BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Exware Solutions Inc.//ExSite v3.8//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-217-@mdpac.ca DTSTAMP:20260520T085416 DTSTART:20251128T180000 DTEND:20251130T180000 SUMMARY:2025/2026 MDPAC Psychotherapy Training Program (Nov to Apr) - Mod ule #1 DESCRIPTION:-- VIRTUAL PROGRAM (via Zoom) --\n\nThe MDPAC psychotherapy t raining program is a year-long training course for physicians (or nurse practitioners in primary care). wishing to develop a focused practice in psychotherapy or to increase their skills in providing psychotherapy in the context of a comprehensive family practice setting. While there are many models of therapy, it has become more apparent and empirically res earched that the most important factor in healing is the therapeutic all iance or relationship.  This program will focus on the basic core skill s required to foster, manage ruptures of, and create safety within this relationship, while also learning ways to care for ourselves while carin g for others.\n\nEach weekend will consist of both didactic and experien tial components with adequate opportunities for feedback and interaction with presenters and colleagues. Participants are expected to attend ea ch weekend and attend five online small group integration sessions thro ughout the year.\n\nNOTE: Sessions are NOT recorded. You must attend all 3 days "live".\n\nMissed modules can be taken in the next program offer ing. Missed small group integration sessions cannot be made up.\n\nProgr am is limited to 30 participants.\n\n \n\nCLICK HERE TO WATCH AN INFORM ATION VIDEO ABOUT THE PROGRAM\n\n--------------------------------------- ---------------------------------\n\n-- TESTIMONIALS --\n\nMore aware of my own responses in therapy and impact of transference both directions\ n\nBuilding community within the participants\n\nIt gave me core "soft s kills" outside of the specific therapeutic techniques that I need to pra ctice competently, safely, effectively.\n\n \n\n----------------------- -------------------------------------------------\n\n-- DATES AND LOCATI ONS --\n\nThe program takes place over five weekends from January to Sep tember 2025 with the following topics:\n\nMODULE 1: November 28-30 2025\ nTopic: Initial Assessment and Intake & the Therapeutic Alliance\nDr. Al ison Arnot & Dr. James Whyte\n\nMODULE 2: December 12-14 2025\nTopic: Th erapeutic Presence & Providing Patient Safety\nDr. Robin Beardsley and D r. Harry Zeit\n\nMODULE 3: February 20-22 2026\nTopic: Ethics, Record Ke eping, Medical/Legal Issues & Psychopharmacology\nDr. Conrad Sichler, Dr . Kyle Greenway and Dr. James Whyte \n\nMODULE 4: March 27-29 2026\nTop ic: Boundaries, Transference, and Countertransference\nDr. Robin Beardsl ey & Dr. Elizabeth Parsons\n\nMODULE 5: April 24-26 2026\nTopic: Trauma, Self Care, and Burnout Prevention\nDr. Amy Alexander & Dr. Harry Zeit\n \nEach weekend will consist of both didactic and experiential components with adequate opportunities for feedback and interaction with presenter s and colleagues.\n\nParticipants are expected to attend each weekend an d attend five online small group integration sessions throughout the ye ar.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------- -------\n\n-- SCHEDULE --\n\n(NOTE: Times Indicated are EASTERN TIME ZON E)\n\nFriday Evening\n\n6:00pm – 7:30pm In Session \n7:30pm – 7:45pm Break \n7:45pm - 9:15pm In Session\n\nSaturday and Sunday \n12:30pm †“ 2:00pm In Session \n2:00pm – 2:30pm Break \n2:30pm – 4:00pm In S ession \n4:00pm – 4:30pm Break \n4:30pm – 6:00 pm In Session\n\n-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n-- REGISTRATION FEES --\n\nRegistration fees include program and small group integration sessions.\n\nMDPAC Members: $1750\nNon-Members: $2000 \n\n \n\n-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------\n\n-- ACCREDITATION  --\n\n--   --\n\n-- MDPAC ACCREDITATIO N --\n\nApproved for a total of 60 hours of MDPAC Group CE credits per 5 Modules and 10 hours of MDPAC CCI credits for the entire 5 Module Cours e and 10 hours of MDPAC CCI credits for the small group integration sess ions.\n\n \n\n-- CFPC ACCREDITATION --\n\nThis Group Learning program h as been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up t o 65 Mainpro+ credits which includes 5 small group integration sessions. \n\n \n\n-- RCPSC ACCREDITATION --\n\nThis activity is an Accredited Gr oup Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certi fication Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Cana da, and approved by McMaster University Continuing Professional Developm ent Program. You may claim a maximum of 65 MOC Section 1 hours.\n\n \n\ n-- AMA ACCREDITATION --\n\nThrough an agreement between the Royal Colle ge of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Associa tion, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Catego ry 1 Creditsâ„¢. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/a bout-ama-education .\n\n \n\n \n\n-- CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION --\n\nI n order to receive a Certificate of Completion, the registrant must atte nd at least 95% of all the hours in the modules (57 of 60 hours) and at least 4 of 5 supervision sessions.\nMissed modules can be taken in the n ext program offering only. Missed small group integration sessions canno t be made up.\n\n \n\n-- CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION --\n\nIn order to re ceive a Certificate of Completion, the registrant must attend at least 9 5% of all the hours in the modules (57 of 60 hours) and at least 4 of 5 supervision sessions.\nMissed modules can be taken in the next program o ffering only. Missed small group integration sessions cannot be made up. \n\n \n\n-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------\n\n-- CANCELLATION POLICY --\n\nCancellations must be receive d in writing or via email to the MDPAC Office.\n\nCancellations received prior to October 1 2025 are subject to an administration fee of $100\n\ nCancellations received after October 1 2025 and before November 1 2025 will not receive a refund, however a $500 credit may be used for another MDPAC program within the next 12 months.\n\nCancellations received afte r the program start date (November 28 2025) are not eligible for any ref und.\n\n \n\n---------------------------------------------------------- --------------\n\n-- ABOUT THE PRESENTERS --\n\nDr. Amy Alexander MD, MH Sc, CCFP, CD, Capt (Ret'd)\n\nDr. Alexander is a Family Physician with a Focused Practice in Psychotherapy. She has training in Cognitive Behav ioural Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Trauma Psychiatry and Internal Fa mily Systems. She also undertook Mind-Body Medicine training through the  Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine, specializing in treatme nt protocols for both Cancer and Chronic Pain. In addition to being a yo ga teacher, she also completed training in Mindfulness Based Stress Redu ction (MBSR) Group Leadership as well as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Th erapy (MBCT) Group Facilitation. She has a group psychotherapy practice in Oakville for people with medical illness and chronic pain. An Active Staff member in the Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care Unit at t he Southlake Stronach Regional Cancer Centre in Newmarket, she sees pa tients for individual and group treatment. She holds clinical appointmen ts in both the Departments of Psychiatry and Family & Community Medicine there.   \n\nDr. Robin Beardsley, MD CCFP, has a focused practice in Psychotherapy, in Ottawa. She obtained her medical Degree from the Univ ersity of Toronto and completed her Family Medicine Residency at the Uni versity of Ottawa, (1989) and is now on Faculty with the Department of F amily Medicine.  Dr. Beardsley is a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the Canadian College of Family Physicians, The Satir Institute of the Pacific, the Medical Psychotherapy Association C anada, and is a trained teacher in Mindful Self Compassion (2015). She h as had extensive training in the Satir Model and more recently has taken training in Internal Family Systems (Level 1).   She has had over twe nty years’ experience in a Balint Group, which provides peer support f or physicians regarding the doctor- patient relationship issues. She has always been interested in caregiver well-being.