The 2023 Neuroscience and Resonance Monthly Series
Each month, Sarah presents a 90-minute deep-dive into the latest neuroscience research on various healing topics, and how we might apply it to resonant healing. Each webinar supports us to see ourselves, and our brains, with compassion and understanding.
January 2023 – December 2023 Topics:
Body Image and Welcoming Our Physical Selves
Do you live in your mind? Have you lost touch with affection for your body? Have people told you that the way you see yourself and the way you are seen by others are two very different things? Are you sometimes bewildered by the toll that time and difficult experiences have taken on your physical being? Do you wonder how to find yourself again? The journey from disconnection to reconnection with our bodies can be difficult, but it is supported and made smoother by knowledge of the brain and how we perceive ourselves.
Join Sarah for this 90-minute webinar to explore the relational neuroscience of body image and the ways resonance can support us in seeing ourselves with warmth.
- This is an online zoom webinar that runs for 90-minutes with an optional 30 min Q&A.
- Purchase includes invitation to the live webinar and post-webinar access to access the recording + slides. The slides include research citations where relevant.
- This webinar is the January meeting of Sarah’s 2023 Neuroscience and Resonance monthly series.
- We are delighted to offer 1.5 CEU hours for psychologists and social workers for this course ($12 additional fee).
- Chicago Counseling Associates has been approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education for social workers and psychologists. CCA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Live attendance is required to receive CEUs.
Hate and Love: Why We Feel the Way We Do
Did anyone ever tell you, “We don’t hate in this family!” Whoever that was, they did not know about brains. When love is betrayed, brains show the betrayal on fMRI’s, and people call that feeling hate. When we learn about brains and how they work, we feel more self-compassion and more self-warmth.
Join Sarah Peyton for 90 minutes to explore everything that relational neuroscience can tell us about the ins and outs of love and hate.
- This is an online zoom webinar that runs for 90-minutes with an optional 30 min Q&A.
- Purchase includes invitation to the live webinar and post-webinar access to access the recording + slides. The slides include research citations where relevant.
- This webinar is the February meeting of Sarah’s 2023 Neuroscience and Resonance monthly series.
- We are delighted to offer 1.5 CEU hours for psychologists and social workers for this course ($12 additional fee).
- Chicago Counseling Associates has been approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education for social workers and psychologists. CCA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Live attendance is required to receive CEUs.
Narcissism and its Aftermath: Healing from Others’ Self-Centeredness
The hardest thing about having a parent or a spouse who sees no one else but themselves (the condition commonly called narcissism) is that it fractures us. The experience of only being seen as a means to an end, or as a function, breaks us into millions of tiny pieces and we lose our wholeness. How do we recover? Or at least gain solid ground? When we have an understanding of what our brains need, and the ways that narcissism results in emotional starvation, we are able to bring more self-compassion and self-understanding.
Join Sarah Peyton for a 90 minute exploration of the latest relational neuroscience on narcissism and healing.
- This is an online zoom webinar that runs for 90-minutes with an optional 30 min Q&A.
- Purchase includes invitation to the live webinar and post-webinar access to access the recording + slides. The slides include research citations where relevant.
- This webinar is the March meeting of Sarah’s 2023 Neuroscience and Resonance monthly series.
- We are delighted to offer 1.5 CEU hours for psychologists and social workers for this course ($12 additional fee).
- Chicago Counseling Associates has been approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education for social workers and psychologists. CCA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Live attendance is required to receive CEUs.
“I have been a webinar subscriber for 7 years now and these are the BEST webinars in the industry! Sarah translates complex neuroscience concepts into interesting and relevant material, combining research-based knowledge with warmth and compassion. Highly recommended.”
– Olga Nguyen, Certified Trainer with Centre for Nonviolent Communication
Resonance for our Bodies: Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain
Do you struggle with energy and physical discomfort? Do you worry about getting through the days? Are you frustrated and lonely, and do you need reliable and competent support? Relational neuroscience has some insight into the mysteries of chronic illness and chronic pain, but the most important thing is resonance – resonance for the exhausted self, resonance for the worn out cells, and resonance for our beleaguered immune systems.
Join Sarah Peyton for a 90 minute journey into the latest research into chronic fatigue and other conditions, and how to talk with our cells.
- This is an online zoom webinar that runs for 90-minutes with an optional 30 min Q&A.
