TRAININGS
“This workshop really solidifies the importance of an “embodied” or experiential practice of self compassion to deepen integration and promote healing. Ellen synthesizes the research and breaks down the most important concepts in an accessible and applicable way. This was a remarkable experience and I can’t recommend it highly enough! ”
CONTINUING EDUCATION WORKSHOPS
THE COMPASSION CULTIVATION CYCLE | Building Resilience & Self-Compassion
NEXT TRAINING | March 6th | WHERE | Zoom | 6 CE CREDITS | For LMHC, LICSW, MFT
Join Head & Heart for a unique, integrative experience of restoration and learning. Clinical Social Worker Ellen Slater offers retreat style experiential workshops with interactive lecture, guided mindfulness, writing prompts, and unique, thought provoking practices.
Ellen teaches the Compassion Cultivation Cycle™ (CCC), which is a model she designed from her experience and training in Interpersonal Neurobiology, Polyvagal and Attachment Theories, The Neuroscience of Compassion, and Ecology. The CCC is a framework to understand shame, anxiety, depression and other forms of suffering, and how to sustainably transform these experiences and build resilience and self-compassion throughout your life.
Woven through Ellen’s trainings are nervous system restoration practices such as guided mindfulness, evidence based breathing, and an atmosphere of ease, to name a few. You will leave with an intellectual understanding of the material and a path to embodied understanding. Join our trainings and support your own neurobiology, while also learning how to deliver impactful neurobiological change in your encounters with others.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Understand the neurobiology of compassion
Learn the Barriers to Compassion and how to overcome them
Learn unique experiential self-compassion practices & how to tailor them for yourself/others
Learn The Compassion Cultivation Cycle™, a framework for healing shame, anxiety, and stress
MEET YOUR GUIDE
Ellen Slater, LICSW is a graduate of University of Chicago and founder of Head & Heart, an integrative wellness center based out of Winthrop, Washington. Her studies, training, and clinical practice focus on the intersection of spirituality and psychology, incorporating the body into traditional psychotherapy. She has specialized in trauma, addiction, and neuroscience including a Fellowship with the Seattle VA Hospital and a year-long immersion in Interpersonal Neurobiology with Dr. Bonnie Badenoch. She has completed her 200 hour yoga certification alongside trainings in Mindfulness and Compassion based treatments.
Ellen focuses on designing interventions, particularly metaphor and mindfulness exercises, from a holistic perspective. She is experienced working with individuals and families in community mental health, the criminal justice system, hospital settings, and currently has a private practice alongside hosting weekend long compassion based retreats. Ellen is sensitive to biological, psychological, social, and spiritual elements of wellness. Her approach is collaborative and interactive with the intention to support discovery, and nourishment, of a whole, integrated life.
“Ellen’s workshop offers a thoughtful and clearly explained integration of attachment theory, polyvagal theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and mindfulness. She offered the right amount of teaching along with important guided experiential learning, her teaching is well worth the time and cost.”
“Ellen fostered an environment of self reflection and acceptance. Meditations, breathing, and various practices were accessible to all participants and organized to help us go deeper with each one. The practices were supported by considerable research & cited in slides we could access later for further exploration. I left with clarity and renewed energy.”
“Ellen Slater is a brilliant therapist and teacher. She gracefully weaves compassionate practice with heady science.”
EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOPS
TAILORED TO BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS
Decrease stress and improve overall well -being & team collaboration
Introductory Mindfulness Workshop: 60 minutes
You will receive mindfulness education and learn the evidence based benefits of practice. You will experience a guided practice along with Q&A about how to integrate mindfulness into everyday life. The intention of this is to decrease stress and cultivate balance within a busy world. This workshop makes mindfulness accessible and you leave with tools to apply immediately.
Compassion and Connection in the Workplace: 60 minutes
We live in such a competitive and comparing culture, yet productivity and joy are increased through collaboration. We are evolutionarily wired to be in connection. In this workshop you will learn ways to actively bring compassion into your working relationships. You will learn how to steer away from common traps such as blame, resentment, and anger through utilizing mindfulness practice, acceptance strategies, and tools in compassionate boundary setting. We practice strategies of accepting things outside of our control, and from there choose how to respond in line with our values. You will leave with tools to promote satisfaction and connection at work.
Custom Workshop
Let’s meet and discuss your group’s needs and I will tailor a custom workshop that supports mindfulness and healthy living.