2026 Annual Workshop & Conference at the Fairmont Château Whistler

The Fairmont Chateau Whistler is now taking reservations for our 2026 Workshop & Conference!

There are two options to book under our preferred event rate:

• Online: https://book.passkey.com/go/CATAPO1026 
  
• By Phone: call the Global Reservations Centre at 1-800-441-1414. Callers should identify themselves as being part of the CATAP 2026, or CATAPO1026 in order to receive the group rates.

The preferred rate is available to all guests up to 3 days prior to the start of the event and 3 days post conclusion of the event.

Please note the following Fairmont policies regarding additional mandatory fees the hotel will charge for each booking on top of daily rate:

Resort Experience Fee

The Fairmont will charge an additional mandatory daily Resort Experience Fee of $30.00 CAD per room, plus applicable taxes, which is not included in applicable room rates.

This daily Resort Experience Fee covers:

• Whistler Village Shuttle Service
  
• Fairmont Hotel Car Service
  
• Unlimited Business Internet Access in guest rooms and public spaces, plus Local Calls (ALL Members receive Premium Internet Access)
  
• Personal Protection Equipment Kit including mask, bacteria wipes, hand sanitizer, and gloves (available upon request)
  
• Ski, Bike and Golf Club Valet Service
  
• Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
  
• Daily Yoga Classes
  
• In room yoga equipment (available upon request)
  
• Local Escorted Excursions with our exclusive Whistler Experience Guides
  
• Seasonal Sports Items (including: croquet, bocce ball, frisbees, soccer balls, footballs, toboggans, frisbee golf discs, life jackets)
  
• Access to Peloton Bikes and Online Programming
  
• Aqua Fitness Classes
  
• Pool Amenities (sunscreen, fruit, iced water, tea and coffee)
  
• Seasonal Holiday Programming
  
• Access to Rungo, an online local running and walking routes program
  
• Lobby Early Departure Coffee & Tea 5:00 a.m. PST – 7:00 a.m. PST
  
• Personalized Shoe Shine
  
• Fairmont Chateau Whistler Kids Treasure Hunt Map
  
• Selection of Board Games, Card Games and Books for children and adults
  
• Outdoor tennis and equipment (seasonal)
  
• Unlimited access to Fairmont Chateau Whistler Golf Club's Driving Range (seasonal)

The Fairmont will post the mandatory daily fee, plus applicable taxes, in the same billing arrangements manner as requested for applicable room and tax charges. This fee may change from time to time without notice.

Housekeeping Surcharge
The Fairmont will charge an additional mandatory daily Housekeeping Surcharge of $5.00 CAD per room, plus applicable taxes, for Housekeeping services, of which $4.50 CAD is a gratuity that is distributed to the housekeeping team and the remaining $0.50 CAD is retained entirely by the Hotel (and not distributed as wages, tips or gratuities to any Hotel employee). We will post the mandatory daily surcharge, plus applicable taxes, in the same billing arrangements manner as requested for applicable room and tax charges. This surcharge may change from time to time without notice.

We are pleased to announce our Call for Speakers and Posters for the 2026 CATAP Workshop (October 25 & 26) and Conference (October 27-29) at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort in Whistler, British Columbia. Online registration is open! 

To submit a proposal, please complete our google form HERE.

We are pleased to announce the 2-day Foundational Workshop for our 2026 event!

Structured Professional Judgement: Teams, Tools, and the Death of ipse dixit 

Facilitated by Dr. Reid Meloy, PhD & Molly Amman, JD, CTM

This 2-day workshop held October 25-26 at the outset of the annual event will build on the foundational use of structured professional judgement (SPJ) instruments for behavioural threat assessment and management (BTAM). Emphasis throughout will be placed upon their use as integrated, time-sensitive maps to help guide information gathering and decisions that are made over time by the entire multidisciplinary BTAM team. Two SPJ instruments will be introduced during day one to provide the structure for this training, the Workplace Assessment of Violence Risk (WAVR-21) and the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18), both developed by Dr. Meloy and his colleagues.  

The second day of the workshop will involve the application of these structured professional judgement instruments to well known cases of grievance-fueled targeted violence in the workplace and ideologically motivated targeted violence in the community.  Methods of teaching will include didactics, large group discussion, video interviews of such perpetrators, and the gaming of a real time practice scenario.

Our Facilitators:

Dr. Reid Meloy is a board-certified forensic psychologist (ABPP) and research psychoanalyst. He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, and a faculty member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and is past president of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. He has received a number of awards and honors,
including the first National Achievement Award in 1998 from the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, the Manfred Guttmacher Award from the American Psychiatric Association in 2022, and the Distinguished Contributions to Forensic Psychology Award from the American Academy of Forensic Psychology that same year. He was the Yochelson Visiting Scholar at Yale University in 2015, and Visiting Scholar at the Psychiatric University Hospital
Zurich—originally the Burgholzli Clinic--in 2018. Dr. Meloy has authored or co-authored over two hundred seventy papers published in peer-reviewed psychiatric and psychological journals, and has authored, co-authored or edited fourteen books. He has been consulting, researching and writing about personality disorder, psychopathy, stalking, narcissism, criminality, mental disorder, and targeted violence for the past thirty years.  His first book, The Psychopathic Mind (Aronson, 1988), was an integration of the biological and psychodynamic understanding of psychopathy. His co-edited book with Drs. Hoffmann and Sheridan, Stalking, Threatening and Attacking Public Figures (Oxford University Press, 2008), led to a commissioned study for the National Academy of Sciences on threats toward public figures published in 2011 (www.nap.edu). The first edition of the International Handbook of Threat Assessment was published in 2014, and the second edition in 2021 (Oxford University Press). Dr. Stephen White and he created the WAVR-21 (www.wavr21.com), a widely utilized structured professional judgment instrument for targeted workplace and campus violence, now in its third edition.

