ONLINE LIVE (IN REAL-TIME!) DBT-INFORMED PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL COURSES
Learn from anywhere in the world with Debbie DeMarco (Corso), B.Sc., Well-Known Author, Teacher, and Life Coach in recovery from BPD!

ONLINE LIVE (IN REAL-TIME!) DBT-INFORMED PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL COURSES

Learn from anywhere in the world with Debbie DeMarco (Corso), B.Sc., Well-Known Author, Teacher, and Life Coach in recovery from BPD!

DO YOU HAVE TROUBLE MANAGING YOUR EMOTIONS?
DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF EMOTIONALLY SENSITIVE AND TEND TO EXPERIENCE YOUR EMOTIONS MORE INTENSELY THAN OTHERS?
ARE YOU READY TO LEARN SKILLS THAT HAVE HELPED MANY OTHERS OVERCOME AND LEARN TO MANAGE THEIR EMOTIONS?
ARE YOU EXCITED TO LEARN FROM A PEER WHO IS LIVING PROOF THAT THESE SKILLS WORK?

YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

PUT AN END TO ACTING IMPULSIVELY AND SPIRALING INTO CRISIS.

RELEASE SELF-SABOTAGING PATTERNS IN YOUR LIFE AND RELATIONSHIPS.

GET ON A BAD HABIT DETOX TO CREATE THE LIFE YOU WANT.

CONVENIENCE OF ONLINE LEARNING.

WEEKLY LIVE CLASSES WITH REPLAY/RECORDING AVAILABLE DURING THE WEEK.

BE READY FOR PEOPLE TO NOTICE AND TO ASK YOU WHAT YOU’RE DOING DIFFERENTLY AND WHAT’S FINALLY WORKING.

We will cover the following…

INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS

Interpersonal Effectiveness (takes 3 months to complete this class, tuition is due monthly)

The single biggest reason people join this course is they want to create healthy, lasting relationships and stop repeating the defeating, self-sabotaging relationship behaviors that have been holding them back.

Gain insight into your relationship roadblocks and move toward creating and sustaining meaningful, long-term relationships, including friendships, romantic/partnership relationships, family relationships, and connections in the workplace.

You’ll build a toolbox of proven interpersonal skills that have helped many people with BPD, empaths, and emotionally sensitive people with other emotion regulation issues finally have what they want most in life: relationships that matter. You will also learn tools for leaving those relationships that no longer serve you, sometimes referred to as “toxic” relationships.

Mindfulness skills are woven in throughout the curriculum while learning interpersonal effectiveness skills.

This class starts Monday, July 16th, and we are accepting new students!

This class is ideal for you if…

Your Boundaries are a Blur and You…

get very triggered when others violate yours
aren’t sure how to set healthy ones and get them respected
get told you’re pushing other people’s boundaries, and it sometimes costs you the relationship.
are an empath and take on other people’s emotions

You Have an Identity Crisis, Causing You To…

shapeshift like a chameleon around others and feel inauthentic
feel exhausted trying to be everything to everyone so they’ll accept you
desperately long to know and honor who YOU really are

Emotions are Impacting Your Relationships (and life!) and YOU…

see pretty much everything is a sign that someone’s going to leave or reject you
get super triggered by disagreements with others
interpret criticism (at work, school, home) as catastrophic

Geeking out on Science Lights You Up, and You Want to Learn…

in easy to understand lessons, about things like “Mirror Neurons” and how they affect your emotions.
how your nervous system affects and is affected by your relationships
what attachment styles are and how to understand and relate to your partner if his or hers is different

DISTRESS TOLERANCE

Distress Tolerance (takes 3 months to complete this class, tuition is due monthly)

Let’s face it — you can be a little bit impulsive. Your emotions come on intensely, and it can be difficult to then sit with the distress of upsets, (such as a conflict with a loved one or an issue at work), so you end up turning to habits that you know don’t serve you in the long run. You’ve experienced the consequences of this time and time again. And you want to change this. Yesterday.

Emotionally Sensitive people often (quite understandably!) turn to impulsive behaviors when the emotional pain feels too hard to bear – because it works (in the short term).

It makes sense that you’d repeat these unhealthy behaviors (like substance use, quitting a job or other commitment, lashing out, and self-harm) because acting on them provides a sense of desperately needed relief in the immediate.

But what you’re noticing is this behavior doesn’t take into account the whole picture. The consequences. The damage to your relationships, career, health, and reputation.

Distress tolerance is about learning to tolerate those really difficult, intensely emotional moments in ways that will honor both your short-term need to feel better and your longer-term goals for building a life worth living.

Learning and practicing DBT skills can help you get there.

Recognize and better understand your impulsive behaviors and have a proven toolbox of strategies and skills that can help reduce them significantly. We’ll go through effective strategies step-by-step.

Mindfulness skills are woven in throughout the curriculum while learning distress tolerance skills.

You’ll start this module after Interpersonal Effectiveness.

This class is ideal for you if…

Your Emotions Get So Overwhelming They’re Unbearable and…

upsets quickly escalate to feeling like a crisis
even small amounts of stress feel overwhelming
you worry each time that the intense episode will last forever

Stressful Situations over which you have no control:

leave you feeling powerless
cause you to want to “check out,” or you actually do dissociate

You Often Feel Triggered and…

find yourself avoiding, numbing, denying, or suppressing the trigger and emotions
you try to make yourself feel better but often end up feeling worse

EMOTION REGULATION

Emotion Regulation (takes 3 months to complete this class, tuition is due monthly)

You’re a passionate person with strong emotions and impulses. You may have even been called an “empath” because your emotions are so intense, especially when you hear about other people or animals hurting or being mistreated or upsetting news stories.

