Power Point Program for 'Facilitating Resilience and Independence' Workshop at the ACSW Conference, Edmonton, Alberta; March 19, 2010

1. Val Lougheed Northern Lights Canada 1-800-361-4642 www.northernlightscanada.ca [email_address] Facilitating Resilience and Independence -- Inspired to Serve Lessons From Lived Experience ~ Keep Your Fork ~

2. “ You don’t want your impairments to define you – you want them to inform you.” (Hanita Dagan, personal communication, 2005)

3. Twitter: #NLCAN Slideshare: Book: Be Still

6. Rated PG-113 People Strongly Cautioned! May contain bad language, brief nudity, sexual overtones, and drug usage.

10. Happy Birth Day

11. Beginning My Story

15. Sept. 9, 2003 - morning

16. Sept. 9 – p.m.

17. Sept. 15 2003 – Jan. 19 2004 Journey Back to Life

21. Oct. 3 – Dec. 11

22. Dec. 11/03 – Jan. 19/04

24. In acute care: * What do people need? * How can we help? Key Questions

28. Research

32. Foundation for Understanding Experience

33. Rehabilitation “ Neither the type nor the degree of impairment can foretell the pattern or extent of the psychosocial impact.” (George Nelson Wright, 1980, p. 72)

35. February 2004 – Present Starting Point

36. Identity Disintegration and The Re-organization of Self March 2004

37. “ In the aftermath of traumatic life events … [the] sense of self has been shattered.” (Herman, 1992, p. 61) “ An existential crisis …” (Hanita Dagan, personal communication, 2005)

38. Sliding Down the Slope

40. OxyContin ™ Research (Dalhousie, March 2005) 783,762 prescriptions for OxyContin ™ dispensed in Canada Nov. 2003 – Oct. 2004 OxyContin ™ is one of Canada’s 3 most-prescribed narcotic painkillers 2003 OxyContin ™ earns Purdue more than $1 billion U.S. 2002 Approved in Canada 1996 Purdue Pharmacy (USA) launches OxyContin ™ – controlled-release formula 1995 Oxycodone ™ developed in Germany Early 1900’s

42. ABI – Measuring Loss “ Pre-morbid intelligence is a crucial variable …” Subjective Report – difficulty retrieving words and communicating ideas Objective Report – above-average performance on neuropsychological measures (Prigatano, 1999, p. 59)

43. Losing My Grip My IWRP August 2004

45. Rescued in the Valley of Despair Head Injury Program Oct. – Dec. 2004

47. HIP Oct to Nov – Full-time December – Part-time

48. GO TO WORK

49. GRTW – The Plan Jan. 3 – Feb. 7, 2005 (5 weeks)

50. GRTW – The Reality

51. GRTW – The Reality

52. GRTW – The Reality

53. GRTW – The Reality

54. GRTW – The Reality

55. GRTW – The Reality

56. GRTW – The Reality

57. GRTW – The Reality

58. GRTW – The Reality

59. How do we help people transition from acute recovery to community life and work? Key Question

63. Lesson ASSUMPTIONS REVEAL BIAS

65. Symptom Overlap (co-morbidity) (Michael Sullivan, Centre for Research on Pain and Disability, McGill University, September, 2006) Pain, Trauma, Depression, ABI

67. Oct. 3 – Dec. 11

69. Pain Research 1600’s – Rene Descartes (philosopher)

70. Pain Research 1950’s – Wilder Penfield (brain surgeon)

72. Pain Research Patrick Wall (physiologist) Ronald Melzack (psychologist)

74. Pain – The Future SCN9A (Globe and Mail, March 24, 2007) Poppy Genes (U of Calgary -- Calgary Sun, March 15, 2010) Glia (Scientific American, November, 2009)

80. “ In every encounter, basic trust is in question.” ( Herman, 1992, p. 92) “ Survivors feel unsafe in their bodies – and in any relationship with other people.” (Herman, 1992, p. 160) Rehab & Recovery

85. “… depression [caused by trauma] is not the same as ordinary depression.” ( Herman, 1992, p. 118) Depression

86. “ Emotions are not in the head – they are in every cell in the body.” (Pert (1995), in Bolen, 1996, p. 7) Pscyhoimmunoendocrine Network

90. Back to Wilder Penfield – 1950’s ABI Localizationist

91. Paul Bach-y-Rita – 1934 – 2006 Scientist and Rehab Doctor Neuroplasticity - 1969

92. Michael Merzenich Neuroplastician Neuroplasticity

93. Harnessing the Power

95. “ The words and attitudes of others … are potent. They help or hex healing and recovery.” “ Expectations are powerful.” “ Neutrality can be deadly.” (Bolen, 1996, p. 94) Body-Mind Connection

99. The Rest of My Story

100. “ Loss of identity can evoke a personal crisis, creating a need for change.” (Ornelas, in Smith & Johnson (Eds), 1997, p. 172) The Re-Organization of Self Identity Research

101. Scaling the Canyon

102. Sept., 2005 Waskesiu

107. Breast Cancer Reconstructive Surgery March 2006

108. Convocation M.Ed. -- June 2006

110. Keep Your Fork

114. Inspired to Servce -- 201 Rehabilitation (habiter – to live inside) “ Rehabilitation is the learning to live inside not only one’s body, however it is after an injury or illness, but inside one’s very being.” (Kabat-Zinn, in Meili, 2003, p. 241)

115. Inspired to Serve - 301 Recovery Crombez, October, 2003 Focus on the person [inside] Healing Focus on the illness/ impairment [outside] Curing

116. Be Still

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