Presented by: Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP,

Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 5/4 & 5/5, 9am–6:30pm

DESCRIPTION: This course will explore somatic healing with nature. Somatic experiencing practices are a skillful and safe way to heal trauma. We will learn how nature offers a healing container to support the transformation and healing of trauma. Building on the practices of mindfulness with nature we will learn how to become present to the stored traumas stuck within the body, connect to the inherent potential to heal, and learn to release the unhealthy patterns of trauma to experience the fullness of our aliveness. You as the student will be invited to work to integrate these practices into the healing of your own trauma and consider ways in which your continued healing can inform ways to integrate these teachings and practices into the therapeutic container.

16 contact hours toward the Ecotherapy Certificate.

LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous

16 CEUs

Presenter Bio: Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP, is the author of Healing with Nature: Mindfulness and Somatic Practices to Heal from Trauma. She has studied and taught mindfulness for the past 19 years and personally knows the transformational potential. Dr. Calvert currently leads courses, workshops, and treats in mindfulness and somatic experiencing in nature. As a licensed clinical psychologist and founder of New Mindful Life, she supports her clients, taking them into nature with the aid of Bertha Grace, a Sprinter van that serves as a mobile therapy office. www.newmindfullife.com

Presented by: Amy Wong Hope, MA, LCSW,

Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 5/11 & 5/12, 9am–6pm

DESCRIPTION: This course examines the neuroscience of psychedelic compounds. Students will examine the processes by which psychedelic compounds interact with the brain, and how this interaction can lead to profound changes in perception, cognition, emotion, behavior, and creativity. Students will learn about the specific neural pathways and mechanisms that underlie the effects of psychedelic compounds. Through readings, lectures, discussions, students will examine the scientific research on the therapeutic potential of psychedelic compounds, as well as their use in spiritual and creative contexts. Students will critically evaluate which psychedelic compounds may be best suited to different mental health conditions, for referral purposes. Students will examine the
neuroscience of expanded states of consciousness (ego dissolution, mystical/transcendent experiences) and why these experiences have the potential to cause lasting changes in the brain. Students will explore the complex interplay between brain chemistry and the subjective experience of the client. Participants will develop a discerning eye in evaluating research and science around psychedelic-assisted therapy and identify the sources and qualities that form their opinion on the neuroscience of psychedelic compounds for personal growth, mental health conditions, and more.

16 contact hours toward the Psychedelic Studies Certificate.

LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous

16 CEUs

Presenter Bio: Amy Wong Hope, MA, LCSW, is the Certificate Program Director of the Psychedelic Studies Certificate. Amy is trained as an MDMA-assisted therapist through the (MAPS) Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and co-author of Small Doses of Awareness: A Microdosing Companion (due to be published spring 2024). Amy maintains a private practice with a focus on trauma-informed modalities and shame-resilience approaches that support clients in restoring emotional, somatic, and relational resiliency.

Presented by: Scott Van Note, MA, LMHC

Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 5/18 & 5/19, 9am–6:30pm

DESCRIPTION: Clients often enter therapy with a sense of internal contradiction, or an inner conflict between parts of self, requiring assistance with integrating exiled or disowned parts. This course is designed to explore perspectives and skills gleaned from several experiential approaches to parts work processing, including IFS (Internal Family Systems) and AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), as well as the compassion-based parts-work practice adapted by Tsultrim Allione called “Feeding Your Demons” from Tibetan Buddhism. Parts-work models understand the outer personality structure as composed of protector parts that form early in life as survival skills, but that can later prove maladaptive to our well-being. Underneath all protectors are
“exiles”-- or childhood parts-- rooted in innocence, playfulness, and love, waiting to be shown safety and an opportunity to freely feel and express dissociated feelings; to be reunited within a larger sense of self. During this weekend we will ground ourselves in the core sense of the centered-self through mindfulness and somatic practices. In watching clinical videos of parts-work sessions we will track our responses and learn ways to work with activated parts. Through dyadic work we will experientially explore how to dialogue with the parts of self that can emerge in us as clinicians while in session, practicing techniques for integrating the many and varied parts – protectors and exiles – which comprise the rich and complex human psychic ecology.

16 contact hours toward the Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate.

LOCATION: SWC Campus

16 CEUs

Presenter Bio: Scott Van Note, MA, LMHC, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico, working with a broad spectrum of clients. He also worked for several years in an intensive outpatient program in Albuquerque, treating substance abuse issues, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders, while facilitating weekly anger management and relapse prevention groups. Scott’s practice incorporates AEDP along with the parts work of IFS, engaging the client’s whole person as well as the inner child, on pathways towards catharsis, reunion, and integration.

