SPACE Program 2025

SPACE: An Inner Development Program of Support and Self-Discovery for Therapists on the Personal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Levels

A 6-Class Experiential Learning Program

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

Viktor Frankl

This experiential learning program offers an immersive group experience to explore our shared humanity as psychotherapists. This program is designed to cultivate space for self-care, community support, and deepening vitality in our professional role as therapists, focusing on three levels of our human experience: the personal, interpersonal and transpersonal.

We will create a depthful, heartful and bountiful shared space intended to support therapists with:

The personal space to discover what stands in your way of being the most present, heartful and effective therapist possible

The community space to support each other in building greater capacity for our humanity as therapists

The sacred space to deepen into our personal wisdom and collective support

“Complex trauma is about collapsing our inner space, our inner experience, our true emotions, our true needs in the service of survival. So to be able to drop into that relational space where we, from our full humanity, can be with another person in their full humanity, we need to open our internal space.”

Stefanie Klein

Often, therapists focus so much on learning interventions to use with clients, that they leave out their own experience. This innovative program focuses on learning about what’s happening inside of us, as therapists, as we are in relationship with clients. Specifically, this program will explore common obstacles therapists face and how learning more about these obstacles leads to greater presence and effectiveness in our clinical work.

“I've been in this field for over 40 years now and I have had a lot of trainings and learned a lot of models and when I think about what has given me the most inspiring, moving, touching, growth-producing work for myself and my clients is when I get out of my own way and I can be in my own humanity. It's not about a technique. What we want to support here is a greater capacity to be more connected to the parts of ourselves that we may leave out of the work, and that can be our greatest resources for healing.”

Dr. Marcia Black

Building upon relational, humanistic, psychodynamic, countertransference-focused, and mindfulness-based psychological orientations, this innovative program focuses on learning about what’s happening inside of us, as psychotherapists, as we are in relationship with clients. It has been reported that nearly half of clinicians in the United States have experienced burn-out which impacts both their professional and personal lives. We will explore common obstacles clinicians face and how learning more about these obstacles leads to greater effectiveness in our clinical work and resilience in our professional lives.

“The intent is that this program will help us not only become more effective therapists, but also love our work more.”

Brad Kammer

Class Themes

2025 Topic: Intersubjectivity, Therapeutic Enactments & Personal Development for Psychotherapists

CLASS 1: SOS: Connection to Self (Personal), Other (Interpersonal) & Spiritual (Transpersonal)

3 Levels of Experience: Own humanity, shared humanity, and deeper humanity
Working with Complex Trauma in a Relational Setting: Self-Concept, Affect Regulation & Interpersonal Relationships
How the therapists’s inner experience can deepen relational and therapeutic effectiveness with clients
Identifying obstacles that interfere with relational and therapeutic effectiveness with clients
Authenticity vs. Relationship
Translating inner work into therapeutic presence & engagement

CLASS 2: Therapist Openness & Vulnerability

Intimacy & Vulnerability
Being Impacted by Clients
Challenges with clients
Feeling misaligned with colleagues, workplace, models, systems, etc.
Internal security vs. external safety
The drive to be the "good" therapist & fear of being a "bad" therapist
Learning from "failure" and "rupture"

CLASS 3: Developing the Capacity for Complexity, Uncertainty & Discovery

Presence & Attunement
Being vs. Doing
Working in the Unknown
Being with the “messiness”
The Process of Open Discovery
Supporting Novelty & Emergence
The “Creative Act”

CLASS 4: Countertransference as a Support to Relational Depth

Accepting Our Internal Reactions as Therapists
Identifying Blind Spots
Exploring the places we don’t want to go
Unmanaged Empathy
Taking too much responsibility for client’s experience
Unconscious Relational Patterns that Distort the Present
Discerning how to use Countertransference in our Work with Clients

CLASS 5: Therapeutic Enactments

Identifying our Projections & Projective Identification
Acting-in & Acting-Out Strategies that disrupt relational engagement & clinical effectiveness
Over-estimating & Under-estimating Clients
Covert Narcissism
Therapeutic Narcissism
Transforming Therapeutic Enactments into Relational Intimacy
Self-Disclosure
Asking for & Receiving Support

CLASS 6: Personal & Transpersonal Development for Therapists

Acceptance of the Therapist’s Inner World
Self-Acceptance & Self-Compassion vs. Self-Pressure & Self-Attack
Embodying our Humanity as a Therapist
Creating more personal space in our professional roles
Personal Growth in the Professional Role
Increasing growth, excitement, vitality, confidence, intimacy, love…
Deepening Attunement on all 3 Levels: Personal, Interpersonal & Transpersonal
Importance of ongoing support & mentorship

“The goal…is to insert spaces for reflection where they have not previously existed—and thereby create opportunities to know ourselves more fully, connect with others more deeply, and live life more congruently. In [the] unrecognized spaces lies freedom—freedom from repeating the same painful self-defeating patterns, freedom to do things differently, freedom to become better versions of ourselves.”