\n\nDr. Alison Arnot BSc , MD. CCFP, FCFP, Psychotherapist with a focused practice in substance use and concurrent disorders\n\nDr. Alison Arnot is an MD Psychotherapis t with a focused practice in substance use and concurrent disorders. Dr. Arnot graduated from medical school at the University of Ottawa in 1981 . She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Toron to in 1983, followed a year of emergency medicine. She was a partner at Credit Valley Family Practice Associatesfrom1988-2009 where she provided comprehensive care including emergency medicine and obstetrics. She joi ned the treatment team at the Addiction & Concurrent Disorders Centre at the Credit Valley Hospital in 1997. She also worked part-time at the He alth & Counselling Centre at the University of Toronto Mississauga campu s from 2000-2015.She opened a solo practice in the community when the Ad diction Treatment Program at the hospital ended in order to provide cont inuity of care to her patients. She is a Certificant and Fellow of the C ollege of Family Physicians of Canada and a lecturer in the Department o f Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Arnot is a member of the Board of the MD Psychotherapy Association of Canada a nd a mentor in the Medical Mentoring in Addictions and Pain program orga nized by the Ontario College of Family Physicians.\n\nDr. Kyle Greenway MD, MSc\n\nDr. Kyle Greenway is an R5 in Psychiatry at McGill University and member of the Clinician Investigator Royal College Program. He has a deep clinical and research interest in the integration of psychotherap y and psychopharmacology, spanning from conventional antidepressants to novel psychedelic treatments. He is currently co-leading the first rando mized controlled trial to investigate the hemodynamic, inflammatory, and clinical effects of adjunctive music to intravenous ketamine for severe ly resistant unipolar and bipolar depression. He is passionate about psy chodynamic psychotherapy and third-wave cognitive behavioural therapies, particularly Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.\n\nDr. Elizabeth Parson s, MD CCFP MDPAC(C) completed her Family Medicine residency in Northeas tern Ontario in 1999 and has had a focused practice in psychotherapy sin ce 2007. She has training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (level 2) and In ternal Family Systems Therapy (level 1) and continues to engage in learn ing. In 2020 she is taking courses in Psychodrama and Ecopsychology as w ell deepening her work in SP with Advanced Training in Complex Trauma an d Dissociation and a level 2 training in IFS for couples. She has experi ence running short-term DBT-style groups and is in the process of develo ping IFS-based groups in her practice in Ottawa. Since 2017, Elizabeth h as been on the Board of Directors for MDPAC and has been the Chair since 2018.\n\nDr. Conrad Sichler graduated from McGill Medical School in 199 8 and completed his family medicine residency at Queens University in 20 01.  He then did a de facto supervised fellowship in addiction medicine psychotherapy for 2.5 years.  He joined an integrative family medicine practice in Burlington, Ontario in 2004 and continued to provide mostly psychotherapy to populations with both addictions and all of life’s o ther challenges and diagnoses.  He has provided both individual and gro up psychotherapy in the intervening 19 years, has taught mindfulness, an d treated health care providers with addictive disorders, as well as ser ving as an independent medical examiner, mostly for the College of Nurse s, for over a decade.  In the past 5-10 years, he has focussed more int ently on the diagnosis and treatment of the trauma that drives many ment al and emotional disorders, and has settled into a clinical practice wit h an approach primarily oriented around Interal Family Systems (IFS) as an approach.  He is currently serving on the Board of the MDPAC and als o as the organization’s president.  He enjoys teaching, music, outdoo r adventures, and being a grateful guest and sharing in ceremony. \n\nD r James Whyte BScN, MD, CCFP is a Family Physician with a focused pract ice in psychotherapy.  He sits on the Executive committee of the PCMH s ection of OMA and On the BOD for MDPAC.  He is formerly a professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and Tyndale University.  He has an interest in Supportive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy and Biofeedbac k.  \n\nDr. Harry Zeit MD, MDPAC(C) Certified in Sensorimotor Psychoth erapy currently works full-time practicing trauma therapy and psychother apy. He is certified in sensorimotor psychotherapy. Dr. Zeit previously worked as an American board-certified emergency physician in Cambridge a nd Toronto, Ontario, between 1983 and 2005.\n\nDr. Zeit is an advocate f or trauma-informed and humane medical and mental health care. He is pass ionate about teaching and about cultivating the healing potential of tra ditional modalities integrated with newer somatic and neuroscience infor med models.\n\nDr. Zeit recently began running trauma-informed groups ba sed on creating a felt sense of safety and connection, combining sensori motor psychotherapy, internal family systems, yoga and relational models .  In both the Caring for Self while Caring for Others series and in hi s short- and long-term groups, he is assisted by his partner, Irina Dumi trache, a certified yoga teacher and health coach. You can find out more about their work on his website: www.harryzeitmd.com\n\n  END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-217-@mdpac.ca DTSTAMP:20260520T085416 DTSTART:20251212T180000 DTEND:20251214T180000 SUMMARY:2025/2026 MDPAC Psychotherapy Training Program (Nov to Apr) - Mod ule #2 DESCRIPTION:-- VIRTUAL PROGRAM (via Zoom) --\n\nThe MDPAC psychotherapy t raining program is a year-long training course for physicians (or nurse practitioners in primary care). wishing to develop a focused practice in psychotherapy or to increase their skills in providing psychotherapy in the context of a comprehensive family practice setting. While there are many models of therapy, it has become more apparent and empirically res earched that the most important factor in healing is the therapeutic all iance or relationship.  This program will focus on the basic core skill s required to foster, manage ruptures of, and create safety within this relationship, while also learning ways to care for ourselves while carin g for others.\n\nEach weekend will consist of both didactic and experien tial components with adequate opportunities for feedback and interaction with presenters and colleagues. Participants are expected to attend ea ch weekend and attend five online small group integration sessions thro ughout the year.\n\nNOTE: Sessions are NOT recorded. You must attend all 3 days "live".\n\nMissed modules can be taken in the next program offer ing. Missed small group integration sessions cannot be made up.\n\nProgr am is limited to 30 participants.\n\n \n\nCLICK HERE TO WATCH AN INFORM ATION VIDEO ABOUT THE PROGRAM\n\n--------------------------------------- ---------------------------------\n\n-- TESTIMONIALS --\n\nMore aware of my own responses in therapy and impact of transference both directions\ n\nBuilding community within the participants\n\nIt gave me core "soft s kills" outside of the specific therapeutic techniques that I need to pra ctice competently, safely, effectively.\n\n \n\n----------------------- -------------------------------------------------\n\n-- DATES AND LOCATI ONS --\n\nThe program takes place over five weekends from January to Sep tember 2025 with the following topics:\n\nMODULE 1: November 28-30 2025\ nTopic: Initial Assessment and Intake & the Therapeutic Alliance\nDr. Al ison Arnot & Dr. James Whyte\n\nMODULE 2: December 12-14 2025\nTopic: Th erapeutic Presence & Providing Patient Safety\nDr. Robin Beardsley and D r. Harry Zeit\n\nMODULE 3: February 20-22 2026\nTopic: Ethics, Record Ke eping, Medical/Legal Issues & Psychopharmacology\nDr. Conrad Sichler, Dr . Kyle Greenway and Dr. James Whyte \n\nMODULE 4: March 27-29 2026\nTop ic: Boundaries, Transference, and Countertransference\nDr. Robin Beardsl ey & Dr. Elizabeth Parsons\n\nMODULE 5: April 24-26 2026\nTopic: Trauma, Self Care, and Burnout Prevention\nDr. Amy Alexander & Dr. Harry Zeit\n \nEach weekend will consist of both didactic and experiential components with adequate opportunities for feedback and interaction with presenter s and colleagues.\n\nParticipants are expected to attend each weekend an d attend five online small group integration sessions throughout the ye ar.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------- -------\n\n-- SCHEDULE --\n\n(NOTE: Times Indicated are EASTERN TIME ZON E)\n\nFriday Evening\n\n6:00pm – 7:30pm In Session \n7:30pm – 7:45pm Break \n7:45pm - 9:15pm In Session\n\nSaturday and Sunday \n12:30pm †“ 2:00pm In Session \n2:00pm – 2:30pm Break \n2:30pm – 4:00pm In S ession \n4:00pm – 4:30pm Break \n4:30pm – 6:00 pm In Session\n\n-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n-- REGISTRATION FEES --\n\nRegistration fees include program and small group integration sessions.