NOVEMBER 21, 2025, 9 AM - 4:30 PM mT
Dissociation and Mindfulness:
Learn how to activate evolved brain networks in therapy, embody presence as intervention, and reclaim what has been missing in modern clinical practice.
The Rosetta Stone to Healing the Deep Wounds of Detachment, Harm, and Abuse
Date & Time: Friday, October 17, 2025, 9:30 AM–4:30 PM MT
Format: Live Online Training
Why Every Clinician Needs to Understand Dissociation and Mindfulness
Every client presents along a continuum between disconnection and presence—between survival physiology and regulation.
However, most clinical training does not equip practitioners to recognize or engage with these states, even though dissociation and mindfulness are operating in every therapeutic encounter.
Without this understanding, clinicians may overlook the core processes unfolding in the room and inadvertently reinforce survival adaptations rather than facilitating authentic regulation and repair.
ACADEMIC OVERVIEW
(Perfect for university or CE approval submissions)
REGISTRATION & PRICING
Early Bird DISCOUNT: $288.99 (until Nov. 7)
General Registration: $349.99
Student: $199.99
(Group discounts available at checkout).
What You Will Learn in One Transformative Day
I’ll unravel the perplexing paradox that stops traumatized people from finding genuine and lasting relief.
I’ll provide a revolutionary lens to see trauma and healing—not as opposites, but as part of an evolved system that protects and restores.
Learning Objectives
In six modules, over a full day, you’ll discover the secrets to transformative trauma therapy. It involves a new kind of mindfulness: Mindfulness 2.0.
Discover how dissociation and mindfulness are always operating in the therapy room—and why recognizing this changes everything.
Understand the chemical and electrical dynamics underlying dissociation and why it persists.
Explore Mindfulness 2.0—an advanced approach that integrates safety, co-regulation, and nurturing into therapy.
Learn how to identify and work with the primal isolation threat in clients.
Recognize and navigate Renurturing Syndrome to avoid retraumatization and support safe reconnection.
Reconstruct mindfulness within the complex reality of trauma, attachment, and dissociation.
EARLY BIRD: $288.99 CAD (until November 7)
STUDENT: $199.99
(GROUP DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE AT CHECKOUT)
Praise for Christine Forner’s Courses
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
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
Learn from an International Expert
Christine Forner leverages 35+ years of clinical expertise, research, and global teaching. Gain the knowledge and tools necessary to assist the clients that challenge you the most.
Dissociation and Mindfulness with Christine offers you deep insights and concrete tools you can use right away.
By the end of the day you will have gained:
Knowledge and skills that build your confidence and grow your practice.
Frameworks to navigate complex clinical populations.
Tools to make your assessments nuanced and informed.
A neurobiological foundation to help your client move past dissociation and sustain mindfulness.
ABOUT
CHRISTINE FORNER
Meet Christine Forner (BA, BSW, MSW, RSW), a clinician, speaker, and author based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Recognized as one of the world's foremost experts in the intersection of dissociation and trauma, Christine's wealth of knowledge spans over 35 years of clinical practice.
Her unique approach has achieved remarkable success in working with the most severely affected and treatment-resistant individuals. Whether dealing with trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Traumatic Dissociation, Developmental Trauma, or Dissociative Disorders, Christine is dedicated to ensuring every profoundly stressed individual receives the healing they deserve.
Having shared her expertise locally and internationally, Christine is not only a clinician but also an educator, imparting her insights to fellow professionals. Her ability to demystify complex issues into actionable steps has earned her praise.
Join Christine and be part of something significant and life-changing as she guides you through the intricate landscape of trauma and dissociation.
What People Are Saying...
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"The workshop was so helpful. I picked up Christine's passion, compassion, and understanding of clients who dissociate. I feel more empowered to work with them."
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"Excellent workshop. Lots of great information and affirmation of intuition. Wonderful metaphors to be used with clients. Thank you."
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"Great and easy listening presentation that included discussion time, useful information, humour, and real life examples. There was no "academic speak." Good hands-on examples!"
Don't miss this rare opportunity to learn from one of the world's most informed experts on dissociation and mindfulness.
EARLY BIRD: $288.99 CAD (until November 7)
STUDENT: $199.99
(GROUP DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE AT CHECKOUT)
SOME COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT DISSOCIATION
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Dissociation is an inactive defence as opposed to PTSD which is an active defence. Treatment has to be different because of this.
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Other/Unspecified Dissociative Disorder O/USDD (DSM 5).
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Sexual abuse and infant/childhood neglect.
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Neuroimaging.
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All.
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Individuals have few to no connective neuro pathways because they have been coping with inescapable, terrifying events.
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Over 150 years.
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Hyper aroused.
Still not sure if this course is right for you?
You can send Christine Forner an email. She’ll get back to you within 48 hours.