Mindfulness, Meditation and Neuroscience for Clinicians: Active Pathways for Therapeutic Change - 2014 Alaska Cruise - Seminar
Mindfulness, Meditation and Neuroscience for Clinicians: Active Pathways for Therapeutic Change - 2014 Alaska Cruise
- Where:
- SEATTLE, WA
- When:
- Saturday, September 13, 2014 - Saturday, September 20, 2014
SOLD OUT - We're sorry, we are no longer taking registrations for this event.
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Program Description:
Join Dr. C. Alexander Simpkins and Dr. Annellen Simpkins, experts in the field of neuroscience and meditation, as they take you through an intensive and beautiful experience on your journey through the Inside Passage and into the Gulf of Alaska. While on the ship, you will attend four sessions of continuing education focusing on mindfulness, meditation and how you can help rewire your client’s brain for therapeutic change. Experience these methods as you travel through breathtaking scenery and leave feeling excited about your profession.
As more is understood about how the mind is intimately involved with the brain, we now know that the brain can literally rewire for better or for worse depending on what you think, feel, and do. This workshop will add new dimensions to your treatments by promoting brain change using top down, bottom up and horizontal methods. Understand key nervous system structures, functions, and pathways to make the complexities of brain science your own. Discover where neuroplasticity occurs and ways to use it therapeutically.
With protocols, case examples, and experiential exercises, you will have fun as you get to know the brain. Mindfulness, meditation, and yoga offer methods anyone can learn that clear the way for better functioning and are useful for many common mental health disorders. In addition, you will bring home treatments for stress, anxiety, trauma, OCD, depression, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, sleep disorders, and pain reduction. You will learn how neuroscience principles will help you create your own techniques for creative individualizing. And in the process, you will activate your own brain in positive ways, feeling present, alert, relaxed and renewed!
Inside Cabin – ID $1379 per personSOLD OUTOceanview Cabin – OF $1769 per personSOLD OUTBalcony Cabin - BD $1979 per personSOLD OUTMini Suite - $2089 per personSOLD OUT
Note: Pricing includes seminar fee. Please contact Heidi DesJarlais, Heidi@higginstravel.com, 715-834-2686 at Higgins Travel Leaders for pricing and availability. Pricing is based on double occupancy. Single, triple and quad rates are available upon request and are subject to availability.
Sunday, 9/14/14, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Part I: Neuroscience & Neuroplasticity: Rewiring the Brain for Therapeutic Results
- Neuroscience Essentials
- From neurons to structures to pathways to functions
- Conflict monitoring
- Right-left hemisphere
- Neuroplasticity: How the brain can change
- What is neuroplasticity?
- Three time-frames for change
- Trace neuroplasticity to its roots in the neurons
- Neuroplasticity and remapping
- Learn ways to stimulate neuroplasticity
- Elicit therapeutic neuroplasticity
- Sensory, visual & motor plasticity
- Cognitive plasticity
- Integrating mind and brain
- Meditation, mindfulness & yoga of the East meet science and research of the West in the brain
Monday, 9/15/14, 8:00 am – 11:00 am
Part II: interpersonal Neuroscience & Brain-Change Tools: Sensory, Meditation and Mindfulness
- The social brain: We are wired for relationships
- Interpersonal neuroscience through early attachment
- Fear and memory in the brain
- Implicit and explicit memory pathways
- Development of memory in the child
- Mirror neuron system in the brain
- Sensory, Meditation and Mindfulness for Brain Change
- Sensory-Body Tools
- Sensing
- Centering
- Moving
- Meditation: Attention tools
- Focus meditations drawn from yoga to
- Unifying mind, body, and spirit
- Open-Focus mindfulness
- Non-judgmental awareness and acceptance
- No focus meditations for free flow
- Clearing consciousness
- Experience the mind-body link
- Unconscious Tools: Activate unconscious wisdom
- The power of expectancy