\n\nMDPAC Members: $1750\nNon-Members: $2000 \n\n \n\n-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------\n\n-- ACCREDITATION  --\n\n--   --\n\n-- MDPAC ACCREDITATIO N --\n\nApproved for a total of 60 hours of MDPAC Group CE credits per 5 Modules and 10 hours of MDPAC CCI credits for the entire 5 Module Cours e and 10 hours of MDPAC CCI credits for the small group integration sess ions.\n\n \n\n-- CFPC ACCREDITATION --\n\nThis Group Learning program h as been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up t o 65 Mainpro+ credits which includes 5 small group integration sessions. \n\n \n\n-- RCPSC ACCREDITATION --\n\nThis activity is an Accredited Gr oup Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certi fication Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Cana da, and approved by McMaster University Continuing Professional Developm ent Program. You may claim a maximum of 65 MOC Section 1 hours.\n\n \n\ n-- AMA ACCREDITATION --\n\nThrough an agreement between the Royal Colle ge of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Associa tion, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Catego ry 1 Creditsâ„¢. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/a bout-ama-education .\n\n \n\n \n\n-- CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION --\n\nI n order to receive a Certificate of Completion, the registrant must atte nd at least 95% of all the hours in the modules (57 of 60 hours) and at least 4 of 5 supervision sessions.\nMissed modules can be taken in the n ext program offering only. Missed small group integration sessions canno t be made up.\n\n \n\n-- CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION --\n\nIn order to re ceive a Certificate of Completion, the registrant must attend at least 9 5% of all the hours in the modules (57 of 60 hours) and at least 4 of 5 supervision sessions.\nMissed modules can be taken in the next program o ffering only. Missed small group integration sessions cannot be made up. \n\n \n\n-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------\n\n-- CANCELLATION POLICY --\n\nCancellations must be receive d in writing or via email to the MDPAC Office.\n\nCancellations received prior to October 1 2025 are subject to an administration fee of $100\n\ nCancellations received after October 1 2025 and before November 1 2025 will not receive a refund, however a $500 credit may be used for another MDPAC program within the next 12 months.\n\nCancellations received afte r the program start date (November 28 2025) are not eligible for any ref und.\n\n \n\n---------------------------------------------------------- --------------\n\n-- ABOUT THE PRESENTERS --\n\nDr. Amy Alexander MD, MH Sc, CCFP, CD, Capt (Ret'd)\n\nDr. Alexander is a Family Physician with a Focused Practice in Psychotherapy. She has training in Cognitive Behav ioural Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Trauma Psychiatry and Internal Fa mily Systems. She also undertook Mind-Body Medicine training through the  Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine, specializing in treatme nt protocols for both Cancer and Chronic Pain. In addition to being a yo ga teacher, she also completed training in Mindfulness Based Stress Redu ction (MBSR) Group Leadership as well as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Th erapy (MBCT) Group Facilitation. She has a group psychotherapy practice in Oakville for people with medical illness and chronic pain. An Active Staff member in the Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care Unit at t he Southlake Stronach Regional Cancer Centre in Newmarket, she sees pa tients for individual and group treatment. She holds clinical appointmen ts in both the Departments of Psychiatry and Family & Community Medicine there.   \n\nDr. Robin Beardsley, MD CCFP, has a focused practice in Psychotherapy, in Ottawa. She obtained her medical Degree from the Univ ersity of Toronto and completed her Family Medicine Residency at the Uni versity of Ottawa, (1989) and is now on Faculty with the Department of F amily Medicine.  Dr. Beardsley is a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the Canadian College of Family Physicians, The Satir Institute of the Pacific, the Medical Psychotherapy Association C anada, and is a trained teacher in Mindful Self Compassion (2015). She h as had extensive training in the Satir Model and more recently has taken training in Internal Family Systems (Level 1).   She has had over twe nty years’ experience in a Balint Group, which provides peer support f or physicians regarding the doctor- patient relationship issues. She has always been interested in caregiver well-being.\n\nDr. Alison Arnot BSc , MD. CCFP, FCFP, Psychotherapist with a focused practice in substance use and concurrent disorders\n\nDr. Alison Arnot is an MD Psychotherapis t with a focused practice in substance use and concurrent disorders. Dr. Arnot graduated from medical school at the University of Ottawa in 1981 . She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Toron to in 1983, followed a year of emergency medicine. She was a partner at Credit Valley Family Practice Associatesfrom1988-2009 where she provided comprehensive care including emergency medicine and obstetrics. She joi ned the treatment team at the Addiction & Concurrent Disorders Centre at the Credit Valley Hospital in 1997. She also worked part-time at the He alth & Counselling Centre at the University of Toronto Mississauga campu s from 2000-2015.She opened a solo practice in the community when the Ad diction Treatment Program at the hospital ended in order to provide cont inuity of care to her patients. She is a Certificant and Fellow of the C ollege of Family Physicians of Canada and a lecturer in the Department o f Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Arnot is a member of the Board of the MD Psychotherapy Association of Canada a nd a mentor in the Medical Mentoring in Addictions and Pain program orga nized by the Ontario College of Family Physicians.\n\nDr. Kyle Greenway MD, MSc\n\nDr. Kyle Greenway is an R5 in Psychiatry at McGill University and member of the Clinician Investigator Royal College Program. He has a deep clinical and research interest in the integration of psychotherap y and psychopharmacology, spanning from conventional antidepressants to novel psychedelic treatments. He is currently co-leading the first rando mized controlled trial to investigate the hemodynamic, inflammatory, and clinical effects of adjunctive music to intravenous ketamine for severe ly resistant unipolar and bipolar depression. He is passionate about psy chodynamic psychotherapy and third-wave cognitive behavioural therapies, particularly Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.\n\nDr. Elizabeth Parson s, MD CCFP MDPAC(C) completed her Family Medicine residency in Northeas tern Ontario in 1999 and has had a focused practice in psychotherapy sin ce 2007. She has training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (level 2) and In ternal Family Systems Therapy (level 1) and continues to engage in learn ing. In 2020 she is taking courses in Psychodrama and Ecopsychology as w ell deepening her work in SP with Advanced Training in Complex Trauma an d Dissociation and a level 2 training in IFS for couples. She has experi ence running short-term DBT-style groups and is in the process of develo ping IFS-based groups in her practice in Ottawa. Since 2017, Elizabeth h as been on the Board of Directors for MDPAC and has been the Chair since 2018.\n\nDr. Conrad Sichler graduated from McGill Medical School in 199 8 and completed his family medicine residency at Queens University in 20 01.  He then did a de facto supervised fellowship in addiction medicine psychotherapy for 2.5 years.  He joined an integrative family medicine practice in Burlington, Ontario in 2004 and continued to provide mostly psychotherapy to populations with both addictions and all of life’s o ther challenges and diagnoses.  He has provided both individual and gro up psychotherapy in the intervening 19 years, has taught mindfulness, an d treated health care providers with addictive disorders, as well as ser ving as an independent medical examiner, mostly for the College of Nurse s, for over a decade.  In the past 5-10 years, he has focussed more int ently on the diagnosis and treatment of the trauma that drives many ment al and emotional disorders, and has settled into a clinical practice wit h an approach primarily oriented around Interal Family Systems (IFS) as an approach.  