Presented by: Katie Brammer PhD, LPC, LPCC,

Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 6/1 & 6/2, 9am–6:30pm

DESCRIPTION: This course will provide mental health professionals with evidence-based strategies to strengthen healthy gender, sexual, and reproductive identity development in today’s children and teens. Participants will learn how to support children, teens, and their families as they navigate the challenging terrain of sexuality and gender. This course will examine the influence of social and cultural messages regarding gender development on youth. The course will also identify advocacy and intervention approaches that support the experience of children and teens with straight, Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Gender Expansive, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Pansexual, and other wonderful affectional orientations, and gender identities (2SLGBTQIAP+). Other topics to be explored include gender and sexual identity development in diverse cultures and across intersectional identities and examining bias and transference that impede ethical treatment.

16 contact hours toward the Children’s Mental Health Certificate AND Human Sexuality Certificate

LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous

16 CEUs

Presenter Bio: Katie Brammer PhD, LPC, LPCC, (She, Her, Hers) is a Counselor Educator with a background as both a Mental Health Clinician and School Counselor and is the NEI Children’s Mental Health Certificate Director. She views her teaching, scholarship, counseling, and supervisory practices as holistic and collaborative, and tailors transformational approaches into her work with the anticipation that needs of each individual are met.

Presented by: Diana Zumas, MA, LPCC, LPC 

Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 6/29 & 6/30, 9am–6:30pm, MST

DESCRIPTION: We are living in a time when the personal and collective reimagining of our world is crucial. Research in neuroscience concludes that embodied, relational techniques most effectively alter and retrain the deep neurological pathways that govern perception, experience, and our capacity for creative expression and relationship. Psychodrama offers an embodied method for co-creating a sanctuary space where personal and collective storylines can be mindfully explored. Moreover, in psychodrama, differences and borders can be safely and openly examined. The group as a whole becomes the vehicle to expand creativity and to foster relational repair of personal and collective trauma and attachment. Participants will learn and practice action techniques that can be used either on their own or in conjunction with a fully developed drama. Supportive theory from relational neuroscience will highlight: the role of mindful play in cultivating safety and revealing underlying/implicit storylines, awareness of the trauma vortex, ways to maximize co-regulation, the transpersonal aspects of process, and a re-imagining of the role of leader.

16 contact hours toward the Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program

16 CEUs

LOCATION: SWC CAMPUS

Presenter Bio: Diana Zumas, MA, LPC, LPCC, has 17 years of psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy training. She has a psychotherapy private practice in Santa Fe, NM. She has been a psychotherapist since 2008 with a trauma informed, relational and experiential focus. Diana is trained in EMDR I and II, has over 650 hours of psychodrama training, and is Internal Family Systems informed. She has a passion for group process and believes what Thich Nhat Hanh proposed that “the next Buddha may be a Sangha (group).”

Presented by: Katie Brammer PhD, LPC, LPCC,

Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 7/6 & 7/7, 9am–6:30pm, MST

DESCRIPTION: Students will explore the foundations of early parent-child relations to recognize how child development and primary attachment imprints affect future well-being and interpersonal relational patterns. Considering heart-opening, ethical, and cross-cultural practices, students will differentiate between early disruptions that can be repaired and strengthened through attuned counseling
promoting healing and secure attachments between children and parental figures. Lastly, experiential processes designed to strengthen healthy attachment will combine students’ personal and professional development.

16 contact hours toward the Children’s Mental Health Certificate

REQUIRED COURSE FOR THE CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH CERTIFICATE

16 CEUs

LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous



Presenter Bio: Katie Brammer PhD, LPC, LPCC, (She, Her, Hers) is a Counselor Educator with a background as both a Mental Health Clinician and School Counselor and is the NEI Children’s Mental Health Certificate Director. She views her teaching, scholarship, counseling, and supervisory practices as holistic and collaborative, and tailors transformational approaches into her work with the anticipation that needs of each individual are met.

Presented by: Rev. Ted Wiard, EdD, LPCC, CCMHC

Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 7/13 & 7/14, 9am–6:00pm, MST

DESCRIPTION: The weekend will include an in-depth exploration of Ethics, not only those required by various counseling organizations, but also the inner ethics of each of us, ethics in our Times and the ethics of various cultures, plus legal tools for planning for both pre-death and post-death issues, and family involvement in this process. Compassion fatigue, therapist renewal, self-care and prevention of burn-out, at mental, emotional and spiritual levels, will also be addressed. The class will include experiential work as well as informational presentations.

16 contact hours toward the Trauma, Grief and Renewal Certificate.

16 CEUs

LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous



Presenter Bio: Rev. Ted Wiard, EdD, LPCC, is the Director of the Trauma, Grief, and Renewal Certificate. Dr. Wiard is the founder and Director of Golden Willow Counseling and Golden Willow Retreat Center. He is also the co-author of Witnessing Ted: The Journey to Potential through Grief and Loss as well and continues to write professional articles pertaining to emotional healing. Dr. Wiard also maintains a private practice.