- Utilize suggestion
- Apply a 4-Step method for changing negative self-suggestions
Part III & IV: Mindfulness, Yoga and Meditation: Using Neuroscience and Brain Change Exercises for Mental Health Disorders
- Therapy alters the brain indifferent ways
- Cognitive Therapy
- Behavior Therapy
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Meditation
- Hypnosis
- Protocols, case examples and brain-changing exercise for
- Stress
- How stress alters the nervous system
- Calm the stress/fear pathway
- Develop alert/relaxed attention for better coping
- Trauma
- Develop security through self-soothing methods
- Foster confidence with yoga body positioning
- Extinguish traumatic memories
- Reconsolidate implicit memories
- Anxiety
- The anxious brain reaction
- Work top down/bottom up/horizontally
- Calm the limbic system bottom up with movement
- Soothe the insula through meditative sensory awareness
- Deconstruct sensations mindfully
- Balance the nervous system
- OCD
- Brain areas involved in OCD
- Calm over-activated basal ganglia
- Pratyahara withdrawal from obsessive thoughts
- Mindful involvement and engagement
- Encourage healing rituals
- Depression
- The depressed brain pattern
- Activate an under-activated nervous system with yoga postures and energy meditations
- Regulate the limbic system by activating links to prefrontal cortex and cingulated gyrus with mindfulness turned outward
- Practice the 4-step method to overcome negative self-suggestions
- Unify real and ideal
- Foster joyful relationship through mirror neurons
- Develop compassion and gratitude
- Bipolar Disorder
- Brain change patterns from bipolar disorders
- Lower stress levels to diminish bipolar cycling
- Overcome depression with energizing postures
- Soothe mania with breathing meditations
- Develop mindful awareness of emotions in self and others
- Foster healthy habits through mindful awareness, journaling, and charting
- Substance Abuse
- A neuroscience of theory of addiction: Altered reward pathway
- Rewire the reward pathway with experiences of meditative well-being
- Detach from pleasure and pain
- Activate the parietal lobes for health-promoting body experience
- Develop the prefrontal cortex connections for improved judgment
- Pain
- The brain’s capacity to reduce pain
- Shift pain from a generalized interpolation response to a specific, manageable response
- Use positive expectancy and self-suggestion for improved cingulate gyrus regulation
- Practice non-judgmental attitudes, mindfulness and acceptance
- Activate ideomotor relaxing to elicit unconscious pain reduction
- Sleep disorders
- How the brain regulates the sleep-wake cycle
- Relax an over-activated nervous system with calming yoga postures
- Resolve fears and worries consciously and unconsciously
- Attune to biological rhythms mindfully, to allow natural sleep patterns to emerge
- Conclusion: 6 principles to guide your practice
- The nervous system tends to heal naturally
- The mind-brain-body forms a network
- Neuroplasticity is possible
- The nervous system is neutral
- Use feedback and feedforward for optimal balance
- Enlist the many pathways to change
Part I: Neuroscience & Neuroplasticity: Rewiring the Brain for Therapeutic Results
- Describe key nervous system structures and pathways.
- Distinguish right from left hemisphere functions and identify your tendencies
- Define neuroplasticity and types of experiences that can foster positive brain change.
- Experience sensory, visual, motor, and cognitive plasticity, and learn how to foster it.
- Discover integration for paradoxes of mind and brain using meditation, mindfulness and yoga.
Part II: Interpersonal Neuroscience & Brain-Change Tools: Sensory, Meditation and Mindfulness
- Recognize how early attachment experiences that influence later relationship styles are stored in implicit memory circuits of the brain and can be changed
- Discover how the brain is wired to respond to others bottom-up through the mirror neurons.
- Develop different skills of attention from three main forms of meditation: focus meditations, open-focus mindfulness, and no-focus automatic-unconscious meditations.
- Learn meditative ways to let go of problems and embrace compassion, gratitude, and self-acceptance.
