Training Series
with Christine Forner
Deepen your clinical skills with live online trainings that integrate neuroscience, trauma-informed practice, and the missing pieces of human healing.
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.
Therapeutic Nurturing:
Restoring the Missing Piece in Clinical Practice
FRIDAY, February 20, 2026 - 9:30am–4:30pm MT (live online training)
Join Therapeutic Nurturing
Dissociation and Mindfulness: The Rosetta Stone to Healing Deep Wounds
Friday, March 20, 2026 - 9:30am–4:30pm MT (live online training)
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
Join Dissociation & Mindfulness
Born to Be Nurtured: The Hidden Science of Human Connection
Friday, May 15, 2025 - 9:30am–4:30pm MT (live online training)
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.
Join Born to Be Nurtured
Date to be announced in 2026
Dissociation 101:
What Every Clinician Was Never Taught
What people have to say…
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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
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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
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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.
