.

Brochure for January and February 2014 tours to SC GA FL and AL

January 22, 2014 – Columbia, SC – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

January 23, 2014 – Savannah, GA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

January 24, 2014 – Jacksonville, FL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 3, 2014 – Augusta, GA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 4, 2014 – Macon, GA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 5, 2014 – Atlanta, GA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 6, 2014 – Birmingham, AL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for NV CO and UT 2014

February 19, 2014 – Las Vegas, NV – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 20, 2014 – Salt Lake City, UT – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 21, 2014 – Denver, CO – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for All Michigan Cities 2014

March 11, 2014 – Grand Rapids, MI – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

March 12, 2014 – Lansing, MI – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

March 13, 2014 – Ann Arbor, MI – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

March 14, 2014 – Sterling Heights, MI – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for all MO and KS Cities for April 2014

April 1, 2014 – Wichita, KS – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

April 2, 2014 – Kansas City, MO – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

April 3, 2014 – Columbia, MO – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

April 4, 2014 – St. Louis, MO – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for all CA cities spring 2014

April 29, 2014 – San Bernardino, CA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults and Couples (CEs given)

April 30, 2014 – Pasadena, CA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

May 1, 2014 – Torrance/Redondo Beach, CA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

May 2, 2014 – Shermasn Oaks/Studio City, CA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

May 28, 2014 – Burbank, CA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

May 29, 2014 – Anaheim, CA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

May 30, 2014 – San Diego, CA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for MO and OK Summer 2014

June 25, 2014 – Springfield, MO – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

June 26, 2014 – Tulsa, OK – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

June 27, 2014 – Oklahoma City, OK – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for TX Summer 2014

July 8, 2014 – Harlingen, TX – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

July 9, 2014 – Houston, TX – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

July 10, 2014 – Austin, TX – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

July 11, 2014 – San Antonio, TX – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for AL LA and MS – Summer 2014

August 4, 2014 – Mobile, AL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

August 5, 2014 – New Orleans, LA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

August 6, 2014 – Baton Rouge, LA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

August 7, 2014 – Jackson, MS – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for TX AZ NM Fall 2014

September 8, 2014 – El Paso, TX -Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

September 9, 2014 – Phoenix, AZ – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

September 10, 2014 – Albuquerque, NM – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

September 11, 2014 – Sante Fe, NM -Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for MA NH ME RI and CT Fall 2014

October 15, 2014 – Worchester, MA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

October 16, 2014 – Manchester, NH -Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

October 17, 2014 – Portland, ME – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

November 3, 2014 – Boston, MA -Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

November 4, 2014 – Providence, RI – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

November 5, 2014 – Springfield, MA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

November 6, 2014 – Hartford, CT – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

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December 2, 2014 – Buffalo, NY – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

December 3, 2014 – Rochester, NY – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

December 4, 2014 – Syracuse, NY – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

December 5, 2014 – Albany, NY -Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

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January 14, 2015 – Sioux Falls, SD – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

January 7, 2015 – Omaha, NE – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

January 8, 2015 – Des Moines, IA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

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February 4, 2015 – Miami, FL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 5, 2015 – West Palm Beach, FL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 6, 2015 – Orlando, FL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 25, 2015 – Ft. Myers, FL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 27, 2015 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Breaking the Bonds of Sexual Trauma:Using Resiliency-Based Clinical Strategies to Help Survivors Restore their Lives

They have been victims. Now help them discover the hero within, as they break the bonds of sexual trauma and write their own restoration narrative.

The statistics are startling. Every 2 minutes in the United States, a person is a victim of a sexual assault. Over the last 20 years, 4.2 million Americans have been sexually traumatized. This is a seismic event that crosses racial, gender, and socioeconomic lines to impact every facet of a person’s being. It is at the heart of many presenting issues that clinicians encounter in their practices, including relationship challenges, substance abuse disorders, and chronic health problems. Current clinical approaches often miss the mark, overlooking the most essential and complicating factors of treatment. This contributes to clients regressing and identifying even more strongly with their trauma.