He is currently serving on the Board of the MDPAC and als o as the organization’s president.  He enjoys teaching, music, outdoo r adventures, and being a grateful guest and sharing in ceremony. \n\nD r James Whyte BScN, MD, CCFP is a Family Physician with a focused pract ice in psychotherapy.  He sits on the Executive committee of the PCMH s ection of OMA and On the BOD for MDPAC.  He is formerly a professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and Tyndale University.  He has an interest in Supportive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy and Biofeedbac k.  \n\nDr. Harry Zeit MD, MDPAC(C) Certified in Sensorimotor Psychoth erapy currently works full-time practicing trauma therapy and psychother apy. He is certified in sensorimotor psychotherapy. Dr. Zeit previously worked as an American board-certified emergency physician in Cambridge a nd Toronto, Ontario, between 1983 and 2005.\n\nDr. Zeit is an advocate f or trauma-informed and humane medical and mental health care. He is pass ionate about teaching and about cultivating the healing potential of tra ditional modalities integrated with newer somatic and neuroscience infor med models.\n\nDr. Zeit recently began running trauma-informed groups ba sed on creating a felt sense of safety and connection, combining sensori motor psychotherapy, internal family systems, yoga and relational models .  In both the Caring for Self while Caring for Others series and in hi s short- and long-term groups, he is assisted by his partner, Irina Dumi trache, a certified yoga teacher and health coach. You can find out more about their work on his website: www.harryzeitmd.com\n\n  END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-217-@mdpac.ca DTSTAMP:20260520T085416 DTSTART:20260220T180000 DTEND:20260222T180000 SUMMARY:2025/2026 MDPAC Psychotherapy Training Program (Nov to Apr) - Mod ule #3 DESCRIPTION:-- VIRTUAL PROGRAM (via Zoom) --\n\nThe MDPAC psychotherapy t raining program is a year-long training course for physicians (or nurse practitioners in primary care). wishing to develop a focused practice in psychotherapy or to increase their skills in providing psychotherapy in the context of a comprehensive family practice setting. While there are many models of therapy, it has become more apparent and empirically res earched that the most important factor in healing is the therapeutic all iance or relationship.  This program will focus on the basic core skill s required to foster, manage ruptures of, and create safety within this relationship, while also learning ways to care for ourselves while carin g for others.\n\nEach weekend will consist of both didactic and experien tial components with adequate opportunities for feedback and interaction with presenters and colleagues. Participants are expected to attend ea ch weekend and attend five online small group integration sessions thro ughout the year.\n\nNOTE: Sessions are NOT recorded. You must attend all 3 days "live".\n\nMissed modules can be taken in the next program offer ing. Missed small group integration sessions cannot be made up.\n\nProgr am is limited to 30 participants.\n\n \n\nCLICK HERE TO WATCH AN INFORM ATION VIDEO ABOUT THE PROGRAM\n\n--------------------------------------- ---------------------------------\n\n-- TESTIMONIALS --\n\nMore aware of my own responses in therapy and impact of transference both directions\ n\nBuilding community within the participants\n\nIt gave me core "soft s kills" outside of the specific therapeutic techniques that I need to pra ctice competently, safely, effectively.\n\n \n\n----------------------- -------------------------------------------------\n\n-- DATES AND LOCATI ONS --\n\nThe program takes place over five weekends from January to Sep tember 2025 with the following topics:\n\nMODULE 1: November 28-30 2025\ nTopic: Initial Assessment and Intake & the Therapeutic Alliance\nDr. Al ison Arnot & Dr. James Whyte\n\nMODULE 2: December 12-14 2025\nTopic: Th erapeutic Presence & Providing Patient Safety\nDr. Robin Beardsley and D r. Harry Zeit\n\nMODULE 3: February 20-22 2026\nTopic: Ethics, Record Ke eping, Medical/Legal Issues & Psychopharmacology\nDr. Conrad Sichler, Dr . Kyle Greenway and Dr. James Whyte \n\nMODULE 4: March 27-29 2026\nTop ic: Boundaries, Transference, and Countertransference\nDr. Robin Beardsl ey & Dr. Elizabeth Parsons\n\nMODULE 5: April 24-26 2026\nTopic: Trauma, Self Care, and Burnout Prevention\nDr. Amy Alexander & Dr. Harry Zeit\n \nEach weekend will consist of both didactic and experiential components with adequate opportunities for feedback and interaction with presenter s and colleagues.\n\nParticipants are expected to attend each weekend an d attend five online small group integration sessions throughout the ye ar.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------- -------\n\n-- SCHEDULE --\n\n(NOTE: Times Indicated are EASTERN TIME ZON E)\n\nFriday Evening\n\n6:00pm – 7:30pm In Session \n7:30pm – 7:45pm Break \n7:45pm - 9:15pm In Session\n\nSaturday and Sunday \n12:30pm †“ 2:00pm In Session \n2:00pm – 2:30pm Break \n2:30pm – 4:00pm In S ession \n4:00pm – 4:30pm Break \n4:30pm – 6:00 pm In Session\n\n-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n-- REGISTRATION FEES --\n\nRegistration fees include program and small group integration sessions.\n\nMDPAC Members: $1750\nNon-Members: $2000 \n\n \n\n-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------\n\n-- ACCREDITATION  --\n\n--   --\n\n-- MDPAC ACCREDITATIO N --\n\nApproved for a total of 60 hours of MDPAC Group CE credits per 5 Modules and 10 hours of MDPAC CCI credits for the entire 5 Module Cours e and 10 hours of MDPAC CCI credits for the small group integration sess ions.\n\n \n\n-- CFPC ACCREDITATION --\n\nThis Group Learning program h as been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up t o 65 Mainpro+ credits which includes 5 small group integration sessions. \n\n \n\n-- RCPSC ACCREDITATION --\n\nThis activity is an Accredited Gr oup Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certi fication Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Cana da, and approved by McMaster University Continuing Professional Developm ent Program. You may claim a maximum of 65 MOC Section 1 hours.\n\n \n\ n-- AMA ACCREDITATION --\n\nThrough an agreement between the Royal Colle ge of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Associa tion, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Catego ry 1 Creditsâ„¢. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/a bout-ama-education .\n\n \n\n \n\n-- CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION --\n\nI n order to receive a Certificate of Completion, the registrant must atte nd at least 95% of all the hours in the modules (57 of 60 hours) and at least 4 of 5 supervision sessions.\nMissed modules can be taken in the n ext program offering only. Missed small group integration sessions canno t be made up.\n\n \n\n-- CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION --\n\nIn order to re ceive a Certificate of Completion, the registrant must attend at least 9 5% of all the hours in the modules (57 of 60 hours) and at least 4 of 5 supervision sessions.\nMissed modules can be taken in the next program o ffering only. Missed small group integration sessions cannot be made up. \n\n \n\n-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------\n\n-- CANCELLATION POLICY --\n\nCancellations must be receive d in writing or via email to the MDPAC Office.\n\nCancellations received prior to October 1 2025 are subject to an administration fee of $100\n\ nCancellations received after October 1 2025 and before November 1 2025 will not receive a refund, however a $500 credit may be used for another MDPAC program within the next 12 months.\n\nCancellations received afte r the program start date (November 28 2025) are not eligible for any ref und.\n\n \n\n---------------------------------------------------------- --------------\n\n-- ABOUT THE PRESENTERS --\n\nDr. Amy Alexander MD, MH Sc, CCFP, CD, Capt (Ret'd)\n\nDr. Alexander is a Family Physician with a Focused Practice in Psychotherapy. She has training in Cognitive Behav ioural Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Trauma Psychiatry and Internal Fa mily Systems. She also undertook Mind-Body Medicine training through the  Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine, specializing in treatme nt protocols for both Cancer and Chronic Pain. In addition to being a yo ga teacher, she also completed training in Mindfulness Based Stress Redu ction (MBSR) Group Leadership as well as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Th erapy (MBCT) Group Facilitation. She has a group psychotherapy practice in Oakville for people with medical illness and chronic pain. An Active Staff member in the Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care Unit at t he Southlake Stronach Regional Cancer Centre in Newmarket, she sees pa tients for individual and group treatment. She holds clinical appointmen ts in both the Departments of Psychiatry and Family & Community Medicine there.   \n\nDr. Robin Beardsley, MD CCFP, has a focused practice in Psychotherapy, in Ottawa. She obtained her medical Degree from the Univ ersity of Toronto and completed her Family Medicine Residency at the Uni versity of Ottawa, (1989) and is now on Faculty with the Department of F amily Medicine.  Dr. Beardsley is a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the Canadian College of Family Physicians, The Satir Institute of the Pacific, the Medical Psychotherapy Association C anada, and is a trained teacher in Mindful Self Compassion (2015). She h as had extensive training in the Satir Model and more recently has taken training in Internal Family Systems (Level 1).   She has had over twe nty years’ experience in a Balint Group, which provides peer support f or physicians regarding the doctor- patient relationship issues. She has always been interested in caregiver well-being.\n\nDr. Alison Arnot BSc , MD. CCFP, FCFP, Psychotherapist with a focused practice in substance use and concurrent disorders\n\nDr. Alison Arnot is an MD Psychotherapis t with a focused practice in substance use and concurrent disorders. Dr. Arnot graduated from medical school at the University of Ottawa in 1981 . She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Toron to in 1983, followed a year of emergency medicine. She was a partner at Credit Valley Family Practice Associatesfrom1988-2009 where she provided comprehensive care including emergency medicine and obstetrics. She joi ned the treatment team at the Addiction & Concurrent Disorders Centre at the Credit Valley Hospital in 1997. She also worked part-time at the He alth & Counselling Centre at the University of Toronto Mississauga campu s from 2000-2015.She opened a solo practice in the community when the Ad diction Treatment Program at the hospital ended in order to provide cont inuity of care to her patients. She is a Certificant and Fellow of the C ollege of Family Physicians of Canada and a lecturer in the Department o f Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Arnot is a member of the Board of the MD Psychotherapy Association of Canada a nd a mentor in the Medical Mentoring in Addictions and Pain program orga nized by the Ontario College of Family Physicians.\n\nDr. Kyle Greenway MD, MSc\n\nDr. Kyle Greenway is an R5 in Psychiatry at McGill University and member of the Clinician Investigator Royal College Program. He has a deep clinical and research interest in the integration of psychotherap y and psychopharmacology, spanning from conventional antidepressants to novel psychedelic treatments. He is currently co-leading the first rando mized controlled trial to investigate the hemodynamic, inflammatory, and clinical effects of adjunctive music to intravenous ketamine for severe ly resistant unipolar and bipolar depression. He is passionate about psy chodynamic psychotherapy and third-wave cognitive behavioural therapies, particularly Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.\n\nDr. Elizabeth Parson s, MD CCFP MDPAC(C) completed her Family Medicine residency in Northeas tern Ontario in 1999 and has had a focused practice in psychotherapy sin ce 2007. She has training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (level 2) and In ternal Family Systems Therapy (level 1) and continues to engage in learn ing. In 2020 she is taking courses in Psychodrama and Ecopsychology as w ell deepening her work in SP with Advanced Training in Complex Trauma an d Dissociation and a level 2 training in IFS for couples. She has experi ence running short-term DBT-style groups and is in the process of develo ping IFS-based groups in her practice in Ottawa. Since 2017, Elizabeth h as been on the Board of Directors for MDPAC and has been the Chair since 2018.\n\nDr. Conrad Sichler graduated from McGill Medical School in 199 8 and completed his family medicine residency at Queens University in 20 01.  He then did a de facto supervised fellowship in addiction medicine psychotherapy for 2.5 years.  He joined an integrative family medicine practice in Burlington, Ontario in 2004 and continued to provide mostly psychotherapy to populations with both addictions and all of life’s o ther challenges and diagnoses.  He has provided both individual and gro up psychotherapy in the intervening 19 years, has taught mindfulness, an d treated health care providers with addictive disorders, as well as ser ving as an independent medical examiner, mostly for the College of Nurse s, for over a decade.  In the past 5-10 years, he has focussed more int ently on the diagnosis and treatment of the trauma that drives many ment al and emotional disorders, and has settled into a clinical practice wit h an approach primarily oriented around Interal Family Systems (IFS) as an approach.  He is currently serving on the Board of the MDPAC and als o as the organization’s president.  He enjoys teaching, music, outdoo r adventures, and being a grateful guest and sharing in ceremony. \n\nD r James Whyte BScN, MD, CCFP is a Family Physician with a focused pract ice in psychotherapy.  He sits on the Executive committee of the PCMH s ection of OMA and On the BOD for MDPAC.  He is formerly a professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and Tyndale University.  He has an interest in Supportive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy and Biofeedbac k.  \n\nDr. Harry Zeit MD, MDPAC(C) Certified in Sensorimotor Psychoth erapy currently works full-time practicing trauma therapy and psychother apy. He is certified in sensorimotor psychotherapy. Dr. Zeit previously worked as an American board-certified emergency physician in Cambridge a nd Toronto, Ontario, between 1983 and 2005.\n\nDr. Zeit is an advocate f or trauma-informed and humane medical and mental health care. He is pass ionate about teaching and about cultivating the healing potential of tra ditional modalities integrated with newer somatic and neuroscience infor med models.\n\nDr. Zeit recently began running trauma-informed groups ba sed on creating a felt sense of safety and connection, combining sensori motor psychotherapy, internal family systems, yoga and relational models .  In both the Caring for Self while Caring for Others series and in hi s short- and long-term groups, he is assisted by his partner, Irina Dumi trache, a certified yoga teacher and health coach. You can find out more about their work on his website: www.harryzeitmd.com\n\n  END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-217-@mdpac.ca DTSTAMP:20260520T085416 DTSTART:20260327T180000 DTEND:20260329T180000 SUMMARY:2025/2026 MDPAC Psychotherapy Training Program (Nov to Apr) - Mod ule #4 DESCRIPTION:-- VIRTUAL PROGRAM (via Zoom) --\n\nThe MDPAC psychotherapy t raining program is a year-long training course for physicians (or nurse practitioners in primary care). wishing to develop a focused practice in psychotherapy or to increase their skills in providing psychotherapy in the context of a comprehensive family practice setting. While there are many models of therapy, it has become more apparent and empirically res earched that the most important factor in healing is the therapeutic all iance or relationship.  This program will focus on the basic core skill s required to foster, manage ruptures of, and create safety within this relationship, while also learning ways to care for ourselves while carin g for others.\n\nEach weekend will consist of both didactic and experien tial components with adequate opportunities for feedback and interaction with presenters and colleagues. Participants are expected to attend ea ch weekend and attend five online small group integration sessions thro ughout the year.\n\nNOTE: Sessions are NOT recorded. You must attend all 3 days "live".\n\nMissed modules can be taken in the next program offer ing. Missed small group integration sessions cannot be made up.\n\nProgr am is limited to 30 participants.\n\n \n\nCLICK HERE TO WATCH AN INFORM ATION VIDEO ABOUT THE PROGRAM\n\n--------------------------------------- ---------------------------------\n\n-- TESTIMONIALS --\n\nMore aware of my own responses in therapy and impact of transference both directions\ n\nBuilding community within the participants\n\nIt gave me core "soft s kills" outside of the specific therapeutic techniques that I need to pra ctice competently, safely, effectively.