You don’t want to lose this super compassionate part of who you are *and* you see the value in learning to channel your emotional intensity so it doesn’t overpower you. You want to be of service to the world AND feel healthy, in control, and balanced so that you and your relationships and goals don’t suffer.

Learn the essential roles that emotions play in your life and skills for learning to regulate your emotional intensity. You’ll have a proven step-by-step system that can assist you with no longer being at the mercy of your intense emotions.

Mindfulness skills are woven in throughout the curriculum while learning emotion regulation skills.

You’ll start this module after Distress Tolerance.

What’s included in this course…

WEEKLY LIVE ONLINE DBT SKILLS CLASS

Group members from around the globe meet weekly for this 90-minute live, online, interactive course.

When: Mondays from 4:00 – 5:30 pm Pacific*
*If you are unable to attend the live session, you will have access to the recording to review at your leisure during the week.

Our DBT-informed psychoeducational classes are a great way to learn, study, practice, and review skills and concepts from a variety of modalities in a supportive, non-judgmental, environment. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions in real-time.

Please note that you have required texts for this course that you will need to buy separately:

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets by Dr. Marsha Linehan
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook by Matthew McKay

Also, not required but highly recommended are:

Stronger than BPD (written by your course instructor, Debbie!)
Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder

GROUP CHAT

Connect with Peers Around the Globe

Interact with peers around the globe who are studying the skills right alongside you in our virtual classroom. Chat is open for 30-minutes before class start time. Just type into the box and engage. It’s a great place to connect and remember that you are never alone! Participation in chat is optional.

PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP

Private Facebook Group

You’ll also be invited to join our private Facebook Group where we have a weekly office hours threads for:

Q&A: Post your questions that come up with the material.
A Homework Thread: Post your assignment each week, discuss your skills use, and participate in opportunities for connection and discussion with your peers from around the world.

Your teachers on this journey

Debbie DeMarco, B.Sc., CLC is a well-known author (as Debbie Corso), teacher, and certified life coach specializing in Integrated Empathology — she helps emotionally sensitive people embrace and channel their intense emotions and sensitivity, learn effective boundaries and self-care, and release self-sabotaging patterns.

She is an empath and a thriving emotionally sensitive person with extensive personal and professional experience with DBT Skills. Debbie openly shares her personal journey of overcoming and no longer meeting the criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder through the use of these skills, somatic practices, and nervous system recalibration techniques discussed in our courses.

Kathryn C. Holt, M.A., LCSW is a psychotherapist who accompanies people on the journey of reclaiming their hunger, desire, and permission to live fully in their bodies and lives. She utilizes a psycho-spiritual approach that integrates our whole person– body, mind, soul, and spirit– as a way of accessing our deepest wisdom and self-trust.

Kathryn studied DBT at Columbia University in New York City and worked with teens, adults, and families using DBT for several years prior to moving to Boulder, CO where she now lives and practices. She offers individual therapy, groups, retreats, and weekly movement classes with the intention of reconnecting people with their power, wisdom, and purpose.

THE BASICS

NEXT CLASS STARTS:

July 16, 2018

WHEN & WHERE:

ONLINE, MONDAYS AT 4 PM PACIFIC* FOR 90-MINUTES*
*recorded for those who can’t make the live class or want to review

TUITION COST:

AS LOW AS $107/mo MONTH-TO-MONTH

We offer a sliding scale that is on the honor system. We believe you will show up in integrity and pick the highest amount on the scale that you can afford.

There are also options to pay 9-months in advance or 3-months at a time to receive a price break.

LENGTH OF PROGRAM:

EACH ROUND IS 9 MONTHS LONG

3 modules take 3-months each to complete

Drop & Refund Policy:

Tuition is paid month-to-month. Students may drop/cancel at any time for any reason. There are no refunds on any tuition already paid.

NEXT CLASS STARTS:
July 16, 2018

WHEN & WHERE WE MEET ONLINE:
ONLINE, WEEKLY, MONDAYS AT 4 PM PACIFIC* FOR 90 MINUTES
*RECORDED FOR THOSE WHO CAN’T MAKE LIVE CLASS OR WANT TO REVIEW

TUITION COST:

AS LOW AS $107/mo MONTH-TO-MONTH

WE ARE ON A SLIDING SCALE THAT IS ON THE HONOR SYSTEM. WE BELIEVE YOU WILL SHOW UP IN INTEGRITY AND PICK THE HIGHEST AMOUNT ON THE SCALE YOU CAN AFFORD. THE SCALE STARTS AT $97 PER MONTH, AND THE HIGHEST END IS $197 PER MONTH.

THERE ARE ALSO OPTIONS TO PAY 9-MONTHS IN ADVANCE OR 3-MONTHS AT A TIME, AND THESE OPTIONS OFFER AN ADDITIONAL TUITION PRICE BREAK.

LENGTH OF THE PROGRAM:

EACH ROUND IS 9 MONTHS LONG

3 modules take 3-months each to complete

Drop & Refund Policy:
Tuition is paid month-to-month. Students may drop/cancel at any time for any reason. There are no refunds on any tuition already paid.

Yes! I’m ready to learn the skills and change my life…

Yes! Please remind me when enrollment opens!