I was actually looking for free yoga classes, and found that there are hundreds of them on eventbrite (set location to "online," set price to only free offerings). My family and I have done a few classes and have found them to be pretty solid. Many of the classes are one-time offerings from healthcare organizations and community centers. Some are organizations that look a bit culty, but I'm able to look past that for a free class where I can log right off at the end and don't have to engage in small talk.
One of the yoga classes I found was for professionals, and mentioned CEUs. I assumed that they would be CEUs for one of the professions that doesn't require formal approval, but was surprised to see that the organization offers NAADAC CEUs, which is an NBCC-approved provider. The organization is Aliya Academy, and they have a number of different free trainings offering 1 CEU each. Most of them are focused on those who have substance use disorders, as this is the organization's mission.
If you've read my blog before, you know my feeling about CEUs: There is nothing in place to assess whether clinicians are actually engaging in relevant learning and applying it to our work. CEU credits do not accomplish this goal. Those of us who are committed to practicing ethically and effectively are constantly engaged in learning through keeping up on research and listening to experiences of marginalized people, and our participation in formal CEU courses is pretty immaterial. CEUs are just a formality we must go through, most of the available courses are massively overpriced yet contain outdated and disturbingly biased content, so we might as well go with free CEUs of potentially questionable quality. I personally get my actual continuing education by reading and watching content from autistic and other disabled folks, former foster youth, systems-involved parents, people affected by carceral systems, and so forth. I get my CEU credits by attending Zoom workshops that explain what ADHD or depression is –– usually badly, with a white-middle class bias, and with no content from folks with the conditions –– and wonder how there are licensed clinicians who do not already know this material.
William James College is also hosting a free Zoom CEU workshop on stalking behavior in autistic folks. It doesn't appear to have any content from actual autistic folks, so I'm skeptical, but it's free. It's worth signing up for their CEU e-mails, as they frequently have free ones. A few have actually been quite good and have been largely based on lived experience, while others have been typically poor-quality CEUs of things that people should already know.
[Usual disclaimer that I am not affiliated with these organizations. I have no experience with Aliya Academy and minimal experience with WJC. I am not specifically endorsing the trainings. I post free and low-cost CEUs I encounter for the reasons stated above.]
