Center for Resilience Informed Therapy®

Free Community Event: Polyvagal-Informed Yoga Practice with Polyvagal Institute
2025-01-18
I will be bringing my vagus nerve yoga to a special collaborative class with the Polyvagal Institute on January 18th, 2024, 11:00am-12:00pm ET. This will be open to both my community and the Polyvagal Institute community. All are welcome, and the class is free.
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2-Day: Transform Trauma Recovery with Polyvagal Theory: Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) Certification Training
2025-01-27 - 2025-01-28, 2025-04-03 - 2025-04-04
Trauma recovery is as much about healing the body as it is the mind.
Yet, so often, the focus of healing involves retelling the story of the past without addressing the physiological imbalances that trauma leaves in its wake.
While you might recognize the value of bringing the body into trauma treatment, you might not know how to do this effectively.
Join Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, international leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma as she bridges the path of healing between the psyche and the body.
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Wisdom & Wellbeing Week 5: Trauma, Recovery and Somatic Intelligence at Blue Spirit Costa Rica
2025-02-08 08:00 - 2025-02-15 17:00 UTC
Learn from acclaimed teachers in a variety of daily workshops in your chosen week.Bessel Van Der Kolk, Richard C. Schwartz, Luis Mojica, Arielle Schwartz, Deran Young, Deborah Sandella, Deva Premal & Miten, Stephan Rechtschaffen.
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Somatic EMDR Therapy Certificate, through The Embody Lab, February 10th, 2025
2025-02-10
This program is designed for individuals, practitioners and educators who want to discover the power of a unified somatic approach to EMDR therapy to address and repair the psychological and physiological effects of trauma. When brought together these two cutting-edge modalities help process traumatic memories and reduce emotional distress, while reconnecting with the body and restoring a sense of safety and agency. In fact, according to Trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk, Somatic Therapy and EMDR Therapy are considered the best approaches for the treatment of trauma.
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2-Day Intensive Trauma Treatment Certification Workshop: EMDR, CBT and Somatic-Based Interventions to Move Clients from Surviving to Thriving
2025-02-27 09:00 - 2025-02-28 17:00 (America/Denver)
Transform your practice with this intensive 2-day Certification Workshop that will provide you with effective strategies and interventions from EMDR, CBT, somatic approaches, and narrative therapy so you can take your trauma treatment to the next level!
You’ll learn how to properly assess clients, effectively stabilize them in preparation for treatment, help them safely reprocess traumatic memories, and develop the resources they need to achieve and maintain recovery. You’ll also get detailed guidance on overcoming scenarios involving anger, resistance, and suicidality that can leave you exhausted and uncertain of how to move your most challenging clients forward.
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Parts Work and EMDR Therapy: A Powerful Integration for Your Most Challenging Cases
2025-03-04 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver)
In this innovative six-hour training, delivered across two evenings, Dr Arielle Schwartz offers a comprehensive framework for addressing these dynamics. By integrating EMDR with Parts Work therapies drawn from Gestalt, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and the Structural Dissociation model, this training equips clinicians to work effectively with challenging cases. We will explore the neurobiology of trauma and fragmentation, learn techniques to stabilise clients’ emotional arousal, and develop strategies to engage parts safely and productively.
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Trauma, Attach(e)ment & Resilience Summit with Quantum Way
2025-03-13
The Trauma, Attach(e)ment & Resilience Summit is back for an equally stimulating, enriching and transformative 2025 edition. Whether you’re a healthcare professional, a psychotherapist, or simply passionate about psychology and well-being, this event is the essential annual gathering to discover and explore the latest advances in the field of trauma, attachment and resilience.
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Post-Traumatic Growth: Mind-Body Tools to Foster Resilience and Awaken to your Potential at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas
2025-03-17 08:00 - 2025-03-19 17:00 UTC
This program is designed to help you move past trauma, liberate yourself from emotional burdens, and transform your life. Dr. Schwartz’s integrative approach brings you science-backed techniques for trauma recovery. Not only will this course demystify trauma and the pain it causes, but it will empower you with resources to help you move past hopelessness as you reclaim your strength and courage. This mind-body workshop includes lecture, discussion, guided meditations, and gentle therapeutic yoga. Arielle will be your compassionate guide as you learn to strengthen your inner resilience, increase your understanding, and develop a deeper appreciation of yourself. This workshop based upon Dr. Schwartz’s award winning books, The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook and Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma, guides you through a healing journey that enhances resilience and inspire post-traumatic growth.
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Psychotherapy Networker Symposium 2025
2025-03-20 - 2025-03-23
For 48 years, the Networker Symposium has been a gathering of connection, creativity, and rejuvenation for therapists dedicated to creating meaningful change for clients, communities, and themselves.