Dr. Meloy was a consultant on criminal, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism cases for the Behavioral Analysis Unit, FBI, Quantico, for twenty-four years. His counterterrorism work began when he was retained as the consulting forensic psychologist by the U.S. Attorney General in the prosecution of the defendants McVeigh and Nichols in the Oklahoma City bombing cases. He is the originator and developer of the TRAP-18 (Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol; mhs.com), a validated risk assessment instrument used by counterterrorism professionals in North America, Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. He was a member of the Fixated Research Group for the United Kingdom’s Home Office concerning threats to the Royal Family and British political figures, which led to the development of fixated threat assessment centers in multiple countries. He was also a founding associate editor of the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. Dr. Meloy is intermittently quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker magazine, and NPR. He was a technical consultant to the television series CSI from its
inception in 2000 until its final episode in 2015; and was the technical consultant to “Indivisible:
Healing Hate,” a Paramount+ six-part cable series exploring the historical roots of the Jan. 6,
2021 attack on the US Capitol.

Former FBI profiler and CATAP member Molly Amman, JD, CTM, is an internationally recognized expert in threat assessment and management. Prior to retiring from the FBI in 2020, Ms. Amman worked at the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) in Quantico, Virginia, developing her expertise and experience as a targeted violence profiler. Ms. Amman’s case work at the BAU focused on school and workplace violence, threatening communications, public figure threats, stalking and extortion, active crisis incidents, domestic terrorism, and more. Prior to joining the BAU as a profiler, Ms. Amman served as a faculty member at the FBI Academy, teaching communications, investigative interviewing, and detection of deception. She also served as a supervisor in the FBI Special Events Management Program, which managed public safety assets for crisis response and management, intelligence, and investigations in relation to major special events such as professional sports championships and Olympic games.

Ms. Amman completed numerous long-term overseas deployments to further US and allied threat mitigation and anti-radicalization efforts.  She has collaborated extensively with law enforcement and public safety partners both at home and abroad, intelligence agencies, professional organizations, members of academia, and private sector partners, in assessing threats of violence posed by individuals and groups. She has conducted training around the world, has authored several publications on topics related to threats and targeted violence, extremism, and the law, and has appeared in a number of television news and documentary projects.

After practicing law as a prosecutor, Ms. Amman joined the FBI in 1998.  Since retiring from FBI service, she is now engaged in private practice threat assessment and management focusing largely on workplace violence and domestic extremism, and previously served as the national Certification Chair for the US Association of Threat Assessment Professionals. Ms. Amman is an ongoing contributor to the body of research and knowledge in behavioral threat assessment and has authored numerous publications in the field, such as the well- known how-to guide, Making Prevention a Reality: Identifying, Assessing, and Managing The Threat Of Targeted Attacks.

We are pleased to announce the first of two 1-day advanced special topic workshops for our 2026 event!

When Community Means Cruelty: NVE Training and Case Management for Threat Assessment Professionals

Facilitated by Marc-André Argentino, PhD

This full-day workshop, delivered by the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, equips threat assessment professionals with critical knowledge of nihilistic violent extremism (NVE) and applied prevention practice.

The morning session provides an in-depth training on NVE; a convergence threat blending sadistic subculture, accelerationism, and organized cyber harassment within the "edgesphere." Participants will examine how NVE networks like 764, No Lives Matter, and emerging groups recruit and exploit vulnerable youth through platforms ranging from Discord and Telegram to Roblox. The training covers the Com network's structure, harm typologies including coerced self-harm, sextortion, and animal abuse, victim-to-perpetrator pathways, contagion dynamics behind real-world mass attacks, and the aesthetics and coded language practitioners need to recognize.

The afternoon session, delivered in collaboration with Canada Centre-funded prevention programs, focuses on applied case management. Participants will explore lessons learned from frontline intervention work, multi-sectoral collaboration models involving law enforcement, clinical services, and community partners, and best practices for diversion and disengagement in a Canadian context.

Our Facilitator:

Marc-André Argentino, PhD, is a Special Advisor and Team Leader at the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence within Public Safety Canada. In this role, he leads the Government of Canada's strategic research and analysis on emerging violent extremism threats, applying over a decade of experience in countering and mitigating threats to national security. His research interests span hybridized threats, technology exploitation by violent extremists and terrorists. Dr. Argentino holds a PhD from Concordia University's Individualized Program, where his dissertation employed a mixed-methods approach drawing on theological studies and information systems engineering. He is the author of QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement (Routledge) and co-editor of Contemporary Far-Right Culture: The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism (Routledge, 2025).

An essential Canadian voice who has emerged as an eminent violent extremism scholar and practitioner, it is our honour to welcome Marc-André Argentino, PhD as the 2026 Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals Conference Keynote. Dr. Argentino will open our annual conference with his address:

From Anomie to Atrocity: Youth Radicalization, Hybridized Harms, and the Evolving Landscape of Violent Extremism in Canada

CATAP 2026 Workshop & Conference Cancellation & Refund Policy

• For cancellation prior to October 1, 2026 - 100% Refund (Minus a 5% processing fee)
• For cancellation October 1-10, 2026 - 50% Refund (Minus a 5% processing fee)
• For cancellation after October 10, 2026 - No Refund (Minus a 5% processing fee)

If you are unable to attend but have fully paid your workshop and conference registration, attendance can be transferred to another person from your organization. Please contact us at info@catap.ca to facilitate this. All other logistics such as hotel room, flights, transportation, etc. are the full responsibility of the attendee. 

Late notice cancellation due to illness (e.g. COVID-19) must be received in writing to info@catap.ca. The attendee registration amount will then be applied to attendance at the 2027 Workshop & Conference. 

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