The National Empowerment Center, a National Consumer Technical Assistance Center, is pleased to announce that the Alternatives Conference 2017 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston Park Plaza from Friday evening, August 18 through Monday, August 21, 2017. Each Alternatives Conference offers in-depth technical assistance on peer-delivered services and self-help/recovery methods. The Alternatives … Continued

For health-care professionals, therapists, yoga teachers, school teachers, military, and disaster relief workers. Breath-Body-Mind integrates ancient and modern trauma-sensitive techniques to rapidly balance stress-response systems for self-care and healing others. Developed by medical doctors Richard P. Brown and Patricia Gerbarg, Breath-Body-Mind has proven benefits for health-care professionals, patients, military veterans, and survivors of mass disasters, … Continued

Develop skills to become leaders in training others. For health-care professionals, yoga teachers, schoolteachers, military, and disaster relief workers. Level-3 candidates attend Level-1 Teacher Training and learn how to train others to teach B-B-M practices, plan and run workshops, explain scientific principles, and create resource materials. Level-3s learn more advanced healing techniques and the use … Continued

The 2017-2019 International Certification Training Program in Dialogic Practice meets the international standards for full training in Open Dialogue.  Faculty includes Jorma Ahonen, MSc, Nazlim Hagmann, MD, Mary Olson, PhD, Peter Rober, PhD and Jaakko Seikkula, PhD, together with international guest speakers. This three-year program is delivered in four intensives per year and taught by the … Continued

For students who have completed Breath-Body-Mind Teacher Training, Level 1 In this second part of the three-level teacher training sequence, you build on skills gained in Level 1 and learn to teach additional techniques for stress, anxiety disorders, PTSD, military trauma, post-disaster, depression, ADHD, physical limitations, and stress-related medical conditions. Specific methods of teaching to … Continued