Now there is hope for these survivors and those who love them. Melissa Bradley-Ball, an esteemed trainer and speaker on issues of trauma and resiliency, guides you through a resilience-based, multi-modal approach that emphasizes the possibility of post-traumatic growth. Help your clients identify and avoid the activation rituals in their lives. Involve the larger family as important team members in the healing process. Use proven somatic grounding, energy psychology, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to help clients in their heroic journey toward restoration.

Determine appropriate treatment protocol based on the client’s level of functioning
Explain sexualized trauma composites and how to dismantle them
Incorporate the heroic journey resiliency model when working with victims of sexual trauma
Apply macro and micro aspects of a client’s story to promote safe and effective trauma processing
Design a treatment plan that addresses the unique needs of victims of military sexual trauma and human trafficking

January 13, 2016 – Wichita, Kansas

January 14, 2016 – Overland Park (Kansas City), Kansas

January 15, 2016 – St. Louis, Missouri

February 3, 2016 – Ontario, California

February 4, 2016 – Glendale, California

February 5, 2016 – Oxnard, California

February 24, 2016 – Torrance, California

February 25, 2016 – Irvine, California

February 26, 2016 – San Diego, California

March 9, 2016 – Houston, Texas

March 10, 2016 – Austin, Texas

March 11, 2016 – San Antonio, Texas

March 30, 2016 – Albuquerque, NM

March 31, 2016 – Phoenix, AZ

April 1, 2016 – Las Vegas, NV

Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults and Couples – NOW IN SELF-STUDY CONTINUING EDUCATION FORMAT

(a clinical continuing education seminar offered via Cross Country Education/Vyne Education – www.Vyneeducation.com )

Can’t make the Live Seminar? No worries, self-study is available – with CEs – in DVD, On Demand webcast or Audio CDs with manuals.

Brochure for NE SD and IA January 2015

January 14, 2015 – Sioux Falls, SD – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

January 7, 2015 – Omaha, NE – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

January 8, 2015 – Des Moines, IA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for FL February 2015

February 4, 2015 – Miami, FL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 5, 2015 – West Palm Beach, FL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 6, 2015 – Orlando, FL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 25, 2015 – Ft. Myers, FL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

February 27, 2015 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for PA March 2015

March 11, 2015 – Harrisburg, PA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

March 12, 2015 – Scranton, PA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

March 13, 2015 – Philadelphia, PA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for Northern CA Spring 2015

April 29, 2015 – Reno, NV – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

April 30, 2015 – Sacramento/Folsom, CA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

May 1, 2015 – Berkeley, CA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

May 4, 2015 – Fresno, CA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

May 5, 2015 – San Jose, CA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

May 6, 2015 – San Francisco, CA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Link for Minnesota Summer 2015

July 15, 2015 – Duluth, MN – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

July 16, 2015 – St. Cloud, MN – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

July 17, 2015 – Minneapolis, MN – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for August 2015 – New York Cities

August 19, 2015 – Long Island, NY – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

August 20, 2015 – Rockville Centre, NY – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

August 21, 2015 – Manhattan, NY – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for September 2015 – New York Cities

September 9, 2015 – Albany, NY – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

September 10, 2015 – Hartford, CT – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

September 11, 2015 – White Plains, NY – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for CO and UT October 2015

October 7, 2015 – Colorado Springs, CO – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

October 8, 2015 – Denver, CO – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

October 9, 2015 – Salt Lake City, UT – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for NC October 2015

October 20, 2015 – Asheville, NC – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

October 21, 2015 – Charlotte, NC – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

October 22, 2015 – Raleigh, NC – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for MD and VA November 2015

November 4, 2015 – Fairfax, VA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

November 5, 2015 – Frederick, MD – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

November 6, 2015 – Baltimore, MD – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

November 18, 2015 – Chesapeake, VA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

November 19, 2015 – Richmond, VA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

November 20, 2015 – Roanoke, VA – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for December 2015 – TN & AR

December 1, 2015 – Nashville, TN (Brentwood at Cross Country Education Corporate Headquarters) – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

December 2, 2015 – Bartlett, TN (Memphis) – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

December 3, 2015 – Little Rock, AR – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

Brochure for December 2015 – NJ

December 16, 2015 – Tom’s River, NJ – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

December 17, 2015 – New Brunswick, NJ (Edison & Rutgers area) – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)

December 18, 2015 – Paramus, NJ – Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples (CEs given)