Transformative Programs & Training
Comprehensive Training for Mental Health Professionals
Polly Young-Eisendrath, Jungian analyst and author, presents: Foundational Training in Dialogue Therapy.
Break Through Projective Identification and Expand Your Skills with Dialogue Therapy
Enhance your effectiveness in couples therapy
Gain certification as a Dialogue Therapist
Increase Emotional Contact and Clarity in Couples Therapy
Recognize the role of differentiation
Register before May 2025 for a $250 Discount
78 CEUs Total (26 CEs per Session)
2025 Program Schedule
Weekend 1: May 29-June 1
Weekend 2: July 17-20
Weekend 3: October 30 - November 2
Location: The Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, VT.
Dialogue Therapy is a structured, short-term approach to psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy for couples and other adult pairs. Designed to foster trust and intimacy, it helps break through projective identification and expand dialogical space.
Developed on a strong evidence base, Dialogue Therapy was created by Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., an internationally recognized Jungian psychoanalyst, psychologist, and author. She teaches and practices psychoanalysis and mindfulness and has written extensively on Dialogue Therapy. Her works include Love Between Equals (2019) and Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides (co-authored with Jean Pieniadz, Ph.D., 2021).
Additional Faculty: Raymond Coppola, Susan Lillich, Margot Parker, and Amber Rickert.
Each Tuesday at 1PM, the Center for Real Dialogue offers a very affordable way to participate in a LIVE discussion with Polly Young-Eisendrath and Peggy Dippen. For only $20 per month, you can ask us ANYTHING about speaking for yourself, listening mindfully and remaining curious. Our wonderful AMA members (who come from all over the world) talk together about polarization, bias, and stereotypes, and how to overcome them through speaking and listening. You will learn about yourself, your relationships and what being human means and does not mean.
Join us every Tuesday for amazing adventures in learning about the Skill of Real Dialogue.
Riding the Waves: Training in the Skill of Real Dialogue
Learn How to Thrive in Disagreement, Differences, and Conflicts
If you want to get the most out of Real Dialogue — learn the skill, teach the skill, become a specialist and learn how to coach and facilitate difficult conversations in your own family and business — this is the course for you!
For as little as $150 per day (six hours of training with two teachers) in five two-day weekends, you can learn to master the skill, teach it to others, and become a facilitator of difficult conversations and a Real Dialogue Specialist.
Each session is taught in person by Polly Young-Eisendrath and another Real Dialogue Specialist.
Dates and location for 2025 trainings TBA.
Free Public Education
Welcoming
Disagreement and Difference: Introducing
the Skill of Real Dialogue
Are you tired of painful disagreements in which others don’t get your point, regardless of your tone or language? Do you avoid conflicts because you don’t learn from them? Are you dealing with estrangement, divorce, or alienation in your family? Do you get discouraged by endless disputes at work? Do you feel hopeless about political polarizations?
In this two hour didactic and experiential introduction, you will learn about human emotions and our tendency to develop and confirm bias and stereotypes, as well as how to work with your own emotional triggering during conflict in order to become a more authentic speaker and a better listener.
Free Workshops in Vermont Public Libraries:
2025 Program Dates and Locations:
Podcasts
Enemies: From War to Wisdom
Why do we need enemies? From intimate relationships to politics, tribalism, and community, we cannot seem to stop dehumanizing each other. Are chronic conflicts in our families, societies, and nations inevitable? In this podcast, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D. and Eleanor Johnson analyze human hostilities from the most mundane to the most sophisticated as we apply psychology, psychoanalysis, art, spirituality, and relational theory in conversations about belonging and othering in our relationships and ideologies. Each program will reach for a fresh wisdom that shows us how to step back from creating enemies in our lives.
Waking Up
is Not Enough
When you wake up to the cosmic unity of existence and feel the love and inspiration of awakening, what happens next? Whether it’s through meditation, spiritual practice, Near-Death Experience (NDE), ingesting a mind-altering substance, or being born again, you don’t get a map for improving your messy life. In this podcast, Polly Young-Eisendrath and Michael Berger draw on expertise in science, psychology, adult development, psychedelics, NDEs, dreams, and Buddhist practice in conversations about compassion, resilience, responsibility, kindness, and development after awakening. You will learn how to chart a new path for flourishing in the human space in which waking up is important, but not enough, and growing up is never finished.
