46th Annual Fall Institute for Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurses
Honoring the Past and Celebrating the Future

October 17th - October 19th 2025

2025 Agenda for the 46th Annual Fall Institute 

 

October 17-19, 2025    Glen Eyrie Castle, Colorado Springs, CO 

 

Fri 4:30-5:30 Registration Open – Big Horn Lodge Upper 

Fri 5:30-6:30 Dinner – Big Horn Lodge Lower 

Fri 6:45-7:00 Welcome/Announcements - Big Horn Lodge Lower 

Fri 7:00-8:30 Keynote Speaker – Big Horn Lodge Lower 

Christine Beck: Using Mindfulness as an Intervention Against Childhood  Trauma Across the Lifespan 

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Sat 7:30-8:00 Breakfast: Castle Dining Room 

Sat 8:00-9:00 Exhibits Open: Oriole Hall 

Sat 9:00-9:15 Announcements – Castle Great Hall 

Sat 9:15-10:45 Gail Dawson: Deprescribing Methods for Benzodiazepines and  Antidepressants 

Sat 10:45-11:15 Exhibits Open: Oriole Hall 

Sat 11:15-12:30  Wayne Thrash: Healing Trauma; An Integrated Multi-Modal  Approach, Part 1 – Castle Great Hall 

Sat 12:30-1:00  Exhibits Open: Oriole Hall 

Sat 1:00-1:30 Lunch – Castle Great Hall 

Sat 1:30-2:30  Lindsey Dempster: Mental illness and Evidenced Based  Treatment Approaches in the Peri/Post Natal Period. 

Sat 2:30-3:00 Exhibits Open: Oriole Hall 

Sat 3:00-4:15 Wayne Thrash: Healing Trauma; An Integrated Multi-Modal  Approach, Part 2 – Castle Great Hall 

Sat 4:15-4:30 Complete Evaluations for Keynote + 3 Speakers – Castle Great  Hall 

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Sun 7:30-8:00  Breakfast (Exhibitors invited to eat/chat with us): Castle Dining  Room 

Sun 8:00-8:45 Exhibits Open (Exhibits breakdown after 8:45): Oriole Hall 

Sun 8:45-10:15 Jessica Muniz: Missing the Cycle, Missing the Diagnosis: How  Hormones Mimic Mental Illness – Castle Great Hall 

Sun 10:15-10:30 Break – Oriole Hall 

Sun 10:30-11:30 Shari Nieman Corso: The Cardiovascular Effects of Cannabis:  Clinical Insights for Psychiatric Providers – Castle Great Hall 

Sun 11:30-11:45 Complete Evaluations for Speaker 4 + 5 + Overall Conference 

Sun 11:45-12:00 Wrap Up – Castle Great Hall