Presented by: Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP

Saturday and Sunday, April 5 & 6, 9am- 6:30pm Mountain Time Zone

Synchronous Online via Zoom

We all have the capacity to find our way with our own rhythms, cycles, and connection to nature to heal. In this course we will explore nature-based teachings and practices to connect to the rhythms, cycles, and elements of nature to heal our inner landscape and experience ways to live in a more deeply interconnected way with life. Most people are disconnected from themselves and from the health they can experience when living in balance and harmony with life. We will cultivate learning to listen to nature's rhythms and the movements of life, develop ways to integrate the cycles of the seasons into life, and explore deepening our relationship to the elements to support health physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. During this course there will be an opportunity to deepen your personal relationship with nature’s healing and integrate your own unique wisdom of connection with nature (i.e., gardening, ecotherapy art, animal supported therapy, plant medicines) to expand its healing potential into your ecotherapy practice to share with your clients.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Ecotherapy certificate

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: Rev. Ted Wiard, EdD, LPCC, CGC

Saturday and Sunday, April 12 & 13, 9am- 6:00pm Mountain Time Zone

Synchronous Online via Zoom

This course will focus on the transformational process involved in working with people experiencing grief. Students will learn to differentiate between trauma and grief and how the brain responds to each differently. Through readings, experiential exercises, understanding of cultural competencies, guided imagery, ritual, ceremony, and mindfulness activities, participants will receive resources to be able to assess situations and provide support to individuals, families, groups, and communities experiencing loss, grief, and trauma.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Trauma, Grief, and Renewal certificate

Rev. Ted Wiard, EdD, LPCC, CGC, 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: Amy Wong Hope, MSW, LCSW

Saturday and Sunday, April 26 & 27, 9am- 6:30pm Mountain Time Zone

Synchronous Online via Zoom

This course will explore the mystical and transcendent experiences common in psychedelic-assisted therapy interventions. Indigenous traditions and their influence on current therapeutic usage of psychedelic compounds will be explored. The phenomenology of the transformation process from clinical and ethical standpoints, and the qualities, stages, and variables that define the psychedelic-assisted therapy experience will be discussed. Students will have the opportunity to participate and/or see experiential exercises that simulate these phenomena. Students will analyze how best to take advantage of adaptive neuroplasticity activated to integrate changed perspectives and behaviors. Students will assess how the variables of facilitator or therapist approaches, group or individual usage, location, music, and many other aspects in the set and setting affect the psychedelic experience of the participant.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Psychedelic Studies certificate

Amy Wong Hope, MSW, LCSW, is the Certificate Program Director of the Psychedelic Studies Certificate. Amy is a certified Psilocybin Facilitator (InnerTrek, 2024) and MDMA-assisted therapist through the (MAPS, 2018) Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and co-author of Small Doses of Awareness: A Microdosing Companion (published Feb 2024, Chronicle Books). Amy maintains a private practice with a focus on psychedelic preparation and integration, trauma-informed modalities, and shame-resilience approaches that support clients in restoring emotional, somatic, and relational resiliency.

Presented by: Naja Druva MS, LPCC

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, May 1, 2, and 3
Thursday 5:30 – 8:30 pm Friday 3:00 – 8:00pm Saturday 9:00am – 6:30pm Mountain Time Zone

Synchronous Online via Zoom

This course explores effective interventions and counseling approaches for mental health issues affecting children, adolescents, and families. It will integrate holistic perspectives from the field of mental health, human development, family systems, neuroscience, and holistic health. Unique social and cultural contexts found in New Mexico will be highlighted. A combination of didactic and experiential modalities will be used, as well as the introduction of applicable tools and approaches for best practices in working with children. Sections on mindfulness, emotional self-regulation techniques, play, and creative movement will be featured. This course is geared toward counselors, therapists, social workers, psychologists, school counselors, early interventionists, and others working with children and teens in related practices.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Children’s Mental Health certificate

Naja Druva MS, LPCC is a licensed therapist who has spent her career working with New Mexico children and their families. With 10 years of experience her specialty is addressing childhood trauma within family systems. Naja’s training includes Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Trauma Focused Conative Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT), Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), and Trauma Resource Management (TRM). After the events of May 2020, Naja felt moved to participate in the civil rights movement by parlaying her experience and training to address the trauma inflicted on families of color by inequitable, unjust, and violent systems within society. By applying a trauma informed lens to her work, Naja hopes to educate those working within systems about how to care for themselves and others while making positive change in society at large.”.

