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Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence

Featuring Neuropsychologist, international speaker, and bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and newest book, Hardwiring Happiness, Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

Based on Dr. Rick Hanson’s latest book, Hardwiring Happiness, this workshop will present the four simple HEAL steps of taking in the good, which turn passing experiences into lasting neural resources. We’ll explore how to use these methods to lower anxiety and stress, lift mood, grow confidence, calm, and contentment, and fundamentally, hardwire happiness into the brain. The mind shapes the brain: neurons that fire together, wire together. Positive experiences are the main source of the neural structures underlying positive mood, resilience, feeling loved, the executive functions, and other inner strengths. Unfortunately, most positive experiences are wasted on the brain because it evolved a negativity bias to help our ancestors survive. It’s like Velcro for bad experiences but Teflon for good ones.

You will learn many practical ways to help your clients overcome this negative bias – which is disheartening, flattens learning curves, undermines compliance and progress in treatment, and fosters drop outs or relapsing – and instead draw upon the positive experiences available in both treatment and everyday life to weave strength and happiness into the fabric of their brain and their life.

In addition to teaching general-purpose methods for deliberately internalizing positive experiences – taking in the good – the workshop will explore how to identify and use key resource experiences to soothe and even heal clinical issues related to the three fundamental systems of the brain: Avoiding harms, Approaching Rewards, and Attaching to others. These methods include how to skillfully hold both positive and negative material in awareness so that – “as neurons fire together, they wire together” – the positive factors connect with, dampen, and gradually replace the negative ones.

The workshop will also cover applications to particular populations and needs, notably trauma, children, and addiction/recovery.

Details

Product Details
Average Rating:
   1
Faculty:
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
Duration:
6 Hours 09 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Oct 15, 2014
Product Code:
POS046080
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.

CPD

Continuing Professional Development Certificates
- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 6.0 hours CPD.

Handouts

File type File name Number of pages
PDF Manual - Hardwiring Happiness (4 MB) 46 Pages Available after Purchase

Faculty

Rick Hanson, Ph.D.'s Profile

Rick Hanson, Ph.D. Related seminars and products

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, a Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkley, and a New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 26 languages and include Hardwiring Happiness (Harmony, 2016), Buddha’s Brain (New Harbinger, 2009), Just One Thing Card Deck (PESI, 2018), and Mother Nurture (Penguin, 2002). He edits the Wise Brain Bulletin and has numerous audio programs. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, he’s been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and other major universities, and taught in meditation centers worldwide.

Dr. Hanson has been a trustee of Saybrook University, served on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and was President of the Board of FamilyWorks, a community agency. He began meditating in 1974, trained in several traditions, and leads a weekly meditation gathering in San Rafael, California. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR, and he offers the free Just One Thing newsletter with over 114,000 subscribers, plus the online Foundations of Well-Being program in positive neuroplasticity.

He enjoys rock-climbing and taking a break from emails. He and his wife have two adult children.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Rick Hanson maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaker honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Rick Hanson is a member of the International Positive Psychology Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Mindfulness Research Association.

Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Objectives

  • Describe two aspects of the relationship between the mind and the brain.
  • Name three types of inner strengths.
  • Describe the three ways to engage the mind.
  • Show clients the four HEAL steps that internalize positive experiences in implicit memory.
  • List the four ways to use HEAL with clients or patients.
  • Name our three fundamental motivational systems.

Outline

The Brain, The Mind, & The Mind/Brain System

  • Perspectives
  • Self-Directed Neuroplasticity
    • Your brain: The technical specs
    • The mind/body brain system-a working model
    • 3 facts about the brain and the mind
    • Experience: How mental states become neural traits
  • The power of mindful attention
  • Self-compassion
  • The Evolving Brain
  • 3 fundamental motivational systems:
  • Avoiding
  • Approaching
  • Attaching
  • How the brain pursues in two basic ways:
  • Homeostatic, refuel-and-repair, sustainable Responsive mode and the Allostatic, fight-or-flight, unhealthy Reactive mode

The Negativity Bias

  • Why the brain is primed to go Reactive
  • We learn too much from negative experiences and too little from positive ones
  • Clinical consequences

Threat Reactivity

Implicit Memory and Inner Resources

Taking in the Good (TIG)

  • 4 steps of taking in the good
    • Activate and install positive mental states
  • Help clients notice or create positive experiences
  • 4 ways to use taking in the good with clients, both during and between sessions
  • How to build up key strengths for depression, addiction, anxiety, trauma, loss and feeling inadequate:
    • Avoiding systems
    • Approaching systems
    • Attaching systems
  • Applications for couples and children
  • Skillfully pairing positive and negative material in awareness
  • Special considerations for children, couples, trauma, and addictions

Use TIG to Heal Emotional Pain

Natural Happiness

Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants and other Mental Health Professionals

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Christine C - VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia

"This was an excellent seminar that will greatly enhance my practice with children, teens, and adults. The presenter repeated major concepts in order to facilitate learning. The experiential aspects of the seminar were extremely valuable. "

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