Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

May 2024

April 4 @ 8:00 am - September 12 @ 5:00 pm

Somatic Practitioner Mentorship Program, through The Embody Lab, April 4th—September 12th, 2024

May 1 @ 8:00 am - August 31 @ 5:00 pm

The Polyvagal Certificate Course: Safety, Connection, and the Human Experience

May 7

Trauma Skills and Supervision Group through PESI UK, beginning May 7th, 2024

May 13 @ 8:00 am - May 14 @ 5:00 pm

2-Day: Polyvagal Theory for Embodied Trauma Recovery

June 2024

June 13 @ 9:00 am - June 16 @ 5:00 pm

PVI Gathering Registration Required PVI International Gathering Special Workshops, with the Polyvagal Institute

June 14 @ 8:00 am - June 16 @ 5:00 pm

PVI International Gathering, with the Polyvagal Institute (June 14th-16th, 2024)

June 21 @ 10:00 am - June 22 @ 4:00 pm

Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga—An Immersive Therapeutic Weekend (June 21st & 22nd, 2024)

September 2024

September 20 - September 22

Beyond Trauma — A Guided Mind-Body Journey of Resilience – (September 20, 2024 – September 22, 2024)

Live in North Carolina

October 2024

October 1 @ 8:00 am - October 31 @ 5:00 pm

The Healing Trauma Program, through Sounds True | Next Cohort Registration Opens October 2024

December 2024

December 7 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga, through The Embody Lab, New Cohort Starting December 7th, 2024

Beyond Trauma - A Guided Journey of Resilience, Hope & Growth Workshop

A nature-based mind-body workshop to guide you on the path towards post-traumatic growth
Through Nature Connexion
April 1 – 9, 2024
South Africa
$4590

Beyond Trauma - A Guided Mind-Body Journey of Resilience, Hope, and Post-Traumatic Growth

A program using science-backed techniques for trauma recovery and practical vagus nerve stimulation methods to help you move past trauma, liberate yourself from emotional burdens, and transform your life.
Through The Art of Living Retreat Center
September 20 – 22, 2024
Boone, NC
$325 plus room/meals

Vagal Toning Certification Program

Elevate your therapeutic practice with Polyvagal Theory and other leading trauma research.
Through Rewire Trauma Therapy
Earn 10 hours of CE credit
On-Demand
$1750

Unlocking the Past: A Yogic Perspective on Healing Intergenerational Trauma

A course to chart a meaningful path through intergenerational and collective trauma using yoga practice.
Through Yoga U
Earn 3 non-contact hours of CE credit
On-Demand
$127

EMDR and Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques to Decrease Defensiveness and Facilitate Trauma Processing

How to access deeply rooted pain points and move clients past the internal conflicts that hang them up in treatment by integrating elements of EMDR with skills from a parts work approach
Through PESI
On-Demand
$124.99

Therapeutic Yoga for Self-Discovery, Embodied Healing and Meaningful Change: Applying the Principles of Polyvagal Theory for Trauma Recovery

Learn how to fine-tune mental and physical health with breath, movement, and awareness practices that can easily be integrated within psychotherapy.
Through NScience
On-Demand
$283.49

Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga: Simple Practices to Enhance Wellbeing

A training to learn Dr. Schwartz’ unique application of the polyvagal theory to the practice of yoga.
Through the Polyvagal Institute
On-Demand
$149

Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery

This certificate program explores the benefits of therapeutic yoga and applied polyvagal theory as related to trauma recovery.
Through The Embody Lab
22 Practitioner Certification Hours
On-Demand
$577

The Healing Trauma Certificate Program

A transformational nine-month “blended learning” event combining virtual live sessions and self-paced learning to explore trauma, featuring teachings and practices from some of the foremost names in trauma healing.
Through Sounds True
On-Demand
$1397

Healing Trauma Summit

In this course, Dr. Schwartz teaches on Neuropsychotherapy: Trauma Recovery, Resilience, and Post-Traumatic Growth
On-Demand
$147

Preverbal, Nonverbal & Implicit Memories: The Keys to Addressing Developmental Trauma

This webinar addresses the question: Is healing possible if a client is unable to remember their traumatic events? It teaches a specific integrative model for trauma therapy that helps clients safely attend to and work with preverbal memories associated with Preverbal Trauma, Developmental Trauma and Attachment wounds.
Through NScience
On-Demand
$170.09

