CONTINUING EDUCATION · BEFORE I DIE FESTIVAL CINCINNATI
✦ BEFORE I DIE CINCINNATI · CONTINUING EDUCATION ✦
EARN UP TO 4.25 CE HOURS
Grow Your Practice.
Transform your relationship with death.
This CE program was made possible through the incredible work of Heidi Eversole of A Path to Mending Counseling — a mental health professional, veteran, sponsor and speaker at this year's festival who believes in what we were building and helped make it possible.
Who this is for?
The Before I Die Festival Cincinnati is approved for continuing education credits for Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (CSWMFT). Nurses in Ohio are also approved for CE's through the CSWMFT board for this event.
CE Approved Sessions
MORNING KEYNOTE
When Death Finds You, Let it Find You Living Fully
Dr. Sandi Amoils, MD & Dr. Steve Amoils, MD
This presentation includes information on how to provide integrative care for those facing cancer diagnoses. Doctors Amoils share from their personal story of attempting to navigate and integrate medical and emotional care while treating difficult diagnoses. The goal of thistalk for mental health care professionals is to provide a framework for assisting clients diagnosed with terminal/difficult illnesses or who are caretakers for those who are.
.75
CE HOURS
1
CE HOUR
BREAKOUT SESSION ONE - CHOOSE 1
Select one to attend for CE Credit
Living With a Serious Illness
Jen Hester
This session is an introduction to a specialized medical team whose focus is helping seriously ill people feel better, make informed choices, find emotional balance and live as fully as possible no matter the prognosis. The goal of this talk for mental health care professionals is to educate and encourage clients about resources available in our community and provide holistic support for clients.
Carrying Them With You: A Path Through Grief
Christina Rose
Christina shares her own story of profound loss and the path that took her from surviving to truly living again. She'll introduce her core framework for grief work: doing it for the people you've lost when you can't yet do it for yourself, doing it with them by carrying their love into the life you're rebuilding and eventually doing it for you, claiming that rebuilt life as fully your own.
AFTERNOON KEYNOTE
The Seven Pillars of Alternative Deathcare
Jen Blalock & Shelby Mundy, Death Doulas
This is a framework born from their work with individuals, families, and the growing death care movement. Together, they’ll explore how we can move beyond traditional medical, funeral, and religious models toward greater choice, transparency, community, meaning and participation in the experience of death.
.75
CE HOURS
1
CE HOUR
BREAKOUT SESSION TWO- CHOOSE 1
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Walking Each Other Home: The Role of Pshycopomp
Victoria Wilson-Jones
There is healing and assistance in every stage of the death process
— and that includes after life. The Goal of this presentation is to educate mental health professionals with tools to assist clients in grieving and releasing loss through altered state guided visualizations.
Have You Met Death
Heidi Eversole
Heidi shares her experience as a veteran, mental health care provider and a certified psychedelic assisted therapist on the research behind and power of psychedelics to process and heal trauma and an individual’s relationship with Death. This talk is geared toward assisting mental healthcare professionals to explore a client’s current relationship with Death from a parts-based perspective and provide research-based options to heal trauma.
CLOSING CEREMONY
Integration with Soundbowls
Victoria Wilson-Jones,MS
Victoria guides participants through an integration experience using Sound Bowls to assist in processing the thoughts and emotions of the content learned during the conference. The goal of this practice is to allow mental healthcare professionals to connect with, process and internalize information learned in session to help their clients. Additionally, mental health care professionals will observe and experience an age-old use of frequency and vibration as an assist to connect, access and process emotion.
.75
CE HOURS
Total CE Hours:
*If attending all approved sessions.
4.25 CE Hours
STANDARD
$15
General Certificate Fee
DISCOUNTED
$10
Community mental health, as first responders, or active or prior military
How it works:
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Purchase your festival ticket and don't forget to choose your add on CE either standard or the discounted before checkout
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Attend the CE-approved sessions on October 30th
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Reach out to Heidi Eversole directly to request your certificate
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Once attendance is verified, your certificate will be sent to you via email
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Report your hours to your respective licensing board