- Purchase includes invitation to the live webinar and post-webinar access to access the recording + slides. The slides include research citations where relevant.
- This webinar is the April meeting of Sarah’s 2023 Neuroscience and Resonance monthly series.
- We are delighted to offer 1.5 CEU hours for psychologists and social workers for this course ($12 additional fee).
- Chicago Counseling Associates has been approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education for social workers and psychologists. CCA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Live attendance is required to receive CEUs.
Parenting with Resonance: Holding On & Letting Go
Do you ever struggle to feel connected with your child? Do you long for your family to experience warmth and the desire to contribute to one another? Do you watch other families and wonder why your own family doesn’t look like them? Do you sometimes feel confused about when to hold on, and when to let go?
Parenting is the hardest relationship of all, but it can be made easier with resonance. Join Sarah Peyton for a 90-minute exploration of what resonance can do to make families better.
- This is an online zoom webinar that runs for 90-minutes with an optional 30 min Q&A.
- Purchase includes invitation to the live webinar and post-webinar access to access the recording + slides. The slides include research citations where relevant.
- This webinar is the May meeting of Sarah’s 2023 Neuroscience and Resonance monthly series.
- We are delighted to offer 1.5 CEU hours for psychologists and social workers for this course ($12 additional fee).
- Chicago Counseling Associates has been approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education for social workers and psychologists. CCA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Live attendance is required to receive CEUs.
Scam-Proofing our Brains
Why are human brains so vulnerable to scams? What do scammers know that helps them to take our money and our time? Spend 90 minutes with Sarah Peyton investigating what we know and don’t know about cheats, scams and fakes, and discover self-resonance for the times when we are taken in.
- This is an online zoom webinar that runs for 90-minutes with an optional 30 min Q&A.
- Purchase includes invitation to the live webinar and post-webinar access to access the recording + slides. The slides include research citations where relevant.
- This webinar is the June meeting of Sarah’s 2023 Neuroscience and Resonance monthly series.
- We are delighted to offer 1.5 CEU hours for psychologists and social workers for this course ($12 additional fee).
- Chicago Counseling Associates has been approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education for social workers and psychologists. CCA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Live attendance is required to receive CEUs.
“Working with Sarah, my body has changed from being a highly reactive one with panic attacks and anxiety into a calm, peaceful and resilient body. Through Sarah Peyton’s work I have learned to listen to my witness self and give kindness to myself in times of challenge. My nervous system has changed as a result of the practices learned from Sarah Peyton. I highly recommend her!”
– Carol Lindsay
Trauma Bonds: Identification and Healing
Do you ever wonder why it’s hard to leave certain relationships and people, even when they aren’t good for you? Why you lie awake at night, listing all the very good reasons for making a transition, but during the day you just can’t find the strength to make the move? The answer might be that you are in a trauma bond.
Come spend 90 minutes learning about the neurobiology of trauma bonds with Sarah Peyton and Jaya Manske.
- This is an online zoom webinar that runs for 90-minutes with an optional 30 min Q&A.
- Purchase includes invitation to the live webinar and post-webinar access to access the recording + slides. The slides include research citations where relevant.
- This webinar is the July meeting of Sarah’s 2023 Neuroscience and Resonance monthly series.
- We are delighted to offer 1.5 CEU hours for psychologists and social workers for this course ($12 additional fee).
- Chicago Counseling Associates has been approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education for social workers and psychologists. CCA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Live attendance is required to receive CEUs.
Depression: Prevention and Healing
Are you ever low on energy for long periods? Do you ever experience loss of a sense of meaning, purpose or color in the world? Feeling low is one of the most common human experiences, and all of us need to be depression-proofed. How can we heal toward resilience and recovery?
Join Sarah Peyton for this 90 minute webinar on the relational neuroscience of depression with a special emphasis on the research of Jaak Panksepp.
- This is an online zoom webinar that runs for 90-minutes with an optional 30 min Q&A.
- Purchase includes invitation to the live webinar and post-webinar access to access the recording + slides. The slides include research citations where relevant.
- This webinar is the August meeting of Sarah’s 2023 Neuroscience and Resonance monthly series.
- We are delighted to offer 1.5 CEU hours for psychologists and social workers for this course ($12 additional fee).
