- Define the neurobiology of trauma as it relates to trauma treatment.
- Identify the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
- Integrate polyvagal theory to the assessment of the neuroception of safety and threat.
- Evaluate the tiered response to threat and hybrid nervous system states.
- Determine co-regulation strategies that strengthen the social engagement system.
- Choose tools to expand the window of tolerance.
- Combine principles of somatic psychology with trauma recovery.
- Determine grounding techniques that increase clients’ resources.
- Examine Heart Rate Variability (HRV) as it relates to stress management.
- Evaluate how natural vagus nerve stimulation can enhance health.
- Identify the five types of therapeutic yoga practices used for trauma recovery.
- Evaluate the intersection of neuroplasticity research applied to trauma treatment.
- Define emotional dysregulation as “parts” of self.
- Utilize practical parts work therapy interventions to improve treatment outcomes for “resistant” clients.
- Choose trauma-informed therapeutic yoga practices to enhance felt safety and self-regulation.
- Utilize self-compassion as a resource for mind-body health.
- Determine modified EMDR therapy protocols that create a safe healing environment for complex trauma.
- Integrate Parts Work Therapy interventions into trauma treatment.
Immerse yourself in the natural beauty of the Sedona Mago Retreat Center near Sedona, Arizona where you’ll spend 5 transformational days with internationally-renowned trauma expert Arielle Schwartz!
Nourish your body and mind during this experiential, clinical getaway and gain the integrative approaches you need to help clients navigate the journey of trauma recovery.
PLUS, earn up to 18 CE Hours AND become certified as a Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)!*
Nourish your body and mind during this experiential, clinical getaway and gain the integrative approaches you need to help clients navigate the journey of trauma recovery.
PLUS, earn up to 18 CE Hours AND become certified as a Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)!*
As a clinician, you understand that simply talking through trauma isn’t always enough and can even worsen symptoms—intensifying intrusive thoughts and deepening anxiety.
Trauma is more than just an emotional wound; it manifests physically—causing muscle tension, altered heart rates, and breathing issues—impacting the entire system.
That’s why addressing both body and mind is crucial for providing ethical, cutting-edge care.
When you integrate these advanced practices into your therapy sessions, you help clients reconnect with their bodies, regulate emotions, and fully integrate trauma…
…transforming their journey from mere survival into deep, lasting change.
Within the transformative, healing landscape of Sedona, trauma expert and best-selling author Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, will guide you through her signature mind-body approach to addressing clients’ trauma. You’ll learn to integrate interventions from cognitive behavioral therapies including EMDR, somatic psychology, parts work therapies, and therapeutic yoga; all of which are grounded within a relational, psychodynamic approach to care.
Through this interactive, hands-on, and highly experiential learning experience, you will practice and absorb the approaches and tools you need to reduce the burdens of trauma and feelings of hopelessness from your client’s body and mind.
PESI retreats fill up fast, so secure your spot today!
Arielle Schwartz’s Trauma Treatment Certification Retreat
Integrating EMDR, Somatic Therapy & Polyvagal Theory for Post-Traumatic Growth
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Wednesday, November 13th – Sunday, November 17th, 2024
Single Occupancy: $2,999.00
Plus, earn up to 18 CE Hours — included in your tuition. Click here for Credit details
Credit hours may vary by board and profession. Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession. Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Throughout 30 years of experience as a trained somatic psychotherapist, trauma treatment expert, EMDR Therapy consultant, and yoga instructor, Dr. Schwartz has formed the basis of her resilience-informed and strength-based approach to care.
Join a group of your colleagues as Dr. Schwartz guides you through immersive and experiential activities, didactic lectures, Q&As, live demonstrations, and hands-on skills training across multiple approaches:
- Polyvagal Theory – Learn to address the physiological imbalances in the autonomic nervous system through practices that allow clients to sense their body, change how they breathe, move stuck energy & rest into stillness.
- Somatic Therapies – Discover how mindful body awareness is an essential part of psychotherapy & learn gently guided somatic movement & yoga practices to help clients access positive states of empowerment, strength & relaxation. No yoga or somatic movement experience needed!
