The Resiliency Center offers an attractive and welcoming environment for organizations seeking space to provide workshops, trainings, or wellness retreats. We also collaborate with organizations to create dynamic programming for their groups.
Please call (215) 542-5004 or email Elizabeth at elizabeth@ theresiliencycenter.com for more information. |
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Upcoming Continuing Education Programs
The following continuing education programs are available in Fall of 2010:
Friday, October 15, 2010
Somatic Psychology for Healing Trauma
Back by popular demand!
Join Somatic Psychologist Jodi Schwartz-Levy to learn ways to listen for the somatic impact of trauma and help clients access their body’s resources to transform it.
Long after a traumatic event, or series or events, have passed, individuals with post- traumatic stress disorder behave as if the threat is still present. The specific symptoms of hypervigiliance, sleeplessness, anxiety, and overwhelm point to a hyperarousal of the nervous system and the inability to return to homeostasis (in which the parasympathetic nervous system can engage). It is from this physiological perspective that this workshop addresses how such imbalance occurs and how the therapist can use somatic (body-oriented) interventions to regulate the nervous system of the client -- as this lays the foundation for all future work.
Course Objectives:
- By the end of this program, participants will gain a broad understanding of the pioneering field of somatic psychology and its role in the treatment of trauma.
- Participants will learn to view PTSD as a disturbance in the nervous system, and they will learn the basics of somatic interventions and how they can use them with themselves and their clients.
Jodi Schwartz-Levy, PhD, holds a doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Somatic Psychology, making her one of a distinguished group of psychologists worldwide with such expertise in mind/body integration. She is currently an adjunct professor at Arcadia University. Dr. Schwartz-Levy's clinical experience includes working in private practice as a somatic psychotherapist since 2003, acting as a movement, group, and individual therapist at The Renfrew Center, and also as a therapist for women and their children at a domestic violence shelter. For over a decade she has been guiding people to access the healing power of their bodies, particularly through her work as a Nia (holistic fitness) instructor, massage therapist, energy healer, and birth doula. In addition to her somatic psychotherapy practice, Dr. Schwartz-Levy offers Nia classes, somatic supervision, professional trainings and embodiment groups. You can learn more about her work at www.somaticpsych.com.
Date: Friday, 10/15/2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Registration and breakfast begin at 8:30 a.m.
Cost: $175/person
Breakfast and lunch are included with registration.
CEU eligibility: Program is eligible for 6 CEUs through Pennsylvania’s Board for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Understanding and Increasing Self-Regulation in Children: A Usable Framework for Teachers and Clinicians
Instructor: Denise Durkin
Increase your understanding of what is happening in the inner world of the child with self-regulation difficulties. Through interactive exercises and dialogue, Child Behavioral Specialist Denise Durkin provides a comprehensive model that offers insight, compassion, and concrete tools that really make a difference.
Many children’s behavioral health programs in agencies and in schools focus on self-regulation as a key goal for social and academic success. Wraparound, School-Based Behavioral Health (SBBH) programs, after school and community programs, etc., use behavioral modification, individual, group and family therapies to help children achieve their potential. Often, however, certain vital aspects of the child’s needs are overlooked. This seminar will illuminate and address these gaps in serving the whole child by introducing an integrative model: Perception, Approach and Management of Children with Challenging Behaviors: A Foundational Framework for Understanding and Increasing Self-Regulation ã. This program is appropriate for all practitioners who work with children, regardless of professional setting or level of training.
Course Objectives:
- Participants will learn to define and describe successful versus unsuccessful self-regulation.
- Participants will learn to identify and describe seven domains of health which collectively contribute to self-regulation, with particular focus on the child’s attachments and emotional safety.
- Participants will be able to name and illustrate several interventions for each domain in order to ensure that the child has the best chances for successful self-regulation.
- Participants will also receive handouts and reference materials to support their continued learning on the topic.
Denise Durkin, M.A. in Creative Arts in Therapy, has been a children’s behavioral consultant for ten years. She has worked with children and adults in therapeutic and educational settings for nearly twenty-five years and specializes in the social-emotional health of children. In addition to being a clinician, Ms. Durkin is a writer and educator. She developed the integrative model presented in this training program and has presented it previously to enthusiastic and diverse audiences of parents, educators, and clinical professionals.
