Advanced Mindfulness for Rewiring the Brain: Intensive Mindfulness Training for Anxiety, Depression, Pain, PTSD, and Stress-Related Symptoms - 2015 Italy Tour - Seminar

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• Class from 8:00 am – 3:30 pm (morning and afternoon 15 minute breaks)*
• Lunch from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

• Class from 9:30 am – 5:00 pm (morning and afternoon 15 minute breaks)*
• Lunch from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

• Airfare – price will vary depending on airport of departure/return
• Live continuing education hours
• Lodging for every night
• All required transfers and transportation as outlined in the itinerary
• Baggage handling for one piece of luggage
• 14 meals - 9 breakfasts and 5 dinners
• Coffee and juice with breakfast
• All mandatory government fees and taxes
• Services of a professional escort from Collette Vacations throughout the tour

• Mindfulness as a Metacognitive skill
• Negative effects of a wandering mind
• Breathing reduces rumination and anxiety
• Expand your Mindfulness vocabulary
• Help clients understand mindfulness
• Find the right metaphor
• Using clients’ learning styles
• Practice: Getting into the present moment

• 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

• 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
• Practice: Ask clients the 3-minute question

• Core lifestyle skills awareness training
• Sleep hygiene
• Managing sleep
• Sleep rituals and strategies
• 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

• 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

• 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: Identify strengths & strengths Journal

• Master attention and memories
• Savoring of the present moment
• Practice: Here and now pleasantness
• Use selective memory to savor the past and future
• Practice: Savoring Success: Past, Present, and Future

• Managing depression with gratitude
• Four psychological reasons for gratitude
• Techniques that make gratitude interpersonal and enhance supportive social networks
• Practice: The G.L.A.D. Technique

• Forgiveness for moving forward from trauma
• Forgiveness is a skill
• Compassion practice
• Changes in brain function
• Security priming for feelings of safety and trust
• Develop positive emotions and resources
• Practice: Loving-kindness affirmation

• 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

• Emotional regulation for cravings
• Impulse control and craving control using grounding
• Practice: Take a stress pause (S-T-O-P Grounding Technique)

• Mindfulness for chronic pain
• Introduction to the body scan practice
• Demonstrate how to pay attention non-judgmentally
• Powerful grounding method; applications
• Practice: Surf the body (The Body Scan)

• Constructively distance from PTSD and negativity
• Three kinds of sense grounding
• Practice: Focusing on Favorites

• 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

• 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

1. Describe and define mindfulness in a more broad way for the client.
2. Summarize the basic lessons of Interpersonal Neurobiology and how mindfulness can rewire the brain.
3. Explain the effects of stress and cortisol, and how diaphragmatic breathing turns on the parasympathetic nervous system.
4. Demonstrate how to use stories as a way to shift awareness, enhance relationships, and recognize strengths.
5. Use key mindful body practices that lead to better self-care and cognitive brain function.
6. Describe multiple evidence-based methods for shifting attention that produce greater positive emotions moment by moment.
7. Discuss the difference between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ stress, and the 4-methods for reducing stress.
8. Examine the damaging effects of stress at cellular level and how lifestyle changes can alter these.
9. Demonstrate stress-reducing transition skills through movement and walking.
10. Describe how to use guided meditations designed to help clients to better accept, reframe and manage pain.
11. Utilize the practice of constructive distancing to help clients get a broader perspective on any situation.
12. Describe affirmations and methods for developing self-compassion and feelings of safety, trust, and forgiveness.

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 clock hours.

SOCIAL WORKERS: PESI, Inc. Provider #:1062, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), www.aswb.org through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: January 27, 2014-January 27, 2017. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits. Social workers participating in this course will receive 12.0 (Clinical) 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 .12 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.

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.