\n\n \n\n----------------------- -------------------------------------------------\n\n-- DATES AND LOCATI ONS --\n\nThe program takes place over five weekends from January to Sep tember 2025 with the following topics:\n\nMODULE 1: November 28-30 2025\ nTopic: Initial Assessment and Intake & the Therapeutic Alliance\nDr. Al ison Arnot & Dr. James Whyte\n\nMODULE 2: December 12-14 2025\nTopic: Th erapeutic Presence & Providing Patient Safety\nDr. Robin Beardsley and D r. Harry Zeit\n\nMODULE 3: February 20-22 2026\nTopic: Ethics, Record Ke eping, Medical/Legal Issues & Psychopharmacology\nDr. Conrad Sichler, Dr . Kyle Greenway and Dr. James Whyte \n\nMODULE 4: March 27-29 2026\nTop ic: Boundaries, Transference, and Countertransference\nDr. Robin Beardsl ey & Dr. Elizabeth Parsons\n\nMODULE 5: April 24-26 2026\nTopic: Trauma, Self Care, and Burnout Prevention\nDr. Amy Alexander & Dr. Harry Zeit\n \nEach weekend will consist of both didactic and experiential components with adequate opportunities for feedback and interaction with presenter s and colleagues.\n\nParticipants are expected to attend each weekend an d attend five online small group integration sessions throughout the ye ar.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------- -------\n\n-- SCHEDULE --\n\n(NOTE: Times Indicated are EASTERN TIME ZON E)\n\nFriday Evening\n\n6:00pm – 7:30pm In Session \n7:30pm – 7:45pm Break \n7:45pm - 9:15pm In Session\n\nSaturday and Sunday \n12:30pm †“ 2:00pm In Session \n2:00pm – 2:30pm Break \n2:30pm – 4:00pm In S ession \n4:00pm – 4:30pm Break \n4:30pm – 6:00 pm In Session\n\n-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n-- REGISTRATION FEES --\n\nRegistration fees include program and small group integration sessions.\n\nMDPAC Members: $1750\nNon-Members: $2000 \n\n \n\n-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------\n\n-- ACCREDITATION  --\n\n--   --\n\n-- MDPAC ACCREDITATIO N --\n\nApproved for a total of 60 hours of MDPAC Group CE credits per 5 Modules and 10 hours of MDPAC CCI credits for the entire 5 Module Cours e and 10 hours of MDPAC CCI credits for the small group integration sess ions.\n\n \n\n-- CFPC ACCREDITATION --\n\nThis Group Learning program h as been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up t o 65 Mainpro+ credits which includes 5 small group integration sessions. \n\n \n\n-- RCPSC ACCREDITATION --\n\nThis activity is an Accredited Gr oup Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certi fication Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Cana da, and approved by McMaster University Continuing Professional Developm ent Program. You may claim a maximum of 65 MOC Section 1 hours.\n\n \n\ n-- AMA ACCREDITATION --\n\nThrough an agreement between the Royal Colle ge of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Associa tion, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Catego ry 1 Creditsâ„¢. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/a bout-ama-education .\n\n \n\n \n\n-- CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION --\n\nI n order to receive a Certificate of Completion, the registrant must atte nd at least 95% of all the hours in the modules (57 of 60 hours) and at least 4 of 5 supervision sessions.\nMissed modules can be taken in the n ext program offering only. Missed small group integration sessions canno t be made up.\n\n \n\n-- CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION --\n\nIn order to re ceive a Certificate of Completion, the registrant must attend at least 9 5% of all the hours in the modules (57 of 60 hours) and at least 4 of 5 supervision sessions.\nMissed modules can be taken in the next program o ffering only. Missed small group integration sessions cannot be made up. \n\n \n\n-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------\n\n-- CANCELLATION POLICY --\n\nCancellations must be receive d in writing or via email to the MDPAC Office.\n\nCancellations received prior to October 1 2025 are subject to an administration fee of $100\n\ nCancellations received after October 1 2025 and before November 1 2025 will not receive a refund, however a $500 credit may be used for another MDPAC program within the next 12 months.\n\nCancellations received afte r the program start date (November 28 2025) are not eligible for any ref und.\n\n \n\n---------------------------------------------------------- --------------\n\n-- ABOUT THE PRESENTERS --\n\nDr. Amy Alexander MD, MH Sc, CCFP, CD, Capt (Ret'd)\n\nDr. Alexander is a Family Physician with a Focused Practice in Psychotherapy. She has training in Cognitive Behav ioural Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Trauma Psychiatry and Internal Fa mily Systems. She also undertook Mind-Body Medicine training through the  Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine, specializing in treatme nt protocols for both Cancer and Chronic Pain. In addition to being a yo ga teacher, she also completed training in Mindfulness Based Stress Redu ction (MBSR) Group Leadership as well as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Th erapy (MBCT) Group Facilitation. She has a group psychotherapy practice in Oakville for people with medical illness and chronic pain. An Active Staff member in the Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care Unit at t he Southlake Stronach Regional Cancer Centre in Newmarket, she sees pa tients for individual and group treatment. She holds clinical appointmen ts in both the Departments of Psychiatry and Family & Community Medicine there.   \n\nDr. Robin Beardsley, MD CCFP, has a focused practice in Psychotherapy, in Ottawa. She obtained her medical Degree from the Univ ersity of Toronto and completed her Family Medicine Residency at the Uni versity of Ottawa, (1989) and is now on Faculty with the Department of F amily Medicine.  Dr. Beardsley is a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the Canadian College of Family Physicians, The Satir Institute of the Pacific, the Medical Psychotherapy Association C anada, and is a trained teacher in Mindful Self Compassion (2015). She h as had extensive training in the Satir Model and more recently has taken training in Internal Family Systems (Level 1).   She has had over twe nty years’ experience in a Balint Group, which provides peer support f or physicians regarding the doctor- patient relationship issues. She has always been interested in caregiver well-being.\n\nDr. Alison Arnot BSc , MD. CCFP, FCFP, Psychotherapist with a focused practice in substance use and concurrent disorders\n\nDr. Alison Arnot is an MD Psychotherapis t with a focused practice in substance use and concurrent disorders. Dr. Arnot graduated from medical school at the University of Ottawa in 1981 . She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Toron to in 1983, followed a year of emergency medicine. She was a partner at Credit Valley Family Practice Associatesfrom1988-2009 where she provided comprehensive care including emergency medicine and obstetrics. She joi ned the treatment team at the Addiction & Concurrent Disorders Centre at the Credit Valley Hospital in 1997. She also worked part-time at the He alth & Counselling Centre at the University of Toronto Mississauga campu s from 2000-2015.She opened a solo practice in the community when the Ad diction Treatment Program at the hospital ended in order to provide cont inuity of care to her patients. She is a Certificant and Fellow of the C ollege of Family Physicians of Canada and a lecturer in the Department o f Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Arnot is a member of the Board of the MD Psychotherapy Association of Canada a nd a mentor in the Medical Mentoring in Addictions and Pain program orga nized by the Ontario College of Family Physicians.\n\nDr. Kyle Greenway MD, MSc\n\nDr. Kyle Greenway is an R5 in Psychiatry at McGill University and member of the Clinician Investigator Royal College Program. He has a deep clinical and research interest in the integration of psychotherap y and psychopharmacology, spanning from conventional antidepressants to novel psychedelic treatments. He is currently co-leading the first rando mized controlled trial to investigate the hemodynamic, inflammatory, and clinical effects of adjunctive music to intravenous ketamine for severe ly resistant unipolar and bipolar depression. He is passionate about psy chodynamic psychotherapy and third-wave cognitive behavioural therapies, particularly Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.