Classes and Events

Groups
All groups are held at The Resiliency Center unless otherwise noted.

• Building your Ideal Private Practice Group
• Clinical Supervision Group – For Counselors seeking Licensure & Experienced Counselors Seeking Resources and Support
• Empowering Self, Accessing Vision, & Creating a Heart-Centered Life: A 6-month Personal Empowerment Group
• Counselor Wellness Intensives - For Counselors, Social Workers, Therapists, and Other Professional Helpers
• Guy Talk: Men Sharing with Men

> View a list of all our current and ongoing classes, events, and groups on our monthly calendar – which is updated weekly.

Building your Ideal Private Practice Group

Dates: October - March

Time: 2 Wednesday afternoons per month  

**If unavailable at this time, please inquire about possible additional time offerings.

Cost: $750 for 6-month Group

OR

$1250 for Group plus Six Individual Consultations (one per month)

If you are a healthcare or healing arts professional desiring more prosperity in your practice, or if you want to begin a private practice but aren’t sure how to start, this group is for you! Join Resiliency Center Director Elizabeth Venart as she shares ideas and inspiration for getting the word out about your work and creating a thriving business that sustains you.

While creating a lucrative private practice may be a long-term goal for many therapists, most are unsure how they can create an effective roadmap that will take them from where they are today to their ideal vision of where they’d like to be. Additionally, many helpers struggle with issues surrounding money (trusting the value in their expertise) and marketing (sharing who they are and what they do in the world). The best marketing plans maximize upon your strengths and offer creative ways to share your passion for the work. Individual and group consultations provide essential support and guidance along the way.

In this program, participants will explore what they find most rewarding in the work, identify career and financial goals, and gain an understanding of the current market and opportunities. They will also learn to differentiate between self and business, untangling the idea that they are their business – and beginning to conceptualize their business as its own unique entity. Reading and exercises from Lynn Grodzki’s workbook, 12 Months to your Ideal Private Practice, will guide the group and challenge members to take a comprehensive look at where they are and how they’ll make their ideal practice vision a concrete reality.

Practitioners can choose to participate exclusively in the group – twice a month for six months –or take advantage of this special invitation to benefit from both the group and monthly individual consultations with Elizabeth. During individual consultations, practitioners will have an opportunity to explore solutions to any obstacles encountered, to examine specific areas for practice development, and to gain extra support in creating individual plans for success.

Contact Elizabeth Venart at 215-542-5004 or evenart@verizon.net to schedule a consultation or register for the group today!

Clinical Supervision Group for Counselors seeking Licensure
Dates: Thursdays 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Cost: $75/session

Clinical Supervisor: Elizabeth Venart, Licensed Professional Counselor

Clinical supervision groups provide counselors with an opportunity to learn new information, gain additional perspectives, reflect on the interplay between self and client, and receive group support. Participants present cases for clinical review, assist one another in exploring challenging clinical questions, and gain greater self-awareness.

Elizabeth’s primarily theoretical orientation is humanistic, so the group includes an emphasis on the quality of the counseling relationship and any obstacles to deep empathic listening. Group members will benefit from Elizabeth’s extensive experience with trauma survivors, children, and issues of anxiety and grief—as well as her familiarity with both cognitive and nonverbal healing modalities (expressive arts, music, mindfulness, alternative therapies). 

The research on vicarious trauma, professional hazards, and counselor wellness has consistently found Clinical Supervision and peer consultation to be powerful antidotes to the stresses of the work.

Contact: Elizabeth Venart at 215-542-5004 or elizabeth@theresiliencycenter.com

Empowering Self, Accessing Vision, & Creating a Heart-Centered Life: A 6-month Personal Empowerment Group
Dates: Fall – Spring, 3 sessions/month
Tuesday mornings 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Cost: $200/month for 3 sessions/month

Group Leader: Elizabeth Venart

Experiential and peer support group for creating a vibrant, meaningful, heart-centered life. Personal Empowerment Groups include experiential exercises and discussion to facilitate participants’ ability to vision their ideal future and begin taking active steps towards making their life visions a reality. Difficult changes are made more possible when people have positive interpersonal relationships to help them navigate expected challenges and potential setbacks. Peer support will be a key component of the group. Participants will empower themselves and support one another in making career and life changes for greater joy, vibrancy, and balance.

Activities for the group include:

• Crafting mission and vision statements
• Creating vision boards
• Identifying cognitive roadblocks & strategies to move beyond them
• Identifying resources—both internal and external

Contact: Call Elizabeth Venart at 215-542-5004 or email her at elizabeth@theresiliencycenter.com to schedule your pre-group consultation and begin designing your plan for positive change.

Counselor Wellness Intensives - For Counselors, Social Workers, Therapists, and Other Professional Helpers
Dates: Monthly – Friday mornings, 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

Cost: $100.00

Teacher:  Elizabeth Venart

These three-hour education and support sessions are designed to offer helping professionals time to focus on themselves, tools to promote wellness & resiliency, and valuable opportunities to dialogue with one another for increased support. Explore ways to build resiliency, create more balance in your life, and create comprehensive and individualized wellness plans that really work. Regardless of years of experience, professional background, or current work setting, human services professionals will find connection, community, and creative solutions to sustain them in their work.

Contact: Call Elizabeth Venart at 215-542-5004 or email her elizabeth@theresiliencycenter.com to register for upcoming programs.

Guy Talk: Men Sharing with Men

Dates: TBD

Group Leader: Marc Jacobs

Every day men are called upon to meet their obligations to family and business. Some men find that although they find some degree of success in one or both arenas something is missing.

Men’s Support Groups allow men to explore in confidence with other men the areas of themselves that lie below the surface. Whether a sense of wholeness is blocked by anger, sadness, loneliness, frustration, ambivalence or a host of other emotions, the support of other men can provide a sense of legitimate personal power. Guy Talk groups are based on the teachings and writings of Robert Bly, John Lee and Robert Moore.

Groups meet on a regular basis, weekly, biweekly or monthly. Interested men are encouraged to call Marc Jacobs at MJacobs296@GMail.com or 215-280-1675 to discuss available group slots.

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