Debbie Kurland introducing Lisa Frederiksen, Keynote Presenter at Satellite Healthcare's National Conference, October 13, 2011. Workshop titled: "Using 21st Century Brain Science to Improve Patient's Lives." Attendees wrote: “She made science very approachable and applicable to my life and work. The presentation was fantastic.”“Enjoyed learning about the science behind the physiological change – very understandable.”
Informational Workshops for Adults
- The Brain Chemistry of Addiction
- What to Expect of Addiction Treatment and How Family Members Can Help or Not
- Secondhand Drinking/Drugging (aka CoDependency) – Impacts on the Family of Living With a Loved One’s Abuse and Subsequent Addiction to Drugs or Alcohol
- What You Can Do Today To Make Things Better For Yourself and In the Process, Help Your Loved One’s Treatment/Recovery
- What to Say to Children, Extended Family and Friends
- What to Expect After Your Loved One Leaves Treatment or Detox
Note: These workshops are offered individually, as part of a six-week program, in combinations of two or three, or combined into a week-end long workshop. Included: information booklet and/or workshop outline. Workshops and training programs can also be tailored to meet specific educational, informational and/or instructional needs.
Informational Workshops for Children
- It’s Not Your Fault — The Brain Chemistry of Addiction
- What’s Happened to Family Members and Why
- What to Expect of Addiction Treatment and How You Can Help or Not
- What You Can Do Today To Make Things Better For Yourself
- What to Say to Friends
- What to Expect After Your Loved One Leaves Treatment or Detox
Note: These workshops are offered individually, as part of a five-week program, in combinations of two or three, or combined into a week-end long workshop. Included: information booklet and/or workshop outline. Workshops and training programs can also be tailored to meet specific educational, informational and/or instructional needs.
Clinicians, Social Workers and Medical Professionals Training
- Brain Chemistry of Addiction Using 21st Century Brain and Addiction-Related Research and Brain Scans
- Brain Chemistry of Co-Dependency
- Using 21st Century Brain Science to Improve Patients’ Lives
- Brain Chemistry of Re-Wiring the Brain / Healing the Brain from Addiction and/or Codependency
- Using 21st Brain and Addiction-Related Research and Brain Scans to Explain Addiction and Codependency to Drug Addictions, Alcoholics, Families & Friends.
Note: These workshops are offered individually, as part of a four-week program, in combinations of two or three, or combined into a week-end long workshop. Included: information booklet and/or workshop outline. Additionally, Clinicians and/or Treatment Center may be issued a one-year license to use copyrighted PowerPoint lecture and lecture notes for client and family member’s instruction, titled: “Understanding Neural Networks & the Brain; Unlocking the Secrets of Addiction (to Alcohol or Drugs) and Its Impacts on the Family.” Workshops and training programs can also be tailored to meet specific educational, informational and/or instructional needs.
DUI Informational Workshops
- Does a Person Choose to Drink and Drive? The Brain Chemistry of Alcohol Misuse
- Is it a “Real” Problem or Just Bad Luck? Assessing Alcohol Misuse; Help for Changing Drinking Patterns
- Two-Part Workshop: New Brain Research & Science: Debunking the Myths About Drinking & Explaining How a Person Can Loose Control and Not be an Alcoholic
Note: These workshops are offered individually, as part of a four-week program, in combinations of two, or combined into a week-end long workshop. Included: information booklet and/or workshop outline. Workshops and training programs can also be tailored to meet specific educational, informational and/or instructional needs.
Why Use Lisa Frederiksen to Conduct These Workshops & Training Programs?
- Lisa has been researching, writing and presenting on substance abuse, addiction, dual diagnosis, underage drinking and help for the family centered around 21st century brain and addiction related research since 2003. Her forty+ years experience with family alcohol abuse and alcoholism and her books, Loved One In Treatment? Now What! and If You Loved Me, You’d Stop!, frame her work, including training/workshops/presentations for Stanford Medical School students, Ft. Irwin National Training Center troops and personnel, County of Santa Clara Dept. of Alcohol & Drug Services, San Mateo County Bar Association Family Law Section, Lane County Domestic Violence Council, and National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Santa Clara.
For more information on these Workshops & Training Programs, costs and logistics, please call, 650-362-3026, or email, info@BreakingTheCycles.com.
