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I just wanted to make our Canadian members aware of Valerie Porr's speaking engagement in Toronto... .


The Sashbear Team and the Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Psychiatry are pleased to invite you to join us for an evening with Valerie Porr on March 19, 2014 at the Mount Sinai Auditorium in Toronto. Valerie Porr is an engaging and knowledgeable speaker and we are delighted to have her come to Toronto to help raise awareness about Emotion Regulation Disorder (aka Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)) by talking about the disorder, available treatments, impacts on families and how we can all help.

This evening is a joint initiative between the Sashbear Team and the Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Psychiatry. There is no fee to attend this event. As part of this evening there will be an update about how monies from the Sasha Menu Courey's donation fund at Mount Sinai Hospital will be used to increase Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) services.

Event details:

When: Wednesday March 19, 2014 - 6:30-9:00 pm

Where: Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Ave, 18th Floor Auditorium, Toronto, Ontario. Light refreshments will be served.

Target Audience: Families, Health Professionals, all are welcome.

RSVP: please send email to info@sashbear.org with number of attendees.

Agenda:

Update on Mount Sinai Hospital’s allocation of the Sasha Menu Courey ’s donation fund from Dr. Molyn Leszcz Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Hospital.

Valerie Porr's presentation on Borderline Personality Disorder.

Cost: No fee. Donations are welcome.

Sasha Menu Courey's fund at Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation

 would really love to  see Valarie Porr at a seminar do you know of any this spring  in ny/newengland are thank you for you help

I am trying to find out what her speaking engagements are but I have not heard back. I received notice of this one from the sashbear.org site... .I would really love to go myself.

Thanx for letting us know, we're going, and dd said she would go, too.

You are so lucky. Please post when you come back. I would love to hear her talk

I am going to try to go as well.

Did anyone go to this speaking engagement? I would love to know your thoughts on it... .

Sadly, we didn't go. Got into a fight with the wife, when I found out she had been shuttling dd around town. DD gets welfare, commits welfare fraud by keeping most of the money for herself, instead of paying rent, and figured she could keep even more for herself if she didn't buy a bus pass, and had mom drive her around. I'm not going to drive out to Toronto, and sit for a couple hours  and listen on how to deal with BPD, when my wife was caving and enabling. The kid has to grow up, and deal with problems herself, and if she is 2 hours late for an appointment, so be it. The very next day, after being driven around, dd asked for money and more rides. It just doesn't end, until you draw the line in the sand, and no means no. Dd doesn't ask me for rides or money, she knows what the answer will be. Having said that, it would have been nice to attend, I figure it would have been the chance of a lifetime.

It quite well might have been  *)

Do you think you may have had the chance to learn how to deal with the types of situations you mention above, in a way that might help move things forward?

I'm wondering, if your wife and daughter had heard Valerie Porr's presentation, if there could have been the chance for them to see their own roles in the turmoil you describe here?

Sometimes we are our own worst enemies when things seem to be going down the rabbit hole. We end up sliding right down with the rest of the characters in the story... .

www.nasspd.org/this is a link to  awesome seminar valerie and colleges will be speaking on sunday it is in boston