Jude Johnston BFA, BSW, MSW, RSW

TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED:

Integrating Mindfulness Meditation and Psychotherapy, TAPE, Dr. Bodnar, 2010

The Joy of Gender: Understanding Trans Experience and Providing Respectful Primary Care, Hershel Russel, 2010

Native Youth and Sexual Health, Toronto Public Health, 2010

Adult Allies: Working with Youth, 2009 TPH, Centres of Excellence for Children’s Well-being, Youth Engagement

Tuning Into Your Client, Zen and the Art of Engagement, Pat Enkyo O’Hara and Barbara Joshin O’Hara, Leading Edge, 2009

Attachment, Intersubjectivity, and Mentalization: Clinical and Developmental Implications , Dr Stephen Seligman, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2009

Some Clinical Applications of Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Medicine and Psychiatry, Jonn Kabat-Zin, 2008

Gottman Couples Therapy, Leading Edge, 2008

Nightmares and Flashbacks, Queen West CHC, with Natalie Zlodre, April 2008

Understanding Ontario’s HIV/AIDS Strategies, AIDS Commmittee, Toronto, 2008

Compassion in the Presence of Death and Dying, Dr. Roshi Joan Halifax, Sunnybrook, Toronto, 2007

Suicide. Karen Letofsky, at TPH, 2007

Making Connections: Incorporating Attachment Theory into Self Psychological and Intersubjective Clinical Work, Shelly Peters, Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology, 2006

Extreme States: Trauma and Madness, George Atwood, IASP, 2006

Co-creation of Empathic Understanding, 2005, Institute for the Advancement of Self-Psychology

The Artist’s Way, Julia Margaret Cameron, 2005

Reading

Relational Perspectives on the Body by Lewis Aron, Frances Anderson

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Anxiety: Yours and Mine, by Patricia Pearson

Existential Therapy by Irvin D. Yalom

Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy by Eugene Gendlin

Envy and Gratitude Revisited by Priscilla Roth, Alessandra Lemma, Eds.

Workshops as Leader:

I have given many workshops over the years on harm reduction, vicarious trauma, sexuality, meditation, and mental health, to agencies, schools and work places.

Related activities:

Peer Supervision. Personal therapy, meditation, expressive dance, art.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers

Ontario Association of Social Workers