Human Potential Conference 4.0:

The Human Potential Conference is back by popular demand! EBMC and WCMI present the fourth annual Human Potential Conference! This year’s theme is Human Connection, Recovery, Psychedelics, and Transformation Join us for an engaging evening exploring practical and transformative pathways toward emotional regulation, resilience, healing, recovery, and inner peace during challenging times. Through Susan Campbell's keynote presentation and our expert panel discussion, attendees will gain valuable insights and tools for navigating uncertainty, strengthening relationships, fostering recovery, and responding more effectively to life's inevitable stressors and triggers. ---- Featuring this year's Keynote Speaker: Dr. Susan Campbell, PhD "From Triggered to Tranquil: Self-Regulation in Addiction Recovery" Dr. Susan Campbell. is a clinical psychologist, relationship expert, author, and internationally recognized speaker with nearly six decades of experience helping individuals, couples, and organizations navigate communication, conflict, and personal growth. She is the author of eleven books, including the bestselling The Couple's Journey, Getting Real, Truth in Dating, and From Trigger to Tranquil. Susan has taught and trained professionals throughout the United States and Europe, served on the graduate faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has presented her communication and relationship models to audiences ranging from therapists and coaches to corporate leaders. Her work has been featured on CNN, Good Morning America, and numerous national publications. Susan currently trains coaches and therapists in her Getting Real methodology and continues to speak internationally on communication, relationships, and emotional resilience. ---- CE Course Description: From Triggered to Tranquil: Self Regulation in Addiction Recovery. This 1-hour continuing education workshop explores the role of emotional triggers, attachment dynamics, nervous system dysregulation, and interpersonal reactivity in addiction, recovery, and relational functioning. Drawing upon the work of Susan Campbell, Ph.D., including concepts from, "Triggered to Tranquil", participants will learn practical mindfulness-based and emotionally focused strategies to help clients move from automatic defensive reactions toward greater emotional regulation, insight, authenticity, and connection. The presentation integrates contemporary neuroscience, attachment theory, mindfulness practices, somatic awareness, and relational psychology with recovery-oriented treatment approaches. Particular attention will be given to how unresolved emotional triggers contribute to addictive behaviors, relapse cycles, conflict escalation, shame responses, emotional avoidance, and intimacy difficulties. Participants will learn clinically applicable interventions for helping clients identify triggers, regulate the nervous system, improve communication, cultivate self-awareness, and strengthen recovery resilience. 1 CE credit available Learning Outcomes: • Identify at least three common emotional trigger patterns associated with addiction and relapse vulnerability. • Describe the relationship between attachment wounds, nervous system activation, and maladaptive coping behaviors. • Apply at least two mindfulness-based or relational interventions designed to reduce emotional reactivity and improve emotional regulation in recovery-oriented psychotherapy. ---- A Panel Discussion will be led by Dr. James H. Bramson. It will also be a featured Podcast on Shrinksrap.com! Panel: Addiction, Psychedelics and Recovery: Exploring New Paths to Healing Dr. Veronika Mesheriakova, MD Dr. Veronika Mesheriakova is an adolescent medicine physician, addiction specialist, and founder of the Northern California Adolescent Specialty Center. She previously served as an Associate Professor in the Division of Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, where she founded the UCSF Youth Outpatient Substance Use Program and conducted research focused on adolescent substance use and addiction. Dr. Mesheriakova completed her pediatrics residency at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, followed by a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at UCSF. Dr. Janis Phelps, PhD Dr. Janis Phelps is a clinical psychologist and professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, where she founded the Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research. She created the first accredited training program in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, helping define ethical and clinical standards in this emerging field. Her work bridges science, mindfulness, and psychospiritual development to expand how we understand healing and transformation. Beth Foley Beth Foley is a Bay Area somatic trauma therapist specializing in addiction recovery and embodied healing. She integrates Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Gestalt, breathwork, and mindfulness to help clients regulate the nervous system and release trauma. Her work emphasizes reconnecting with the body as a foundation for resilience, recovery, and lasting change. ---- Joel Walkowski - Stand-Up Comedian Joel Walkowski is a stand-up comedian, author, and SMART Recovery facilitator whose debut book, Honolulu Blues: How Loving a Losing Football Team Created a Winning Man, explores the unlikely throughline between football fandom, addiction, and recovery. A lifelong Detroit Lions fan, Joel likens rooting for the Lions to being a musician on the Titanic — the ship may be sinking, but you show up and play anyway. He draws on decades of highs, lows, and magical thinking as a fan to illustrate the emotional patterns of addiction, and on his own recovery to show how disappointment can be felt without staying stuck in it. Joel's path has taken him from living in a van in Vallejo to stand-up comedy, celebrity roasts, and helping others through SMART Recovery. His set blends comedy, storytelling, and hard-won insight on resilience, humor, and what it means to keep showing up when life doesn't follow the script. ---- Stephanie Lamond - Counselor with EBMC, Folk Musician Stephanie Lamond, a counselor with the East Bay Mindfulness Center, performs folk music drawing on Irish storytelling and grief traditions to explore memory, belonging, and the human experience. ---- Event Highlights: • Delicious food and appetizers • Non-alcoholic "Mocktails" • Opportunities for networking and discussion • Autographed books available • Music provided by Stephanie Lamond Join us for an enlightening evening dedicated to mindful forgiveness in today’s complex world. We hope to see you there! ---- About WCMI and EBMC: West Coast Mindfulness Institute (WCMI) brings together a community of mindfulness-based psychotherapists and allied professionals. Members seek and share evolving research, and best practices via networking meetings, workshops, and case consultations. Learn more and join WCMI here East Bay Mindfulness Center (EBMC) provides mindfulness based psychotherapy services. Our services include clinical counseling, intensive therapy programs, psychological assessments, organizational consulting solutions, and college prep coaching. ---- About CE-Classes.com 1 CE credit is available for "From Triggered to Tranquil: Self Regulation in Addiction Recovery." Certificates are awarded online after completion of the workshop. Participants print their own certificate after registering at CE-Classes.com, entering a keycode, and completing an evaluation form. The intended audience is psychologists and therapists; intermediate skill level. Licensed Professionals should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. CE credits are provided by CE-Classes.com. CE-Classes.com is approved by: • The American Psychological Association (APA) CE-Classes.com is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.