Forgiveness Matters: Empowering Professionals to Facilitate Healing and Self-Forgiveness

CEU Creations Signature Series presents:
Forgiveness Matters: Empowering Professionals to Facilitate Healing and Self-Forgiveness

FEATURING:

• An expert lineup on the topic of self-forgiveness
• Practical strategies and resources

EVENT INFO:

Friday, June 6, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern time

COST:

Early Bird Registration: $74.99
After May 23rd registration is $99.99
Unlimited CE Bundle Member – Free

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:

Social Workers
ASWB ACE – 5 General CE credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 5 Contact hours
Psychologists
APA – 5 CE credits
Counselors –
NBCC ACEP – 5 Contact Hours
NY State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 5 Contact Hours
Substance Abuse Counselors
NAADAC – 5 Contact hours
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing – 5 Contact Hours
Case Managers
CCMC – 5 Contact Hours

Attendance or applied credit certificate available for other credentials.
Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credits.

Target Audience: Social workers, psychologists, counselors, nurses, and case managers

Counseling Skill Group:
4. Counseling Services

OVERVIEW:

Forgiveness Matters: Empowering Professionals to Facilitate Healing and Self-Forgiveness is a transformative training designed to provide helping professionals with practical tools and insights to assist their clients in achieving self-forgiveness. This session will guide you through a clear definition of self-forgiveness and introduce the Four Rs – Responsibility, Remorse, Restoration, and Renewal – offering specific interventions for each. Enhance your theoretical understanding with a presentation on the Stress-and-Coping Theory of Forgiveness and be inspired by Sarah Montana’s powerful personal story. Gain valuable skills to help your clients break free from guilt and shame, fostering improved mental health, stronger relationships, and greater self-acceptance. Sign up now to support your clients on their journey to self-forgiveness and healing.

OBJECTIVES:

By attending our workshop, you will be able to:

• Define forgiveness and distinguish between “decisional forgiveness,” which involves letting go of resentment and anger, and “emotional forgiveness,” which replaces negative emotions with positive ones and provides significant health benefits.
• Examine the health and relational benefits of emotional forgiveness, including reduced stress and its associated health risks, and the role of decisional forgiveness in repairing relationships.
• Define self-forgiveness in a way that helps direct work with people who are seeking to forgive themselves for hurting others.
• Describe each of the Four Rs of Self-Forgiveness: Responsibility, Remorse, Restoration, and Renewal.
• Identify at least one intervention to help promote each of the Four Rs.

AGENDA (all times are Eastern):

8:45-9:00 Log in and Networking
9:00-11:00 Theory and Supporting Research: Stress-and-Coping Theory of Forgiveness, Everett Worthington, Jr. PhD
11:00-11:10 Break
11:10-12:10 Personal Perspectives on Forgiveness: A True Story of Survival and Forgiveness, Sarah Montana, WGA Screenwriter, Writer, and Public Speaker
12:10-12:50 Lunch
12:50-3:00 The Path to Self-Forgiveness: Navigating the Four Rs to Heal and Move Forward, Nathaniel Wade, PhD (includes a 10-minute break)

PRESENTERS BIO:

Everett L. Worthington, Jr., PhD

Everett L. Worthington, Jr., PhD, is commonwealth professor emeritus working from the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he holds an affiliate appointment. He also holds a faculty affiliate appointment at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (Human Flourishing Program). He continues to be active in research and speaking around the world. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in Virginia. He has published over 48 books and over 500 articles and scholarly chapters, mostly on forgiveness, humility and positive psychology, marriage and family topics, and religion and spirituality. He also has developed the REACH Forgiveness model (see www.EvWorthington-forgiveness.com for free resources), which is supported by over 30 published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and has recently been tested in global grant-funded RCTs in five countries (six sites; N = 4,598), although the results have not been published yet. He has developed numerous other positive psychological interventions.

Personal interests: He ballroom dances and competes in pickleball singles and doubles. He and his spouse, Kirby, have been married since 1970.