Dr. Jonathan Shedler

Class Information

Class 1: February 21-22, 2025

Class 2: April 11-12, 2025*

Class 3: June 6-7, 2025

Class 4: August 15-16, 2025

Class 5: October 17-18, 2025

Class 6: December 19-20, 2025

Class times: 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM Pacific Time

Class location: Zoom links sent before each class

*For members of our community who observe the Passover holiday beginning Saturday, April 12, we will conclude prior to sunset in the United States, but invite participants to depart early or not attend if that better aligns with your religious observations.

Continuing Education Information

This training event is co-sponsored by the Complex Trauma Training Center and The Institute for Continuing Education. The program offers 12.00 CE hours per Module ( 6.00 hrs. per day). CE hours are awarded on a Module-by- Module basis, with full attendance required for the Modules attended. Partial Module CE credit is not offered. There is no additional fee to submit application for continuing education credit. Participants, who wish to receive continuing education credit MUST complete CE forms and comply with attendance monitoring requirements.

NOTE: To receive continuing education credit, applicants are required to complete CE forms and comply with attendance monitoring requirements.

NOTE: It is the responsibility of the attendee to determine if CE credit offered by The Institute for Continuing Education meet the regulations of the participant’s licensing/certification board.

Questions: If you have questions regarding continuing education or for a listing of learning objectives, please contact The Institute at: 800-557-1950; e-mail: instconted@aol.com.

Commercial Support: The Institute for Continuing Education receives no funds from any commercial organization for financial support of its activities in providing continuing education sponsorship of this training.

Psychology: Please note - This training is not accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) or the New York State Board of Psychology.

Counseling: The Institute for Continuing Education and the Complex Trauma Training Center are co-sponsors of this event. This co-sponsorship has been approved by NBCC. The Institute for Continuing Education is an MBCC approved continuing education provider, ACEP 5643. The Institute for Continuing Education is solely responsible for this program, including the awarding of NBCC credit.

New York: The Institute for Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. Provider MHC-0016.

Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, Provider 159-000606.

Ohio Counselor, Social Work, and Marriage/Family therapy Board. Counselor and Social Work Board Provider RCS 030001. MFT Provider RTX 100501.

Social Work: This program has been approved for 12.00 hrs per session for social work continuing education hours for re-licensure, in accordance with 258 CMR, NASW-MA Chapter CE Approving Program. Authorization D-10007-1; D10007-2; D10007-3; D10007-4; D10007-5; D10007-6.

New York: The Institute for Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. Provider No. SW-0025.

Florida Dept. Health, Division Social Work, MFT, Counseling, Provider BAP 255.

Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, Provider 159-000606.

Marriage/Family Therapy: The Institute for Continuing Education is a recognized provider of continuing education by the Florida Department of Health, Division of Marriage and Family Therapist, BAP 255.

New York The Institute for Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage/family therapists, Provider MHC-0012.

California Professionals: The Institute for Continuing Education, Provider 56590, is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs. The Institute for Continuing Education maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This training meets the qualifications for continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCC, as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Nursing: The Institute for Continuing Education is an approved provider of continuing education in nursing by the California Board of Nursing, Provider CEP 12646. Nurses are responsible for checking with their state board to determine if credit issued through an approved provider of the CA Board of Nursing is acceptable by their state board.

Non-U.S. Professionals: The Institute for Continuing Education holds no CE provider status with Canadian or other Non-U.S. licensing/certification boards. It is your responsibility to check the regulations of your licensing/certification board to determine CE requirements for training activities.

Skill Level: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced.

Instruction Methodology: Didactic and theoretical learning to include lecture, question/answer periods, class-wide discussion, case examples and vignettes, and demonstration videos.

Ethics Hours / Academic Credit: This training offers no “ethics hours”. The training offers no “academic” credit and CE hours awarded are not eligible toward fulfillment of a degree.

Questions? Click Here to Watch the December 9 Q&A

Faculty

Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC is the founder and Training Director of the Complex Trauma Training Center. Brad is a licensed psychotherapist, educator, consultant, executive producer of the Transforming Trauma Podcast, and co-Author of The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma. Brad is a Senior Trainer in the NeuroAffective Relational Model®, teaches NARM® Therapist Trainings out of CTTC, and mentors NARM® Therapists. Brad began his career as a Humanitarian Aid Worker in Asia which introduced him to personal and collective trauma. He later worked in community mental health with youth and families. For the last 25 years, Brad has been committed to supporting individuals and communities in the transformation of trauma. Brad’s work focuses on the integration of Somatic Psychology, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Relational Models, and wisdom from Traditional Cultures and Spiritual Traditions. Brad lives in a small town in Northern California with his family and loves anything related to music, food and travel.

