Trainings

This is a growing list – please suggest the workshops that have helped you in the Comments below!

The National Alliance on Mental Illness offers a wide variety of free, online and in-person programs for education, skills training and support HERE.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction – an eight-week evidence-based program that offers secular, intensive mindfulness training with a track record of helping people to deal with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other psychological and physical conditions

• Learn about MBSR, its benefits and resources from published researcher and MBSR therapist Trish Magyari HERE
• Take a free version of the full approved 8-week training, plus a community of students and graduates, with Zoom meetings and other resources, HERE.
• Tara Brach offers a listing of mindfulness-based therapists HERE.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy provides a free course/workbook in CBT techniques, along with links to CBT resources for special needs.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides a free self-study guide with 40 short lessons, videos, and worksheets covering all four core DBT skill modules (Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness).

Emotional Freedom Technique includes two techniques: 1) tapping on acupuncture meridians while repeating affirmations, and 2) direct access to the ultimate healing power within, called The Unseen Therapist.

Active Hope – A free seven-week video course developed by Joanna Macy based on the book Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power, that takes you on a journey through seven areas that can nourish your ability to make a difference in the world.

The ManKind Project – a weekend intensive for men to find and claim healthy power within themselves, with ongoing support circles and advanced trainings.

Woman Within – a weekend intensive for women to identify their wounds, inner power, and what they want to keep or release from their lives, with ongoing support circles and advanced trainings.