• $189.00 – Online: All Three Sessions plus recordings (November 9, November 16, December 7)

Date & Time Details:

  • Sunday, November 9
  • Sunday, November 16
  • Sunday, December 7
  • Check in 1:45 pm; program starts at 2:00 pm

Location: Online

Contact: retreats@dharmakayacenter.org
845.640.4593

Program Time: 2:00-5:00 pm

Price: Zoom Three-session Package (view only): $189

Cancellation Policy: Refundable up to two weeks prior to the program (less a $50 processing fee). See our policy to learn more.

Online: Suicide Prevention Training: Words that Save Lives

With Brett Cotter

November 16, 2025

A Program for Mental Health Professionals & Peer Specialists

PROGRAM BY INVITED PRESENTER

As more clients express their mental health crisis, we as practitioners absorb more stress. Join Brett Cotter, award winning author and trainer, to learn essential new tools to help you save lives and reverse burnout and empathy fatigue. You will learn techniques for:

  • In-session self-care to clandestinely release your own stress as it arises
  • Body language postures to disarm your clients’ defense mechanisms
  • 5 questions to quickly surface the core issue from the depths of the subconscious
  • Breathwork to effectively release your clients emotional tension
  • Co-regulation exercises so your sessions end with inner-peace for both parties

Have Questions? Book a 15-minute Discovery Call with Brett at https://www.stressisgone.com/discovery

This program is delivered online over three Sunday afternoons; recordings will be distributed after each session:

  • November 9: In Session Self-Care & Body Language Techniques (now available exclusively as a recording)
  • November 16: Words that Save Lives: What to Say and How to Say It
  • December 7: How to Let Your Sessions Heal You

Through an engaging experiential learning format that includes simulation, partner role-play, and Q&A, you will master the tools that have immediate impact with your most troubled patients, clients, and peers.

Every participant will receive the Suicide Prevention Family Handbook, The Stress Is Gone Method, and The Stress Is Gone Suicide Prevention Training Guide, containing the Suicide Prevention Protocol, as well as the recordings of all three sessions.

“As a clinician, it was impressive feeling my own stress lift out of my body.”

Gerri DeBenedetto, LCSW

 

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Each afternoon will be an interactive learning experience, taking a deep dive into one of the three core parts of the curricula. Through teaching and Q&A, small group discussion and role-playing, you will learn:

  • Realtime self-regulation technique to reduce burnout and empathy fatigue
  • Body language techniques to disarm defense mechanisms
  • 5 prompts to surface the core issue fueling the ideation
  • Method to remain truly present with your patient’s deepest pain
  • Breathwork technique to help patients release emotional pain
  • Tricks to unlock stuck emotions from various parts of the body
  • Clear framework to manage conversations that incorporate suicidal ideation

You will gain critical new skills and increased confidence—which together can help you save lives.

“I was blown away…Brett’s program has helped my clients heal…several were astonished with the results.”
Mery Vargas Mares, MFT, Grief & Loss Therapist, EMDR Trained Clinician

 

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

  • Intimate setting with personal access to the teacher
  • Interactive sessions
  • Question and answer periods
  • Guided meditations that expedite learning
  • Opportunity to become Stress Is Gone Certified
  • Recordings to study afterwards

OPEN TO ALL MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND PEER SPECIALISTS

This program is designed for mental health professionals and peer specialists who:

  • Are seeing patients, clients, or peers that suffer with suicidal ideation
  • Work with populations that have a higher risk of suicide, such as veterans, first responders, young adults, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, indigenous peoples, undocumented immigrants, people in a toxic family court proceeding or dealing with a great financial hardship, etc.
  • Have clients with family members who died by suicide

 

IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Upon registration you will receive an email with PDF versions of the Suicide Prevention Family Handbook, The Stress Is Gone Method, and The Stress Is Gone Suicide Prevention Training Guide.

It is strongly suggested you read the handbook and training guide before the program begins (approximately 90-minutes of reading time).

During role-play exercises you will practice the techniques with your partner. This learning process is also a healing process. As you experience the relief within yourself, the results for your clients will be that much more profound.

 

SCHEDULE

Join over Zoom from 2:00-5:00 PM.

Teacher

Brett Cotter
Brett Cotter is the award winning author of The Suicide Prevention Family Handbook, 3 Keys to Managing PTSD, and The Stress Is Gone Method. He has 25 years experience helping clients process the most traumatic events of their lives. Brett has taught in Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, schools, military bases, the VA, and holistic centers such as the Omega Institute, Kripalu, Himalayan Institute, New York Open Center, Tibet House US, A.R.E. Center of New York, Dharmakaya Center, and Sivananda Bahamas. Brett serves as the trauma expert for Meditation University’s teacher training program, as a Diplomate with the American Academy of…
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