Benefits

Safely, ethically and effectively blend evidence-based psychological practices with ancient and traditional global healing practices.

1. Gain facility working with cross-cultural issues and reduce implicit bias in the delivery of trauma recovery services;
2. Expand your tool-kit with step-by-step techniques to support five stages of growth after trauma;
3. Implement skills and methods to address compassion fatigue and or burnout among helping professionals and front-line workers;
4. Develop your own customized 5-Step individual or community renewal programs that can be incorporated into your private practice, agency, institution or community setting.
5. Gain skills and methods to deliver integrative recovery approaches.
6. Learn how to support and nurture interdisciplinary teams and foster collegiality between helping professionals when responding to crisis.

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

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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 provider of continuing education by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association and offers continuing education 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.

Beth Hedva, Ph.D. (RPsych #3212; CA-BBS MFT#18470), maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Beth Hedva, Ph.D. (RPsych #3212; RMFT # 69225; CA-BBS MFT#18470), is an approved CEPA provider of Continuing Education by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CEPA # 003933) and offers continuing education for Californian LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. Embodied Awareness Training Certificate is accredited to provide up to 30 hours of continuing education credit (CE) to LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs in the state of California and to CCCs in Canada. (Scroll Down for details)

Want information about receiving CE  in a different jurisdiction? If you are outside of these jurisdictions, please check with your governing board’s guidelines for information.

Course Materials

1. Symptoms check-list
2. Betrayal-Trust-and Forgiveness Self-Assessment
3. Spirituality Index of Well-Being
4. Cultural Competence Questionnaire
5. Intuition Inventory
6. Consent to participate in research

Level 2: Embodied Awareness Supervised Practicum

Level 2 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.

1. Energy Work, breathwork, Pranic Healing, Energy Medicine
2. Engage 12 senses of embodied awareness for Self-directed guidance
3. Blend Energy work with Inner work using the Embodied T-R-U-S-T Contemplative Mediation
4. Guide and Train others to recognize and ‘own’ the Shadow using the acronym F-O-R-G-I-V-E
5. Convert grief & loss into acceptance
6. 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.

Please read Levels 1 & 2 Terms & Conditions before registering.

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

Please read Levels 1 & 2 Terms & Conditions before registering.

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).

Course Fee

Levels 1 & 2 Combined

$3,600.00 USD (GST Included) Level 1 + Level 2 Training & Certification Package

Levels 1 & 2 Separately

$1,800.00 USD (GST Included) Level 1-Embodied Awareness Training Course

$2,400.00 USD (GST Included) Level 2 Facilitator Certification Course (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.

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. Dr. Beth Hedva is a member of the International Association of Better Business Bureaus (BBB). Resolution of complaints employs conciliation, mediation, and/or arbitration through the BBB. A summary of complaints, should there be any, are reported also to the CITIS Chairman, and kept in a password-protected file for four years.

Instructor Information

Faculty, Supervisors & Embodied Awareness Facilitators™

Dr. Beth Hedva, Ph.D., R.Psych, MFT, DABPS, 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. 

Vicky Roubekas, Registered Psychologist, Author of Embodied, Speaker, and Certified Embodied Awareness Facilitator™. Vicky is a Peruvian Shaman Practitioner and Reiki Master and has a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Vicky has a private practice in Calgary, Canada where she sees clients in person and online. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Certified Hakomi Therapist, a mindfulness-based somatic therapy, ThetaHealing™ practitioner. and offers Spiritually-Directed Therapy™. Vicky is committed to helping women connect with their body so they live a life of ease, joy, and authenticity.

Keith Murray (they/them) is Certified Embodied Awareness Facilitator™, speaker and Faith leader with the United Church, serving on the ministry team at Calgary’s first 2S & LGBTQIA+ inclusive congregation, Knox United Church. An award-winning transdisciplinary artist, with works having shown at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, and Witte de With in the Netherlands, Keith is completing a Master of Divinity at Vancouver School of Theology. Providing spiritual care under the auspices of the United Church of Canada since 2018, Keith’s transpersonal approach to facilitation engages storytelling, world myth and the rich language of archetypal symbols, to focus societal equity, creativity, and the arts on community healing and transformation.

Alla Guelber, MA-Environmental Education and Communication (Royal Roads University), Certified Embodied Awareness Facilitator™, is a skilled multidisciplinary facilitator, education, and public engagement professional based in Calgary/Mohkinstsis, Canada. Learning how to thrive despite a serious chronic illness led her to explore the leading edge of integrating ancient and emerging healing modalities. Developing intuitive wisdom and fostering transformative learning and healing containers are two of her greatest passions. Her training includes Family and Systemic Constellations, the Art of Hosting, the Permaculture Design Certificate, and more. She is a Mesa Carrier in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition and a student of somatic yoga therapy.

Faculty in Training

Rachel Larabee is both Program Coordinator and Full Time Faculty for 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 studying to be a Kundalini Yoga instructor.

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.

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.

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About the 5-Step Embodied Awareness Method

Originally developed at the request of the Indonesian Psychological Association in January 2005 after the Dec 26^th 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.

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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 CITIS Chairman and kept in a password-protected file for four years. Dr. Beth Hedva is a member of the International Association of Better Business Bureaus and is committed to pursuing resolution through conciliation, mediation, and/or arbitration as practiced and provided by the BBB.

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Questions

For any questions regarding Embodied Awareness, its programs and related content, contact Dr. Beth Hedva directly.