Member365

Select the Use button to add a tag to the body of your email. You may also use tags in the subject of your email by copying and pasting them directly in.

{FIRST_NAME}	Adds the recipients First Name.	Use
{LAST_NAME}	Adds the recipients Last Name.	Use
{COMPANY_NAME}	Adds the Company Name.	Use
{PORTAL_NAME}	Adds the application portals name.	Use
{MEMBER_NAME}	Adds the Recipients Membership name.	Use
{SIGNATURE_OPT_IN}	Adds the Opt-in link.	Use
{SIGNATURE_OPT_OUT}	Add the opt-out link.	Use
%signature%	Adds your preferred signature block.	Use
{Event_Start_Date}	Adds the Event's Start Date.(Events Only)	Use
{Event_End_Date}	Adds the Event's End Date.(Events Only)	Use
{Event_Name}	Adds the Event's Name.(Events Only)	Use
{Event_Description}	Adds the Event's Description.(Events Only)	Use
{Online_Training_Description}	Adds the Online Training Description.(Online Training Only)	Use
{Event_Specific_Dates}	Adds the Event's specific dates.(Events Only)	Use
{member_number}	Adds the Membership Number.	Use
{MemberSince}	Adds the Member Since Date.	Use
{CONTACTEMAIL}	Adds the organization email address used as the "From" address for other membership-related emails (e.g., new member welcome emails). Manage email addresses here.	Use
{EVENT_CREDITS}	Adds the Event's Credits.(Events Only)	Use
{EVENT_CREDITS}	Adds the Event's Credits.(Events Only)	Use
{CERTIFICATE_NUMBER}	Adds the Contact's Certificate Number	Use
{EVENTLOCATION}	Adds the Event's Location.	Use
{TOTALEVENTCREDITS}	The total number of credits that the contact has earned through the event tickets and workshops.	Use
{ASAPPEARSONBADGE}	Display the text of as appears field in the event setup.	Use
{contact_organization}	Displays the organization name of the contact.	Use
{RENEWALDATE}	Adds the Member Renewal Date in (yyyy-mm-dd).	Use
{MEMBERSHIP_YEAR}	Adds the Member's Membership Year	Use
{RENEWALDATE_MM-DD-YYYY}	Adds the Member Renewal Date in (mm-dd-yyyy).	Use
{LMS_CREDIT}	The number of credits the LMS course is worth for Continuing Education	Use
{COLLECTION_PERIOD_END-DATE_YYYY_MM_DD}	The end date of the CE collection period end date	Use
{LMS_COURSE_COMPLETION_DATE}	The completion date of the LMS course	Use
{INCEPTION_DATE}	Adds the Member Inception Date in (yyyy-mm-dd).	Use
{EVENT_END-DATE_MONTH_YYYY}	Adds Event End Date in Full Month Name and Year Format.(Events Only)	Use
{EVENT_END-DATE_MONTH_YYYY_ADD3}	Adds Event End Date in Full Month Name and Year Format Plus 3 Years.(Events Only)	Use
{WORKSHOP_NAME}	Adds the workshop name (if applicable)	Use
{WORKSHOP_DESCRIPTION}	Adds the workshop description (if applicable)	Use
{WORKSHOP_CREDITS}	Adds the workshop credit for related workshop (if applicable)	Use
{TOTALWORKSHOPCREDITS}	Adds the sum of all workshop credits for related event (if applicable)	Use
{Event_Start_Date_DD-MM-YYYY}	Adds the Event's Start Date in (dd-mm-yyyy).(Events Only)	Use
{Event_End_Date_DD-MM-YYYY}	Adds the Event's End Date in (dd-mm-yyyy).(Events Only)	Use
{RENEWALDATE_DD-MM-YYYY}	Adds the Member Renewal Date in (dd-mm-yyyy).	Use
{RENEWAL_DATE_MONTH_DD_YYYY}	Adds the Member Renewal Date in (Month Dth, yyyy).	Use
{INCEPTIONDATE_DD-MM-YYYY}	Adds the Member Inception Date in (dd-mm-yyyy).	Use
{TODAYSDATE}	Adds the current date.	Use
{TODAYSYEAR}	Adds the current year.	Use
{QR_CODE}	Adds the QR Code for their contactID, name, and emailAddress	Use
{WORKSHOP_DATE}	The date of the workshop (if applicable).	Use
{WORKSHOP_START_TIME}	The start time of the workshop (if applicable).	Use
{WORKSHOP_END_TIME}	The end time of the workshop (if applicable).	Use
{MEMBEREMAIL}	Adds the Member's Email Address.	Use
{INCEPTIONDATE_DD_MONTH_YYYY}	Adds the Member Inception Date in (Day Month Year). - eg. 27 October 2025	Use
{RENEWAL_DATE_DD_MONTH_YYYY}	Adds the Member Renewal Date in (Day Month Year). - eg. 27 October 2025	Use

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Hosted by:
Olga Shmelova, Regional Director, Manitoba & Nunavut

We are living in a time of layered mental health and addictions crises — individual, relational, systemic, and cultural. Yet much of the language used in clinical practice, policy, and public discourse has not evolved at the same pace. Words are not neutral. They shape identity, influence treatment pathways, define responsibility, and quietly determine what kinds of care are possible. When Language Becomes an Intervention invites counsellors and psychotherapists to critically explore how clinical language functions in times of widespread distress — and how it can either reinforce fragmentation or become a powerful tool for clarity, dignity, and meaningful change.

This workshop creates space to examine what we say, why we say it, and what becomes possible when language is used with greater intention and responsibility.

Workshop Structure

This three-hour session balances reflection, dialogue, and collective intelligence:

Hour 1 – Framing the Landscape A guided presentation exploring:

- how clinical language shapes power, identity, and care

- the rise of popularized terms (e.g., “trauma-informed”) and their limits in complex systems

- the difference between pathologizing, trauma-aware, and transformation-oriented language

- how language can either individualize crisis or name its broader context

Hour 2 – Breakout Group Exploration

Participants will engage in facilitated small-group discussions to:

- reflect on commonly used clinical and systemic language

- identify where language supports healing — and where it may unintentionally constrain it

- experiment with alternative ways of naming experience that honour complexity, resilience, and context

Hour 3 – Collective Dialogue & Integration

The full group will reconvene to:

- share insights and emerging themes

- explore implications for clinical practice, professional identity, and advocacy

- consider how shifts in language can support more ethical, humane, and effective responses to the mental health and addictions crisis

Why This Workshop Matters

In times of crisis, there is pressure to simplify — to reduce complex human experiences into labels, trends, or techniques. Yet effective care requires language that can hold nuance, resist harm, and reflect the realities people are living. This workshop is not about abandoning clinical frameworks. It is about using language with greater precision, humility, and care.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is intended for CCPA members who:

- work with trauma, burnout, addiction, or systemic stressors

- feel tension between lived experience and diagnostic language

- are curious about the future of clinical practice and professional identity

- want to think critically and collaboratively about how care is shaped

No preparation is required — only openness and a willingness to reflect together.

Date: Saturday, March 14, 2026

Time: 1 pm - 4 pm CST

This event will not be recorded

CEC Info for CCPA Members:

To receive your CEC, you are required to register with the same email as your member portal profile. Log in to your portal to confirm.

Further Information:

Questions | Email events@ccpa-accp.ca

More Events | Visit ccpa-accp.ca/eventcalendar

MB Board Event - When Language Becomes an Intervention: Re-examining Clinical Language in a Time of Mental Health Crisis

Saturday Mar 14 2026, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
100% Online - Zoom

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