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) – Gain an understanding of how to safely work with clients’ emotions, sensations & dissociative states to help them process disturbing memories through desensitizing related images, thoughts, feelings & body sensations. No previous EMDR training required!
- And More!
You don’t want to miss this opportunity to learn from Dr. Schwartz and unlock your potential to cultivate well-being, foster resilience, and generate post-traumatic growth in your clients suffering from trauma’s overwhelming symptoms.
And there’s more! The Sedona Mago Retreat Center offers an exquisite landscape, waterfalls, garden walks, and healthful cuisine.
Past participants rave about how wonderful it is to stay at Mago…taking time to unwind, rejuvenate and connect with themselves and their community of colleagues…all at this remarkable place. The daily schedule is designed to allow ample personal time to enjoy the beautiful surroundings and amenities. And, with all-inclusive pricing, your lodging, meals, and training are all covered in one simple price.
Are you ready! Register today and we’ll see you in Sedona!
Arielle Schwartz’s Trauma Treatment Certification Retreat
Integrating EMDR, Somatic Therapy & Polyvagal Theory for Post-Traumatic Growth
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Wednesday, November 13th – Sunday, November 17th, 2024
Single Occupancy: $2,999.00
Plus, earn up to 18 CE Hours — included in your tuition. Click here for Credit details
Credit hours may vary by board and profession. Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession. Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Retreat Schedule
All Times Listed in Local Time
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
4:00–5:30 pm
Check-in
5:30–6:30 pm
Dinner
7:00–8:30 pm
Introduction and Overview Content*
Thursday, November 14 – Saturday, November 16, 2024
7:00–8:00 am
Breakfast
8:00–11:00 am
Training*
12:00–1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00–5:30 pm
Restoration and Relaxation
5:30–6:30 pm
Dinner
6:30–8:30 pm
Training*
Sunday, November 17, 2024
7:00–8:00 am
Breakfast
8:00–9:30 am
Training*
9:30 am–12:00 pm
Check Out and Depart Retreat Center
*CE is awarded during these specified times. Licensing boards require full attendance to the entire retreat, including departure day, to receive any credit for the entire retreat. Please plan travel accordingly.
Who Should Attend?
The target audience includes:
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Art Therapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
See What Others Have Said...
“Dr. Schwartz is an excellent presenter and researcher! I consider myself a seasoned trauma specialist and I learned so much...”
—Marie G., PhD
"Dr. Schwartz has been, hands down, the most effective presenter I have experienced in the PESI system. A valuable gem to the community. A whole soul who knows how to show others what it is like to care.”
—Walter D., LMFT
"Arielle is an EXCEPTIONAL facilitator!! I will absolutely take her courses, seek them out, moving forward.”
Arielle Schwartz’s Trauma Treatment Certification Retreat
Integrating EMDR, Somatic Therapy & Polyvagal Theory for Post-Traumatic Growth
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Wednesday, November 13th – Sunday, November 17th, 2024
Single Occupancy: $2,999.00
Plus, earn up to 18 CE Hours — included in your tuition. Click here for Credit details
Credit hours may vary by board and profession. Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession. Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Retreat Content
Outline
A Resilience Informed Approach to Trauma Treatment
- Program overview and objectives
- What is trauma: Trauma as a continuum
- DSM-5® classification of trauma & stressor-related disorder
- Assessment of psychological trauma including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex Trauma
- Principles of trauma-informed care
- Current literature and research on the latest treatment modalities
- A resilience informed approach to care
- Reflecting on resilience
- Experiential Practices:
- Orienting, grounding into support, intention, connections and group interaction
- Choice and containment
- Embodied self-care for practitioners
- Recognizing developmental, attachment, and relational trauma
- Intergenerational, legacy, and collective trauma: Contextualizing symptoms
- Trauma and the nervous system: Insights from interpersonal neurobiology
- Case conceptualization and history: Taking questions with spacious relational awareness
- Somatic Psychology: Embodiment in trauma treatment
- Titration, pendulation, and somatic repatterning in trauma recovery
- Attunement skills to track nonverbal communications in trauma treatment
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
- Affect regulation and co-regulation through relational resourcing
- Approach-avoidance dynamics in therapy
- Working mindfully with rupture and repair cycles
- Experiential Practices:
- Therapist attachment strategies
- Somatic resources to enhance embodiment