2020: World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Tele-Summit

My interview was called, “Complex PTSD: Understanding and Healing The Wounds of The Past To Live More Fully In The Present.” Over 20 therapists, legal professionals, and other industry professionals presented topics that infused survivor’s recovery with needed actionable steps to reduce trauma symptoms.
Through WNAAD
June 1 – 2, 2020
On Demand
$147

2022: Collective Trauma Summit

An online gathering to share ideas and inspire action to heal individual, ancestral and collective trauma.
September 28 – October 6, 2022

2022: Polyvagal Institute Gathering

Therapeutic Approaches: Affinity Group Discussion on Polyvagal Theory & The Body
Through the Polyvagal Institute and Unyte
October 13 – 14, 2022

2022: Super Sleep Conference

Transformative content to help optimize your rest and improve health
Through ConsciousLife
October 17 – 23, 2022

Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Program

A unique program to explore a unified somatic approach to trauma-informed care.
Through The Embody Lab
2024 Upcoming
Previous program September 26 – December 15, 2023

2021 & 2022: Trauma Super Conference

Tools to start healing on the deepest physical, mental, and emotional levels as a means of living your best life. 70+ experts explore the long-term impact of trauma on your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Dr. Schwartz taught in 2022 on how to become free from disassociation.
Through ConsciousLife
December 3 – 9, 2021
April 25 – May 1, 2022

2022: Narcissistic Abuse and Gaslighting Summit

Treatment Tools to Break the Bonds of Emotional Manipulation and Reclaim Personal Power
Through PESI
January 27 – 28, 2022

2022: Somatic Psychology and EMDR Therapy: Interventions to Enhance Embodiment in Trauma Treatment

At this 3-day workshop, Dr Arielle Schwartz teaches Somatic Psychology and how it interfaces with EMDR Therapy. When clients suppress emotions, they can present somatically. Traditional approaches to therapy attend to the cognitive and emotional aspects of clients’ lives, while the somatic experience is often left out of the room. “Talk therapy” can have limited effectiveness for clients with somatization symptoms, developmental trauma, dissociative defenses, or debilitating feelings of shame. It is therefore, important for therapists to become skilled at working with client’s nonverbal and somatic communications. Interventions to enhance embodiment in trauma treatment expand the therapeutic experience beyond where words can take a client.
Somatic Psychology brings the body into therapy by highlighting physiological patterns and their influence on human behavior. In this workshop, you will learn the history of somatic psychology and foundational principles that underlie this work. Interventions are drawn from a wide range of somatic psychotherapy modalities including Integrative Body Psychotherapy, The Hakomi Method, Body-Mind Psychotherapy, Authentic Movement, Formative Psychology, Focusing,The Moving Cycle, Somatic Experiencing, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Most importantly, you will be introduced to the underlying principles that comprise a unified approach to somatic psychology as a trauma treatment.

In this engaging and informative training, you will learn the science of embodiment and why somatic psychology is essential for helping clients work with dysregulated affect and arousal states that accompany PTSD. We will explore how to integrate body centered interventions into EMDR therapy. Throughout the 3-days, Dr Schwartz will discuss specialized treatment considerations that allow clinicians to address preverbal trauma memories, attachment trauma, and somatization symptoms. We conclude with a focus on somatic approaches to self-care for therapists to address vicarious traumatization and burnout.
Through EMDR Integrative
February 2, 9, 16, 2022

2022: Il Femminile In Psicoterapia (Women, Embodiment, and Trauma Recovery: Befriending the Body)

Based upon twenty-five years as a psychologist, somatic psychotherapist, and certified yoga teacher, Dr. Arielle Schwartz provides insight into why embodiment and therapeutic yoga is particularly valuable for women as they embark upon their journey of trauma recovery. You will learn breath and movement interventions that you can bring into your therapy practice to help women befriend their bodies as part of the healing process.
At this engaging and interactive webinar, “Women, Embodiment, and Trauma Recovery: Befriending the Body,” Dr Arielle Schwartz explains how, as therapists, we can help our clients identify healthcare goals and work through barriers that might interfere with their ongoing health and wellbeing. We evaluate the ways in which trauma impacts women’s health and how shame and self-sabotage creates barriers to wellbeing.
Dr. Arielle Schwartz will take you through an interactive exploration of the mind-body therapies for vagus nerve regulation. You will learn about her approach to applied polyvagal theory in therapeutic yoga for trauma recovery and discover leading-edge strategies that allow you to successfully address the dysregulated arousal states that arise as a result of trauma. She explains practical tools to increase resilience and shares her strength-based approach to enhance post-traumatic growth.
February 10 – April 5, 2022

