What the Brain Needs for Transformational Change Session 1

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Neuroscientific advances in memory reconsolidation enable us to achieve therapeutic breakthroughs with previously unheard of consistency. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to engage the neural process that decommissions implicit learnings that drive PTSD, compulsive behaviors, and insecure attachment. You’ll see how reconsolidation underlies the effectiveness of a wide range of therapies and is key to transformational change. Videos and live demonstration will show you how to mobilize the brain’s power to unlock and dissolve long-entrenched schemas, ego states, and emotional conditionings. You’ll discover:

• The series of steps in the brain’s core process of profound unlearning
• The process that swiftly reveals the emotional schemas generating symptoms
• How to combine resource states and negative learnings into the juxtaposition experience that triggers reconsolidation and transformational change
• How to shift unconscious emotional learnings into richly felt, conscious targets of change

This recording is intended only for mental health professionals and trainees.

OUTLINE

• Different types of change and memory reconsolidation:

            Counteractive

            Transformational

• Transformational change therapies

            Common therapeutic factors across diverse approaches

            Permanence of transformational change

• Memory deconsolidation and reconsolidation

            History and research

• Emotional learnings

            Nonverbal, implicit structure

            Schemas and their self-protective function

• Impact of competing new learning

            Brain circuits involved

            Challenges of incremental learning and change

• Schema and implicit memory erasure

            Non-reactivation

            Symptom cessation

            Effortless permanence

• Change mechanisms and sequences across therapeutic approaches
• Process for schema erasure

            Reactivation

            Guided contradictory experience

            Juxtaposition with target schema

• Preparation for intervention

            Symptom identification

            Retrieving underlying schema

            Finding contradictory experiences

• Nonspecific common therapeutic factors
• Verifying therapeutic outcome

            Dissolution of schema

            Evaluating presence of multiple schemas

• Clinical case examples of transformational process

            Therapist factors

            Potential complications

• Discovery techniques

            Symptom deprivation

            Overt statements

            Sentence completion

• Summary and resources

OBJECTIVES

• Discover the series of steps in the brain’s core process of profound unlearning
• Discover the process that swiftly reveals the emotional schemas generating symptoms
• Discover how to combine resource states and negative learnings into the juxtaposition experience that triggers reconsolidation and transformational change
• Discover how to shift unconscious emotional learnings into richly felt, conscious targets of change

**This recording is intended only for mental health professionals and trainees.

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