Forward-Facing Institute

Dr. Gentry's Professional Forum
2022-09-06 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Phoenix) | Zoom Virtual Event
Are you struggling to implement Forward-Facing® principles and skills into your therapy and/or coaching practice? Do you have clients with whom you know Forward-Facing® would be helpful but cannot seem to get it delivered to them in a way that is palatable? Are you unsure when and how to introduce Forward-Facing® to your clients? Would you like some support and assistance practicing and mastering Forward-Facing® in your own professional and personal lives? Would you like to develop a support network of other professionals who are transforming and evolving their lives with Forward-Facing®?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then the newly forming Forward-Facing® Professional Forum may be a perfect fit for you. In this small (six maximum) bi-weekly videoconference meeting of Forward-Facing® practitioners, we will work first on the development, maintenance and enhancement of our therapeutic relationships, ventral vagal connection and co-regulation with our clients. With this solidified, we will then discuss strategies for implementation and engagement with clients. Additionally, we will deep-dive into the processes for using FF as a powerful in vivo exposure for ameliorating and resolving posttraumatic stress. We will also explore the use of FF as an optimizer in the professional and personal lives of our clients and ourselves. You will also build a de facto support network of other professionals working to implement FF in their practice.
The meeting will be facilitated by Dr. Gentry, the developer of Forward-Facing®.
The Forward-Facing® Professional Forum will be offered bi-weekly and limited to six (6) participants per meeting.

Evening Alumni Group
2022-08-30 17:00 - 18:15, 2022-08-23 17:00 - 18:15, 2022-08-16 17:00 - 18:15, 2022-08-09 17:00 - 18:15, 2022-08-02 17:00 - 18:15, 2022-07-26 17:00 - 18:15, 2022-07-19 17:00 - 18:15, 2022-07-12 17:00 - 18:15 and 9 more dates | Zoom Virtual Event
Prerequisite for this group is to have completed Forward-Facing® ME: Personal Engagement Group.
This group is hosted by J. Eric Gentry, PhD
5PM AZ/6PM MT/7PM CT/8PM ET

Forward-Facing® Professional Forum
2022-08-16 15:00 - 16:30, 2022-08-02 15:00 - 16:30 | Zoom Virtual Event

Forward Facing Freedom Online Workshop
2022-07-28 07:30 - 15:00 | Zoom Virtual Event
From the very beginning, the Forward-Facing ® Institute has put access to healing and transformation in the hands of everyday people. Forward-Facing® Freedom Workshop does just that.
Decades of research, clinical practice, and training have gone into the development of the Forward-Facing® tools. Previously, this information was only available in the treatment community for therapists and helping professionals who treat trauma and traumatic stress. Now, for the first time, these skills and information are available to anyone who wants to resolve their stress and transform their lives in our 6-hour workshop informed by the book Forward-Facing® Freedom.
With the information presented to you in this workshop, you will learn the skills necessary to work with your body instead of fighting your way through the day. You’ll get a chance to take back control of your responses to the world around you instead of living in constant reaction. Ultimately, you’ll regain the ability to choose your life and the way you live it.
Forward-Facing® Freedom provides you with neuroscientific and psychological foundations for understanding stress, offering a new perspective on what is truly getting in the way of living the life you want to live.
Once you understand the true origins of stress, the Forward-Facing® process gives you tools to work with your body in the present while looking toward the future. You don’t have to relive your nightmares to move on from them. By pairing self-regulation with intention, Forward-Facing® offers you the opportunity to heal in the present instead of going back to the past.
But not only does the Forward-Facing® process help us solve the problem of chronic stress and trauma, it helps us optimize for the future. When we understand our bodies’ responses to stress, we are able to work in tandem with them as we set out to achieve our goals and live informed by our values.
By taking the Forward-Facing® Freedom workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to transform the way you relate to the world and yourself as you learn how our bodies experience stress, encode traumatic memories, and can experience healing in everyday life. Set your intention for your life and learn how to stick to it instead of being distracted by anxiety and fear left over from the past.
Sign up for the workshop and get started living the life you choose today!
This is one of the required courses for Forward-Facing® Health and Wellness Coaching.

Forward-Facing Me Facilitator Training
2022-07-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom Virtual Event
Many of you want to offer Forward-Facing Me in your communities, and we now have a mini-certification to allow you to do so!
*This certification training is for those who are Certified Health and Wellness Coaches or currently in the process of becoming certified.

