Full Course Description
Advanced Mindfulness Toolbox for Rewiring the Brain: Intensive Mindfulness Training for Anxiety, Depression, Pain, PTSD, and Stress-Related Symptoms
OUTLINE
MINDFULNESS AND RESEARCH:
- Cutting Edge Research and Resources
- Mindfulness as a metacognitive skill
- Negative effects of a wandering mind
- Breathing reduces rumination and anxiety
- Useful (and free) web resources
- Free up-to-date mindfulness research
- Free Cutting Edge Brain Research
INTRODUCE MINDFULNESS TO YOUR CLIENTS
- Expand Your Mindfulness Vocabulary
- Help clients understand mindfulness
- Find the right metaphor
- Using clients’ learning styles
- Practice: Getting into the Present Moment
THE POWER OF SENSE GROUNDING
- Anxiety reduction with sense grounding
- Mindfulness for transitioning between activities
- Physical grounding method of dropping into the body
- Integrates progressive muscle relaxation
- Good for spatial, visual, hands-on learning styles
- Practice: Palm the Present Moment
BRAIN BASICS, METACOGNITION, AND INTERPERSONAL NEUROBIOLOGY:
- Emotional Regulation for Depression and Anxiety
- Balance the brain’s default survival mode
- Effects of cortisol on learning and immune system
- Visual Brain Model for clients
- The brain’s mindfulness module
- Train the brain for calm response and metacognition
- Navy Seals, arousal control & parasympathetic nervous system
- Heart rate variability & relaxation response
- Practice: The Power of Breath
- Enhancing effectiveness of a breathing practice
- Practice: Ask Clients the 3-Minute Question
THE BEHAVIORAL SIDE OF MINDFULNESS
- Core lifestyle skills awareness training
- Sleep hygiene
- Managing sleep
- Sleep rituals and strategies
- Healthy eating/nutrition
- Caffeine, protein, neurotransmitters, and the brain
- Exercise
- Manage Technology
- How weapons of mass distraction may be rewiring the brain
- Practice: Assessment of Technology and Time
- Focus the mind (useful for ADHD)
- Integrate breath with a word/image
- Practice: Be the Pebble
MINDFUL LAUGHTER FOR DEPRESSION AND GRIEF:
- Tools for the” terminally serious”
- Research on laughter and mood
- Biochemistry of laughter & human laughter response
- Laughter yoga and laughter in therapy
- Practice: The Lightness of Laughter
THE UPLIFTING POWER OF STORYTELLING
- Storytelling to overcome depression and build relationships
- Fredrickson’s Broaden and Build Theory of Positive Emotions
- Broaden attention; find resilience
- Stories are fundamental to attachment
- Build relationships through a story of strengths
- Practice: Identifying Strengths & Strengths Journal
MANAGING MOODS THROUGH ATTENTION AND SELECTIVE MEMORY
- Master attention and memories
- Savoring of the present moment
- Practice: Here and Now Pleasantness
- Using selective memory to savor the past and future
- Practice: Savoring Success: Past, Present, and Future
HARNESSING GRATITUDE TO INCREASE POSITIVE EMOTIONS
- Managing depression with gratitude
- Gratitude research
- Four psychological reasons for gratitude
- Techniques that make gratitude interpersonal and enhancing Supportive social networks
- Practice: The G.L.A.D. Technique
HEALING EMOTIONAL PAIN THROUGH ACCEPTANCE, FORGIVENESS, AND COMPASSION:
- Forgiveness for moving forward from trauma
- Forgiveness is a skill
- Research on compassion practice
- Changes in brain function
- Security priming for feelings of safety and trust
- Develop positive emotions and resources
- Practice: Loving-Kindness Affirmation
- Cutting-edge mindfulness research
- APA report on ‘Stress in America’
- Biological markers of stress: telomeres and aging
- Identify and assess client stress levels
- Perceived Stress Scale
- Epstein Stress-Management Inventory
- Practice: Be a Smart Stress-Avoider
MINDFULNESS FOR ADDICTIVE CRAVINGS
- Emotional Regulation for Cravings
- Impulse Control and Craving Control Using Grounding
- Practice: Take a Stress Pause (S-T-O-P Grounding Technique)
CHANGING THE PERCEPTION OF PAIN:
- Mindfulness for Chronic Pain
- Introduction to the Body Scan Practice
- Research and history
- Demonstrates how to pay attention non-judgmentally
- Powerful grounding method; applications
- Practice: Surf the Body (The Body Scan)
THE POWER OF SENSE GROUNDING TRAUMA:
- Constructively distance from PTSD and negativity
- Three kinds of sense grounding
- Practice: Focusing on Favorites
REDUCING ANXIETY BY MINDFULLY MANAGING TRANSITIONS:
- Managing transitions through movement and nature
- Process orientation vs. outcome orientation
- Attention Restoration Theory
- Effects of nature on focus, moods, & healing
- Slowing down with nature to get present
- Integrated Tools-
- Practice: Ground-Surfing (Mindful Walking)
- Practice: Turning Down the Volume with Nature
RE-ENVISIONING AND REFOCUSING:
- Working with difficult, unresolved life situations
- Metacognition as a path to insight
- Practice: Bear Meditation
- Creating a mindfulness roadmap for clients:
- Bundling practices together
- Engage through learning styles
- Maintaining skills
- Follow-up and reinforcement
OBJECTIVES
- Describe and define mindfulness in a more broad way for the client.
- Summarize the basics lessons of Interpersonal Neurobiology and how mindfulness can rewire the brain.
- Explain the effects of stress and cortisol, and how diaphragmatic breathing turns on the parasympathetic nervous system.
- Demonstrate how to use stories as a way to shift awareness, enhance relationships, and recognize strengths.
- Use key mindful body practices that lead to better self-care and cognitive brain function.
- Describe multiple evidence-based methods for shifting attention that produce greater positive emotions moment by moment.
- Discuss the difference between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ stress, and the 4-methods for reducing stress.
- Examine the damaging effects of stress at cellular level and how lifestyle changes can alter these.
- Demonstrate stress-reducing transition skills through movement and walking.
- Describe how to use guided meditations designed to help clients to better accept, reframe and manage pain.
- Use the practice of constructive distancing to help clients get a broader perspective on any situation.
- Describe affirmations and methods for developing self-compassion and feelings of safety, trust, and forgiveness.
Copyright :
04/05/2015