Real Dialogue Training in Five Levels:
“Ride the Waves”
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 starting October 26 - 27, 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 at the Osher Center for Integrative Health, 184 South Prospect Street, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
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.
Comprehensive Training for
Mental Health Professionals
in Dialogue Therapy
Dialogue Therapy is a proven short-term structured method of psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy for couples and other adult pairs. It was designed to increase trust and intimacy by breaking through projective identification and increasing dialogical space.
Built on a strong evidence base, Dialogue Therapy was developed by Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D. who is an internationally recognized Jungian psychoanalyst, psychologist and author who teaches and practices psychoanalysis and mindfulness. She has written four books on Dialogue Therapy, including most recently Love Between Equals (2019) and Dialogue Therapy for Couples and Real Dialogue for Opposing Sides, co-authored with Jean Pieniadz, Ph.D. (2021).
2025 Program Schedule
Session One: January 23-26
Session Two: March 27-30
Session Three: May 29 - June 1
Three Session Training: 78 CEs Total for psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors (26 CEs per session)
At the Beautiful Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont
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 - 2024 Program Dates and Locations
Podcasts
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.
Enemies: From War to Wisdom
Waking Up Is Not Enough: Flourishing in the Human Space
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.
