This workshop provides occupational therapists with the knowledge and skills to offer DBT-ST using a neurodivergence-informed approach to promote the occupational participation of adults with ADHD. Live session dates: September 19 & 26, 2025

This two-day interactive workshop explores the presenter’s BEST (Body, Emotional, Sensory and Thinking) evidence-based approach to co-create therapy plans with autistic and other neurodivergent individuals that promote occupational participation.

This online workshop will provide an overview of key considerations of assessing and understanding the impact of postural asymmetries to prepare an equipment prescription for clients of any age. Live session dates: May 29 and 30, 2025 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (ET)

This experiential and interactive workshop will explore interoception as the sixth sense and its relevance to self-regulation and daily life participation. A variety of evidence-based tools and interventions relevant to the pediatric population will be discussed and experienced. Adults will have the opportunity to participate in the interventions first, and these learning experiences will influence how they apply them to their OT practice.

This one-day workshop will provide occupational therapy professionals the core skills needed to deliver exposure therapy confidently and effectively while incorporating the occupational therapy lens.

Le webinaire couvrira les impacts fonctionnels du TPL ainsi que leur évaluation par le questionnaire FAB-2 (Fonctionnement au quotidien avec un trouble de personnalité borderline; Desrosiers et al., 2017; Desrosiers, 2021). Ce webinaire a comme objectif de familiariser les personnes participantes avec l'outil d'évaluation fonctionnelle FAB-2 et de présenter les différentes interventions de réadaptation proposées selon les résultats obtenus lors de l'évaluation.

This webinar will discuss the changes that occur with aging can impact occupational possibilities by imposing additional demands on the person’s occupational participation, ultimately challenging their ability to age in place. Lifestyle, social connections, safety factors, and accessibility factors may hinder or facilitate access to and opportunities for occupation in the kitchen. In addition, this webinar will explore how the kitchen design can contribute to limiting independence. Considering ergonomics, task zones, and gerontological design, occupational therapists can address these factors through kitchen modification to improve the safety and efficacy of occupational possibilities in the kitchen.

Ce webinaire décrira la pertinence des interventions sensorielle en contexte de troubles neurocognitifs. Les étapes d’aménagement d’espace sensoriel (choix du local, matériel, formation et utilisation optimale), ainsi que les facilitateurs et les obstacles à l’implantation d’un espace sensoriel en milieu d’hébergement seront abordés.

This webinar will describe the ADHD Identity Development Model, which serves as a roadmap that illuminates where clients are on their journey and also helps healthcare professionals know how to best approach to develop rapport, tailor interventions, and facilitate maximal growth and transformation. This can lead to empowering clients, promoting resilience, and facilitating collaborative goal setting to accelerate therapeutic change and improve overall outcomes.

This webinar will explore occupational therapy role development from both a leader and clinician perspective and provide practical tools for planning, implementation and evaluation. First, the literature on health care provider role development will be reviewed, followed by an outline of the journey to recent successful role development experiences in these areas: 1) Paediatric Intensive Care Unit; 2) mental health: the eating disorder day hospital and somatization program; and 3) OT and physiotherapy (PT) practitioner roles to address ambulatory surgical backlog. The therapists who developed these roles will highlight their key learnings and most successful strategies. This leader and clinician experience in role development led to the establishment of a streamlined, practical framework that incorporates activity suggestions applicable to many contexts and informed by the literature. There will be several opportunities for interactivity as aspects of the role development framework are described including collective learning on successful role development strategies.