A CEU training for therapists & helping professionals

From Output
to Embodiment

Nervous System Regulation for the Helper

A full-day experiential training held at Wild Willow Farm, New Hampshire. Not a lecture about burnout. A lived experience of something different — in your body, not just your head.

5.5 CEUs applied for
1.5 Ethics hours
NASW NH
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You know what a regulated nervous system feels like.
You've explained it to clients hundreds of times.
You just can't remember the last time
you actually felt it yourself.

This training doesn't add more to your already full life.
It brings you back into the one you have.

Session at Wild Willow Farm
What this is

Professional development
that actually develops you

Sustained clinical presence — tracking affect, holding space, staying regulated for others — is neurologically expensive. Most training programs prepare you to do this work. Almost none prepare you to recover from it.

The result is a nervous system that has learned to stay on. Hypervigilance that follows you home. A window of tolerance that narrows over time. Exhaustion that sleep doesn't touch.

This training addresses what that actually is —
in your body, not just your head.

This is not a lecture. It is not a framework to understand intellectually and apply later. It is a full day of direct, lived experience — the kind that stays with you long after you leave the room.

We move through nervous system education, somatic awareness, breathwork, and grounding. And we go somewhere most CEU trainings never go: into the ethical weight of what it means to show up dysregulated for the people who depend on you.

Session at Wild Willow Farm
Therapist burnout and chronic emotional labor
Nervous system functioning and stress response patterns
Somatic awareness and physiological cues of dysregulation
Experiential regulation practices — breathwork, grounding, movement
Ethics, impairment, competence, and self-monitoring
Integration of somatic awareness into clinical practice
The day

How we spend the time

The training moves through five integrated blocks. Structure holds the day — and spaciousness lives inside it. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is forced.

10:00
10:30
Opening
Welcome + guided grounding
We begin by arriving — fully. A guided grounding practice to help your nervous system settle before we ask anything of your mind.
10:30
11:30
Education
Burnout + nervous system overview
The neuroscience of chronic stress and what sustained clinical attunement actually costs you. A framework you'll feel making sense in real time — not just in your head.
11:30
12:30
Awareness
Somatic awareness + physiological cues
Learning to identify dysregulation in your own body — and your clients'. This is where the body stops being a concept and starts being information.
12:30
1:00
Lunch — unstructured rest
1:00
2:00
Practice
Experiential regulation practices
Breathwork, grounding, movement. You won't just learn these techniques. You'll have them in your body before you leave the room.
2:00
2:45
Ethics · 1.5 CEU hours
Your nervous system is an ethical matter
Therapist impairment, competence, and self-monitoring through the lens of the NASW Code of Ethics. This is where self-care becomes professional responsibility — and where most trainings never go.
2:45
4:00
Closing
Integration + application
How to bring somatic awareness into your actual practice. Not as an add-on. As a foundation. We close with reflection, evaluation, and space to integrate what the day stirred.
Space is intentionally intimate — maximum 15 participants per training. Your nervous system isn't navigating a crowd. It's settling into a room.
Learning objectives

What you'll leave with

By the end of the day, you will have done more than learn about nervous system regulation. You will have experienced it. Here is what you'll be able to demonstrate upon completion.

1
Describe The impact of chronic nervous system activation on your functioning and clinical effectiveness — not as a concept, but as something you recognize in your own body.
2
Identify At least three somatic indicators of dysregulation in yourself and your clients — the physiological signals your training may never have named before.
3
Demonstrate At least two nervous system regulation techniques — breathwork, grounding, or movement practices you can return to immediately, in session or out.
4
Explain The relationship between therapist self-regulation and ethical responsibilities — including competence, impairment, and the clinical weight of showing up dysregulated.
5
Apply Somatic awareness and regulation strategies within your clinical practice — as a foundation, not an afterthought.
Choose your date

Wild Willow Farm

New Hampshire  ·  Intimate  ·  Maximum 15 participants
Wild Willow Farm, New Hampshire
June
21
Sunday, June 21st · 2026
10:00 am – 4:00 pm  ·  Summer Solstice
The longest day of the year. The one you finally spend coming back to yourself.
July
11
Saturday, July 11th · 2026
9:00 am – 3:00 pm  ·  Midsummer
The season of fullness. Come find out what you've been too busy to feel.
Aug
22
Saturday, August 22nd · 2026
10:00 am – 4:00 pm  ·  Late Summer
Something in you already knows it's time. August is when we stop arguing with that.
Sept
13
Sunday, September 13th · 2026
10:00 am – 4:00 pm  ·  Early Autumn
The season of release. Not pushing. Not forcing. Just finally putting it down.
Space is limited to 15 participants per training. When a date fills, it fills. No exceptions.
More dates and locations coming — join the list to hear first
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Your investment
$325
per person · single date
Full day experiential training · 6 hours
Light nourishment and tea throughout the day
All training materials and reference resources
CEU certificate of completion upon attendance
Intimate container · maximum 15 participants
CEU information
5.5 Category A Continuing Education hours for licensure have been applied for through NASW NH. Authorization number to follow upon approval. Certificate issued to participants who complete a minimum of 80% of scheduled hours.
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Who this is for

If you carry the weight
of this work

You don't need a diagnosis. You don't need to be in crisis. You just need to recognize yourself in what follows.

You're a therapist, social worker, counselor, or helping professional — skilled at holding space for others and privately exhausted by it
You understand nervous system regulation conceptually. You want to actually feel it
You're tired in a way that supervision, vacation, and self-care checklists haven't touched
You want CEUs that actually mean something to you — not just hours to log
You're ready to treat your own regulation not as a personal indulgence but as a professional obligation
You want to stop knowing about groundedness and start inhabiting it
This may not be for you if
You're looking for a packed schedule and constant stimulation
You want information rather than transformation
You're not willing to slow down and be with yourself for a day
This training welcomes all mental health providers regardless of gender, background, or therapeutic modality. If you carry the weight of this work — you belong here.
Your facilitator
Headshot Pam
Pam Godbois
LICSW  ·  Somatic Practitioner  ·  Yoga Teacher

Pam works at the intersection of nervous system science, body-based practice, and spiritual integration — with over 25 years of experience in mental health and healing. She works primarily with helping professionals who are tired of giving from a well they've never been taught to fill.

For more than 13 years she has led retreats and experiential trainings that create space for something the clinical world rarely makes room for: the helper coming home to themselves. Her approach moves beyond frameworks and cognitive strategies into direct, felt experience — the kind that stays with you long after you leave the room.

In 2021 she experienced a heart block requiring a pacemaker. Her body had been speaking for a long time.
Learning to actually listen changed everything.

That shift lives at the center of everything she teaches. She doesn't teach this work from a distance. She teaches it from inside it — from the same place she's asking you to go.

Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW)
25+ years in mental health and healing
Somatic practitioner and yoga teacher
13+ years leading retreats and experiential trainings
Specializes in nervous system regulation and burnout recovery
NASW NH approved CEU provider

You already know your
nervous system is dysregulated.

You've known for a while.

This is the training that does something about it — in your body, not just your understanding of it. And it gives you the CEUs to show for it.

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