PART III & IV: Mindfulness, Yoga and Meditation: Using Neuroscience and Brain Change Exercises for Mental Health Disorders
- Recognize the distinct ways different forms of therapy change the brain, and learn how and when to apply them.
- Identify which forms of therapy work top down, bottom up, and/or horizontally.
- Distinguish and practice methods to lower stress, alleviate anxiety, heal trauma and overcome obsessive compulsive disorder.
- Describe how to rewire the reward pathway with experiences of meditative well-being.
- Practice techniques to promote wellbeing and optimal functioning.
- Summarize by identifying 6 neuroscience principles to guide therapeutic work.
Juneau, Alaska – Some 30,000 people live in Juneau. Its total area makes it one of the biggest towns, in size, in the world. Only Kiruna, Sweden, and Sitka, Alaska, exceed Juneau’s 3,248 square miles. Today, Juneau is famous not only for gold and government, but also for its breathtakingly beautiful glaciers and stunning views of both water and mountains.
Skagway, Alaska – Skagway was the gateway to the gold fields for the thousands who flocked to Alaska and the Yukon with the hope of striking it rich. Skagway may have boasted the shortest route to the Klondike, but it wasn’t the easiest.Today, Skagway has less than 1,000 residents, but still retains the flavor of the gold rush era.
Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska (Scenic Cruising) – Princess is one of a select few cruise lines permitted to cruise the pristine waters of Glacier Bay, the highlight of our 7-day Voyage of the Glaciers cruise. Just west of Juneau, this breathtaking national park and preserve boasts some of the world’s most spectacular tidewater glaciers, such as Margerie Glacier, which often drops colossal chunks of ice into the sea. Not surprisingly, Glacier Bay National Park and its epic ice giants are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising Alaska’s magnificent park system. During your scenic cruise, friendly Park Rangers will join the ship to share their knowledge of this amazing place.
Ketchikan, Alaska – Visitors to Ketchikan will be intrigued by its rich Native heritage, which includes the world’s oldest collection of totem poles at the Totem Heritage Center. The Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian are all a part of the city’s colorful history. Ketchikan, with its abundance of salmon, is also a sportfishing paradise. Sightseers will be impressed with both the scenic town and its surroundings, especially Misty Fjords National Monument.
Victoria, British Columbia – Although it’s a port city, Victoria is not as industrially oriented as Vancouver. The harbors, especially Inner Harbour, are dotted with pleasure craft, ferries and floatplanes. The city is renowned for its beautiful gardens, charming houses and very British feel.
COUNSELORS: PESI, Inc, is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program. ACEP#: 5637. This course qualifies for 12.0 contact hours.
SOCIAL WORKERS: PESI, Provider #1062, is approved as a provider for continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards, 400 South Ridge Parkway, Suite B, Culpeper, VA 22701. www.aswb.org. ASWB Approval Period: January 27, 2011-January 27, 2014. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers will receive 12.0 continuing education clock hours in participating in this intermediate course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: PESI, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PESI maintains responsibility for this program and its content. PESI is offering this activity for 12.0 hours of continuing education credit. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS: This activity consists of 720 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. You should save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
ADDICTION COUNSELORS: PESI, Inc., is an approved provider of continuing education by the National Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC), provider #: 00131. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. This course qualifies for 14.0 contact hours.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS & OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANTS: PESI, Inc. is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. Provider #: 3322. Full attendance at this course qualifies for 12.0 contact hours or 1.2 CEUs. Partial credit will be issued for partial attendance. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA. Course Level: Intermediate.
PHYSICAL THERAPISTS & PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSISTANTS: This activity consists of 12.0 clock hours of instruction that is applicable for physical therapists. CE requirements for physical therapists vary per state/jurisdiction. Please retain the certificate of completion that you receive and use as proof of completion when required.
