Transformative Programs & Training

Begin with a FREE APA-Approved Course.

We invite you to begin with our FREE one-hour APA-approved continuing education course: The Three-Part Skill of Real Dialogue: Using Mindfulness in Conflict. You’ll discover how healthy conflict—not its avoidance—is the gateway to speaking and listening in a whole new way.

Whether you’re a mental health professional, coach, educator, or leader, or someone looking to improve your communication, our programs equip you with the tools to foster transformation through healthy conflict in yourself and others.

  • Earn 1 APA CE credit — free and instantly accessible

  • Learn from Polly Young-Eisendrath, Originator of Real Dialogue

  • Try out our accredited CE program with no commitment

  • Discover what sets you apart as an expert in Healthy Conflicts

The Real Dialogue
Training Series

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with Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D.

In a world where disagreement so often leads to disconnection, Real Dialogue offers another way—a path of staying present, curious, and emotionally connected, even when the stakes are high.

Whether in families, workplaces, or public conversations, many of us are seeking more skillful ways to speak and listen—especially in moments of tension or conflict. This training series introduces the core principles and practices of Real Dialogue, a powerful and practical approach that brings together mindfulness, emotional awareness, and intentional communication.

Designed for individuals and professionals alike, this series supports anyone who wants to:

  • Navigate conflict with greater clarity and self-awareness

  • Cultivate grounded presence in the face of difference

  • Foster mutual understanding in emotionally charged conversations

  • Build resilience and connection in personal and professional relationships

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$65 per course

Each course carries 3-APA approved continuing education credits for all mental health professionals

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Through a blend of insight and accessible tools, Real Dialogue helps us move beyond polarization and toward authentic human connection.

Whether you're new to this approach or ready to deepen your practice, this series will meet you where you are—and help you grow.

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Upcoming APA Approved Courses

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Dialogue Therapy 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

78 CEUs Total (26 CEs per Session)

2026 Program Schedule
Session 1: April 30 - May 3
Session 2: July 9 - 12
Session 3: October 29 - November 1
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, Ph.D. & Susan Lillich, Ph.D.

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Podcasts

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Enemies: From War to Wisdom

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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.

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Waking Up
is Not Enough

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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.