Full Course Description
The Science of Mindfulness and Compassionate Presence with Christopher Willard, PsyD
Objectives
- Determine the basic neuroscience underlying mindfulness and other contemplative practice
- Articulate the fight/flight responses as they relate to mental health and mental illness
Outline
- Basics of neuroscience and science regarding the benefits underlying mindfulness practice
- Fight/flight responses as they relate to mental health and mental illness and how mindfulness impacts these
- Understand how mastery of understanding the science of mindfulness enhances therapeutic presence in the teaching of it
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13/11/2016
Cultivating Presence through Mindfulness and Compassion with Christopher Germer, PhD
Objectives
- Implement skills of self-compassion during psychotherapy to enhance emotional resonance.
Outline
- Understand the science, components and benefits of self-compassion
- Demonstrate skills of self-compassion
- Implement skills of self-compassion in clinical work
- Enhance emotional resonance
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Objectives
- Implement skills of self-compassion during psychotherapy to enhance emotional resonance.
Outline
- Understand the science, components and benefits of self-compassion
- Demonstrate skills of self-compassion
- Implement skills of self-compassion in clinical work
- Enhance emotional resonance
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13/11/2016
Being Present with Pain with Ronald Siegel, PsyD
Objectives
- Evaluate the neurobiological effects of mindfulness practice on experimentally induced pain
- Present cognitive, affective, and behavioral components of chronic pain cycles
- Specify how mindfulness practice can help to interrupt chronic pain cycles
Outline
- Neurobiological effects of mindfulness practice on experimentally induced pain
- Cognitive, affective, and behavioral components
- Presence arising from teaching oneself and clients to flexibly relate to pain
- Interrupt chronic pain cycles
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17/10/2016
Therapeutic Presence via the Mindful Communication Sequence (MCS): A Mindfulness-Based Communication Method for Clinicians with Mitch Abblett, PhD
Objectives
- Evaluate evidence-based mindfulness and here-and-now relationship management interventions for maximizing effective intervention timing, avoiding perceptual bias and error, and intervening based on all the available and relevant clinical information
- Develop skills for understanding and skillfully maintaining flexible and effective thinking and clinical decision-making, managing countertransference reactions to clients, and cultivating skills for compassionate perspective-taking and communication.
- Implement skills for to coaching clients in session to bring the Mindful Communication Sequence (MCS) to bear in their real-world interactions with others.
Outline
- Mindfulness and here-and-now relationship management interventions
- Maximize effective intervention timing
- Avoid perceptual bias and error
- Intervene based on available and relevant clinical information
- Demonstrate skills
- Skillfully maintaining flexible and effective thinking
- Clinical decision-making
- Manage countertransference reactions
- Cultivate skills for compassionate perspective-taking and communication
- Skills for coaching clients in session to bring the Mindful Communication Sequence (MCS)
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17/10/2016
The Art of Equanimity with Susan Pollak, MTS, EdD
Objectives
- Examine, both cognitively and experientially, how to begin to cultivate equanimity.
- Practice how to return to a state of equanimity when knocked off balance.
- Determine the phrases of equanimity.
- Practice, experientially, the key equanimity meditations.
- Utilize equanimity and how it can enhance presence.
Outline
- Defining and cultivating perspective on the relevance of equanimity in clinical work
- Cognitively and experientially begin to cultivate equanimity
- Return to a state of equanimity when clinical work prompts imbalance
- Phrases of equanimity
- Practice, experientially, the key equanimity meditations
- When to utilize equanimity - how it can enhance presence
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17/10/2016
The Boundless Universe of Presence with Charles Styron, PsyD
Objectives
- Determine how presence represents a gateway into the discipline of mindfulness meditation altogether.
Outline
- From Tibetan Point of View, Presence provides a holographic view of the Dharma.
- There is a Ground, a Path, and a Fruition.
- Ground:
- kindness, gentleness, straightforwardness
- discipline and joy
- freedom from hope and fear
- unpredictability or inscrutability
- Path: What is being communicated or taught
- Fruition: Transmission, which goes beyond the written or the spoken word.
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13/11/2016
Cultivating Presence through Mindful Self-Care Tom Pedulla, LICSW
Objectives
- Create an understanding of connection between mindfulness, self-care and therapeutic presence.
- Utilize simple mindfulness exercises to enhance presence and practice better self-care.
Outline
- Connection between mindfulness, self-care and therapeutic presence
- Mindfulness exercises to enhance presence
- Mindfulness exercises to practice better self-care
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Objectives
- Create an understanding of connection between mindfulness, self-care and therapeutic presence.
- Utilize simple mindfulness exercises to enhance presence and practice better self-care.
Outline
- Connection between mindfulness, self-care and therapeutic presence
- Mindfulness exercises to enhance presence
- Mindfulness exercises to practice better self-care
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13/11/2016
Presence in the Face of Unwelcome Uncertainty and Insecurity with Paul Fulton, EdD
Objectives
- Specify alternative approaches to the nature of personal & professional insecurity, and how it interferes with our ability to become and remain fully present in the clinical encounter.
Outline
- Demonstrate alternative approaches to the nature of personal and professional insecurity
- Understand and demonstrate skills for resting in the reality of discomfort for both client and clinician
- How not cultivating flexible relationships with uncertainty interferes with ability to become and remain fully present with clients
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13/11/2016
Creating the Inner Holding Environment in Meditation with Bill Morgan, PsyD & Susan Morgan, MSN, RN, CS
Objectives
- Determine the three core elements of the inner holding environment for practicing mindfulness meditation.
- Establish the three inner holding environment elements during a practice meditation session.
- Practice monitoring, adjusting and re-establishing these core elements during meditation practice.
Outline
- Three core elements of the inner holding environment
- Demonstrate a practice meditation session
- Presence skills from cultivating a sound foundation of formal meditation practice
- Monitor, adjust and re-establish core elements
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Objectives
- Determine the three core elements of the inner holding environment for practicing mindfulness meditation.
- Establish the three inner holding environment elements during a practice meditation session.
- Practice monitoring, adjusting and re-establishing these core elements during meditation practice.
Outline
- Three core elements of the inner holding environment
- Demonstrate a practice meditation session
- Presence skills from cultivating a sound foundation of formal meditation practice
- Monitor, adjust and re-establish core elements
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17/10/2016
The Buddha's Wife: The Power of Relational Mindfulness in Clinical Practice with Janet Surrey, PhD
Objectives
- Maximize your understanding of the guidelines for relational mindfulness
- Communicate how to tailor the practice to clinical relational situations -- especially deep listening and wise speech
- Establish how mindfulness practiced in relationship can help clients with relational / interpersonal difficulties
Outline
- Understanding the nature of the relational field in psychotherapy
- Guidelines for relational mindfulness
- Tailor relational mindfulness practice to clinical situations
- Deep listening skills
- Wise speech skills
- Practicing mindfulness in relationships
Program Information
Objectives
- Maximize your understanding of the guidelines for relational mindfulness
- Communicate how to tailor the practice to clinical relational situations -- especially deep listening and wise speech
- Establish how mindfulness practiced in relationship can help clients with relational / interpersonal difficulties
Outline
- Understanding the nature of the relational field in psychotherapy
- Guidelines for relational mindfulness
- Tailor relational mindfulness practice to clinical situations
- Deep listening skills
- Wise speech skills
- Practicing mindfulness in relationships
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13/11/2016