About the eCPR Practitioner Certification Training

DATES: 

Fridays, March 14th, 21st, 28th & April 4th

TIME: 9am – 12pm EST 

PLATFORM: Virtual (Zoom)

About the eCPR Practitioner Certification Training

Emotional CPR is a public health education program designed to teach people to assist others through emotional crisis or distress. Through this 12-hour online training, you learn the basics of carrying out this form of peer-led emotional support. 

Recognizing the intensity of the current moment and the multiple crises we are facing, with heightened political divisions, polarization and great uncertainty, Emotional CPR can help us to address feelings of isolation, fear and disconnection. Through eCPR, we use feelings as the basis for connecting without going into the content of our stories, political beliefs, or affiliations. In this, we are given tools for finding each other in sites of compassion, joy, vulnerability, hope and all that is in between.  

This is an interactive and experiential training where you are expected to share something of yourself. A huge part of the philosophy behind eCPR is that speaking from your authentic voice is the most helpful part of providing support to another person. In the training we get in touch with and share our individual and collective feelings for mutual connection, empowerment and revitalization.    

The training will be carried out online in four 3-hour sessions in March and April 2025.    

Requirements

• This eCPR Practitioner Online Training is limited to 12 participants.
• To complete the course, you need to attend all four 3-hour sessions.
• Participants in the US will be mailed an eCPR Resource Manual and international participants will receive an eCPR Resource Manual to download. Please look through this prior to the training.
• Internet connection, a computer or laptop which has speakers, a microphone, and a video camera. 
                        

COST:  $150 - $350 (sliding scale)
Please pay what you can afford on this sliding scale. If you can afford the total price, this will help to subsidize the participation of others. If the price is a barrier to your entry and you want to participate, please get in touch with us: communityecpr@gmail.com

Background

eCPR developed out of the peer-led mental health recovery movement by people with lived experience of their own mental health struggles. It is based on values of mutual support and authentic interpersonal communication. Just as CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) supports the physical heart, eCPR supports the emotional heart as a form of emotional resuscitation. eCPR is based on principles central to a number of different support approaches: trauma-informed care, crisis counseling, counseling after disasters, suicide prevention, open dialogue, cultural and social attunement and peer support.

 Tone Puorro
eCPR trainer, cross-disciplinary artist and cultural worker. They were part of creating and holding Community eCPR in Berlin and it has supported them in finding rooted-ness and connection in a dynamic and quickly-changing place. They experience eCPR as a much needed space to be in feeling with others, to find ways to show up in vulnerability and authenticity with both our shared experiences and our differences. It is a chance to greet the discomfort, beauty and contradiction of being a sensing-feeling body with radical curiosity. They believe in liberation psychology - that our psychic-health cannot be separated from the conditions of our local communities and environment. They are particularly excited by how creative expression shows up in eCPR as a means of describing and exploring our multifaceted inner worlds and the dynamic energetic exchanges between us. Tone is currently an eCPR Educator and on the path to becoming a Trainer. They teach and facilitate craft events aimed at strengthening community connection and rituals for collective transformation.

Eddy Levin McGrath
eCPR trainer, somatic bodyworker and artist from Tkaronto/Toronto living in Berlin. They work with creative practices focused on liberation and healing through vulnerability, improvisation, movement and magic. Channels include dance, sound arts, somatics and group facilitation for slowing down, deep listening, queer neurodivergent expression, and personal/communal transformation. They are committed to collectively understanding of how intergenerational trauma and intersections of systemic oppressions are held in the body and can be attended to together.