Level 1 – On-Demand through the World Continuing Education Alliance (text only) Level 2 – LIVE-Stream Experiential Seminar and Practicum
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.
Embodied Awareness Training and Facilitator Certification is an experiential, psycho-educational training program for helping professionals, educators, 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.
Trainees will also learn:
- the impact of trauma on the mind, spirit, heart and body;
- five phases of growth after trauma-induced spiritual awakenings, as known to be activated by ancient and indigenous ceremonial rites of passage and
- compare those five phases of growth to stages of recovery from mass disaster trauma;
- identify five or more universal healing methodologies used to deepen connection to personal and culturally meaningful inner healing resources;
- explain and teach the practice of whole-body listening; and
- to design, develop and deliver all of this as a Self-healing and community renewal program.
Integrative and Embodied Healing for Diverse Fields
Level 2 Live-Stream Experiential Seminars: Join an eclectic community of educators, helping professionals and cultural heroes 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 accelerated change, crisis, or trauma, as we continue our transition into a global society.
Contact: e. beth@integrativesciences.org T +1 (403) 585-5805
LEVEL 1 ON-DEMAND is SELF-STUDY ONLINE (text only) Embodied Awareness: An Introduction to Spiritually Directed Protocol for Recovery. Tuition: $149.97 USD (Course #11- Package Discount) Certificate of Completion from the World Continuing Education Alliance
LEVEL 2 EMBODIED AWARENESS FACILITATOR CERTIFICATION
TUITION: $3,600.00 USD (includes GST) Early Bird Registration Closes September. 15th ~($4200.00 after September 15th) Level 2 Live-Stream EA Experiential Training & Practicum Facilitator Certification (Note: Dates and Times subject to change)
- Fall 2025 Experiential Training meets Monthly:
October 7, 8, and 9, 2025 TIMES: 6:00 pm -8:00 pm
November 6, 7, and 8, 2025 TIMES: 10:00 am – 1:00pm
December 4, 5, and 6, 2025 TIMES: 10:00 am – 1:00pm - Winter Session Practicum meet Monthly on Tuesdays, Wednesday, Thursday evenings:
January 13, 14, and 15, 2026
February 3, 4, and 5, 2026
March 5, 6, and 7, 2026 TIMES TBD - Spring Session: Monthly Monday Master Class Dates:
April 7, May 5, and June 5 / Peer Support / Consultation
Please read Levels 1 & 2 Terms & Conditions before registering.
Benefits
Safely, ethically and effectively blend evidence-based psychological practices with ancient and traditional global healing practices.
- Gain facility working with cross-cultural issues and reduce implicit bias in the delivery of trauma recovery services;
- Expand your tool-kit with step-by-step techniques to support five stages of growth after trauma;
- Implement skills and methods to address compassion fatigue and or burnout among helping professionals and front-line workers;
- Develop your own customized 5-Step individual or community renewal programs that can be incorporated into your private practice, agency, institution or community setting.
- Gain skills and methods to deliver integrative recovery approaches.
- Learn how to support and nurture interdisciplinary teams and foster collegiality between helping professionals when responding to crisis.
Level 1 Embodied Awareness: An Introduction to Spiritually Directed Therapy is an Asynchronous online program available On-Demand through the World Continuing Education Alliance
TAKE ANY ONE COURSE – OR TAKE ALL. COMPLETION OF ALL 10 COURSES AWARDS A WCEA CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPERSONAL AND INTEGRATIVE SCIENCES
Courses are designed to train you in how to use injury or trauma as a catalyst for personal transformation, and to nourish Self-care through grass-roots community healing. The theories and practices in these courses are based on Dr. Beth Hedva’s book Betrayal, Trust and Forgiveness, together with her evidence based trauma recovery protocol, which she was invited to present at the United Nations in New York, and was later published as a chapter in the text book Mass Trauma and Emotional Healing Around the World. Continuing Education
TUITION FEES: Certification Course (package of all 10 modules) $149.97 USD. Sold separately, each course is $22.97 USD. Need Financial Assistance? We seek to create a diverse and eclectic learning environment. WCEA offers a discounts available for students, early career professionals, and those in low- and middle-income countries, (based on World Bank economic classifications). For inquiries, email Dr Beth Hedva with your request to drbeth@hedva.com
Each Embodied Awareness on-line course may be taken separately or together as a package of 10 modules to offer specific therapeutic methods to build Embodied Awareness by providing theoretical information and practices which support body, brain, emotions and cognitive thoughts together with intuitive, ‘psychic’, and spiritual resources. Individual course modules sold separately at $22.97 US through the World Continuing Education Alliance (WCEA) and are available (scroll down for separate course titles and descriptions.
