Product Detail
Product Details
- Format:
- Online Course
- Authors:
- CHARLES A. SIMPKINS, PHD
ANNELLEN M SIMPKINS, PH.D. - Publisher:
- PESI Inc.
- Copyright:
- 3/25/2015
- CE Available:
- Yes, See CE credit tab for complete continuing education details
- Product Code:
- VPC001071
Objectives
[-] 048095 - 2-Day Intensive Mindfulness, Meditation & Neuroscience Conference
- 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.
- Practice 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.
- 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.
- Examine meditative ways to let go of problems and embrace compassion, gratitude and self-acceptance.
- 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.
- List ways to relax an over-activated nervous system with calming yoga postures.
- 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.
Outline
[-] 048095 - 2-Day Intensive Mindfulness, Meditation & Neuroscience Conference
PART I
Neuroscience essentials
The social brain: We are wired for relationships
Stress
Neuroscience essentials
- From neurons to structures to pathways to functions
- Conflict monitoring
- Right-left hemisphere
- What is neuroplasticity?
- Three time-frames for change
- Trace neuroplasticity to its roots in the neurons
- Neuroplasticity and remapping
- Learn ways to stimulate neuroplasticity
- Sensory, visual, & motor plasticity
- Cognitive plasticity
- Meditation, mindfulness, & yoga of the East meets science and research of the West in the brain
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-Body Tools
- Sensing
- Centering
- Moving
- Meditation: Attention Tools
- Focus meditations drawn from yoga
- 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: Activating unconscious wisdom
- The power of expectancy
- Utilize suggestion
- Apply a 4-Step method for changing negative self-suggestions
Stress
- How stress alters the nervous system
- Calm the stress/fear pathway
- Develop alert/relaxed attention for better coping
- Develop security through self-soothing methods
- Foster confidence with yoga body positioning
- Extinguish traumatic memories
- Reconsolidate implicit memories
- 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
- Brain areas involved in OCD
- Calm over-activated basal ganglia
- Pratyahara withdrawal from obsessive thoughts
- Mindful involvement and engagement
- Encourage healing rituals
- The depressed brain pattern
- Activate an under-activated nervous system with yoga postures and energy meditations
- Practice the 4-step method to overcome negative self-suggestions
- Foster joyful relationship through mirror neurons
- Develop compassion and gratitude
- Brain change patterns from bipolar disorder
- Lower stress levels to diminish bipolar cycling
- Soothe mania with breathing meditations
- Foster healthy habits through mindful awareness, journaling, and charting
- A neuroscience theory of addiction: Altered reward pathway
- Rewire the reward pathway with experiences of meditative well-being
- Detach from pleasure and pain
- 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
- 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
Author
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.
Continuing Education Credits Awarded for Completion of Entire Package
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Combined Continuing Education Credit From All Components
Breakdown of Continuing Education Credits by Components
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048095 - 2-Day Intensive Mindfulness, Meditation & Neuroscience Conference
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082205 - Yoga & Mindfulness Therapy Workbook for Clinicians and Clients
Audience
Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals
Reviews
[-] 082205 - Yoga & Mindfulness Therapy Workbook for Clinicians and Clients
“The Simpkins have unified three areas that have rarely, if ever, been pulled together: yoga (not just the body moves, but the deeper psychological, emotional and spiritual aspects as well), mindfulness practices and therapeutic methods…filled with exercises, tips and inspiring stories.”
- Bill O’Hanlon, featured Oprah guest and author of Out of the Blue: Six Non-Medication Ways to Relieve Depression
“The Yoga and Mindfulness Therapy Workbook offers a treasure trove of resources and practical exercises that are perfect for anyone wanting a unified mind-body approach to finding greater emotional focus, stability, balance, and ease in life. The timeless truths offered of yoga and mindfulness are seamlessly blended with modern brain science and research to provide solid evidence for why these practices can overcome 21st century stress, anxiety, and depression. The compelling real-life stories throughout the book illustrate that change really is possible! Most importantly, the expertly detailed exercises and many guided illustrations will have you feeling that authors Alex and Annellen Simpkins are right beside you, sharing their years of experience and wisdom, as you step on this path to greater healing and wholeness.”
-Donald Altman, M.S., LPC Author of The Mindfulness Toolbox, One-Minute Mindfulness, and The Mindfulness Code
“The Yoga and Mindfulness Therapy Workbook is much more than a ‘workbook.’ It is also a ‘sourcebook,’ taking its readers into the philosophical foundations of yoga and mindfulness and forward into their neuroscience and psycho-therapeutic applications. The exercises are user-friendly, and their health benefits are documented and explained. The chapters on yogic breathing, cognitive reframing, and self-regulation of attention are practical and articulate. The Drs. Simpkins have written a magnificent volume that attests to their own authority as well as their decades of clinical practice.”
-Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. Co-author of Personal Mythology and co-editor of Extraordinary Dreams
- Bill O’Hanlon, featured Oprah guest and author of Out of the Blue: Six Non-Medication Ways to Relieve Depression
“The Yoga and Mindfulness Therapy Workbook offers a treasure trove of resources and practical exercises that are perfect for anyone wanting a unified mind-body approach to finding greater emotional focus, stability, balance, and ease in life. The timeless truths offered of yoga and mindfulness are seamlessly blended with modern brain science and research to provide solid evidence for why these practices can overcome 21st century stress, anxiety, and depression. The compelling real-life stories throughout the book illustrate that change really is possible! Most importantly, the expertly detailed exercises and many guided illustrations will have you feeling that authors Alex and Annellen Simpkins are right beside you, sharing their years of experience and wisdom, as you step on this path to greater healing and wholeness.”
-Donald Altman, M.S., LPC Author of The Mindfulness Toolbox, One-Minute Mindfulness, and The Mindfulness Code
“The Yoga and Mindfulness Therapy Workbook is much more than a ‘workbook.’ It is also a ‘sourcebook,’ taking its readers into the philosophical foundations of yoga and mindfulness and forward into their neuroscience and psycho-therapeutic applications. The exercises are user-friendly, and their health benefits are documented and explained. The chapters on yogic breathing, cognitive reframing, and self-regulation of attention are practical and articulate. The Drs. Simpkins have written a magnificent volume that attests to their own authority as well as their decades of clinical practice.”
-Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. Co-author of Personal Mythology and co-editor of Extraordinary Dreams
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ADA Needs
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Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI, P.O. Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call (800) 844-8260.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.