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The ultimate bucket list cruise. Bora Bora, Moorea, the Tuamotu atolls—eleven all-inclusive nights aboard the intimate m/s Paul Gauguin. Practical CME you'll use the week you're home.

April 15–26, 2028

Social CBT & GriefWork

Super earlybird tuition $1,495 CAD (tax-free)

Overview

CBT Canada is pleased to present a Tahiti CME Cruise from April 15–26, 2028 aboard m/s Paul Gauguin—a 332-guest luxury ship purpose-built to glide through the shallow lagoons and intimate ports of French Polynesia. Three dining venues, an onboard watersports marina, and nearly 70% of staterooms with private balconies. Named Best Small Cruise by Condé Nast Traveler two years running. This is the ship that belongs here—and the only one designed to take you where larger ships cannot go.

Your eleven-night voyage begins in Tahiti and crosses to the Tuamotu Archipelago—Fakarava, a UNESCO Marine Biosphere Reserve, and Rangiroa, one of the world's largest atolls and home to French Polynesia's celebrated black pearl farms. Then the Society Islands unfold: the archaeological treasures of Huahine, the sacred island of Raiatea with its UNESCO-listed marae, a day on Paul Gauguin's private islet Motu Mahana off the coast of Taha'a, a double overnight beneath the peaks of Bora Bora, an overnight in Moorea, and a final evening in Tahiti. This is the bucket list.

Staterooms are priced per couple (two guests) in US dollars. All fares are fully all-inclusive—drinks, unlimited WiFi, and gratuities are included:

• Balcony Stateroom (Deck 7) — $18,444 USD
• Balcony Stateroom (Deck 6) — $18,192 USD
• Window Stateroom (Deck 4) — $14,286 USD
• Porthole Stateroom (Deck 3) — $12,414 USD

Canadian dollar equivalents depend on the exchange rate at time of booking. Arlene can provide a current CAD quote.

Space is limited—Paul Gauguin carries a fraction of the passengers of a conventional cruise ship, and our group block is small. All bookings must be made with Arlene at vacation@cbt.ca or phone (877.466.8228 x 333). Book now for the best cabin selection.

See below for CME, itinerary, and ship details...

The CME

The CME pairs two complementary modules—one that looks outward at the relationships that sustain us, and one that looks inward at the losses that shape us.

Social CBT 
Tactical Tools to Boost Belonging

Loneliness is sometimes called “the new smoking.” When chronic, it erodes both emotional and physical health. You see it every day: the quiet desperation in your patients’ eyes. Many use your office as their primary social connection. The burden is often heavy and heartbreaking.

Social CBT offers a powerful antidote—dozens of proven strategies to guide your patients toward deeper connections and a more fulfilling life. Major topics include the ten-minute couples counseling package, helping patients overcome social anxiety, and complex adult sibling dynamics. Special topics include the scientific determinants of friendship, the trap of co-rumination, research on emotional contagion, the emotion of hurt, relations with individuals with antisocial personality disorder, the horror of ostracism, and retirement anxiety. Upon completing this module, you will also have practical tools to improve your own relationships with friends, colleagues, and loved ones.

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GriefWork 
Growing from Life’s Inevitable Losses

Losses happen. Historically, it was the wisdom traditions—religion and philosophy—that provided comfort. Today psychology helps too: the utterly universal experience of loss has spawned much excellent scientific research. This module teaches the CBT tools that are highest in impact and practicality, assuming your appointments are brief and averaging ten minutes.

Topics include the DSM-5-TR’s new Prolonged Grief Disorder, distinguishing bereavement from depression, the evidence-based model that replaced Kübler-Ross, concrete tools that boost compliance in the bereaved, how to facilitate forgiveness as a clinical intervention, escaping the “sunk cost trance” that keeps patients trapped in relationships and careers past their best-before dates, moral injuries, easing the fear of death, and guiding patients toward post-traumatic growth—not wishful thinking, but a deeply meaningful and well-documented possibility.

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One module arms you for the loneliest patients in your practice, and the other arms you for the ones carrying the heaviest grief.

Cruise itinerary

Port details (coming soon)

The ship

Introducing m/s Paul Gauguin, a 332-guest luxury ship purpose-built to navigate the shallow lagoons and intimate ports of French Polynesia—places larger ships simply cannot reach. Named Best Small Cruise by Condé Nast Traveler two years running, with a crew-to-guest ratio of 1:1.5 and nearly 70% of staterooms featuring private balconies. This is not a floating resort. This is the South Pacific, delivered the way it was meant to be experienced.

Three dining venues are included in your fare. L’Etoile, the main dining room, offers exquisitely prepared multi-course dinners with complimentary wine pairings each evening. La Veranda serves buffet breakfast and lunch with ocean views, then transforms into a reservation-only restaurant at night. Le Grill, poolside on Deck 8, handles casual breakfasts and lunches, afternoon tea, and Polynesian specialties at dinner. Twenty-four-hour room service is complimentary—including selections from L’Etoile during regular dining hours.

Every voyage is accompanied by Les Gauguins and Les Gauguines—a troupe of Tahitian hosts who live aboard the ship and bring Polynesian culture to life through dance, music, storytelling, and hands-on craft demonstrations. Le Grand Salon hosts evening performances ranging from traditional ote’a dance to live piano music and crew shows. The Piano Bar is where most evenings begin and end. La Palette, the open-air lounge on Deck 8, is the place for nightcaps and dancing under the stars.

The onboard watersports marina is a genuine differentiator—a retractable platform at sea level offering complimentary kayaking, paddleboarding, and snorkeling gear for the duration of your cruise. Optional PADI-certified SCUBA diving excursions are available at multiple ports. On select days, the ship anchors at Paul Gauguin’s private islet Motu Mahana off the coast of Taha’a, with white-sand beaches, a floating bar, a barbecue feast, and Polynesian hospitality. In Bora Bora, the ship provides access to an exclusive private beach on a motu off the coast.

The Algotherm Spa offers massage, reflexology, body wraps, facials, and an overwater massage on Motu Mahana. The fitness centre includes treadmills, stair climbers, and weight machines, plus a morning mile-long walk around Decks 8 and 9 and a sunrise Polynesian-inspired Zumba class led by Les Gauguines.

Everything is included: all meals, select wines and spirits, beer, soft drinks, bottled water, WiFi, entertainment, watersports equipment, snorkel gear, and onboard gratuities. Your stateroom refrigerator is replenished daily. There is no nickel-and-diming on this ship.

m/s Paul Gauguin was built in Saint-Nazaire, France, and has sailed French Polynesia year-round since 1998. No other ship knows these waters better. None ever will.

Meet your instructor 

About CBT Canada

CBT Canada won the National CME Program Award from the CFPC for providing "exceptional learning experiences", and was the first organization authorized by the CFPC to provide three-credits-per-hour CME. One accreditation reviewer wrote, "Two words: superlative & exemplary".

CBT Canada has given over 100 workshops in collaboration with medical schools, including Dal, McGill, McMaster, Memorial, Queen's, UofA, UBC, UofC, Université de Montréal, UofS, the University of Toronto, and Western.

Over 10,000 physicians have been trained by CBT Canada over the past 30 years. Alumni include national and provincial CFPC presidents, department chairs, residency program directors—and even a few doctors who are comfortable juggling drills & saws. Read their endorsements.