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Christine Forner

Fall 2025 Training Series

Deepen your clinical skills with live online trainings that integrate neuroscience, trauma-informed practice, and the missing pieces of human healing.

with Christine Forner

Christine’s Fall Lineup of Courses

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  • Dissociation is the most common yet least understood survival response in clinical practice. It shapes nearly every diagnosis and attachment challenge, but most clinicians are never trained to recognize or treat it.

  • For centuries, nurturing has been minimized or pathologized. Modern models overlook this survival system, leaving clinicians under-trained in the biology of safety and connection.

  • Human survival is built on connection, not competition. Modern culture’s push for self-reliance leaves many of us starved for nurturing—the very system our brains need to thrive.

  •  Human survival is built on connection, not competition. Modern culture’s push for self-reliance leaves many of us starved for nurturing—the very system our brains need to thrive.

FALL Training Series 2025

Saturday, September 27, 2025 - 9:30am–4:30 pm MT (LIVE ONLINE TRAINING)

Dissociation 101: What Every Clinician Was Never Taught

WHY IT MATTERS

Dissociation is the most common yet least understood survival response in clinical practice. It shapes nearly every diagnosis and attachment challenge, but most clinicians are never trained to recognize or treat it.

What you’ll learn:

  • Spot subtle and overt dissociation in clients

  • Differentiate functional dissociation, fragmentation, and disorders

  • Explain dissociation simply to clients and colleagues

  • Apply stabilization and safety strategies that prevent harm

  • Understand the neurobiology and historical blind spots that distort practice

Who should attend

Therapists, social workers, psychologists, and counsellors working with trauma, attachment, PTSD, or dissociative disorders.

Purchase Now For

EARLY BIRD PRICING

(until September 20)

$399.00 CAD

$299.00 CAD

Student price $249.99 is available at checkout

Friday, October 17, 2025 - 9:30am–4:30pm MT (Live online training)

Therapeutic Nurturing:
Restoring the Missing Piece in Clinical Practice

Why it matters

For centuries, nurturing has been minimized or pathologized. Modern models overlook this survival system, leaving clinicians under-trained in the biology of safety and connection.

What you’ll learn

  • Evolutionary science of nurturing as a survival system

  • Brain networks that support safety and presence (PFC, ACC, Insula, DMN, Salience Network)

  • How disrupted nurturing leads to fear, defenses, and dissociation

  • Distinguish cultural myths of “caregiving” from the biology of nurturing

  • Apply nurturing to enhance co-regulation and prevent retraumatization

Who should attend

 Clinicians seeking to expand practice with neuroscience, attachment, and evolutionary frameworks.

Join Therapeudic Nurturing

(Early Bird Pricing until October 10)

$399.99 CAD

$349.99 CAD

Student price $249.99 is available at checkout

Why it matters

Human survival is built on connection, not competition. Modern culture’s push for self-reliance leaves many of us starved for nurturing—the very system our brains need to thrive.

What you’ll learn

  • The evolutionary story: survival of the most connected

  • How the absence of nurturing causes fear

  • Why receiving care can feel overwhelming (Renurturing Syndrome)

  • The hidden costs of a self-reliance culture

  • Simple ways to re-learn how to be nurtured

Who should attend

Professionals and individuals curious about the science of connection, care, and human thriving

Dissociation and Mindfulness: The Rosetta Stone to Healing Deep Wounds

Saturday, November 8, 2025- 9:30am–4:30pm MT (live online training)

Join Dissociation and Mindfulness

(Early Bird Pricing until November 1)

$349.99 CAD
$288.99 CAD

Student price $199.99 is available at checkout

Why it matters

Human survival is built on connection, not competition. Modern culture’s push for self-reliance leaves many of us starved for nurturing—the very system our brains need to thrive.

What you’ll learn

  • Understand how nurturing is built into our biology – and shaped human evolution

  • Learn the real story of human survival—survival of the most connected.

  • Find out what happens when nurturing is missing

  • Learn why receiving love or kindness can sometimes feel overwhelming

  • Discover the hidden cost of a self-reliance culture

  • Learn how to begin re-learning nurturing in simple ways

  • Discover that nurturing is the strongest, most transformative force humans possess

Who should attend

Professionals and individuals curious about the science of connection, care, and human thriving.

Born to Be Nurtured: The Hidden Science of Human Connection

Saturday, December 13, 2025 - 9:30am–4:30pm MT (live online training)

Join Born to Be Nurtured

(Early Bird Pricing until December 6)

$199.99 CAD
$175.99 CAD

Student price $125.99 is available at checkout

What people have to say…

  • Dissociation 101 was a radical and powerful course with ideas that could, and should, create a sea change in contemporary mental health practices. Christine Forner has created a course that celebrates hope, healing, nurturing and love. She challenges ideas that dissociation is to be ignored, at best, and disbelieved at worst. She challenges ideas that the therapist job is to challenge and dissuade when, most simply, it is to love. I encourage anyone who works with trauma, which is most of us, to begin your journey of reconceptualizing the treatment of trauma here, with Christine.

    Michelle Kennedy, M.C., R. Psych; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  • I am deeply grateful for everything that I learned in this course, both as a person on a human healing journey and as a clinician.

    J.G., Clinician

  • The Dissociation 101 course provided compelling information that was eye-opening and incredibly helpful to any clinical mental health practitioner. Christine is passionate about the content and shares her decades-long experience in this packed course. It provided historical and theoretical information as well as clinical applications and signs/symptoms. I highly recommend this course to clinicians looking to expand their knowledge of trauma treatment and understanding dissociation and systemic issues that impact treatment on a deeper level.

    Jennifer, Clinical Director/Registered Social Worker; Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About Your Instructor


Christine Forner, BA, BSW, MSW, RSW—known as The Fierce Nurturer—is a trauma therapist and international educator specializing in dissociation, mindfulness, and securefulness. A protector of the vulnerable, she has over 35 years of clinical experience helping clinicians and communities understand the central role of safety and nurturing in healing trauma.

Christine is the author of Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations (Routledge, 2017) and the forthcoming The Craving: How Prolonged Fear Shaped Humanity. She has introduced pioneering frameworks such as Securefulness, Primal Isolation Anguish, and Renurturing Syndrome, which have reshaped how therapists approach dissociation care and the art of nurturing presence. A past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), Christine continues to teach, write, and consult worldwide, guiding clinicians to embody presence, attunement, and secure care.