You may purchase all ten courses as a package, for a discounted rate of $149.97US (See ‘Course 11’ for package discount below) Continuing Education certificates and Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences Certificate of Completion is available after completing, and passing all TEN COURSE MODULES . Graduates may be eligible for up to 33 CEUs continuing education credits. Please check with your local professional governance board. Scroll down for accreditation details.Questions or complaints?
Please review our on-line Education policies:FAQs and Terms & Conditions – Accommodation for Special Needs- Registration-Refund and Grievance Policy Or TEL: +1 (403) 585-5805; OR send email to drbeth@hedva.com
COURSE LISTINGS Click on link for course description, objective and syllabus. Only pay for courses you select. *Registering for our online education indicates you have read our policies and agreed to our Terms and conditions.
Course # 1: WHAT IS EMBODIED AWARENESS?
Course # 2: EGO DEATH AND THE HUMAN STRESS RESPONSE
Course # 3: TRANSCENDENT HEART-BRAIN AND ENERGY BODY
Course # 4: INNER RESOURCES FOR SELF-RENEWAL
Course #6: RECOGNIZE SPIRITUAL BY-PASS AND COME TO KNOW YOUR SHADOW
Course # 7: 13 GUARDIANS: DWELLERS ON THE THRESHOLD OF AWAKENING
Course # 8: 12 SENSES OF EMBODIED AWARENESS
Course # 9: T-R-U-S-T MEDITATION FOR EMBODIED AWARENESS: GUIDELINES TO INNER WORK
Course #10: SELF-ECOLOGY AND SELF-CARE:GRASS-ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALING FROM TRAUMA
REQUIRED READING:Betrayal, Trust and Forgiveness: A Guided to Emotional Healing and Self Renewal by Dr. Beth Hedva. (2013) Wynwrod Press, Bonners Ferry, ID. Available world-wide on Amazon
Embodied Awareness Facilitator Training and Certification Programs are made up of diverse groups of helping professionals and educators from around the world. *Aboriginal, Indigenous, and some international applicants may be eligible for a tuition discount based on World Bank economic classifications. Submit queries with statement of intent to beth@integrativesciences.org
This LIVE STREAM Hybrid (in Calgary) program consists of 10 modules and involves online work, direct work with course cohorts, workbooks and training materials, personal support, and supervision.
Access to PDF worksheets, workbook and live stream recordings for 1 year after purchase for personal use. For professional or commercial use please contact Dr. Beth Hedva at drbeth@hedva.com. Registration and Refund Policy: No cancellations or course refunds after purchase. ACCOMODATIONS: Assistive Technologies for students with disabilities provide access for learners with special needs. For more information, visit https://www.accessibility.com/blog/assistive-technology-for-physical-disabilities QUESTIONS, GRIEVANCES, CONCERNS OR COMPLAINTS: please read Terms & Conditions before contacting the Instructor.
Syllabus and Course Description
Click to Download Syllabus and Course Description
March 21, 2024 – 1 – What is Embodied Awareness: Integrating 5 Dimensions of Self-Awareness
March 22, 2024 – 2 – Energetic First Aid: Breathwork, Pranic Healing and Energy Medicine
March 23, 2024 – 3 – Existential Crisis, Ego Death, and Instinctive Stress Reactions
March 24, 2023 – 4 – Transpersonal Psychology for Integrative Healing: Theory and Practice
April 25, 2024 – 5 – Whole-Body Listening to Process Emotions
April 26, 2024 – 6 – T-R-U-S-T: An Embodied Inner Work Method
April 27 & 28 2024 – PRACTICE – Scheduled Time with Cohorts to Practice Whole-Body Listening
May 9, 2024 – 7 – Meet the 13 Guardians on the Threshold of Awakening
May 10, 2024 – 8 – World Work: Know Your Shadow Activators and Triggers
May 11, 2024 – 9– Group Work, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout Prevention
May 12, 2024 – 10 – Ethics and the Development of Your 5-Step Grass-Roots Embodied Training Program
Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences (CITIS) EMBODIED AWARENESS FACILITATOR CERTIFICATION™ is awarded after completion of all Level 1 Training and Level 2 Practicum requirements. See Levels 1 & 2 Terms & Conditions.