Presented by: Laura Rademacher, MA, LMFT, CST, CST-S

Saturday and Sunday, May 10 & 11 9:00am – 6:30pm Mountain Time Zone

Synchronous Online via Zoom

This course will explore the idea of sexual inheritance, or more specifically, the messages about sexuality implicitly and explicitly received from our families, the people who raised us, cultural beliefs/practices, religious beliefs/practices, as well as epigenetic inheritances of the experiences of our ancestors. Students will learn to identify elements of sexual inheritance, including bias and unconscious narratives that can create barriers for relating with diverse clients, and examine how these inheritances may shape us as people and professionals. We will practice skills to help clients explore their sexual inheritance as well as how to implement interventions to begin a process of change for the parts of their sexual inheritance they want to transform and heal in order to facilitate authentic intimacy with self and other and participate more consciously in their sexual lives.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Human Sexuality certificate

Laura Rademacher, MA, LMFT, CST, CST-S, is the Director of the Human Sexuality Certificate program. She is an AASECT certified sex and relationship therapist with over 15 years of experience as a sex-positive sexual health educator. She is the author of “The Principles of Pleasure: Working with the Good Stuff as Sex Therapists and Educators.”

Presented by: Richard Pelfrey, MS, LMHC, LADAC, NCAC

Saturday and Sunday, May 17 & 18 9:00am – 6:00pm Mountain Time Zone

In person at SWC Campus

This course considers the development of Substance Use Disorder within the context of the family system. Within family systems, implicit messages often serve to maintain homeostasis and avoid the “elephant in the room,” perpetuating addiction and substance use. This kind of denial contributes to lack of attunement and attachment rupture, diminishing relational safety, and creating an environment where the rule of, “Don’t talk, don’t trust, don’t feel,” predominates. This course examines addiction, intergenerational and epigenetic patterns of behavior, and survival mechanisms that shape family systems. We explore how substance misuse and addiction, as well as unconscious patterns of behavior and communication, affect and inform the dynamics of the family system. Utilizing this foundation, participants conceptualize treatment planning and the overall recovery process through a systems lens, from onset to maintenance. Conversely, we examine how the recovery process itself may impact the family system as a whole. Strategies for individual and family therapy are discussed and practiced, covering diverse, culturally sustaining modalities and approaches that wholeheartedly and compassionately address the “elephant in the room.”


16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Addictions, Abuse, and Recovery certificate

Richard Pelfrey, MS, LMHC, 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: Diana Zumas, MA, LPC, LPCC

Saturday and Sunday, June 7 & 8 9:00am – 5:30pm Mountain Time Zone

In person at SWC Campus

This experiential course begins with the basic premise of Internal Family Systems, that humans are comprised of different psychological, emotional, and somatic parts. Elements of Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology can be utilized to explore and understand these various parts to inform both differentiation and integration. When considered through a parts perspective, the more we define and get to know our internal aspects and connect with them through compassion, presence, and curiosity we are able to cultivate coherence of the Self. Through various experiential processes, we can get to know our own inner parts through modalities that include action methods, mindfulness, psychodrama, and artwork, held within the container of Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology. By externalizing parts to better get to know them, we begin to attune with them with warmth and non-judgment and start welcoming them into our inner constellation in a more integrated way. Students practice meeting different internal aspects with presence and empathic attunement, to allow parts to reveal themselves in a new light, let go of burdens, and re-integrate into the inner orchestra of the Self with a preferred role and renewed access to their gifts, talents, and abilities. This process can profoundly transform our relationship to self and other.  The skills learned in this course can be applied both personally and professionally and utilized with a variety of settings and populations. No prior experience in parts work or action methods required. 

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology certificate

Diana Zumas, MA, LPC, LPCC, is the Director of the Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program. Diana has 17 years of psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy training. She has a psychotherapy private practice in Santa Fe, NM.

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