Empowered Relief is a durable 2-hour intervention for ongoing, recurrent and surgical pain developed by Beth Darnall, a Pain Psychologist Stanford at University School of Medicine.

1. Apply the manualized Empowered Relief program to individuals or groups of patients/clients.
2. Identify how pain is amplified or inhibited by psychological factors including cognitions and emotions.
3. Demonstrate how maladaptive cognitive and emotional patterns are related to chronic and recurrent pain.
4. Teach clients how to identify their automatic, unhelpful pain responses (physiologic, cognitive, emotional).
5. Apply key tools to repattern and reshape the brain away from structural changes that commonly occur with chronic pain.
6. Demonstrate advanced relaxation methods that include sound patterns that shift the focus away from pain-related distress, and serve to encode calming in the nervous system.
7. Apply cognitive-behavioral methods that reduce pain by repatterning automatic, unhelpful thoughts.
8. Guide clients to tailor the Empowered Relief content to devise a Personalized Plan for Empowered Relief that supports sustainable pain relief.
9. Demonstrate the use of the Empowered Relief toolkit that includes the 2-hour class, the Personalized Plan, and a calming audio App that clients can integrate into their personalized plan.
10. Apply Self-management Tools to optimize pain control and reduce the burden of pain including effectiveness of various types of chronic pain and post-surgical pain.
11. Describe how Empowered Relief can be combined with medical treatment, and how it supports medical and surgical outcomes.

• Pain and Stress: they each engage the same psychological and physiological systems.
• Pain-Related Distress: learn how pain can drive negative cognitive-affective responses to anticipated or actual pain including fear, anxiety, helplessness, rumination, anger, and depression.
• How Chronic Pain Can Alter the Brain: the role of neurotoxic stress-related hormones, inflammation that can rewire neurocircuits that can produce pain amplification.
• Shaping the Brain Toward Pain Relief: the brain can be retrained to extinguish automatic, unhelpful thoughts and cultivate helpful cognitive and physiologic response patterns that suppress pain, reduce apprehension, regulate moods adaptively, and reduce reactive states of fear.
• Deploying Advanced Relaxation Methods: how altering sensory perception can shift awareness away from pain.
• Applying Pain-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Tools: how patients can be taught to recognize distressing thoughts and emotions, how pain creates specific forms of cognitive distortions and ways to reframe them that can lead to meaningful change.
• Teaching Mindfulness Pain Reduction: via sound (Calming Tool App): a method that leverages binaural technology to cultivate, presentcentered and nonjudmental mindset.
• Managing Recurrent Pain: teaching forethought and an action plain to enable the client to anticipate and manage unexpected flareups.
• Implementing a Personalized Pain-Management Plan: daily activities including personalized self-soothing actions to produce sustainable pain relief.

Beth Darnall, PhD is Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she directs the Stanford Pain Relief Innovations Lab. Her pain treatment research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Her work involves brief, digital, scalable and home-based analgesic interventions. She is creator of Empowered Relief, an evidence-based one-session skills-based intervention for acute/surgical pain and chronic pain that is delivered in 25 countries and seven languages.
Visit https://youtu.be/YhLbUqlUlr0 to watch Dr. Darnall’s fascinating discussion of the Empowered Relief treatment.

Kristen M. Slater, PsyD, has specialized training in Clinical and Health Psychology. She did postdoctoral work in pain medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, is a Certified ER® instructor and has assisted Dr. Darnall in providing training programs on Empowered Relief since 2020.

Marie C. Weil, Psy.D., ABPP is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology and has specialized training in behavioral health. Dr. Weil is a certified ER® instructor and has provided training programs with Dr. Darnall on Empowered Relief at Stanford University since 2022.

Day 1: Monday, September 25, 2023 (Pacific Time)
8:30 am	90 min	Scientific Background
10:00 am	15 min	Break
10:15 am	60 min	Scientific Background + Questions
11:15 am	30 min	Outline Treatment Manual + Materials
11:45 am	60 min	Lunch
12:45 pm	15 min	Convene for Demo Patient Class
1:00 pm	120 min	Empowered Relief® Patient Class
3:00 pm	30 min	Open Patient Q&A
3:30 pm	20 min	Break
3:50 pm	70 min	Review and Preview
Day 2: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 (Pacific Time)
10:00 am	60 min	Remaining Scientific Content
11:00 am	15 min	Break
11:15 am	75 min	Guidelines for Effective Instruction and Interaction
12:30 pm	60 min	Lunch
1:30 pm	100 min	Skill Building and Guest Faculty
3:10 pm	20 min	Break
3:30 pm	75 min	Presentations
4:15 pm	45 min	Certification and Adjournment

• Deliver Empowered Relief (ER)
• Demonstrations: experience how ER works
• Faculty Supervised Peer-to-Peer Skills Practice: how to deliver ER
• Instructional Information
• Manual: clear, user-friendly guidelines for providing the 2-hour ER treatment
• Communication Skills: clear explanations, claims about ER, and disclaimers
• Slides: user-friendly guidelines for presenting the 2-hour treatment
• Promotional Brochure: how to promote your practice
• Distance-Based Delivery of ER: how to offer ER using Zoom
• Treating Selected Pain Conditions: guidelines for acute pain versus chronic pain
• Research Articles: articles supporting the use of ER and related research discoveries
• Ongoing Support: receive free bi-monthly instructor implementation information
• Certification: qualification to practice ER and suitable for framing

• Group Registration: The discount is for two or more guests enrolling together prior to the workshop date. Please complete a separate registration form for each person.
• Confirmations and Material: Confirmation notices are emailed or mailed. Workshop materials will be picked up onsite.
• Unable to Attend? You have two options: 1) Receive a full-value voucher for a future Empowered Relief program, or 2) Request a refund minus a $50 fee. Refund requests should be made in writing or by e-mail at refund@ibpceu.com.
• Rescheduling: In the unlikely event a seminar cannot be held (e.g., unforeseeable Covid restrictions), it will be rescheduled. No IBP seminar has ever been canceled as the result of low attendance.
• CE Certificates and Confirmations: Certificates of completion for 12 hours of CE Credit are mailed after workshop adjournment; successful completion includes full attendance on both days, submission of the evaluation form, and receiving a passing score of 70% on the post-test. No partial credit is given.
• Certification: Attend the workshop, complete a multiple choice exam, and a workshop evaluation.
• Recertification: At the conclusion of two years, Certified practitioners will provide an electronic form that will be used to identify information that will be used to verify the scope, effectiveness, and client-related response to the treatment. Participants will receive advances in the application of ER. It is anticipated that the tuition for recertification will be nominal.
• FAQ: For frequently asked questions about this program, please visit www.ibpceu.com/ERfaq

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