Somatic Healing Rooted in Nature, Grounded in Science

Certificate Program

Where cutting-edge science meets the wisdom of the body.

A program for practitioners ready to understand somatic work — and teach confidently from it.

Farm to Table Meals | Gentle Yoga | Embodied Wisdom

Ellen weaves cutting-edge science with the lost wisdom of the body — offering a rare synthesis that is both clinically rigorous and deeply nourishing. Through powerful experiential practices, you will learn to trust your body as a guide and carry that knowing into your life and your work.

Her approach — The Compassion Cultivation Cycle — offers a new paradigm of self-love. Not self-improvement. Wholeness. This will not replace your current toolbox, it will amplify it.

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Receive 28 Continuing Education hours for licensed professionals. Take this beyond your personal life into family, community, and work settings.

12 EPISODE PODCAST MINI-SERIES

Being & Becoming: A Guide To Self-Acceptance

By invitation from an inspiring organization, New World Women, Ellen Slater co-created a free 12 Part Series — enjoy consecutively or A La Carte!

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“Ellen has the ability to blend a variety of historic teachings with a modern point of view. Her lessons have helped me stay present in my life - no matter what is happening around me.”

Natalie, This Mindful Life Member
“Ellen truly intertwines her professional psychological expertise with grounding physical practices. The application is palpable and immediate with gentle guidance to integrate into future mindfulness practice and growth.”

Anne, Compassion Retreat Participant
"The Head and Heart approach makes complex ideas and scientific understanding really accessible so that you have tools you can actually work with that will be helpful and positively impact your everyday life."

Linda, Clinical Social Worker, Cultivation Cycle Trainee
"Everything Head and Heart offers has the intention of expanding self compassion at its core."

JP, Integrative Coach, Compassion Cultivation Cycle Trainee

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About Me

MY NAME IS ELLEN

I am a human, writer, therapist, and teacher dedicated to building bridges between the head and heart. Through lived experience and relentless passion — rooted in two decades of clinical practice, indigenous immersions, and a move to the mountains — I created the Compassion Cultivation Cycle™. It is not a model I teach from a distance. It is a landscape I inhabit.

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THE COMPASSION CULTIVATION CYCLE™

An Evidence Based Path To Building Compassion From The Inside Out

Emerging from 20 years of clinical practice, study, and lived experience comes a framework for understanding yourself and others — with honesty, compassion, and the wisdom of the body.

The Compassion Cultivation Cycle integrates:

Psychology

Somatic Awareness

Kinship Ecology

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HEAD & HEART RETREAT CENTER

Beyond The Silos of Modern Medicine

YOGA | COMMUNITY | HEALING

A Cooperative Space With Head & Heart