Resilience: Working with Trauma, Cultivating Aliveness (PB1M26)

Registration closes at 9:00am (Pacific Time) on March 28, 2026. A waiting list will be created if the program fills early. A recording* will be available following the program. Continuing Education credits? (see details below).

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Description:
In a time when daily stress, social upheaval, and the climate crisis leave many of us overwhelmed or “stuck” in fight, flight, or freeze, our natural resilience can feel out of reach. This weekend retreat offers a grounded path back to your inherent aliveness and inner strength.

Together, we’ll explore practices that support the body and mind in returning toward balance during moments of fear, helplessness, and emotional overload. Drawing from time-tested mindfulness practices and evidence-informed stress-reduction and resilience tools backed by neuroscience, participants will explore ways to settle the body and meet challenges with clarity and compassion.

Our time will include teachings, guided stationary and movement meditations, trauma teachings, self-reflection, and Q&A. This weekend will include discussion and demonstration sessions led by Peter Levine, PhD, which are not CE-eligible. Many practitioners experience a more joyful heart, deeper sleep, improved digestion, steadier relationships, and a renewed sense of belonging.

This retreat is an opportunity to return to yourself—to reclaim ease, courage, and the essence of aliveness.

Important note: Peter Levine, PhD, will be joining for periods throughout the day.

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

Tentative Schedule (subject to change)
10:00am – 12:30pm: Morning Session w/ a break
12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch Break
1:30pm – 4:00pm: Afternoon Session w/ a break

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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 – $315
Sustainer – $170
Basic – $135
Scholarship Rate (BIPOC, M/K) – $80

All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org no later than 12:00pm (NOON) PT on the day prior to the program date.

*Recording Note: Registration includes unlimited access to this program’s recording. You must register by the deadline above. The recording will be available in ~10 days after the program.

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

Cancellation Policy – Online: Drop-ins, Daylongs, Multiday Programs (1-3 days), Family Programs/Series, CE fees:

• NO REFUNDS
• Open Credit, or Donation to Spirit Rock = if cancel by midnight, the day prior to program start (Pacific Time)
• No Open Credit = if cancel day of the program, or beyond

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Continuing Education (CE) credit available:
This program offers 8 Continuing Education (CE) credits/contact hours for $80, applicable for psychologists, and California-licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors, and may be applicable for other licenses. Please review our Continuing Education information page for provider details, and to determine if your association or board will accept credits offered by Spirit Rock.

Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. 
This program offers clinicians gentle, trauma-sensitive practices that support steadier presence and greater capacity when working with stress, activation, and emotional intensity—whether in themselves or in those they serve. Through mindfulness, grounded somatic awareness, and simple nervous-system–supportive skills such as orienting, pacing, and settling, participants learn ways to recognize activation early and respond with clarity rather than overwhelm.

These approaches strengthen attention, compassion, and attunement—qualities that enhance therapeutic communication, improve patient safety, and help clinicians navigate demanding care environments with more ease. Many of the practices can also be adapted for client and patient education, offering accessible tools that support emotional regulation, trauma-sensitive care, and more resilient coping. These applications are relevant for psychologists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals engaged in both direct and indirect care.

CE credit is available only for portions of the program that draw from mindfulness-based stress reduction, evidence-supported trauma-sensitive mindfulness practices, and resilience-building strategies grounded in established psychological literature.

Portions of the retreat that include demonstrations or teachings of Somatic Experiencing® (SE) or other proprietary somatic modalities are not eligible for CE credit and are clearly designated in the schedule. Participants may attend these periods, but they do not count toward CE hours.

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

• Describe and identify body-based somatic practices that are useful for working with trauma in folks experiencing high states of physical and emotional arousal.
• Explain and utilize a mindfulness-informed practice that can help reduce anxiety and support emotional steadiness in clients and ourselves.
• Describe a compassion-based practice that supports a reduction in symptoms for people experiencing low mood or depressive patterns.
• Utilize a strength-building practice that helps expand resilience during stress or emotional intensity.
• Identify and apply a neuroscience-informed, body-based awareness practice that supports working with trauma-related sensations in a safe and regulated way.
• Explain a mindfulness or grounding practice that helps work with the stress of climate-related concerns and collective uncertainty.

Continuing Education content level: Introductory

Schedule: (Full attendance is required. Times are listed in Pacific time.)
10:00am – 10:30am: Opening & overview
10:30am – 11:00am: Guided practices
11:00am – 11:30am:  Discourse
11:30am – 12:00pm: Guided contemplative practice
12:00pm – 12:30pm: Resiliency practices
12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm – 2:00pm: Guided Practice
2:00pm – 3:00pm: Discussion and Demonstrations with Peter Levine (no CE)
3:00pm – 3:50pm: Group work
3:50pm – 4:00pm: Closing

Attendance policy for CE participants:

• Attendance will be tracked automatically and verified as follows:
  • Sign in to Zoom with the same email used for registration, before joining the program, to ensure attendance tracking.
  • Join on time using the Zoom app or a web browser (phone dial-ins are not tracked).
  • Stay logged in and engaged for the duration of the program.
• Internet Reliability – Participants are responsible for a stable internet connection.
• Submit your professional information within one week of receiving the access link. This link will be emailed within 2 business days after the program concludes to all participants who have met the full attendance requirements.

Please note:

• For full Provider information, and additional CE information, including attendance requirements, cancellation, and grievance policies, please visit our Continuing Education 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 CE 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 other than those listed.
• Incomplete attendance nullifies CE eligibility as board regulations prohibit partial credit for partial attendance. Participants cannot join a program late, have gaps in attendance, or leave early and be given “partial credit” for the hours that they were present. Certificates are issued only to those who fulfill the complete attendance requirements—without exception—to maintain compliance with our provider licenses and ensure the continuation of future CE programs.
• Credit is awarded for instructional time only and does not include extended silent meditation, if offered.
• Continuing Education is sponsored by Mindful CECs.
• Mindful CECs is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Mindful CECs maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
• Co-sponsor Mindful CECs is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP17985 for 8 contact hours.
• 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.

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