Presented by: Richard Pelfrey, BA, LADAC, NCAC,

Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 7/20 & 7/21, 9am–6:00pm, MST

DESCRIPTION: How has the dominant cultural paradigm promoted and perpetuated a culture of addiction across the socio-economic spectrum? How do we break out of the dominant cultural paradigm in order to decentralize our theoretical understanding of addiction and recovery?  How do we support healing and recovery while living in a toxic and traumatizing industrial cultural complex? In this course, students will analyze the etiology of all forms of addiction through the lens of modern culture, using relevant contemporary professional literature, and systemic ecological theoretical models. Mainstream approaches to addictions treatment and its historical roots will be examined and strategies for detoxifying from dominant cultural programming will be explored.  Cultural considerations and comparisons regarding treatment access and approaches for both privileged and marginalized populations will be discussed.  Students will also gain pragmatic clinical skills for decentralizing treatment, in order to apply innovative and holistic interventions that can help guide clients back to lasting sustainable healing and recovery.  

16 contact hours toward the Addictions, Abuse, and Recovery Certificate

16 CEUs

LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous


Presenter Bio: Richard Pelfrey, BA, LADAC, NCAC, has been holding space for the resolution and reintegration of trauma and addictions of all forms for the past 12 years. While becoming licensed as an addictions counselor, Richard heard the call to expand his work with people beyond traditional models and began exploring alternative methods for the resolution of trauma. Richard is trained and certified in Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Wim Hoff method, and Brainspotting, meditation leadership and grief counseling, and incorporates all of these modalities as well as a decade of apprenticeship in the Toltec wisdom path and traditional earth-based ceremony in his focused work with individuals and groups for the purpose of healing and finding our highest joy and artistry in life.

Presented by: Amy Wong Hope, MA, LCSW,

Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 7/27 & 7/28, 9am–6pm, MST

DESCRIPTION: This course will challenge students to apply ethical considerations in psychedelic-assisted therapy to enhance safety and reduce risk. Through reflective practice, this course will help students identify and deconstruct myths and biases that they may hold from historical and cultural influences. The extent and limitations of professional roles and scope of practice will be examined, while considering the scientific and cultural resources used to inform ethical decision-making. Students will explore topics of sustainability, appropriation, and other social justice issues and identify best practices for determining readiness, appropriateness of fit, and informed consent.  

16 contact hours toward the Psychedelic Studies Certificate

REQUIRED COURSE FOR THE PSYCHEDLIC STUDIES CERTIFICATE

16 CEUs

LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous


Presenter Bio: Amy Wong Hope, MA, LCSW, is the Certificate Program Director of the Psychedelic Studies Certificate. Amy is trained as an MDMA-assisted therapist through the (MAPS) Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and co-author of Small Doses of Awareness: A Microdosing Companion (due to be published spring 2024). Amy maintains a private practice with a focus on trauma-informed modalities and shame-resilience approaches that support clients in restoring emotional, somatic, and relational resiliency.

Presented by: Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP & Marna Hauk, PhD

Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 8/10 & 8/11, 9am–6:30pm, MST

DESCRIPTION: The Earth is a sacred being. She reminds us that we are part of one ecosystem, of life sustaining life. Many of us experience the historical and cultural norms of cultures of domination that create separation and disconnection and reinforce a strong sense of individual identity. We often lose the sense of belonging to and with the Earth. Awakening to animate the sacredness of the Earth to move through us is a way to deepen our interconnectedness and knowing of this belonging. In this course, we will explore through deepening our presence in meditation practice, practices of Earth dreaming and Terrapsychology, ceremony/ritual and connection to the mystery, Earth art, and deep ecology. These Earth-honoring practices for enriching our relationship with ourselves, one another, and the Earth will remind us of our deep connectedness. We will activate the sacred animacy of the Earth to move through us, to bring this into greater consciousness. We will examine the ways that we are disconnected and blocked. We will identify and practice releasing resistance and barriers to this divine truth that we are part of all life as we open embodied pathways allowing the transformative and healing qualities of life to move through us. We will explore these mutual, life-giving practices of connectedness as acts of regenerative remembrance. During the course, you will have the opportunity to develop and deepen your personal relationship with the sacred aliveness of the Earth and learn to bring this alive into the ecotherapy work you plan to share with your clients.

16 contact hours toward the Ecotherapy Certificate.

LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous

16 CEUs

Presenter Bio: Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP, is the author of Healing with Nature: Mindfulness and Somatic Practices to Heal from Trauma. She has studied and taught mindfulness for the past 19 years and personally knows the transformational potential. Dr. Calvert currently leads courses, workshops, and treats in mindfulness and somatic experiencing in nature. As a licensed clinical psychologist and founder of New Mindful Life, she supports her clients, taking them into nature with the aid of Bertha Grace, a Sprinter van that serves as a mobile therapy office. www.newmindfullife.com