Brad Kammer

CTTC Training Director & Senior Trainer
Psychotherapist

Stefanie Klein is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, NARM Master Therapist, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She has 30 years of experience practicing psychotherapy with adults in her Los Angeles private practice and has specialized in treating trauma and anxiety for the past 20 years. Along with seeing clients, Stefanie serves as the Assistant Training Director for the Complex Trauma Training Center where she is also a consultant and faculty in the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) and the new SPACE program for psychotherapists.
In her role as a mentor and teacher of psychotherapists working with complex trauma, she is most inspired by the desire to support other therapists to not only feel more effective in their work with clients, but to also experience more ease and fulfillment in their professional roles.

Stefanie Klein

CTTC Assistant Training Director & Trainer
Psychotherapist

Marcia Black, PhD is a licensed psychologist in the SF Bay Area, faculty member at the Complex Trauma Training Center, and Trainer and Master therapist in the NeuroAffective Relational Model®. Mentoring students and Training Assistants, and nurturing our growing community of graduates committed to ongoing professional and personal development is a passion she brings to CTTC. In alignment with the mission of CTTC, Marcia’s mentorship is relationally focused, inviting exploration into therapists’ inner experience and supporting their own growth, alongside that of their clients'. Marcia has been in private practice in the SF Bay Area for over 40 years. She specializes in treating complex and developmental trauma in individuals, couples and, intergenerationally, as manifested in parenting issues. Outside work, adventures in nature and time with young children are among Marcia’s greatest pleasures, and influences.

Dr. Marcia Black

CTTC Trainer
Psychotherapist

Registration Options

Full Year Program Registration

$100 Application Fee +

$450 per class

$100 non-refundable application fee due upon registration
Monthly payment plan of $225 per month starting January 3, 2025

Register for the Full Year!

Single Class Registration

$100 Application Fee +

$600 per class

$100 non-refundable application covers the entire calendar year
Once your application is approved, you can purchase individual classes

Register for Individual Classes!

Class Format

Through experiential learning and a compassionate group process, participants will be invited to engage in ongoing self-discovery designed to revitalize their passion for being a therapist.

Presentation of Themes & Topics
Group Discussion
Questions & Answers
Small Group Activities
Self-Reflective Exercises
Shared Explorations
Guided Explorations
Intersubjective (Client-Focused) Explorations
Therapeutic Application Activities
Intention Exercises
Journal Exercises

Important Terms & Conditions

The Complex Trauma Training Center reserves the right to approve or deny any application, and/or accept or reject the participation of any person in its sole discretion and in accordance with its policies and the law. Applications are used in two ways: to ensure that all participants have an appropriate background to participate in the program and to help familiarize us with the participant group.

The Complex Trauma Training Center is not responsible for non-refundable air, hotel and other expenses incurred related to registration for trainings, programs, and events. It may be necessary due to enrollment and other considerations to change or cancel the date of an event. If so, only registration fees will be reimbursed.

For ADA assistance for this training, please contact us at admin@complextraumatrainingcenter.com.

Cancellation and Transfer Policy:

We are committed to providing a high quality learning experience for all SPACE Program participants. We recognize that enrolling in this program is a commitment on several levels, one of which is financial. Participants are expected to attend for the duration of the program for which they are enrolled and to make tuition payments on time. We recognize that under certain conditions, applicants may have to cancel or withdraw. Refunds may be available to applicants who cancel their registration or withdraw their enrollment from this program, per the following policy:

Classes take place every other month. Cancellations requested before the 1st of the month in which the class occurs will be refunded 50% of the tuition for that class.
Refunds requested after the 1st of the month in which the class occurs will not receive a refund.
No refund will be issued for no-shows. Partial refunds are not awarded for those who miss portions of the program.

The policy described above applies to participants whether they are paying in full or utilizing a payment plan. Payments may continue after the cancellation request, until the participant has completed payment on their outstanding balance.

Please contact the CTTC Team at admin@complextraumatrainingcenter.com as soon as possible if you are considering canceling or withdrawing your enrollment. Our team will be able to assist with the cancellation/withdrawal process and offer possible alternatives, if they are available.

Participants who are asked to leave the program will not receive refunds for classes they have already completed; they will receive reimbursement for any future classes they have paid for. They also will not receive any reimbursement for any other program-related costs.

The Complex Trauma Training Center reserves the right to remove you from the program, and revoke access to any materials associated with the SPACE Program in response to past due tuition or fees.

Disclaimer: The Complex Trauma Training Center is neither a regulatory nor licensing organization and therefore not sanctioned to certify, license, or otherwise bestow the legal authorization to practice as a mental health professional. You are responsible for working under your professional license and within your scope of practice.

For support contact: admin@complextraumatrainingcenter.com

Complex Trauma Training Center, LLC

707-234-8523
PO Box 388
Ukiah, CA 95482