NURSES/NURSE PRACTITIONERS/CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS: This activity meets the criteria for a formally approved American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Activity PESI, Inc, is an approved provider by the American Psychological Association, which is recognized by the ANCC for behavioral health related activities. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
This activity qualifies for 12.0 contact hours.
OTHER PROFESSIONS: This seminar qualifies for 12.0 continuing education clock hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
CHARLES A. SIMPKINS, PHD
Charles A. Simpkins, Ph.D., is a psychologist specializing in neuroscience, psychotherapy, meditation and hypnosis. With his wife, Annellen, Charles has co-authored 28 books, many of them bestsellers. Their most recent books on neuroscience are Yoga and Mindfulness Therapy Workbook for Clinicians and Clients (PESI, 2014), Neuroscience for Clinicians (Springer, 2012), The Dao of Neuroscience (Norton 2010) and Neuro-Hypnosis (Norton 2010). They have also written about meditation for healthy mind-brain change: The Tao of Bipolar, (New Harbinger 2013), Zen Meditation in Psychotherapy (Wiley, 2012), Meditation and Yoga in Psychotherapy (Wiley, 2011), and Meditation for Therapists and Their Clients (Norton 2001). Their books have over 20 foreign editions and have won numerous awards. Dr. Simpkins has practiced psychotherapy for more than three decades, and taught meditative and hypnotic methods to facilitate mind-brain change to people of all ages. He has been involved in neuroscience for 18 years – integrating it into treatments and helping to bring the most recent research findings to practitioners. He presents seminars at professional conferences, state mental hospitals, university campuses and to popular and professional audiences around the world. Charles performed psychotherapy research and is currently doing a neuroscience study of unconscious movement. He has studied with psychotherapy masters, including Milton H. Erickson, Jerome D. Frank, Carl Rogers, Lawrence Kubie, and Ernest L. Rossi, and neuroscience innovators including Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jaime Pineda, Paul and Patricia Churchland, Stephen Anagnostaras, and William Bechtel.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Charles A. Simpkins is in private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Charles A. Simpkins has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
ANNELLEN M SIMPKINS, PH.D.
Alex & Annellen Simpkins, are psychologists specializing in neuroscience, psychotherapy, meditation and hypnosis. The Simpkins are authors of 28 books, many of them bestsellers. Their most recent books on neuroscience are Yoga and Mindfulness Therapy Workbook for Clinicians and Clients (PESI, 2014), Neuroscience for Clinicians (Springer, 2012), The Dao of Neuroscience (Norton, 2010) and Neuro-Hypnosis (Norton, 2010). They have also written about meditation for healthy mind-brain change: The Tao of Bipolar (New Harbinger, 2013), Zen Meditation in Psychotherapy (Wiley, 2012), Meditation and Yoga in Psychotherapy (Wiley, 2011), and Meditation for Therapists and Their Clients (Norton, 2009). Their books have over 20 foreign editions and have won numerous awards.Drs. Simpkins have been practicing psychotherapy for more than three decades, and have taught their meditative and hypnotic methods to facilitate mind-brain change to people of all ages. They have been involved in neuroscience for 18 years and have been integrating it into treatments and helping to bring the most recent research findings to practitioners. They present seminars at professional conferences, state mental hospitals, university campuses and to popular and professional audiences around the world. They have performed psychotherapy research and are currently doing a neuroscience study of unconscious movement. They studied with psychotherapy masters, including Milton H. Erickson, Jerome D. Frank, Carl Rogers, Lawrence Kubie, and Ernest L. Rossi, and neuroscience innovators including Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jaime Pineda, Paul and Patricia Churchland, Stephen Anagnostaras, and William Bechtel. Their Eastern philosophy influence along with their commitment to continual learning and therapeutic effectiveness has helped them to see therapy through the crystal of a unique vision, which they bring to you with warmth and clarity in their books and seminars.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Annellen Simpkins is in private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Nonfinancial: Annellen Simpkins has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.
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