- Proximity awareness and boundary development
- The unresolved stress response and thwarted instincts
- Anchor your Social Engagement System through vagus nerve awareness
- The Tiered Response to Threat
- Trauma and the senses: Understanding Neuroception
- Two assessment tools for nervous system awareness
- Experiential Practices:
- 5-point check-in
- Counter the negativity bias with gratitude practices
- The eight limbs of yoga from a trauma-informed perspective
- Polyvagal theory as applied to therapeutic yoga
- The five types of yoga interventions
- Heart rate variability (HRV), vagal tone, and vagal efficiency
- How fascia or the connective tissue matrix is essential for mind-body communications
- Discuss brain integration in therapeutic yoga
- Experiential Practices:
- Conscious breathing for stress reduction
- Natural vagus nerve stimulation practices to promote emotional and physical health
- Explore a gentle Therapeutic yoga Sequence
- The importance of restorative practices for mind-body health
- How to provide Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
- Experiential Practices:
- Strategies for self-compassion and loving kindness
- Trauma-informed yoga nidra practice
- Discuss The 8-Phases of EMDR Therapy
- Neural networks and “encapsulated” ego states
- Bilateral stimulation and dual attention in EMDR Therapy
- Explore how to safely work with client’s emotions, sensations, and dissociative states
- Recognize parts, ego states and defenses
- Understanding Emotional Dysregulation as a “part”
- Facilitating Rescue and Repair scenarios
- Modified EMDR Therapy Protocols
- Experiential Practices:
- Anchoring the Adult Self
- Build Allies for a Part of Self
- Live demonstration session
Pendulation and the H.E.A.L. Protocol - Practice
Enhancing Resilience & Post-Traumatic Growth: Anchoring Positive Changes- Resilience as a process and an outcome
- Help clients move from learned helplessness to learned optimism
- Empower growth post-trauma and build a personalized resilience recipe
- Experiential Practices:
- Expand possibilities with Installation of a Golden Nugget
Arielle Schwartz’s Trauma Treatment Certification Retreat
Integrating EMDR, Somatic Therapy & Polyvagal Theory for Post-Traumatic Growth
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Wednesday, November 13th – Sunday, November 17th, 2024
Single Occupancy: $2,999.00
Plus, earn up to 18 CE Hours — included in your tuition. Click here for Credit details
Credit hours may vary by board and profession. Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession. Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Meet Your Retreat Instructor
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified complex trauma professional, EMDR Consultant, and Kripalu yoga teacher. She is an internationally sought-out speaker, leading voice in the field of trauma recovery, and the author of seven books including The Complex PTSD Workbook, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, and her latest, Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga.
As the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, she offers an integrative, mind-body approach to therapy that includes relational therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR Therapy, parts-work therapy, and therapeutic yoga for trauma. She specializes in applied polyvagal theory which focuses on addressing imbalances within the autonomic nervous system that underlie most mental and physical health conditions.
Dr. Schwartz provides informational mental health and wellness updates through her writing, public speaking, social media presence, and blog. She believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.
Click here for information about Arielle Schwartz
As the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, she offers an integrative, mind-body approach to therapy that includes relational therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR Therapy, parts-work therapy, and therapeutic yoga for trauma. She specializes in applied polyvagal theory which focuses on addressing imbalances within the autonomic nervous system that underlie most mental and physical health conditions.
Dr. Schwartz provides informational mental health and wellness updates through her writing, public speaking, social media presence, and blog. She believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.
Click here for information about Arielle Schwartz
What does Tuition Include?
- Learn to facilitate lasting change using a mind-body approach to complex trauma
- Experiential learning, live demos, and Q&As with a renowned trauma expert
- CCTP Certification Application Fee – A $99.99 value!
- Up to 18 CE Hours, CE Certificate & course manual
- Healing vortexes, meditation areas & labyrinth
- Peaceful lake & trails – surrounded by magnificent red rock mountains
- Healthful pesco-vegetarian cuisine
- Lodging, with private bathrooms, for duration of your stay
Are you ready to step into the life awaiting you as a
Certified Complex Trauma Professional (CCTP)?