- Chicago Counseling Associates has been approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education for social workers and psychologists. CCA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Live attendance is required to receive CEUs.
Toward Beloved Community: Understanding Us and Them
Would you love to live in a world where we all worked together to support each other? Where politicians and policy-makers had a deep thoughtfulness about the systemic whole? And do you almost give yourself whiplash with your bewilderment about what powerholders actually do, instead of this?
If so, you might enjoy spending 90 minutes with Sarah Peyton to explore the ins and outs of the relational neuroscience of Us vs. Them – the ways that our brains create different groups of belonging, and treat these groups differently.
- This is an online zoom webinar that runs for 90-minutes with an optional 30 min Q&A.
- Purchase includes invitation to the live webinar and post-webinar access to access the recording + slides. The slides include research citations where relevant.
- This webinar is the September meeting of Sarah’s 2023 Neuroscience and Resonance monthly series.
- We are delighted to offer 1.5 CEU hours for psychologists and social workers for this course ($12 additional fee).
- Chicago Counseling Associates has been approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education for social workers and psychologists. CCA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Live attendance is required to receive CEUs.
“For as long as I can recall, I have struggled with and been ruled by my anxiety, confusion and fear. The information Sarah shares, and the way she shares it has changed me – literally. More than ever before I am able to be calm, clear headed and lovingly proactive in response to how I feel – what a relief! I feel liberated and as if I am finally able to be the self I always imagined I was, could be and am. I highly recommend exploring Sarah’s work.”
– Katherine Betts
The Connectome: The Brain’s Road to Healing Trauma
Within the human brain, there are some 86 billion neurons making over 100 trillion connections to each other. Beginning to understand the connectome – the comprehensive map of connections between neurons in the brain, offers amazing insights into the neural circuits that underlie behavior. Understanding also provides valuable insights into the healing path and what is happening in the brain as we recover from trauma. The surprising thing about healing trauma is that we don’t erase anything from the brain – we just change the way the brain connects! Join Sarah Peyton for a 90-minute exploration of the latest science of brains and its implications for making brains good places to live after hard things happen – the connectome!
- This is an online zoom webinar that runs for 90-minutes with an optional 30 min Q&A.
- Purchase includes invitation to the live webinar and post-webinar access to access the recording + slides. The slides include research citations where relevant.
- This webinar is the October meeting of Sarah’s 2023 Neuroscience and Resonance monthly series.
- We are delighted to offer 1.5 CEU hours for psychologists and social workers for this course ($12 additional fee).
- Chicago Counseling Associates has been approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education for social workers and psychologists. CCA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Live attendance is required to receive CEUs.
Siblings and Sibling Rivalry: Making Family Easier
Just in time to give us resilience for the holidays! What is the relational neuroscience of sibling relationships? How can research into birth order and the ways that siblings support, change and hurt each other bring us more peace and ease in our families?
Join Sarah Peyton for a 90-minute dive into the science of family connection.
- This is an online zoom webinar that runs for 90-minutes with an optional 30 min Q&A.
- Purchase includes invitation to the live webinar and post-webinar access to access the recording + slides. The slides include research citations where relevant.
- This webinar is the November meeting of Sarah’s 2023 Neuroscience and Resonance monthly series.
- We are delighted to offer 1.5 CEU hours for psychologists and social workers for this course ($12 additional fee).
- Chicago Counseling Associates has been approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education for social workers and psychologists. CCA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Live attendance is required to receive CEUs.
FREE: Sarah’s 2023 Process Work Exploration: Radical Being-With and Alarmed Aloneness
What if what we’ve learned about keeping ourselves emotionally at a distance when others are struggling are actually doing more harm than good?
What if this distance is the very thing that keeps us from true transformative possibility? What if rather than keeping us safe and contained, the advice we’ve received to “stay on the banks” ends up leaving both ourselves and our clients and loved ones stranded and alone? Resonant Healing is a radical departure from this mainstream paradigm.
In resonance, we shift our purpose: we move away from fixing, controlling, and “making it better” and into the radical accompaniment of just being here with you. This isn’t just a “nice thing to do,” it’s backed by the science of neuroplasticity and brain change. Watch this free process work demonstration and webinar with Sarah Peyton about the magic of accompaniment–true, deep, and substantial accompaniment– as the catalyst for emotional trauma healing. Watch a real live person receiving Resonant Support, and see for yourself.