Professional Development (PD) and or Continuing Education (CE) Certificate of Attendance is available upon request.
Use of any earned Certification carries with it responsibilities to become acquainted with, and work within one’s professional standards of practice, which may differ according to local, regional, or federal locations, and licensing boards.
Beth Hedva, Ph.D. (RPsych #3212; RMFT # 69225; CA-BBS MFT#18470), former Director and Chair of Continuing Education for the International Council of Psychologists, Dr. Hedva is an approved CEPA provider by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CEPA # 003933) and offers continuing education for Californian LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs; and maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. For other jurisdictions and or professional designations please confirm Professional Development (PD) or Continuing Education Credit (CEC) opportunities with your local state or provincial board.
Course Materials
Level 2 Embodied Awareness Facilitator Supervised Practicum centers on skill-building through practice with cohorts. Seminars cover the Embodied Awareness Method in detail, and provide opportunities to experience and integrate the five dimensions of embodied awareness through the development of a 5-Step grass roots community program customized to meet the needs of your population, practice, agency or community. Emphasis is on ethical incorporation of integrative counselling techniques, Spiritually Directed Therapy™ and embodied awareness practices into one’s profession in agency, community and or private practice settings.
- Energy Work, breathwork, Pranic Healing, Energy Medicine
- Engage 12 senses of embodied awareness for Self-directed guidance
- Blend Energy work with Inner work using the Embodied T-R-U-S-T Contemplative Mediation
- Guide and Train others to recognize and ‘own’ the Shadow using the acronym F-O-R-G-I-V-E
- Convert grief & loss into acceptance
- Develop and deliver a customized 5-step training program to in your practice, agency, community
Live Stream Seminar Level 2 dates are May 25, 26, June 8, 9, 22 and 23.
What Participants Say About Past Programs
“I took the course because I was curious. . . . It was deep and transformational. I learned to trust my own expanded awareness. This training changed how I view my own internal process, how I interact with others in my personal life and how I approach my professional work. It brings “wholisitic health” to a new level.”
— Dr. Bonnie Sullivan, Psychologist
“The course was a powerful learning experience, it helped me to build the connection to wisdom and trust. I discovered a new community – like-minded souls – an amazing support. I learned to live from my heart. . . to observe the changes and transformations.”
— Sylvia Barnowski, Social Worker
“I took this course because I just knew that it was something that would serve me and . . . assist me to serve others. Words that describe my experience are profound flow, inspiring gratitude, life-changing.”
— Carmen Kergan, Certified Clinical Counsellor and Reiki Healer
“Dr. Beth Hedva’s wisdom and grace made it easy to “embody” the learning. It was a creative, safe place to explore this powerful method. . . .”
— Peggy Lynch, Police woman, Artist and Astrologer
Instructor Information
Dr. Beth Hedva, Ph.D., Co-founder of the Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences, Founder and Developer of the Embodied Awareness Facilitator Certification programs, and author of the “Best-Self-Help” book Betrayal Trust and Forgiveness. 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 – the Earth-axis-altering tsunami disaster of South East Asia and the ultra-deadly earthquake in Haiti, to support post-civil war Sierra Leone healing; develop and lead multigenerational – genocide recovery in post-Vietnam Cambodia; facilitate recovery from colonization, and tackle racism between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. Download Dr. Beth Hedva’s CV
Rachel Larabee is Full Time Faculty and founder/developer of the Community Development Work (CDW) Program at Centennial College, Ontario. Rachel is passionate about engaging students and communities in transformative education that promotes social and environmental justice, experiential learning, personal meaning and place making community development work. Rachel co-founded POR AMOR Community Enhancement Initiatives in 2003, a Canadian Non-Profit Organization created to support youth development and leadership in community through the arts. For the past 20 years Rachel has engaged consulting work in community and post-secondary education to create and implement empowering leadership programming in Global Citizenship and Equity Learning, International Service Learning, Community Economic Development, Academic Upgrading for Indigenous Peoples, and Sustainable Food Education. Currently, Rachel is also a certified instructor of Kundalini Yoga.