Certified Complex Trauma Professional (CCTP)?
Elevate your career with a new certification, and walk away from this training with CCTP as a new credential!
Certification Made Simple
Certification Made Simple
It's never been easier to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP):
- Step 1: Attend this retreat.
- Step 2: Complete the CE test.
- Step 3: Submit your application to Evergreen Certifications & we’ll cover the cost of your certification fee (a $99.99 value!)*
That's it! No hidden fees, no catch. Just certification made EASY.
*Professional and clinical standards apply.
Click Here to Learn More About CCTP Certification
We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product, we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.
*Professional and clinical standards apply.
Click Here to Learn More About CCTP Certification
We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product, we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.
If you’re looking for a place to unwind and reconnect with what’s important, what better environment than one of the most beautiful deserts on the planet?
The Sedona Mago Retreat Center is located in Sedona, Arizona, an area long known for natural healing and spiritual awakening. Surrounded by red monoliths, Native American ruins and majestic mountains. Experience the beauty, feel the energy, and awaken your spirit.
Retreat Highlights
- Secluded retreat, offering 173 acres
- Private or shared lodging with private bathrooms
- Healthful pesco-vegetarian cuisine (3 meals daily)
- Beautiful lake surrounded by trees, flowers, aromatic herbs, and many wild birds
- Covered patios, meditation areas & labyrinth
- Healing vortexes – experience healing and deep awakening
- Peaceful trails to enjoy nature
- Awe-inspiring sunrises, sunsets and stargazing
- Direct shuttles service available from Phoenix Sky Harbor (additional fees)
Retreat Location
Sedona Mago Retreat
3500 E Bill Gray Road
Sedona, AZ 86336, USA
Phone: (928) 204-3391
Shuttle Services
Shuttle services are available from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to Sedona Mago. Please contact AZ Shuttle Select (623-200-2849) or Groome Transportation (928-350-8466) for more information and reservations. Note that transit times may take longer than the geographical distance from the airport. Please review the retreat’s schedule above, inquire regarding transit times with the shuttle services, and plan flights/travel accordingly.
Accessibility
Sedona Mago Retreat Center has been mindfully set in nature – the grounds and roads are a mixture of dirt, gravel, and pavement. The general guest areas are spread out over many acres, so getting to and from various points will require walking moderate distances and traversing stairs and hills. If mobility is a concern, please contact the retreat center before registering with PESI.
Non-Participating Retreat Guests
Sedona Mago is an all-inclusive retreat center. All reservations are per individual, not per room. All individuals staying at the retreat center incur a room and board charge whether or not they are participating in the PESI educational training. If you are considering bringing a guest with you who will not be participating in the PESI educational training, please contact PESI at 800-844-8260.
CE Information
Please review the retreat’s credit information by clicking any of the “Click here for CE credit details” links found above.
PLEASE NOTE: Most licensing boards require full attendance to the entire program to receive any credit.
Please review the retreat’s schedule above and plan your travel accordingly to ensure full attendance to the program.
Health and Safety
Attendees’ health and safety is a top priority for PESI & Sedona Mago Retreat Center. For the most up-to-date health and safety guidelines, click here.
All attendees are advised to purchase travel insurance that includes a cancellation for any reason option to protect your travel plans.
If for any reason you are unable to attend, please contact us immediately:
Email: retreatinfo@pesi.com • Phone: 800-844-8260
Please check with your local government to see what advisories are in place before you travel.
All flights are subject to the terms and conditions of your airline carrier's policy travel plans.
Arielle Schwartz’s Trauma Treatment Certification Retreat
Integrating EMDR, Somatic Therapy & Polyvagal Theory for Post-Traumatic Growth
LIVE in Sedona, Arizona: Wednesday, November 13th – Sunday, November 17th, 2024
Single Occupancy: $2,999.00
Plus, earn up to 18 CE Hours — included in your tuition. Click here for Credit details
Credit hours may vary by board and profession. Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.
Credit hours may vary by board and profession. Don't see your state profession listed? Contact us.