\n\nDr. Elizabeth Parson s, MD CCFP MDPAC(C) completed her Family Medicine residency in Northeas tern Ontario in 1999 and has had a focused practice in psychotherapy sin ce 2007. She has training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (level 2) and In ternal Family Systems Therapy (level 1) and continues to engage in learn ing. In 2020 she is taking courses in Psychodrama and Ecopsychology as w ell deepening her work in SP with Advanced Training in Complex Trauma an d Dissociation and a level 2 training in IFS for couples. She has experi ence running short-term DBT-style groups and is in the process of develo ping IFS-based groups in her practice in Ottawa. Since 2017, Elizabeth h as been on the Board of Directors for MDPAC and has been the Chair since 2018.\n\nDr. Conrad Sichler graduated from McGill Medical School in 199 8 and completed his family medicine residency at Queens University in 20 01.  He then did a de facto supervised fellowship in addiction medicine psychotherapy for 2.5 years.  He joined an integrative family medicine practice in Burlington, Ontario in 2004 and continued to provide mostly psychotherapy to populations with both addictions and all of life’s o ther challenges and diagnoses.  He has provided both individual and gro up psychotherapy in the intervening 19 years, has taught mindfulness, an d treated health care providers with addictive disorders, as well as ser ving as an independent medical examiner, mostly for the College of Nurse s, for over a decade.  In the past 5-10 years, he has focussed more int ently on the diagnosis and treatment of the trauma that drives many ment al and emotional disorders, and has settled into a clinical practice wit h an approach primarily oriented around Interal Family Systems (IFS) as an approach.  He is currently serving on the Board of the MDPAC and als o as the organization’s president.  He enjoys teaching, music, outdoo r adventures, and being a grateful guest and sharing in ceremony. \n\nD r James Whyte BScN, MD, CCFP is a Family Physician with a focused pract ice in psychotherapy.  He sits on the Executive committee of the PCMH s ection of OMA and On the BOD for MDPAC.  He is formerly a professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and Tyndale University.  He has an interest in Supportive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy and Biofeedbac k.  \n\nDr. Harry Zeit MD, MDPAC(C) Certified in Sensorimotor Psychoth erapy currently works full-time practicing trauma therapy and psychother apy. He is certified in sensorimotor psychotherapy. Dr. Zeit previously worked as an American board-certified emergency physician in Cambridge a nd Toronto, Ontario, between 1983 and 2005.\n\nDr. Zeit is an advocate f or trauma-informed and humane medical and mental health care. He is pass ionate about teaching and about cultivating the healing potential of tra ditional modalities integrated with newer somatic and neuroscience infor med models.\n\nDr. Zeit recently began running trauma-informed groups ba sed on creating a felt sense of safety and connection, combining sensori motor psychotherapy, internal family systems, yoga and relational models .  In both the Caring for Self while Caring for Others series and in hi s short- and long-term groups, he is assisted by his partner, Irina Dumi trache, a certified yoga teacher and health coach. You can find out more about their work on his website: www.harryzeitmd.com\n\n  END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-217-@mdpac.ca DTSTAMP:20260520T085416 DTSTART:20260424T180000 DTEND:20260426T180000 SUMMARY:2025/2026 MDPAC Psychotherapy Training Program (Nov to Apr) - Mod ule #5 DESCRIPTION:-- VIRTUAL PROGRAM (via Zoom) --\n\nThe MDPAC psychotherapy t raining program is a year-long training course for physicians (or nurse practitioners in primary care). wishing to develop a focused practice in psychotherapy or to increase their skills in providing psychotherapy in the context of a comprehensive family practice setting. While there are many models of therapy, it has become more apparent and empirically res earched that the most important factor in healing is the therapeutic all iance or relationship.  This program will focus on the basic core skill s required to foster, manage ruptures of, and create safety within this relationship, while also learning ways to care for ourselves while carin g for others.\n\nEach weekend will consist of both didactic and experien tial components with adequate opportunities for feedback and interaction with presenters and colleagues. Participants are expected to attend ea ch weekend and attend five online small group integration sessions thro ughout the year.\n\nNOTE: Sessions are NOT recorded. You must attend all 3 days "live".\n\nMissed modules can be taken in the next program offer ing. Missed small group integration sessions cannot be made up.\n\nProgr am is limited to 30 participants.\n\n \n\nCLICK HERE TO WATCH AN INFORM ATION VIDEO ABOUT THE PROGRAM\n\n--------------------------------------- ---------------------------------\n\n-- TESTIMONIALS --\n\nMore aware of my own responses in therapy and impact of transference both directions\ n\nBuilding community within the participants\n\nIt gave me core "soft s kills" outside of the specific therapeutic techniques that I need to pra ctice competently, safely, effectively.\n\n \n\n----------------------- -------------------------------------------------\n\n-- DATES AND LOCATI ONS --\n\nThe program takes place over five weekends from January to Sep tember 2025 with the following topics:\n\nMODULE 1: November 28-30 2025\ nTopic: Initial Assessment and Intake & the Therapeutic Alliance\nDr. Al ison Arnot & Dr. James Whyte\n\nMODULE 2: December 12-14 2025\nTopic: Th erapeutic Presence & Providing Patient Safety\nDr. Robin Beardsley and D r. Harry Zeit\n\nMODULE 3: February 20-22 2026\nTopic: Ethics, Record Ke eping, Medical/Legal Issues & Psychopharmacology\nDr. Conrad Sichler, Dr . Kyle Greenway and Dr. James Whyte \n\nMODULE 4: March 27-29 2026\nTop ic: Boundaries, Transference, and Countertransference\nDr. Robin Beardsl ey & Dr. Elizabeth Parsons\n\nMODULE 5: April 24-26 2026\nTopic: Trauma, Self Care, and Burnout Prevention\nDr. Amy Alexander & Dr. Harry Zeit\n \nEach weekend will consist of both didactic and experiential components with adequate opportunities for feedback and interaction with presenter s and colleagues.\n\nParticipants are expected to attend each weekend an d attend five online small group integration sessions throughout the ye ar.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------- -------\n\n-- SCHEDULE --\n\n(NOTE: Times Indicated are EASTERN TIME ZON E)\n\nFriday Evening\n\n6:00pm – 7:30pm In Session \n7:30pm – 7:45pm Break \n7:45pm - 9:15pm In Session\n\nSaturday and Sunday \n12:30pm †“ 2:00pm In Session \n2:00pm – 2:30pm Break \n2:30pm – 4:00pm In S ession \n4:00pm – 4:30pm Break \n4:30pm – 6:00 pm In Session\n\n-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n-- REGISTRATION FEES --\n\nRegistration fees include program and small group integration sessions.\n\nMDPAC Members: $1750\nNon-Members: $2000 \n\n \n\n-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------\n\n-- ACCREDITATION  --\n\n--   --\n\n-- MDPAC ACCREDITATIO N --\n\nApproved for a total of 60 hours of MDPAC Group CE credits per 5 Modules and 10 hours of MDPAC CCI credits for the entire 5 Module Cours e and 10 hours of MDPAC CCI credits for the small group integration sess ions.\n\n \n\n-- CFPC ACCREDITATION --\n\nThis Group Learning program h as been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up t o 65 Mainpro+ credits which includes 5 small group integration sessions. \n\n \n\n-- RCPSC ACCREDITATION --\n\nThis activity is an Accredited Gr oup Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certi fication Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Cana da, and approved by McMaster University Continuing Professional Developm ent Program. You may claim a maximum of 65 MOC Section 1 hours.\n\n \n\ n-- AMA ACCREDITATION --\n\nThrough an agreement between the Royal Colle ge of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Associa tion, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Catego ry 1 Creditsâ„¢. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/a bout-ama-education .\n\n \n\n \n\n-- CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION --\n\nI n order to receive a Certificate of Completion, the registrant must atte nd at least 95% of all the hours in the modules (57 of 60 hours) and at least 4 of 5 supervision sessions.\nMissed modules can be taken in the n ext program offering only. Missed small group integration sessions canno t be made up.