Embodied Awareness Faculty in Training
Dr. Julie Bonitha Svay, Ph.D Physics, Founder of the Angkor Institute of Consciousness, co-author of Self-Renewal and Community Healing: An Embodied Awareness Professional Handbook, Holistic Psychotherapist, certified resilience trainer and practitioner of intuitive sophro-analysis. Julie is a native Cambodian, educated in France, where she worked as a research geophysicist, leading high-challenge multidisciplinary international projects and teams. Dr. Svay is a former member of the technical steering committee of Geoscientists Without Borders for disaster and humanitarian relief. Her mission, in collaboration with LightRise Childcare Charity, is for healing trans-generational traumas in Cambodia, and to share and enrich our understanding of human being, so as to inspire a greater wisdom in our lives.
About the 5-Step Embodied Awareness Method
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 lives were lost while suffering from 30 years of civil war. The 5-Step program has been adapted to and applied in multiple cultures and communities over the years, including: Indonesia, Haiti, Canada, Michigan, Arizona, Massachusetts, Canadian First Nations communities, Central America, Brazil, Europe (Italy, UK), Africa, Philippines, China, and in 2022-23 for the TransCultural Psychosocial Organization, Cambodia. Content continues to be updated and developed as research in the field of trauma recovery, mass trauma, and disaster trauma expands.
You will find its results presented at the International Council of Psychologist’s Peace International Relations and Human Rights Symposium: Kos, Greece, in July, 2006 under the title from this work, entitled A Year After the Tsunami: Trauma Recovery Trainings in Banda Aceh; and presented at the United Nations Ethics Committee’s “Human Rights, Violations and Recovery: Body, Mind, Spirit Practices Symposium“, in 2008; and listed as Chapter 9 of the textbook Mass trauma and emotional healing around the world, (2009), edited by In A. Kalayjian, Eugene, Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO/Praeger- Greenwood-World Publishing (pages 151-178) as well as referenced in peer-reviewed articles.
Grading
The course module is divided into three sections. To gain credit for the course a composite score of all three quizzes at the end of each section plus a final exam with a final passing grade of 75% or more qualifies the attendee for a certificate of completion from the Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences awarding 3 hours continuing education credits per module (for a total of 30 CEUs) for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Course Fee
Levels 1 Text-Only Course On-Demand through the World Continuing Education Alliance
$4,200.00 USD (GST Included) Level 2 Experiential Training & Certification Package
Levels 1 & 2 Separately
$2400.00 USD (GST Included) Level 2-Embodied Awareness Experiential Training
$2,400.00 USD (GST Included) Level 2 Embodied Awareness Practicum – Facilitator Certification (prerequisite -Level 1)
*Aboriginal, Indigenous, and certain international applicants may apply for a tuition discount based on World Bank economic classifications. Payment plans available upon request.
Terms & Conditions
Please read before registering for the program. To review, visit Levels 1 & 2 Terms & Conditions
Registration and Refund Policy: No cancellations or course refunds after purchase. Licensees have access to the course recordings, workbook and worksheets for 1 year after purchase.
Embodied Awareness Facilitator Programs are committed to creating a diverse group of program participants in the areas of skills, experience, and background. *Aboriginal, Indigenous, and certain international applicants may apply for a tuition discount based on World Bank economic classifications. Questions regarding Embodied Awareness, its programs and related content, contact Dr. Beth Hedva directly
Accommodations Assistive technologies for disability provide access for learners with special needs. For more information visit https://www.accessibility.com/blog/assistive-technology-for-physical-disabilities
Grievances or other questions, concerns and complaints please read Levels 1 & 2 Terms & Conditions before contacting the Instructor. Instructor Contact Information:
Email: drbeth@hedva.com
Telephone: +1 (403) 585-5805
For a copy of our grievance policy please visit Terms & Conditions. Dr Beth Hedva or her assignee will present the complaint, together with any attempted resolution, to the Canadian Institute of Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences’(CITIS) Executive Director to propose a resolution to the complainant and to Dr. Beth Hedva or her assignee. A summary of complaints, should there be any, are reported to the CAMFT and kept in a password-protected file for four years.
Level 1 – On-Demand through the World Continuing Education Alliance (text only) Level 2 – LIVE-Stream Experiential Seminar and Practicum
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.
