Center for Resilience Informed Therapy®

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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The Polyvagal Certificate Course: Safety, Connection, & the Human Experience
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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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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Beyond Trauma: A Guided Mind-Body Journey of Resilience, Hope and Post-Traumatic Growth
2025-09-19 16:00 - 2025-09-21 13:30 (America/Denver)
During this deeply transformative retreat, you’ll explore how trauma impacts the mind and body and learn actionable strategies for healing. With Dr. Schwartz’s compassionate guidance, you’ll experience therapeutic practices that foster clarity and empowerment. By the end of the weekend, you’ll leave with a personalized resilience plan, a deeper understanding of your healing journey, and the confidence to move forward with strength and purpose.
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Nervous System Regulation in Therapy Summit
2025-10-07
The importance of nervous system regulation has become widely recognized in the field of mental health and beyond — and yet the concept can also seem vague and misunderstood.
If you’re a mental health professional—or someone working in a healing role—and you’ve been looking to gain practical, trauma-informed, and clinically grounded ways to help clients move out of stuck patterns, we’d like to invite you to a special free online training.
The Nervous System Regulation in Therapy Summit brings together some of the most respected voices in trauma healing, somatic therapy, and neuroscience—including:
Peter Levine, PhD • Deb Dana, LCSW • Pat Ogden, PhD • Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW • Bessel van der Kolk, MD • Licia Sky • Rick Hanson, PhD • Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW • Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT • Jordan Quaglia, PhD — and more.
Produced by The Awake Network, this summit offers practical tools, insights, and interventions to help you:
Work skillfully with clients in fight, flight, freeze, and fawn
Support clients to widen their window of tolerance and bring simple regulating practices into daily life
Integrate somatic practices for real-time regulation and long-term resilience
Strengthen your own nervous system resilience, presence, and attunement as a therapist
Build the conditions for deep healing and connection
Whether you’re new to learning about nervous system regulation and body-based approaches or looking to deepen your skills, this summit will provide practical interventions and inspiring perspectives you can use right away.
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2025 Innovations in Psychotherapy: The Premier Trauma Therapy Conference
2025-10-08
As a therapist on the frontlines of trauma healing, you’re always on the lookout for the next therapy breakthrough to free your clients from intense suffering.
That’s exactly why this conference was developed — to connect you with the world’s leading innovators, researchers, and clinicians who will equip you with today’s most effective skills to revolutionize your trauma treatment results.
Join us in beautiful Anaheim, CA, or online for four days of world-class instruction that provides the perfect blend of inspiring education with rest and rejuvenation!
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Arielle Schwartz’s Trauma Treatment Certification Retreat: Integrating EMDR, Somatic Therapy & Polyvagal Theory for Post-Traumatic Growth
2025-10-15 - 2025-10-19
Within the transformative, healing landscape of Sedona, trauma expert and best-selling author Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, will guide you through her signature mind-body approach to addressing clients’ trauma. You’ll learn to integrate interventions from cognitive behavioral therapies including EMDR, somatic psychology, parts work therapies, and therapeutic yoga; all of which are grounded within a relational, psychodynamic approach to care. Through this interactive, hands-on, and highly experiential learning experience, you will practice and absorb the approaches and tools you need to reduce the burdens of trauma and feelings of hopelessness from your client’s body and mind.
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2025 Mental Health Super Summit
2025-10-23
When you register for the 2025 Mental Health Super Summit, you’ll unlock 20 hours of high-quality professional learning led by 20 global experts—from as little as $25. And with all funds being donated to charity, your participation will help transform the lives of Australian children and families, supporting them to live safer, more fulfilling lives—free from trauma.
The Summit brings you a very unique line-up of renowned practitioners, researchers, educators, and thought leaders in mental health. Whether you decide to attend live webinars or watch on-demand recorded videos – you can rest assured you’ll be learning from the best.
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Healing Trauma with Somatics & Parts Work Summit
2025-10-25 09:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
Gather with us live & online Saturday, October 25th, 2025 for our One-Day Summit to transform your relationship with trauma through revolutionary somatic and parts-based healing.
Are you tired of traditional therapy approaches that leave you intellectually understanding your trauma but still feeling stuck in the same patterns? Ready to discover why your body holds the key to unlocking healing that actually sticks?
This groundbreaking summit brings together five pioneers who are revolutionizing trauma treatment by combining cutting-edge somatic practices with transformative parts work methodologies.
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EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques to Decrease Defensiveness and Facilitate Trauma Processing
2025-10-28 09:30 - 17:00 (America/Denver)
In this FREE one-day training, I’ll show you how you can integrate elements of EMDR with skills from a parts work approach for treatment plans that make real progress with your complex trauma clients…
…and allow you to more successfully access deeply rooted pain points and move your clients past the internal conflicts that hang them up in treatment.
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PVI International Gathering | The Vagus Nerve: A Path to Wellness
2025-10-31 - 2025-11-02
This year, PVI invites the global polyvagal community to gather at the beautiful Omni Amelia Island Resort & Spa on Amelia Island for The Vagus Nerve: A Path to Wellness. Together we will explore Polyvagal Theory and the vagus nerve in ways that deepen understanding, connection, and health. This event is designed to be both enriching and restorative—an opportunity to engage in cutting-edge discussions with top experts, explore practical applications, and integrate new insights— all in a setting that nourishes the mind, body, and nervous system. In addition to our Main Stage Presentations, both in-person and virtual tickets include opportunities for co-regulation and community connection.
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Anxiety Recovery & Deep Rest Super Conference 2025
2025-10-31 - 2025-11-02
Through Concious Life 2025   Ready to feel better? This is where it begins
Join this conference dedicated to helping you discover groundbreaking frameworks for breaking free from anxiety and deepening the quality of your rest.
You’ll unlock:

Wisdom and insights from 60+ experts
Groundbreaking approaches to regulating anxiety and stress
Tools to reset and support your nervous system naturally
Expert-led exercises to put theory into action

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An Integrative Mind-Body Approach to Trauma and Complex PTSD with NICABM
2025-11-05 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Through NICABM
In this practical workshop, Dr. Schwartz will show you how you can combine EMDR, polyvagal theory, parts work, and somatics so you can more fully support your clients, deepen processing, and foster post-traumatic growth.
Here’s the agenda:

Strategies to help clients work through sensations, emotions, and nervous system dysregulation when processing traumatic memories

The greatest predictor of meaningful change in clients with complex PTSD

How to decode the somatic “language” clients often use when they’re suppressing their emotions

Ways to more effectively combine top-down and bottom-up strategies in trauma work

How to integrate parts work and ego states into your trauma work

How to incorporate therapeutic body awareness and movement into EMDR protocols

The live workshop will take place on Wednesday, November 5th from 1-4pm ET.
Dr. Schwartz will take questions periodically throughout.
In addition, your registration includes the video recording and transcript of the presentation (and both are yours to keep forever).
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Somatic Developmental Trauma Therapy™ Certificate
2025-11-08 - 2025-12-17
Through The Embody Lab
Developmental trauma shapes everything—our bodies, our breath, our reflexes, our ability to connect, and the very way we exist in the world.
It doesn’t just come from “what happened.” It comes from what was interrupted (developmental milestones) and what was missing: safety, connection, attunement, and belonging.
Moments of not being wanted. Being separated too soon. Having needs ignored, shamed, or unmet. Or growing up without enough support to feel like it’s okay to be me.
These early ruptures live in the nervous system long after the events themselves. They show up in clients as chronic shame, boundary struggles, emotional collapse, hypervigilance, and relational confusion.
While most trainings approach developmental trauma through a cognitive or attachment lens, the body remembers first—and without addressing these somatic imprints, healing remains incomplete.
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Nervous System Health & Restoration: 6-Month Immersion with The Shift Network
2025-11-11
The Nervous System Health & Restoration training is designed for healing professionals and spiritual seekers who are ready to engage in profound healing and self-regulation at an embodied level — and are eager to help others do the same, including individuals living with PTSD or the lingering effects of trauma.
Whether you’re working through personal or developmental trauma, navigating nervous system dysregulation, feeling disconnected from your purpose, or seeking to fully embody your potential, this immersive experience will support you in reclaiming your health, stability, voice, boundaries, and inner gifts.
You’ll also gain the skills and confidence needed for guiding others toward holistic health and wellbeing via greater nervous system regulation.
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