Healing Our Heart: Resolving Trauma, Reclaiming Resiliency (PB1C25)

Registration will close at 3:00pm (US Pacific Time) prior to the last class on March 27, 2025. A waiting list will be created if the program fills early. A recording* will be available within 48 hours following each class. Continuing Education Credits? (see details below).**

Description:
When faced with trauma or life stressors, our soft and tender heart gets hurt and closes to the beauty and love around us. We lose joy in the simple pleasures of life, instead indulging in binge-watching movies or doomscrolling social media to manage our angst. If we fully open to our wounds, maybe we will unearth the post-traumatic growth opportunities hidden within them. Using science-backed resiliency practices, we will reconnect with our own inner resources of strength, peace, and aliveness, which will enable us to face personal, global and environmental stressors with a balanced and grounded mind-heart.

As we learn to nurture ourselves with love and kindness, we may shift away from our habitual fight, flight, and freeze reactions and become our own best friend. This, in turn, makes us more present for our friends, family, and community with a greater sense of connection, ease, and belonging.

Online Only: We are offering this program online via Zoom.

Class dates are: February 20, February 27, March 6, March 13, March 20 and March 27; all classes are held on Thursday from 5:00pm – 6:30pm US Pacific Time.

Sliding Scale: Our sliding scale options for this program include financial support for our teachers. Please consider paying at the highest rate that you can afford: your generosity supports the teachers as well as Spirit Rock and your fellow practitioners who need to pay less.

Benefactor – $600
Sustainer – $300
Basic – $150
Scholarship Rate (BIPOC, M/K) – $75

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.

*Recording Note: If you would like access to the recordings, you must register by the deadline above. You will have ~90 days from the original program date to view the recordings of this program.

**Please Note for CEC participants: If you are interested in receiving continuing education credits (CECs), you must register and pay for CECs prior to the start of the program (no retroactive CECs will be given) and you must attend the live program. Please review the CEC information below.

Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. This program offers tools to enhance emotional resilience and manage the stress and trauma healthcare providers often face in their work. By learning science-backed resiliency practices, healthcare providers can cultivate self-compassion and emotional balance, which helps them remain grounded and present for their patients and clients, even in high-stress environments. This program also teaches providers how to reconnect with their inner strength, promoting personal well-being and improving the quality of care they provide to others. Healthcare providers can integrate these resiliency practices into their work by sharing simple, science-backed techniques with clients, empowering them to manage stress, process trauma, and foster emotional balance in their own lives. By modeling these practices and guiding clients through them, providers can help create a healing environment that supports both physical and emotional well-being.

Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
At the end of the program you will be better able to:

• Describe a practice to cultivate calmness and ease, reducing feelings of anxiety and overwhelm;
• Describe the role of compassion in stress reduction, and how cultivating compassion for oneself and others can create a sense of inner peace and emotional balance;
• Describe two scientifically-supported techniques to enhance mental and emotional resilience in the face of life’s challenges;
• Explain how stress impacts the body’s systems, including the nervous, immune, and cardiovascular systems, and its long-term effects on health;
• Describe two techniques to manage and reduce stress, promoting mental clarity and emotional stability;
• Describe a mindfulness-based approach to working with eco-anxiety, fostering a sense of hope and grounded action in response to environmental concerns.

Continuing Education content level: Introductory

Attendance Requirements:To be eligible for Continuing Education Credits, participants must attend at least 5 of the 6 classes, in full, and fulfill all requirements stated on the CEC information page.

***Please note:

• For full Provider information, and additional CEC information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page.
• For those with a different license than listed above, or with a license from a different board or association than listed on our CEC info page, please contact your licensing board or association directly to request pre-approval/acceptance of CE credits offered at Spirit Rock. Spirit Rock does not confirm the applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed.
• Spirit Rock is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16905 for 7.5 contact hours.
• Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
• Potential Conflict of Interest Statement: This instructor may have authored publications relevant to the subjects covered in this course. The instructor might reference these publications during the course, and they may receive financial compensation if these publications are purchased.