Embodied Awareness Training and Facilitator Certification is an experiential, psycho-educational training program for helping professionals, educators, 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.
Trainees will also learn:
- the impact of trauma on the mind, spirit, heart and body;
- five phases of growth after trauma-induced spiritual awakenings, as known to be activated by ancient and indigenous ceremonial rites of passage and
- compare those five phases of growth to stages of recovery from mass disaster trauma;
- identify five or more universal healing methodologies used to deepen connection to personal and culturally meaningful inner healing resources;
- explain and teach the practice of whole-body listening; and
- to design, develop and deliver all of this as a Self-healing and community renewal program.
Integrative and Embodied Healing for Diverse Fields
Level 2 Live-Stream Experiential Seminars: Join an eclectic community of educators, helping professionals and cultural heroes 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 accelerated change, crisis, or trauma, as we continue our transition into a global society.
Contact: e. beth@integrativesciences.org T +1 (403) 585-5805
LEVEL 2 EMBODIED AWARENESS FACILITATOR CERTIFICATION
(Course dates and times subject to change)
- Fall 2025 Experiential Training meets Monthly:
October 7, 8, and 9, 2025 TIMES: 6:00 pm -8:00 pm
November 6, 7, and 8, 2025 TIMES: 10:00 am – 1:00pm
December 4, 5, and 6, 2025 TIMES: 10:00 am – 1:00pm - Winter Session Practicum meet Monthly on Tuesdays, Wednesday, Thursday evenings:
January 13, 14, and 15, 2026
February 3, 4, and 5, 2026
March 5, 6, and 7, 2026 TIMES TBD - Spring Session: Monthly Monday Master Class Dates:
April 7, May 5, and June 5 / Peer Support / Consultation
TUITION FEES: $3,600.00 USD (GST Included) Level 1 + Level 2 Training & Certification Package
Registration Closes Feb. 25th
Please read Levels 1 & 2 Terms & Conditions before registering.
Benefits
Safely, ethically and effectively blend evidence-based psychological practices with ancient and traditional global healing practices.
- Gain facility working with cross-cultural issues and reduce implicit bias in the delivery of trauma recovery services;
- Expand your tool-kit with step-by-step techniques to support five stages of growth after trauma;
- Implement skills and methods to address compassion fatigue and or burnout among helping professionals and front-line workers;
- Develop your own customized 5-Step individual or community renewal programs that can be incorporated into your private practice, agency, institution or community setting.
- Gain skills and methods to deliver integrative recovery approaches.
- Learn how to support and nurture interdisciplinary teams and foster collegiality between helping professionals when responding to crisis.
Level 1 Embodied Awareness: An Introduction to Spiritually Directed Therapy is an Asynchronous online program available On-Demand through the World Continuing Education Alliance
Individual course modules sold separately at $32.27 US through the World Continuing Education Alliance (WCEA) and are available (scroll down for separate course titles and descriptions. Completion of all 10 course awards a Certificate of Completion from WCEA and the Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences (CITIS)
You may purchase all ten courses as a package, for a discounted rate of $210.68 US (See ‘Course 11’ for package discount below)
Courses are designed to train you in how to use injury or trauma as a catalyst to nourish Self-renewal and grass-roots community healing. The theories and practices in these courses are based on Dr. Beth Hedva’s book Betrayal, Trust and Forgiveness, together with her evidence based trauma recovery protocol, which she was invited to present at the United Nations in New York, and was later published as a chapter in the text book Mass Trauma and Emotional Healing Around the World. Continuing Education
TUITION FEES: Certification Course (package of all 10 modules) $210.68 USD. Sold separately, each course is $32.27 USD. Need Financial Assistance? We seek to create a diverse and eclectic learning environment. WCEA offers a discounts available for students, early career professionals, and those in low- and middle-income countries, (based on World Bank economic classifications). For inquiries, email Dr Beth Hedva with your request to drbeth@hedva.com
Each Embodied Awareness on-line course may be taken separately or together as a package of 10 modules to offer specific therapeutic methods to build Embodied Awareness by providing theoretical information and practices which support body, brain, emotions and cognitive thoughts together with intuitive, ‘psychic’, and spiritual resources. . Graduates may be eligible for up to 33 CEUs continuing education credits. Scroll down for accreditation details.Questions or complaints?