Forward-Facing® Face to Face: An Approach to Optimal Performance
2022-07-14 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom Virtual Event
A Forward-Facing® Approach to Optimal Performance
When I was 11 years old, I tried out for junior league baseball. I did not make the team. It was devastating for me because I had played first string catcher and batted third in the lineup since I was eight. However, the tryouts were held the year after my parents had finalized an acrimonious divorce and I was bounced between my two parents multiple times during that year. During the tryouts, I was in the outfield and one of the coaches hit a high fly ball right to me. I was, at first, excited about catching it and redeeming myself for the poor playing I had demonstrated thus far during the tryouts. As soon as the ball was in the air, I instinctually perfectly positioned myself directly under where the ball was going to drop. However, during the three seconds the ball fell toward me I had a rapidly intensifying physiological threat response that had me double, triple, quadruple thinking my position and increasingly doubting my skills. I can still feel remnant waves of the shame I felt when the ball landed with a “plop” four inches next to my foot—can still hear the laughter of the other kids watching me fail.
How many of you can find similar experiences from your own past? Like taking an exam where you knew the material but could not recall the answers when you read the questions? Performing in front of an audience something you rehearsed many times previous and were competent when practicing but “choked” during the performance. Or getting the yips when you were competing in a sport, game or contest and finding your skills temporarily—but profoundly—diminished?
Are you interested in learning how to prevent these lapses in motor and cognitive functioning? Would you like to be able to intentionally dial-in optimal performance no matter the activity? How about being able to walk into high-demand situations and bring your confidence with you?
Well then join me at 5pm MST on June 23, 2022 as I discuss using the Forward-Facing® process to help us all perform better with less effort and greater comfort.
You will learn:

How and why “choking” and the “yips” happen – especially at the most inopportune times;
How to get to and remain in optimal performance (i.e., “flow”) on purpose;
Learn how to “psych yourself down” for optimization;
Develop skills for mitigating shame and getting back on your own team after “failure”;
How to have a little grace and laugh at ourselves.

Forward-Facing Professional Resilience Coach and Consultant
2022-05-22 16:30 - 18:00
Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience was designed for people dedicated to serving others without burning out.
Get training in one of the few evidence-based protocols for treating compassion fatigue and become a….
Certified Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience Coach

Become skilled, competent and authorized to offer the Accelerated Recovery Program for Compassion Fatigue/Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience—Individual to clients in your private therapy or coaching practice.

Certified Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience Consultant

Get the rights, skills and support to offer the Forward-Facing® Freedom workshop in both open-enrollment and consultant contexts. Also receive coaching for implementing agency-wide resiliency programs for medium-to-large organizations in healthcare, business and industry, education, law enforcement, and any service industry.

Our Training Structure:
You can become a Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience Coach through our two-part training structure:

Program Schedule:

Meet and Greet

May 22nd

Coach

June, 5th, 12th, 19, 26
July 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st,
Aug 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
Sept: 11th, 18th, 25th,

Consultant

Oct 3rd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th
Nov 6th, 13th, 20th,
Dec 4th

Forward-Facing Professional Resilience LIVE training

Dec 9th

Daytime Alumni Group
2022-05-04 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom Virtual Event
Prerequisite for this group is to have completed Forward-Facing® ME: Personal Engagement Group.

Evening Alumni Group
2022-05-03 17:00 - 18:15, 2022-04-26 17:00 - 18:15 | Zoom Virtual Event

Art and Science of Forward-Facing® Coaching
2022-04-29 08:30 - 15:00 | Zoom Virtual Event
This live online course provides participants with the knowledge and skill required to be a Forward-Facing® Coach for Health and Wellness.
Modules:

What is Coaching? – Defining Forward-Facing® Coaching within the broader coaching industry.
Coaching Ethics – We’ll take you through the Forward-Facing® Ethical Code and offer guidance on how to have both a therapy practice and coaching practice within legal bounds.
Client Eligibility – Determining which clients are a good fit for Forward-Facing® Coaching and how to refer out when necessary.
3-Session Structure – We’ll walk you through the first 3 sessions, which educational content to include and how to work with clients to both learn and apply the Forward-Facing® process.
Integrating Forward-Facing® Competencies into Coaching – How to use your own Forward-Facing® process to be an effective coach.

Resources:

6-hours of live instruction with discussion groups
Comprehensive Coaching Manual
Step-by-step instructions on how to walk clients though every document and assessment
Fillable PDFs for the client, streamlining the intake process
Standardized three-session protocol
Example videos for coaches
Discussion prompts and tips for discussion
In-depth materials covering “Special situations” such as making referrals, suicidality, boundaries, etc.