Featuring dozens of the field’s leading innovators, and a community of over 5,000 of your devoted colleagues, this is the place to access the latest advances in the field and discover a range of possibilities to bring fresh ideas and inspiration to your practice. Plus, you’ll have the most fun you’ll ever have at a professional conference!
Use the code “SYM50” to save $50 when you register!
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The Polyvagal Certificate Course: Safety, Connection, & the Human Experience
2025-04-08, 2025-06-11
The purpose of The Polyvagal Certificate Course is to provide a comprehensive and interactive Polyvagal Theory learning experience for a broad audience of those looking to apply polyvagal principles to their personal and/or professional lives. Students finish this course equipped with practices, concepts, and a community to embody and refine their application of polyvagal principles whether it is with themselves, their families, friends, clients, or colleagues.
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Somatic Anxiety Therapy Certificate with The Embody Lab
2025-04-15 - 2025-06-21
This program is designed for individuals, practitioners, and educators who want to discover how body-based approaches can transform anxiety into embodied calm, increased resilience, adaptability, and a sense of agency and control. Through somatic practices, you’ll learn to help clients release stored tension, regulate their nervous system, and cultivate a natural state of ease that extends far beyond traditional “anxiety” coping strategies.
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Intensive Trauma Treatment Certification Retreat
2025-05-21 - 2025-05-23
Join us at the beautiful Paradise Point Resort & Spa in San Diego, California or virtually online where you’ll spend 3 days filled with skills-building and personal transformation!
Don’t miss your chance to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and train with a renowned expert, author and leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma—Dr. Arielle Schwartz!
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International Energy Psychology Conference
2025-05-29 - 2025-06-02
You’re invited to join 400+ professionals at this beloved mind-body conference designed to nourish, educate and empower you. With world-class faculty and like-minded colleagues, you’ll learn tools to become a more effective change agent for your clients, community and beyond.
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Vagal Toning for Vibrant Health
2025-06-08 - 2025-06-13
Vagal toning is a gentle, yet effective treatment that adds stimulation to the vagus nerve pathway through breath, sound, eye movements, self-applied touch, and gentle yoga movements that help you come into balance.
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Vagal Toning for Resilience: Rewire Your Nervous System to Find Vitality, Lasting Emotional Balance & Embodied Spirituality w/ The Shift Network
2025-06-18 01:30 (Asia/Kolkata)
Throughout this immersive program, you’ll be guided through experiential practices each week, including breathwork, alignment techniques, and postural resets — helping you feel more grounded, clear, and in tune with your highest self. Now is the time to free yourself from old patterns, reclaim your vitality, and awaken your body’s wisdom.
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Let Your Body Hold You
2025-06-24 10:30 (America/Denver)
In Let Your Body Hold You, leading trauma expert and somatic psychologist Arielle Schwartz, PhD, teaches evidence-based and complementary, body-centered practices to help you return to a sense of safety, resilience, and hope without reliving your trauma.
You’ll start by learning about polyvagal theory, how trauma can cause the nervous system to get stuck in survival modes like fight, flight, or freeze and become out of balance, and how you can regain your balance, feel calm, and heal.
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Author Talk with Arielle Schwartz & PVI: The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma
2025-06-26 10:00 (America/Denver)
In this cutting-edge workbook, PVI Course Partner and trauma expert Arielle Schwartz, PhD provides a practical, body-based method to help you treat your trauma symptoms—without reliving your trauma or being exposed to triggers. ‘The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma’ offers evidence-based activities to help you heal the effects of trauma, rewire your nervous system, and return to a state of balance and calm.
In this free Author Talk, Dr Schwartz will share some of the body-based practices from the book designed to help you tap into the power of your vagus nerve and rewire your nervous system.
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2025 Somatic Trauma Healing Summit w/ The Embody Lab & PESI
2025-06-28 - 2025-06-29
We’ve assembled some of the most sought-after trainers in the world for one exclusive event to teach you exactly how to improve outcomes with your clients and confidently treat trauma in this new and powerful way. The 2025 Somatic Trauma Healing Summit presents the most up-to-date techniques and methods for therapists and other clinicians to dive into the latest methods in somatic trauma work.
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2025 Somatic Trauma Healing Summit: Advanced Methods in Body-Based Therapies
2025-06-28 11:30 - 12:35 (America/Denver)
Learn how to reprocess traumatic memories in a holistic way. You’ll develop the steps and skills to use a mind- and body-oriented approach to address trauma. In this experiential lecture, you’ll learn a model of predictive processing and somatic reappraisal to assist clients to accessing resource states while attending to the distress of traumatic memories. Learn how to incorporate somatic psychology and elements of EMDR. You will discover skills to explore reprocessing, exposure, and desensitization so you can more effectively work with traumatic memories.