Date: Friday, 10/22/2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Registration and breakfast begin at 8:30 a.m.
Cost: $175/person
Breakfast and lunch are included with registration.
CEU eligibility: Program is eligible for 6 CEUs through Pennsylvania’s Board for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors.
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Friday, November 12, 2010
Promoting Practitioner Wellness & Preventing Burnout
Join us for a transformative day of self-discovery and replenishment. Prioritize yourself, connect with peers, and learn concrete strategies for greater resiliency.
In this workshop, you will receive tools to assist you in creating greater balance and sustaining mindful presence in your work with clients – and leave feeling rejuvenated. Through a series of interactive dialogues and experiential activities, we will explore concepts of vicarious trauma, burnout, and integral wellness. You will learn new, creative ways to promote self-awareness and self-care, and experience methods for reducing stress and regaining balance.
A review and discussion of the risk factors inherent in the work includes an opportunity to reflect on your specific vulnerabilities and to connect with peers in the field. During our time together, you will also learn wellness strategies to implement in all facets of your life (emotional, cognitive, interpersonal, spiritual, physical, workplace, etc.). You will gain practical, readily applied knowledge and understanding in using aromatherapy for addressing stress and anxiety and supporting practitioner resiliency.
We invite you to engage in an experience of deepening self-awareness through writing, reflection, group dialogue, creative activities, and mind-body techniques.
Course Objectives:
- Participants will gain information and a greater understanding of the risk factors inherent in the work and the necessity for active intervention to prevent vicarious trauma and burnout.
- Participants will gain information about the counselor wellness and impairment – specifically the career-sustaining behaviors of the most well and most satisfied counselors – and the necessity for taking active steps to nourish wellness and decrease isolation.
- Participants will gain information about applications of aromatherapy – as a tool to counter the negative impact of the work and support practitioner resiliency.
- Participants will deepen their self-awareness through reflection, discussion, writing, creative activities, and mind-body interventions – and learn tools that facilitate their ability to be fully present and engaged in their work with clients.
Elizabeth Venart, M.Ed., LPC, is the Resiliency Center Founder and Director. She works with individuals, couples, and groups to provide counseling, clinical supervision, and practice-building consultations. She served four years on the American Counseling Association’s Task Force on Counselor Wellness and has presented educational programs on vicarious trauma and practitioner self-care since 1996.
Tracie Nichols, M.A. is an earth conscious transformative mentor and holistic aromatherapist with an M.A. in Transformative Learning & Change. She helps women and men in transition move from fear to thriving in their lives and specializes in using aromatherapy to support life changes. Find her at www.alchemyfortheearth.com.
Date: Friday, 11/12/2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Registration and breakfast begin at 8:30 a.m.
Cost: $175/person
Breakfast and lunch are included with registration.
CEU eligibility: Program is eligible for 6 CEUs through Pennsylvania’s Board for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
Three Taboo Subjects: Sex, Religion, and Death
Instructor: Edie Weinstein
Human beings are multi-faceted creatures with a vast array of interests and needs. What we each have in common is the desire to feel connected to others. Three issues that create both unity and divisiveness are sex, religion and death. The ways in which we were educated about these topics in our childhood homes have tremendous impact on how we grow as healthy, functioning adults. Left unexamined, they can develop into pathology and violence.
As therapists, we come face to face regularly with clients who are at the effect of abuse, neglect, trauma, grief, sexual confusion, and relationship conflicts because they don't have the skills to elegantly explore and process these three core issues. It is incumbent upon us to stretch our comfort zones in order to create a safe, non-judgmental space for our clients to express their feelings and process through these issues. As professionals, we need to create a dialogue amongst ourselves that is honest and healing.
In addition to the benefit of inner exploration for the clinician, this class will provide a wealth of resources to offer to clients. When clients are faced with challenges in any of these subjects, therapists need to be prepared with responses that will create a safe environment so clients can divulge concerns and address them successfully.
Course Objectives:
- Participants will have both didactic and experiential opportunities to examine their own beliefs about sex, religion and death in a safe and confidential environment.
- Participants will be able to identify expected dynamics incurred in the dying process as experienced by the individual and significant others in order to provide support.