Please review our on-line Education policies:FAQs and Terms & Conditions – Accommodation for Special Needs- Registration-Refund and Grievance Policy Or TEL: +1 (403) 585-5805; OR send email to drbeth@hedva.com
COURSE LISTINGS Click on link for course description, objective and syllabus. Only pay for courses you select. *Registering for our online education indicates you have read our policies and agreed to our Terms and conditions.
Course # 1: WHAT IS EMBODIED AWARENESS?
Course # 2: EGO DEATH AND THE HUMAN STRESS RESPONSE
Course # 3: TRANSCENDENT HEART-BRAIN AND ENERGY BODY
Course # 4: INNER RESOURCES FOR SELF-RENEWAL
Course #6: RECOGNIZE SPIRITUAL BY-PASS AND COME TO KNOW YOUR SHADOW
Course # 7: 13 GUARDIANS: DWELLERS ON THE THRESHOLD OF AWAKENING
Course # 8: 12 SENSES OF EMBODIED AWARENESS
Course # 9: T-R-U-S-T MEDITATION FOR EMBODIED AWARENESS: GUIDELINES TO INNER WORK
Course #10: SELF-ECOLOGY AND SELF-CARE:GRASS-ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALING FROM TRAUMA
REQUIRED READING:Betrayal, Trust and Forgiveness: A Guided to Emotional Healing and Self Renewal by Dr. Beth Hedva. (2013) Wynwrod Press, Bonners Ferry, ID. Available world-wide on Amazon
Embodied Awareness Facilitator Training and Certification Programs are made up of diverse groups of helping professionals and educators from around the world. *Aboriginal, Indigenous, and some international applicants may be eligible for a tuition discount based on World Bank economic classifications. Submit queries with statement of intent to beth@integrativesciences.org
This LIVE STREAM Hybrid (in Calgary) program consists of 10 modules and involves online work, direct work with course cohorts, workbooks and training materials, personal support, and supervision.
Access to PDF worksheets, workbook and live stream recordings for 1 year after purchase for personal use. For professional or commercial use please contact Dr. Beth Hedva at drbeth@hedva.com. Registration and Refund Policy: No cancellations or course refunds after purchase.
ACCOMMODATIONS: Assistive Technologies for students with disabilities provide access for learners with special needs. For more information, visit https://www.accessibility.com/blog/assistive-technology-for-physical-disabilities QUESTIONS, GRIEVANCES, CONCERNS OR COMPLAINTS: please read Terms & Conditions before contacting the Instructor.
Level 2 Experiential Training in Embodied Awareness is a 9 month program provides training, support, and practicum to individuals wishing to incorporate Embodied Awareness into their occupation and to share skills and practices with individuals, groups, communities, or institutions.
Pre-requisite: Completion of the WCEA Embodied Awareness- Introduction to Spiritually Directed Therapy. Recommended Reading: Betrayal, Trust and Forgiveness. Texts not included in Tuition:
Level 2 Experiential Live Stream Seminars requirements include: attending group seminars, meeting with cohorts between sessions to practice skills, and developing an embodied awareness training program to be introduced to your clients, students, agency, institution, workplace or community as part of your practicum training. Meeting with course cohorts may be scheduled by video conference, WhatsApp and or phone. Successful completion of this program provides Embodied Awareness Facilitator Certification™ from the Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences.
Syllabus and Course Description
Click to Download Syllabus and Course Description
March 21, 2024 – 1 – What is Embodied Awareness: Integrating 5 Dimensions of Self-Awareness
March 22, 2024 – 2 – Energetic First Aid: Breathwork, Pranic Healing and Energy Medicine
March 23, 2024 – 3 – Existential Crisis, Ego Death, and Instinctive Stress Reactions
March 24, 2023 – 4 – Transpersonal Psychology for Integrative Healing: Theory and Practice
April 25, 2024 – 5 – Whole-Body Listening to Process Emotions
April 26, 2024 – 6 – T-R-U-S-T: An Embodied Inner Work Method
April 27 & 28 2024 – PRACTICE – Scheduled Time with Cohorts to Practice Whole-Body Listening
May 9, 2024 – 7 – Meet the 13 Guardians on the Threshold of Awakening
May 10, 2024 – 8 – World Work: Know Your Shadow Activators and Triggers
May 11, 2024 – 9– Group Work, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout Prevention
May 12, 2024 – 10 – Ethics and the Development of Your 5-Step Grass-Roots Embodied Training Program
Tuition Fee. Early Registration $3800.00 USD / after September 15th : $4200.00. Tuition fee includes Fall Experiential Seminar; Winter Practicum, Spring Monthly Mastery Class, and Fall Reunion sharing circle.
Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences (CITIS) EMBODIED AWARENESS FACILITATOR CERTIFICATION™ is awarded after completion of all Level 1 Training and Level 2 Practicum requirements. See Levels 1 & 2 Terms & Conditions.
Professional Development (PD) and or Continuing Education (CE) Certificate of Attendance is available upon request.
Use of any earned Certification carries with it responsibilities to become acquainted with, and work within one’s professional standards of practice, which may differ according to local, regional, or federal locations, and licensing boards.
Beth Hedva, Ph.D. (RPsych #3212; RMFT # 69225; CA-BBS MFT#18470), former Director and Chair of Continuing Education for the International Council of Psychologists, Dr. Hedva is an approved CEPA provider by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CEPA # 003933) and offers continuing education for Californian LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs; and maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. For other jurisdictions and or professional designations please confirm Professional Development (PD) or Continuing Education Credit (CEC) opportunities with your local state or provincial board.
Course Materials
- Free Gift: Click here for “Energetic First Aid: Breath Work“
- Symptoms check-list
- Betrayal-Trust-and Forgiveness Self-Assessment
- Spirituality Index of Well-Being
- Cultural Competence Questionnaire
- Intuition Inventory
- Consent to participate in research
Level 2 Embodied Awareness Facilitator Supervised Practicum centers on skill-building through practice with cohorts. Seminars cover the Embodied Awareness Method in detail, and provide opportunities to experience and integrate the five dimensions of embodied awareness through the development of a 5-Step grass roots community program customized to meet the needs of your population, practice, agency or community. Emphasis is on ethical incorporation of integrative counselling techniques, Spiritually Directed Therapy™ and embodied awareness practices into one’s profession in agency, community and or private practice settings.
- Energy Work, breathwork, Pranic Healing, Energy Medicine
- Engage 12 senses of embodied awareness for Self-directed guidance
- Blend Energy work with Inner work using the Embodied T-R-U-S-T Contemplative Mediation
- Guide and Train others to recognize and ‘own’ the Shadow using the acronym F-O-R-G-I-V-E
- Convert grief & loss into acceptance
- Develop and deliver a customized 5-step training program to in your practice, agency, community
Live Stream Seminar Level 2 dates are May 25, 26, June 8, 9, 22 and 23.
What Participants Say About Past Programs
“I took the course because I was curious. . . . It was deep and transformational. I learned to trust my own expanded awareness. This training changed how I view my own internal process, how I interact with others in my personal life and how I approach my professional work. It brings “wholisitic health” to a new level.”
— Dr. Bonnie Sullivan, Psychologist
“The course was a powerful learning experience, it helped me to build the connection to wisdom and trust. I discovered a new community – like-minded souls – an amazing support. I learned to live from my heart. . . to observe the changes and transformations.”
— Sylvia Barnowski, Social Worker
“I took this course because I just knew that it was something that would serve me and . . . assist me to serve others. Words that describe my experience are profound flow, inspiring gratitude, life-changing.”
— Carmen Kergan, Certified Clinical Counsellor and Reiki Healer
“Dr. Beth Hedva’s wisdom and grace made it easy to “embody” the learning. It was a creative, safe place to explore this powerful method. . . .”
— Peggy Lynch, Police woman, Artist and Astrologer
Instructor Information
Dr. Beth Hedva, Ph.D., Co-founder of the Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences, Founder and Developer of the Embodied Awareness Facilitator Certification programs, and author of the “Best-Self-Help” book Betrayal Trust and Forgiveness. 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 – the Earth-axis-altering tsunami disaster of South East Asia and the ultra-deadly earthquake in Haiti, to support post-civil war Sierra Leone healing; develop and lead multigenerational – genocide recovery in post-Vietnam Cambodia; facilitate recovery from colonization, and tackle racism between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. Download Dr. Beth Hedva’s CV
Rachel Larabee is Full Time Faculty and founder/developer of the Community Development Work (CDW) Program at Centennial College, Ontario. Rachel is passionate about engaging students and communities in transformative education that promotes social and environmental justice, experiential learning, personal meaning and place making community development work. Rachel co-founded POR AMOR Community Enhancement Initiatives in 2003, a Canadian Non-Profit Organization created to support youth development and leadership in community through the arts. For the past 20 years Rachel has engaged consulting work in community and post-secondary education to create and implement empowering leadership programming in Global Citizenship and Equity Learning, International Service Learning, Community Economic Development, Academic Upgrading for Indigenous Peoples, and Sustainable Food Education. Currently, Rachel is also a certified instructor of Kundalini Yoga.
