Social CBT

Tactical tools to boost belonging

Next session:  Wed, Apr 8, 2026 (12:00PM–3:30PM Eastern)

Earlybird deadline:  Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 5:00PM Eastern

Higher social intelligence = a happier & healthier life 

Loneliness is sometimes called "the new smoking". When chronic, it erodes both emotional and physical health.

You see it every day: the quiet desperation of loneliness in your patients' eyes. The loneliness epidemic drives many to use your office as their primary social connection. The burden is often heavy & heartbreaking.

Social CBT offers a powerful antidote, with dozens of proven strategies, to guide your patients to deeper connections and a more fulfilling life. Upon completing this module, you'll also have many more practical tools to improve your own relationship with friends, colleagues, and loved ones. 

Other major topics in this Social CBT module include the ten-minute couples counseling package, helping patients (and others) 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"; "friendshifts"; the emotion of hurt; the portfolio analysis tool; relations with individuals with antisocial personality disorder (AsPD); the horror of ostracism; the research on the timing of residential moves on children; and retirement anxiety. 

Those updating their social intelligence have a happier and healthier life. As the Roman philosopher Cicero (106BC–43BC) wrote in his classic treatise Laelius de Amicitia (On Friendship):

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery,
by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." 

Head instructor Greg Dubord, MD is the CME Director of CBT Canada, and the prime developer of medical CBT. He has presented over 500 workshops, including over 50 for the College of Family Physicians of Canada, and is a University of Toronto CME Teacher of the Year.

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Sponsors of CBT Canada's workshops have included the CFPC, 
Dalhousie, McGill, McMaster, Memorial, Queen's, UAlberta, 
UBC, UCalgary, UdeM, USask, UToronto, and Western (UWO).

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If you ever need to cancel your registration for any reason whatsoever, you may transfer 100% of your tuition to another workshop without any penalty, or receive a full refund minus a 25% processing fee (policy). 

*  Very relaxed but very applicable... this was a good one.  —Cornelius Petrus van Tonder, MD (Sexsmith, AB)  

*  Many ideas and pearls, helping me think differently about relationships, including my own... these workshops are helping me feel wiser & more capable when it comes to helping patients.  —Loraine Manzig, MD, CCFP, FCFP (Toronto, ON)  

*  Great topics, great faculty. Very relevant to my busy practice.  
—Merajuddin Shams, MD, CCFP, FCFP (North York, ON)  

*  It's the perfect combination--a workshop to help the physician and then for the physician to help the patient.  —Nancy Tozer, MD, CCFP (Pointe-Claire, QC)  
*  Honest, perceptive, and helpful--and backed up with studies--and refreshingly funny. Beneficial for my career and my personal life.  —Fiona Coleman, MD, CCFP, FCFP (Victoria, BC)  

*  I now have more effective strategies to help patients with struggles.  —Matt Butler, MD, CCFP, FCFP (Mount Pearl, NL)  

*  A fun & helpful topic.  —Shirley van der Merwe, MD (Calgary, AB)  

*  I'm now better able to help many more patients.  —Doris Hessenthaler, MD, CCFP, FCFP (Calgary, AB)  

*  I'll now be spending less time empathizing with the same complaint over and over, and instead I'll be guiding patients towards actionable behaviours to achieve their goals.  —Christa McPherson, MD, CCFP (Canmore, AB)  

*  Practical tips to deal with common issues.  —Christopher Breneman, MD, CCFP, FCFP (Hamiota, MB)  

*  A great program... 10 out of 10.  —Edward Vaughan, MD (North Bay, ON)  

*  The presenter is an excellent conveyor of information.  —Bobby Esbin, MD (Scarborough, ON)  

*  Packed with information & suggestions, and research to validate it all... I'll have fewer needy annoying patients with a chronic issue... lots of insights here even of personal use.  —Monika Schwab-Lang, MD, CCFP, FCFP (Burlington, ON)  

*  Dynamic, engaging style. Nice mix of quotes, pictures, videos, and take home points. This should be a standard part of training—it would have been very helpful to get this earlier on. It's always useful CME time with CBT Canada.  —Peter Hooley, MD, CCFP (Stratford, PE)  

* Great information as always with an amazingly personable speaker who injects some humor and keeps it real. I'll have less fatigue dealing with the same patient complaints over & over—and better outcomes. As always a very enjoyable workshop. Thank you Greg for your ongoing commitment to physician and patient mental health. I am grateful to have been to many workshops over the years. You are awesome!!!  —Krista Bradley, MD, CCFP, FCFP (Kamloops, BC)  

*  I found this workshop really interesting, informative and fun... I will be signing up for other courses.  —Faeza Jhaveri, MD, CCFP (Waterloo, ON)  

*  Insightful & practical.  —Hong Phuc Tran-Le, MD (Montreal, QC)  

*  I last did a module a long time ago, around 2008. I wish I'd done many more in between!  —Amanda Pendergast, MD, CCFP, FCFP (St. John's, NL)  

*  Concise and practical... I'll have less frustration... Kudos again for the CBT team!  —Lily Toma, MD, CCFP, FCFP (Calgary, AB)  

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