2022: Somatic Transformation: A Workshop with Staci K. Haines

Staci K. Haines, a national leader in the field of somatics, and Dr. Arielle Schwartz will guide us towards strategies to transform trauma, loss, and adversity into opportunities for growth. This workshop will be preceded by a 25-minute conversation between Staci and Dr. Schwartz, wherein Dr. Schwartz bridges the theory and practice of post-traumatic growth and generative somatics.
Through Reimagine
April 13, 2022

2022: Practical Strategies for Complex PTSD: An Integrative Mind-Body Approach to Treating Repeated, Chronic, and/or Developmental Trauma

This program will explore the primary symptoms of Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) and provide participants with practical mind-body therapy tools that they can integrate into their work with clients to help them manage intrusive symptoms. This workshop is based on Dr. Schwartz’ integrative mind-body treatment manual for CPTSD which combines relational psychotherapy, EMDR therapy, Parts Work therapy, Somatic psychology, and mindfulness based therapies.
Through J&K Seminars
April 29, 2022

2022: EMDR Therapy & Somatic Psychology for Chronic Pain and Illness

A webinar where you will learn a biopsychological model of care with takes into account objective physical and biological factors of pain and illness as well as factors that are psychological or psychogenic in origin. You will develop an understanding of the polyvagal theory as related to trauma recovery. You will be guided to assess for disassociation, lack of affect tolerance, or secondary gains that may block successful resolution of traumatic events.
Through EMDR & Beyond
May 16 – 17, 2022
Des Moines, IA and Online

2021: Women, Trauma & Mental Health International Conference

This conference was dedicated to the global mission of healing women’s trauma. It featured trauma innovators Pat Ogden, Janina Fisher, Babette Rothschild, Susie Orbach and more, and addressed the most important topics related to women’s trauma and mental health, including: anxiety, shame, PTSD, depression, grief, eating disorders, relationship difficulties, race-based trauma, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, borderline personality disorder, and more.
Through PESI
November 18 – 19, 2021
Online

2021: Traumatic Stress through Harvard Medical School Course

This course provided an overview of perspectives and approaches in the delivery of trauma treatment. Research findings and theories on traumatic stress were presented from comprehensive neurobiological, sociocultural, and ecological perspectives.
Through Harvard Medical School
November 12 – 13, 2021
Online

2021: Polyvagal Institute’s Annual Conference: The Many Voices of Polyvagal Theory

The Polyvagal Institute partnered with PESI to bring you Stephen Porges, Deb Dana, Mona Delahooke, Dr. Schwartz, and many of the creative thinkers who are integrating Polyvagal Theory into new territory. Whether you’re a psychotherapist, educator, body-based therapist, healthcare professional, or curious polyvagalist, this conference expanded knowledge of ‘the science of human connection,’ Polyvagal Theory.
Through The Polyvagal Institute
November 5 – 6, 2021

2020: Trauma Skills Summit

My talk in the summit entitled “Resilience Strategies for Trauma Recovery: A Strength-Based Approach to Healing” guided through a process of embracing emotions and somatic experience to find the inherent wisdom within to connect to your intrinsic healing capacities. Other participants included Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, Ruth King, Dr. Peter Levine, Justin Michael Williams, Thomas Hübl, and others.
Through Sounds True
August 17 – 26, 2020
Online

2020: Embodied Psychology Summit

My presentation, “An Embodied Approach To Trauma Recovery and Post-Traumatic Growth – An Experimental Session” included the following areas of focus:
- Describing the role of neuroplasticity in healing trauma.
- Describing a 5-stage model for embodiment in trauma treatment.
- Recognizing the 6 pillars of resilience and post-traumatic growth.
Through The Embody Lab
July 22 – 26, 2020
Online

2020: Trauma and Mind Body Super Conference

The biggest mind-body healing event of the year, featuring over 90 physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, medical researchers, scientists, functional medicine experts and naturopathic doctors discussing awesome cutting-edge science-backed tools and interventions to heal trauma.
Through Conscious Life
June 29 – July 5, 2020
Online

2020: Overcoming PTSD

I was honored to be a featured speaker, with a talk titled: “Beyond Recovery—Finding Resilience and Post Traumatic Growth.” Through this summit, over 30 therapists, psychologists, doctors and more helped heal wounds, break through fears, and live a life filled with peace, joy & self-love.
Through AVAIYA
June 1 – 10, 2020