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Our Program

Our workshops and seminars draw on skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), an evidence-based practice that provides a structured way of learning emotion regulation skills and building mental health resilience. 

 

While DBT is practiced in a clinical environment, our approach is to make these skills available to everyone.
 

The core DBT skills fall in the following four categories:

Mindfulness

Being aware of the present moment without judgement.

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Distress Tolerance

Managing a crisis without worsening the situation, accepting reality as it is.

Emotion Regulation

Understanding and reducing vulnerability to emotions, change emotions.

Interpersonal Effectiveness

Getting needs met, maintaining relationships, increasing self-respect in relationships

Mindfulness Skills

Mindfulness skills are essential for managing thoughts and emotions, allowing individuals to stay present and reduce emotional reactivity. These skills empower individuals to shift their focus away from work-related stress toward relationships and personal interests, promoting better mental health and resilience.

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Distress Tolerance Skills

These skills enable individuals to manage overwhelming emotions in crisis situations. They teach participants how to survive in a situation that has no immediate solution by reducing the emotional intensity, allowing them to be more effective for themselves and others while not making the situation worse. 

Emotion Regulation Skills

By reducing emotional vulnerability and reactivity, these skills help people manage and respond to their emotions in a healthier way. Using these skills, people feel better, are able to cope with stress, and their relationships and communications are improved.

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Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills

These skills enable participants to build and maintain positive, healthy relationships through improved communication. Communicating effectively with others enables participants to attain objectives, resolve conflict, and strengthen the human connections needed to thrive in both work and home settings.  

Endorsement

Blaise Aguirre, MD.

Medical Director
3East DBT Continuum
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry

The skills taught in this workshop can have a transformative effect in the classroom. Teachers using these skills will be able to build better relationships with their students, improve coping skills and create a supportive, validating and respectful environment. We have seen the successful implementation of DBT skills in classrooms throughout the world and the SILA Skills Group is at the helm of the new movement in using a more integrative and holistic approach to education.

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