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Breathwork & Movement Therapy for Trauma Healing Certificate w/ The Embody Lab
2025-07-12 - 2025-07-13
This program is a certification process that distills an educational methodology to integrate into a variety of modalities such as: Social Workers, Mental Health & Pastoral Counselors, Yoga Therapists / Yoga Teachers, Movement Therapists, Coaches, Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC & others) & Physician Assistants, Nurses & Nurse Practitioners, Psychologists, Emergency Medical Personnel, Meditation Teachers, Educators, Massage Therapists, Acupuncturists & Body Workers, Hypnotherapists, Kinesiologists, Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professionals, Clergy & Religious Leaders, other Wellness Professionals. This is an education program and not a licenser program.
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Book Signing at Boulder Bookstore
2025-07-16 18:30 (America/Denver)
Whether you’ve suffered a single traumatic experience or faced repeated difficult life events, you can be left feeling hypervigilant, irritable, and disconnected. Daily tasks like attending a work meeting or social gathering can feel overwhelming or even frightening. Most therapies for treating trauma require you to “revisit” your traumatic experience in potentially triggering ways. In this cutting-edge workbook, best-selling author and trauma expert Arielle Schwartz provides a practical, body-based method to help you treat your trauma symptoms–without reliving your trauma or being exposed to triggers.
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Healing Developmental Trauma: One-Day Summit w/ The Embody Lab
2025-07-20 09:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
One-Day Summit: Healing Developmental Trauma with Dr. Amber Elizabeth Gray, Kai Cheng Thom, Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Sergio Ocampo, Dr. Martha Eddy and Tracy Jarvis.
This full-day summit can be attended live or via the on-demand recordings. All class times are posted in U.S. Eastern Time / New York time zone.
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2-Day: Polyvagal Theory for Embodied Trauma Recovery: Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) Certification Training w/ PESI
2025-07-24 - 2025-07-25
Grounded within the principles of polyvagal theory, affective neuroscience, and trauma-informed care, Dr. Schwartz will guide you through research-based somatic tools, yoga-based breath, movement, and awareness practices to reduce the burdens of trauma, anxiety, obsessive thinking, and feelings of hopelessness from your client’s body and mind!
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Course Info Session: Vagus Nerve Stimulation with Arielle Schwartz
2025-08-05 10:00 UTC
Join Arielle Schwartz and Polyvagal Institute for this free course info session.
This course offers a unique opportunity to enhance your clinical practice with cutting-edge techniques promoting physiological and psychological wellness. Dr. Schwartz will explain the science of natural vagus nerve stimulation and guide you through an experiential process, allowing you to sense the benefits of these practices for yourself and teach them to others.
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Vagal Toning Masterclass: Tools for Nervous System Regulation and Client Wellness (6 CE’s)
2025-08-08 08:00 - 15:30 UTC
Within this class, Dr. Schwartz will offer lectures on the science of vagal toning and guide you through an experiential process so you can sense the benefit of these practices for yourself as well as teach them to clients. These practices can quickly reduce client’s anxiety, obsessive thinking, or feelings of hopelessness. Applied polyvagal theory within psychotherapy provides a powerful foundation for lasting changes that promote physiological balance and psychological wellness.
Join Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, internationally sought-out teacher, therapeutic yoga instructor, and leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma as she guides you through applied polyvagal theory in somatic therapies.
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International Childhood Trauma Conference
2025-08-18
In this conference we again have a strong focus on First Nations voices and wisdom, alongside those with lived experience, researchers, and practitioners. In addition, we will also have a spotlight on neurodivergence and trauma as well as harmful sexual behaviour and trauma.
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The Polyvagal Practice Summit: Somatic & Sound-Based Interventions for Nervous System Regulation w/ PESI
2025-08-28 - 2025-08-29
There are all-new Polyvagal Theory breakthroughs that are just becoming available to therapists, and you have the opportunity to join world-renowned innovators who will show you exactly how to apply the latest cutting-edge Polyvagal-informed interventions right away with your clients!
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Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Course w/ Polyvagal Institute
2025-09-09 10:00 UTC
This program offers a unique opportunity to enhance your clinical practice with cutting-edge techniques promoting physiological and psychological wellness. Dr. Schwartz will explain the science of natural vagus nerve stimulation and guide you through an experiential process, allowing you to sense the benefits of these practices for yourself and teach them to others.
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