Full Course Description
Cultivating Non-Dual Awareness
Objectives
- Discuss how to guide clients through a meditation that helps them access their third “eye”</
- Guide clients through a process that helps them “dissolve” the self and achieve greater awareness
- Explain the role of the body in the Wholeness process
- Explore the difference between traditional mindfulness practice and the Wholeness practice
- Discuss when to schedule body scans over the course of general assessments and talk therapy
Outline
- Overview of cultivating non-dual awareness
- Why clients need a wholeness approach
- Issues that mindfulness doesn’t resolve
- Experiencing the wholeness of the self
- Notice the location of “I”
- Explore experiences through guided non-dual awareness processes
- Concluding remarks from Connirae Andreas
- Focusing on awareness rather than compassion
- Engaging clients with no non-dual awareness experience
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19/01/2015
The Power of Mindfulness Practice
Program Information
Objectives
- Articulate implications of mindfulness and awareness to help improve clinical outcomes.
Outline
Kabat-Zinn answers the question: what is mindfulness?
- Separating mindfulness from spiritual practice
- Mindfulness as an exercise in cultivating “wakefulness”
- Why mindfulness isn’t a concept, but a door into oneself: a way of being, and being in relationship
The main tenets of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- Kabat-Zinn explains his “operational definition” of mindfulness-paying attention to awareness
- Why listening to the body (and the breath) is such an important part of mindfulness
- The importance of attending, not focusing on the objects (handholds) for attention
- The dynamics of relationality
- What optimal mindfulness looks like in human communication/”embodied conversation”
- How mindfulness helps people move beyond their initial perceptions of who they are
- Mindfulness in the service of humankind
- Mindfulness is an inclusionary movement that can be applied to many different situations
- Humans are “starving for authentic experience,” accounting for mindfulness’s widespread appeal
- Acknowledging the stories we tell ourselves about who we are
- Kabat-Zinn on how to avoid getting lost in the thought stream about our identities
- Kabat-Zinn on how 8 weeks of MBSR treatment can change the brain’s mind-wandering network
- The specifics of non-judgmental awareness: having judgments without them consuming you
Jon Kabat-Zinn reflects on his own professional and personal growth journey
- There’s continuity between the young and older Kabat-Zinn in interest in mindfulness teachings
- Says, “I feel like I’m just beginning” on the “growing edge” of a new chapter of life
- Concluding remarks from Kabat-Zinn
- What’s in store for the future of the mindfulness movement? Kabat-Zinn predicts a fluctuation
- Mindfulness has a direct, positive influence on us as human beings, apart from scientific findings
- Focusing on stories about what’s wrong with us makes it difficult to heal-we get in our own way
- Asking ourselves the question “what is our own way?” is an exercise in self-discovery and healing
- Learning to look beyond the digital world is an opportunity for us to pursue what’s important
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08/12/2014
Escaping the Cybertrance
Program Information
Objectives
- Identify ways to help clients detach from their technological dependencies
Outline
Overview of escaping the cyber trance
- Becoming aware to the effects of technology
- Enter the false refuge of world knowledge
Experiencing the cyber trance
- Develop a sense of mastery when dealing with the cyber world
- Explore how “cyber world” appeals to one’s sense of self
- Learn to “leave the screen” to connect with one’s self
Concluding remarks form Tara Brach
- How technology can be, and is, used advantageously
- Establishing a sense of reality
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08/12/2014
Creating a Sacred Space in Psychotherapy
Objectives
- Discover how to make your therapy office a sacred space using decoration
- Use the power of ritual to get conversation with clients on a deeper level
- Identify two exercises to help clients promote mindful healing outside the therapy room
- Explain the difference between teaching therapy and teaching morality and virtue
- Dissect the relationship between Western mindfulness therapy and Eastern mindfulness traditions
Outline
- Overview of a sacred space
- Introducing a sacred space into the medical field
- Reducing “road noise” in your sacred space
- Experiencing sacred space
- Using a ritual to create a sacred space
- Explore the meanings of ritual
- Wrapping up with Jack Kornfield
- Gateways to other life dimensions
- “The Wise Heart” and additional trainings
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18/12/2014
The Power of Self-Compassion
Objectives
- Identify the difference between self-compassion and mindfulness training
- Discuss how to have a healthier relationship with angry thoughts
- Identify the “Unholy Trinity of Reactions” and explain how to overcome it
- Use self-compassionate questioning to teach clients self-care
- Demonstrate two exercises for down-regulating a client’s nervous system
Outline
- Overview of mindfulness and self-compassion
- Defining self-compassion
- Distinguishing mindfulness from self-compassion
- Experiencing self-compassion
- Learn the super-structure of compassion
- Explore the core elements of self-compassion through gestures
- Discover when to say no to compassion
- Concluding remarks from Chris Germer
- Allow yourself and your clients to be a “Comasssionate Mess”
- Additional resources from Chris Germer
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19/01/2015
The Fiction of the Self
Objectives
- Identify how mindfulness helps us realize the fallacies in the stories we create about ourselves, and the healing process therein
- Explain the concept of the “Super-Organism” and how mindfulness practice can help clients recognize the state of human interdependence
- Interpret your clients’ preoccupation with rank, and how mindfulness practice can undo this type of thinking
- Use body scans to help clients assess and articulate deeper sensations and tension
- Name one of the pitfalls to embracing mindfulness and the concept of interdependence too fully
Outline
- Overview of the fiction of the self
- “Mindfulness craze” and visions of one’s self
- Learning to let go of “bigger – better”
- Experiencing the fiction of the self
- Explore the somatic aspect of feelings
- Experience the powerful emotions affiliated with therapy
- How to celebrate insignificance
- Wrapping up with Ron Siegel
- Client response to fiction of self therapy approach
- Creating maps for experiences
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08/12/2014