Transformative Programs & Training
Learn & Apply the Skills of Real Dialogue
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Talking about Racism: Why It is Important and How to Talk about It
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Talking about Racism: Why It is Important and How to Talk about It
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The Real Dialogue
Training Series
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
Training Series Overview
$65 per course
Each course carries 3-APA approved continuing education credits for all mental health professionals
Introduction to Real Dialogue
Overview of Principles and Practice
Learning the Skill of Real Dialogue
Core Techniques and Tools for Deep Listening and Speaking
Engaging in Healthy Conflict
Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation in Emotionally Charged Moments
Teaching the Skill of Real Dialogue
Facilitating Growth in Others
(Available after completion of live webinars on CE-Go.com)
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.
BEING HUMAN: A Course
The Operator’s Manual for Living Wisely, Loving Well & Leading Confidently
Six Live Online Sessions with Polly Young-Eisendrath PhD, plus
Practice Pods, Workbook, and Much More
Begins Tuesday, Septmer 8, 2026 • 1:00 PM ET
JOIN BEING HUMAN
How can you remain engaged and hopeful about yourself and your life—no matter what?
Most of us believe confidence comes from success, self-improvement, or empowerment. Yet the experiences that shape us most deeply are loss, conflict, disappointment, failure, or unwelcome change. Through them, we can discover our own natural wisdom: surprising insight, clarity, courage, creativity and compassion that emerge when we “drop the ego” or our belief in control. Befriending our lives, not perfecting them, is the secret to finding the wisdom of the masters through our own experiences.
Being Human is a six-week live journey that combines developmental psychology, Jungian wisdom, mindfulness, and the principles and practice of Real Dialogue to help you embrace and expand your life, as it is.
Is Being Human for You?
SEEKERS — Live Wisely
Discover how adversity, uncertainty, and loss can become sources of natural wisdom.
LOVERS — Love Well
Learn to speak authentically, listen deeply, and remain curious during conflict, and build relationships grounded in trust.
LEADERS — Lead Confidently
Navigate difficult conversations without polarization and lead with confidence and humanity.
During Six Weeks Together You’ll Learn
Remain calm and curious during disagreement.
Listen without becoming defensive.
Speak authentically without making a case for yourself.
Transform conflict into understanding.
Learn from mistakes and failures instead of feeling ashamed.
Build confidence grounded in self-awareness.
What Participants Say
“Real Dialogue is an ongoing mindfulness practice that I will engage in for the rest of my life. From my perspective, it is the most important way of being with another human being.”
“I used to avoid conflict. Today I approach disagreement with greater humility, curiosity, and respect for people who see the world differently.”
“Real Dialogue has become a mindfulness practice of speech and listening. It has given me the freedom to ask better questions—of myself and of others.”
This Course Includes
Six live online sessions (recordings included)
Weekly Real Dialogue Practice Pods
Beautifully designed digital workbook
Guided practices and resources
Supportive community of seekers, lovers, and leaders
Investment: $495
Polly Young-Eisendrath, PhD
Founder & Executive Director
Center for Real Dialogue
Machrie Moor Standing Stones: 4,500-year-old ceremonial landscape on Scotland's Isle of Arran oriented to align with the rising sun on the solstice, taken from the Westerly view.
Photo by Jeremy Woodcock
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)
2026-2027 Program Schedule
Session 1: July 10-12 (Concluded)
Session 2: October 30 - November 1
Session 3: January 22-2
Session 4: March 12 - 14
Location: The Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, VT.
NOTE: The second and third sessions welcome new participants, but the fourth session is open only to those who have already enrolled.
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.
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.