- Participants will gain understanding of creating and sustaining healthy boundaries while discussing these subjects and learn tools to teach their clients how to create and sustain healthy boundaries in their lives.
- Participants will glean an understanding of the scope of human sexual activities/relational activities, such as sexual fantasies, BDSM, pornography, sexual addiction, LGBT issues and polyamory.
- Participants will explore the myriad spiritual practices that exist around the world, and ways in which spiritual beliefs impact on the therapeutic process. They will also increase their skills around incorporating the client's beliefs into meaningful recovery.
Rev. Edie Weinstein-Moser, MSW, LSW is a Pennsylvania Licensed Social Worker who graduated from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) in Glassboro, NJ in 1981 and with an MSW from Rutgers University in Camden, NJ in 1985. She was ordained as an Interfaith Minister in 1999, graduating from The New Seminary in New York City. She has worked in a variety of physical and mental health care settings, including hospitals, home care, nursing homes, out patient community mental health and an in-patient acute psychiatric hospital. Edie has also been a family caregiver with direct experience of the death, dying, loss and grief process. She is also a certified facilitator of a relationship enhancing, communication and boundary setting workshop called Cuddle Party. Among its many benefits, it allows participants to set parameters for healthy non-violent/non-sexual touch in their lives. In addition, Edie is a free-lance journalist whose writing spans the topics of spirituality, sexuality, loss and grief, personal empowerment and transformation.
Note: Since this class is of a particularly sensitive nature, all participants need to agree to a clause of confidentiality, so that they can experience full benefit from the information offered and shared among those in attendance.
Date: Friday, 11/19/2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Registration and breakfast begin at 8:30 a.m.
Cost: $175/person
Breakfast and lunch are included with registration.
CEU eligibility: Program is eligible for 6 CEUs through Pennsylvania’s Board for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors.
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Friday, December 3, 2010
Recreation IS My Therapy!
Recreation therapy invites people to learn through play. This workshop teaches concrete strategies to bring this same spirit of adventure and fun to your work with groups and families.
Did you know that Recreational Therapy assists with depression, helps relieve stress, increases relaxation, can increase healthy relationships, and assist with conflict transformation, social and life skills? Recreational Therapy is a treatment modality designed to use recreation and leisure activities to heal, enhance, restore, remediate, or rehabilitate participants' level of healthy life activities. These efforts encourage participants' development of individual strengths and resilience to assist in achieving personal goals.
This workshop introduces participants to Recreational Therapy and the powerful tools it offers for group facilitation, group dynamics, and activity analysis. The unique function of Recreational Therapy is that the "Playful Spirit" is very non-threatening and non-invasive. While Recreational Therapy is a professionally directed service of a certified therapist, this workshop provides basic interactive techniques all therapists can integrate for greater vitality and fun. This strength-based model incorporates “40 Developmental Assets,” a well-researched program by the Search Institute. They determined that the presence of these assets in young people and adults increases the emotional and relational health and the wellbeing of individuals and the community.
Course Objectives:
- Participants will learn basic interactive techniques they can integrate into group therapy sessions to re-energize the group and infuse play and recreation.
- Participants will learn how to use leadership, group dynamics, and activity analysis to enhance group and individual goal directed behavior and the healing process.
- Participants will learn to use Developmental Assets as a means to address resilience and strength based clinical outcomes.
Tracey Smith-Diggs, M.Ed, CTRS, has been a certified Recreational Therapist with The National Therapeutic Recreation Council (NCTRC) since 1982. She is a Wellness Educator and Program Consultant with extensive clinical experience in behavioral health. As President of Wellness Works LLC., she provides clinical, program consultation, and group facilitation for non-profit, community-based, and private agencies. Tracey creatively uses Recreational Therapy and Wellness Education to promote emotional, physical, mental, spiritual health, and well-being. Workshop topics include leadership, self-esteem, stress/anger management, trauma, depression, relationships, conflict transformation, and spiritual growth.
Date: Friday, 12/3/2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Registration and breakfast begin at 8:30 a.m.
Cost: $175/person
Breakfast and lunch are included with registration.
CEU eligibility: Program is eligible for 6 CEUs through Pennsylvania’s Board for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors.
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