Embodied Awareness Faculty in Training
Dr. Julie Bonitha Svay, Ph.D Physics, Founder of the Angkor Institute of Consciousness, co-author of Self-Renewal and Community Healing: An Embodied Awareness Professional Handbook, Holistic Psychotherapist, certified resilience trainer and practitioner of intuitive sophro-analysis. Julie is a native Cambodian, educated in France, where she worked as a research geophysicist, leading high-challenge multidisciplinary international projects and teams. Dr. Svay is a former member of the technical steering committee of Geoscientists Without Borders for disaster and humanitarian relief. Her mission, in collaboration with LightRise Childcare Charity, is for healing trans-generational traumas in Cambodia, and to share and enrich our understanding of human being, so as to inspire a greater wisdom in our lives.
About the 5-Step Embodied Awareness Method
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 lives were lost while suffering from 30 years of civil war. The 5-Step program has been adapted to and applied in multiple cultures and communities over the years, including: Indonesia, Haiti, Canada, Michigan, Arizona, Massachusetts, Canadian First Nations communities, Central America, Brazil, Europe (Italy, UK), Africa, Philippines, China, and in 2022-23 for the TransCultural Psychosocial Organization, Cambodia. Content continues to be updated and developed as research in the field of trauma recovery, mass trauma, and disaster trauma expands.
You will find its results presented at the International Council of Psychologist’s Peace International Relations and Human Rights Symposium: Kos, Greece, in July, 2006 under the title from this work, entitled A Year After the Tsunami: Trauma Recovery Trainings in Banda Aceh; and presented at the United Nations Ethics Committee’s “Human Rights, Violations and Recovery: Body, Mind, Spirit Practices Symposium“, in 2008; and listed as Chapter 9 of the textbook Mass trauma and emotional healing around the world, (2009), edited by In A. Kalayjian, Eugene, Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO/Praeger- Greenwood-World Publishing (pages 151-178) as well as referenced in peer-reviewed articles.
Grading
The course module is divided into three sections. To gain credit for the course a composite score of all three quizzes at the end of each section plus a final exam with a final passing grade of 75% or more qualifies the attendee for a certificate of completion from the Canadian Institute for Transpersonal and Integrative Sciences awarding 3 hours continuing education credits per module (for a total of 30 CEUs) for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Course Fee
Levels 1 Text-Only Course On-Demand through the World Continuing Education Alliance
$4,200.00 USD (GST Included) Level 2 Experiential Training & Certification Package
Levels 1 & 2 Separately
$2400.00 USD (GST Included) Level 2-Embodied Awareness Experiential Training
$2,400.00 USD (GST Included) Level 2 Embodied Awareness Practicum – Facilitator Certification (prerequisite -Level 1)
*Aboriginal, Indigenous, and certain international applicants may apply for a tuition discount based on World Bank economic classifications. Payment plans available upon request.
Terms & Conditions
Please read before registering for the program. To review, visit Levels 1 & 2 Terms & Conditions
Registration and Refund Policy: No cancellations or course refunds after purchase. Licensees have access to the course recordings, workbook and worksheets for 1 year after purchase.
Embodied Awareness Facilitator Programs are committed to creating a diverse group of program participants in the areas of skills, experience, and background. *Aboriginal, Indigenous, and certain international applicants may apply for a tuition discount based on World Bank economic classifications. Questions regarding Embodied Awareness, its programs and related content, contact Dr. Beth Hedva directly
Accommodations Assistive technologies for disability provide access for learners with special needs. For more information visit https://www.accessibility.com/blog/assistive-technology-for-physical-disabilities
Grievances or other questions, concerns and complaints please read Levels 1 & 2 Terms & Conditions before contacting the Instructor. Instructor Contact Information:
Email: drbeth@hedva.com
Telephone: +1 (403) 585-5805