Weaving Care Ecologies Through Moments of Vitality: Strength and Healing-focused interventions

Date: Friday February 6, 2026
Time: 9:00am–12:00pm Pacific Time
Location: Online
Available CEs: 3
Facilitator: Dr. Leticia Nieto, PsyD, LMFT, TEP
Cost: $119.00 

Registration Deadline: Tuesday February 3, 2026

In a setting of relative safety and deep consent, participants will collaborate in crafting mutual empowerment. Mutual empowerment happens when people at different moments in their life development, and who come from varieties of lived experience, build healthy bonds of care in personal and professional contexts.
In this training, we will re-frame conventional understanding of trauma into a healing focused strength amplification using Stephen Gilligan’s three energies of fierceness, tenderness, and playfulness. Participants will look at moments of vitality and learn from them. This will happen through narrative and enactment.
We will use interactive, narrative and embodiment practices. Please be prepared to join and participate on screen from a computer, not a phone. This training is for individual, team, or group facilitators – clinicians and non-clinicians.

Learning objectives

1. Participants will learn the three energetic elements from Stephen Gilligan’s model.
2. Participants will complete an appreciative assessment of one flourishing moment.
3. Participants will practice structuring a narrative moment of empowerment.

Required Materials

• No materials required.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute Cancellation & Refund Policy

Earning Continuing Education Credits

To receive a CE Certificate for completion of this workshop, you must officially register, attend the workshop/program in its entirety and complete an evaluation form after the workshop/program. The evaluation form is emailed from NWCEAI. After completing & submitting the evaluation form, a CE Certificate will be emailed to you within 5-7 business days.

Who is eligible to receive CEs?

• Nationally: Approved NBCC Provider for Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Social Workers (you are responsible for confirming that your organization/state will accept NBCC credits.)
• New York Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (LCATs)
• Washington State School Counselor/Teacher (OSPI) Approved by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction as a “Washington State approved clock hour offering workshop.”
• If you are outside of Washington State, we advise that you check with your state licensing board to confirm that they accept NBCC Approved CEs. 

Northwest Creative and Expressive Arts Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0123.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7104. Programs that do no qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.