Sarah Montana

WGA Screenwriter, Writer, and Public Speaker

Sarah Montana is a WGA screenwriter, writer, and public speaker. She has written several screenplays for the Hallmark Channel, including “Rescuing Christmas,” “Love to the Rescue,” “A New Year’s Resolution,” and the Christopher Award winning “Two Turtle Doves.” Her play “The Girl, The Ghosts, and the Minotaur” won the Life Jacket Theater Company’s Proof of Concept Reading Series

She is a sought-after public speaker about resilience, trauma, and forgiveness, which has led to speaking engagements at TEDx, women’s conferences, corporate retreats, colleges, and podcasts. Her viral talk “What Shapes You Can’t Break You” (view on YouTube or Goalcast) was featured on Goalcast and now has tens of millions of views. Her TEDx talk “Why Forgiveness is Worth It” is featured on TED.com, has received millions of views, and has been incorporated into college curriculums and therapeutic practices.

She is a Gateless Writing Method certified teacher and teaches students of all ages how to fall in love with the creative process. She’s also a representative for film/TV/streaming on the WGA East Council. Stay in touch with her at facebook.com/sarahmontanawriter.

Nathaniel G. Wade, PhD

Iowa State University

Following his undergrad graduation, Dr. Wade worked for four years as an addictions counselor in both an abstinence-based agency and a methadone clinic. He then went to graduate school for counseling psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He finished his PhD in 2003 and joined the Iowa State faculty that same year. He is now associate chair and professor of psychology at Iowa State and founding director of Network Community Counseling Services. He is a licensed psychologist in the state of Iowa and a certified group psychotherapist.

Nathaniel’s research interests center on the processes and outcomes of psychotherapy. Specifically, he has worked to develop and test interventions to promote forgiveness, to understand the impact of integrating religion and spirituality into psychotherapy, and to reduce the stigma associated with seeking counseling. His most recent interest is integrating exercise into psychotherapy. He has published three edited books, over 100 scholarly articles and chapters, and has received over 7 million in grant funding. He is an APA fellow of two divisions: Group Psychology and Psychotherapy, and the Society of Counseling Psychology.

When not working, he enjoys spending time with family, hiking in the mountains of New England, listening to podcasts and audiobooks while working outside, and playing soccer each week with the “over-the-hill” crowd.

COURSE PARTICIPATION INFORMATION:

To ensure you are ready to participate, please complete a short Test Drive on Zoom.

This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussions. A computer or mobile device is required. Zoom account is not required.

You will receive a reminder email approximately 24 hours prior to the start of the training and a link to join the webinar will be in your CEU Creations account under Member Profile.

To receive credit, you must log in on time, attend the entire presentation, and complete an online evaluation.

POST EVENT: When the training ends, your attendance will be processed using Zoom analytics. Once processed, the evaluation link will be available in your account. Once your evaluation is complete, your certificate will be available in your CEU Creations account within 24-72 hours. A certificate will not be issued unless the evaluation is complete.

Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions.

FINE PRINT

SOCIAL WORKERS: CEU Creations, #1239, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/24-11/22/27. Social workers completing this course receive 5 General continuing education credits.
CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0616. This activity is approved for 5 Contact hours. 

PSYCHOLOGISTS: 5 CE Credits
CEU Creations is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CEU Creations maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 
 
COUNSELORS: 5 Contact hours
 CEU Creations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6941. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  CEU Creations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0199. This activity is approved for 5 Contact hours. 

SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELORS:  This course has been approved by CEU Creations, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 5 CEs. NAADAC Provider # 324725, CEU Creations is responsible for all aspects of its programming. 
 
NURSES: 5 Contact hours. CEU Creations is an approved provider of nursing CEs through the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider number: CEP17905. All states retain their own licensing authority through their own boards. Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure transferability of the CE credits. 

Cancellation Policy: Registrants must cancel their registration in their CEU Creations account. No email, faxes, or mail cancellations will be accepted. Cancellation fee: $25. Refunds will not be given for cancellations within five (5) business days prior to the workshop date.  

Accessibility Accommodations: At CEU Creations, we are dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible experience for all individuals. We strive to ensure our continuing education content, website, and services are usable by everyone, regardless of ability. We are continually working to enhance accessibility and user experience for all of our users. If you encounter any barriers, have questions, or wish to request accommodations, please don’t hesitate to reach out. You can contact us at [email protected] and a member of our team will review your message and respond promptly.

Event Cancellation and Rescheduling Policy: In the event that CEU Creations cancels or reschedules an event, registered participants will be given the option to receive a full refund, a credit toward a different event of the same value, or to transfer their registration to the rescheduled date.