\n\n \n\n-- CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION --\n\nIn order to re ceive a Certificate of Completion, the registrant must attend at least 9 5% of all the hours in the modules (57 of 60 hours) and at least 4 of 5 supervision sessions.\nMissed modules can be taken in the next program o ffering only. Missed small group integration sessions cannot be made up. \n\n \n\n-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------\n\n-- CANCELLATION POLICY --\n\nCancellations must be receive d in writing or via email to the MDPAC Office.\n\nCancellations received prior to October 1 2025 are subject to an administration fee of $100\n\ nCancellations received after October 1 2025 and before November 1 2025 will not receive a refund, however a $500 credit may be used for another MDPAC program within the next 12 months.\n\nCancellations received afte r the program start date (November 28 2025) are not eligible for any ref und.\n\n \n\n---------------------------------------------------------- --------------\n\n-- ABOUT THE PRESENTERS --\n\nDr. Amy Alexander MD, MH Sc, CCFP, CD, Capt (Ret'd)\n\nDr. Alexander is a Family Physician with a Focused Practice in Psychotherapy. She has training in Cognitive Behav ioural Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Trauma Psychiatry and Internal Fa mily Systems. She also undertook Mind-Body Medicine training through the  Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine, specializing in treatme nt protocols for both Cancer and Chronic Pain. In addition to being a yo ga teacher, she also completed training in Mindfulness Based Stress Redu ction (MBSR) Group Leadership as well as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Th erapy (MBCT) Group Facilitation. She has a group psychotherapy practice in Oakville for people with medical illness and chronic pain. An Active Staff member in the Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care Unit at t he Southlake Stronach Regional Cancer Centre in Newmarket, she sees pa tients for individual and group treatment. She holds clinical appointmen ts in both the Departments of Psychiatry and Family & Community Medicine there.   \n\nDr. Robin Beardsley, MD CCFP, has a focused practice in Psychotherapy, in Ottawa. She obtained her medical Degree from the Univ ersity of Toronto and completed her Family Medicine Residency at the Uni versity of Ottawa, (1989) and is now on Faculty with the Department of F amily Medicine.  Dr. Beardsley is a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the Canadian College of Family Physicians, The Satir Institute of the Pacific, the Medical Psychotherapy Association C anada, and is a trained teacher in Mindful Self Compassion (2015). She h as had extensive training in the Satir Model and more recently has taken training in Internal Family Systems (Level 1).   She has had over twe nty years’ experience in a Balint Group, which provides peer support f or physicians regarding the doctor- patient relationship issues. She has always been interested in caregiver well-being.\n\nDr. Alison Arnot BSc , MD. CCFP, FCFP, Psychotherapist with a focused practice in substance use and concurrent disorders\n\nDr. Alison Arnot is an MD Psychotherapis t with a focused practice in substance use and concurrent disorders. Dr. Arnot graduated from medical school at the University of Ottawa in 1981 . She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Toron to in 1983, followed a year of emergency medicine. She was a partner at Credit Valley Family Practice Associatesfrom1988-2009 where she provided comprehensive care including emergency medicine and obstetrics. She joi ned the treatment team at the Addiction & Concurrent Disorders Centre at the Credit Valley Hospital in 1997. She also worked part-time at the He alth & Counselling Centre at the University of Toronto Mississauga campu s from 2000-2015.She opened a solo practice in the community when the Ad diction Treatment Program at the hospital ended in order to provide cont inuity of care to her patients. She is a Certificant and Fellow of the C ollege of Family Physicians of Canada and a lecturer in the Department o f Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Arnot is a member of the Board of the MD Psychotherapy Association of Canada a nd a mentor in the Medical Mentoring in Addictions and Pain program orga nized by the Ontario College of Family Physicians.\n\nDr. Kyle Greenway MD, MSc\n\nDr. Kyle Greenway is an R5 in Psychiatry at McGill University and member of the Clinician Investigator Royal College Program. He has a deep clinical and research interest in the integration of psychotherap y and psychopharmacology, spanning from conventional antidepressants to novel psychedelic treatments. He is currently co-leading the first rando mized controlled trial to investigate the hemodynamic, inflammatory, and clinical effects of adjunctive music to intravenous ketamine for severe ly resistant unipolar and bipolar depression. He is passionate about psy chodynamic psychotherapy and third-wave cognitive behavioural therapies, particularly Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.\n\nDr. Elizabeth Parson s, MD CCFP MDPAC(C) completed her Family Medicine residency in Northeas tern Ontario in 1999 and has had a focused practice in psychotherapy sin ce 2007. She has training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (level 2) and In ternal Family Systems Therapy (level 1) and continues to engage in learn ing. In 2020 she is taking courses in Psychodrama and Ecopsychology as w ell deepening her work in SP with Advanced Training in Complex Trauma an d Dissociation and a level 2 training in IFS for couples. She has experi ence running short-term DBT-style groups and is in the process of develo ping IFS-based groups in her practice in Ottawa. Since 2017, Elizabeth h as been on the Board of Directors for MDPAC and has been the Chair since 2018.\n\nDr. Conrad Sichler graduated from McGill Medical School in 199 8 and completed his family medicine residency at Queens University in 20 01.  He then did a de facto supervised fellowship in addiction medicine psychotherapy for 2.5 years.  He joined an integrative family medicine practice in Burlington, Ontario in 2004 and continued to provide mostly psychotherapy to populations with both addictions and all of life’s o ther challenges and diagnoses.  He has provided both individual and gro up psychotherapy in the intervening 19 years, has taught mindfulness, an d treated health care providers with addictive disorders, as well as ser ving as an independent medical examiner, mostly for the College of Nurse s, for over a decade.  In the past 5-10 years, he has focussed more int ently on the diagnosis and treatment of the trauma that drives many ment al and emotional disorders, and has settled into a clinical practice wit h an approach primarily oriented around Interal Family Systems (IFS) as an approach.  He is currently serving on the Board of the MDPAC and als o as the organization’s president.  He enjoys teaching, music, outdoo r adventures, and being a grateful guest and sharing in ceremony. \n\nD r James Whyte BScN, MD, CCFP is a Family Physician with a focused pract ice in psychotherapy.  He sits on the Executive committee of the PCMH s ection of OMA and On the BOD for MDPAC.  He is formerly a professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and Tyndale University.  He has an interest in Supportive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy and Biofeedbac k.  \n\nDr. Harry Zeit MD, MDPAC(C) Certified in Sensorimotor Psychoth erapy currently works full-time practicing trauma therapy and psychother apy. He is certified in sensorimotor psychotherapy. Dr. Zeit previously worked as an American board-certified emergency physician in Cambridge a nd Toronto, Ontario, between 1983 and 2005.\n\nDr. Zeit is an advocate f or trauma-informed and humane medical and mental health care. He is pass ionate about teaching and about cultivating the healing potential of tra ditional modalities integrated with newer somatic and neuroscience infor med models.\n\nDr. Zeit recently began running trauma-informed groups ba sed on creating a felt sense of safety and connection, combining sensori motor psychotherapy, internal family systems, yoga and relational models .  In both the Caring for Self while Caring for Others series and in hi s short- and long-term groups, he is assisted by his partner, Irina Dumi trache, a certified yoga teacher and health coach. You can find out more about their work on his website: www.harryzeitmd.com\n\n  END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR