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Clinical psychologist, author, and expert in personal transformation and spiritual growth. A pioneer in transpersonal psychotherapy with over 40 years experience, Dr. Hedva has worked with individuals and organizations to help them achieve greater emotional resilience, mental clarity, and overall well-being. Known for her compassionate approach to healing, blending psychological insight and embodied awareness with spiritual wisdom, Dr. Hedva was called by United Nations ambassadors and national associations on emergency humanitarian missions to train and upgrade psychologists and volunteer recovery workers in the two deadliest natural disasters of the century –to support post-civil war Sierra Leone healing; develop and lead multigenerational – genocide recovery in post-Vietnam Cambodia to facilitate recovery from colonization, and tackle racism between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.
Currently acting as Director of Training and Lead Facilitator at the Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences, Dr. Hedva developed the Embodied Awareness Certification Program, which she co-facilitates with a team of Certified Embodied Awareness Facilitators™ dedicated to extending emotional healing and renewal into our communities world-wide.
Embodied Awareness Training and Facilitator Certification is an experiential, psycho-educational training program for helping professionals, educators, first responders, and volunteers to guide individuals and groups to access their existing inner resources for personal growth and self-healing in a technique that can be passed on to others for community healing.
Offered through the Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences (CITIS), this training is based on Dr Beth Hedva’s evidence-based Spiritually Directed Therapy™ Protocol for Recovery, which was validated under the harsh conditions of the two deadliest environmental disasters of the century.
This LIVE STREAM program consists of 9 live-stream seminars.
EMBODIED AWARENESS FACILITATOR CERTIFICATION DESIGNATION requires completing:1) live-experiential seminars, to include: online work; supervised direct work with course cohorts; completion of workbook exercises and training materials; practising whole-body listening when giving and receiving insights or reflections to cohorts; and working with mentor-supervisors; 2) passing ALL On-Demand Modules quizzes and final exam with a passing grade of 75% and 3) Community Practicum and case presentation demonstrating the integration of the 5-step embodied awareness methodology into one’s workplace: private practice, agency and or community setting.
This course is relevant to those involved in direct delivery of services, and for all those interested in helping themselves and others to extend self-care during times of stress and crisis, unexpected change, or trauma, as we continue our transition into a global society.
It will be of particular interest to leaders, teachers, and human service professionals who may be helping themselves and others recover from compassion fatigue or burn-out: doctors, nurses, psychotherapists, clinical counsellors, marriage and family therapists, educational psychologist, social workers, recovery counsellors, first responders, community development professionals, body-oriented therapists, yoga therapists, and pastoral counsellors, clergy, coaches, mindfulness educators, teachers, social-change enthusiasts.
Originally developed at the request of the Indonesian Psychological Association in January 2005 after the Dec 26th tsunami disaster shattered the world community, the 5-Step method was validated by Dr. Hedva and Lisa Arman, faculty from Atma Jaya Katholik Universitas, Jakarta, training recovery volunteers in Banda Aceh, where 170,000 tsunami casualties added to 30,000 dead due to civil war trauma.
Results were presented in Kos, Greece (2006) at the Peace, International Relations, and Human Rights Symposium, sponsored by the International Council of Psychologist’s, and published in their Proceedings (2007); presented at the United Nations (2008), in NYC, NY, at the Human Rights Violations and Recovery: Body, Mind and Spirit Symposium; and published as Chapter 9, Volume 1: Natural Disasters in the text book Mass Trauma and Emotional Healing Around the World: Rituals and Practices for Resilience , edited by Kalayjian and Eugene (2009).
Dr. Hedva’s Healing from Trauma program, using the 5-Step Embodied Awareness: A Spiritually Directed Therapy Protocol for Recovery has been adapted to be culturally appropriate and meaningful in multiple communities over the years, including: Indonesia, Haiti, Canada, the US (Michigan, Arizona, Idaho, Washington, California), Canadian First Nations communities, Central America, Brazil, Europe (Italy, UK), Africa, Philippines, and in 2022-23 for the TransCultural Psychosocial Organization, Cambodia.
Continuing Education Credit for Canadian Clinical Counselors (CCCs); and for California LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. Dr. Beth Hedva, R.Psych, LMFT, CCPA accredited to provide CECs in Canada; and is an approved CE provider by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CEPA # 003933) (CAMFT). Beth Hedva, Ph.D. (RPsych #3212; RMFT # 69225; CA-BBS MFT#18470), maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. For other jurisdictions, please check with your governing board.
Program requirements include: attending live-stream seminars, completing required reading and workbook exercises; sharing workbook exercises with cohorts; arranging and participating in practice sessions with course cohorts; completion of community practicum hours including the development and integration of the 5-steps into one’s workplace: private practice, agency, or community setting.
Successful completion of experiential course requirements program, together completion the ON-DEMAND Spiritually Directed Therapy Protocol awards Embodied Awareness Facilitator Certification™ designation from the Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences.
Join an eclectic community of educators, helping professionals and cultural leaders who are committed to personal development and community healing. This course is relevant to those involved in direct delivery of services, and for all those interested in helping themselves and others to extend self-care during times of stress and crisis, unexpected change, or trauma, as we continue our transition into a global society.
It will be of particular interest to leaders, teachers, and human service professionals who may be helping themselves and others recover from compassion fatigue or burn-out: doctors, nurses, psychotherapists, clinical counsellors, marriage and family therapists, educational psychologist, social workers, recovery counsellors, first responders, body-oriented therapists, yoga therapists, and pastoral counsellors, clergy, coaches, mindfulness educators, teachers, social-change enthusiasts, community development professionals.
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