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Digital Seminar

Advanced Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness, Meditation and Cutting-Edge Neuroscience in the Treatment of Anxiety, Anger and Depression


Speaker:
Terry Fralich, LCPC
Duration:
5 Hours 39 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jul 10, 2012
Product Code:
POS040035
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

  • Exciting advances in neuroscience that are revolutionizing therapy
  • Learn mindfulness techniques and practices that are supported by the new neuroscience
  • Experience practices that will re-energize you and increase your effectiveness with clients

Two of the most significant developments in psychotherapy in the last 10 years have been the emergence of mindfulness and the impact of the latest advances in neuroscience. Mindfulness is now an essential aspect of many accepted therapeutic modalities. Moreover, the latest developments in neuroscience and brain plasticity have lead to revolutionary work in the application of mindfulness in the treatment of anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, anger, stress and other mental health issues.

In this seminar, we will explore an integrated approach that incorporates the latest advances in neuroscience and accessible mindfulness skills that produce healthy change. We will delve deeper into mindfulness as a foundation nurturing awareness in yourself and your clients. Terry Fralich will discuss practical insights, language and techniques that will strengthen your professional confidence and effectiveness. The seminar will provide you with an enhanced experiential sense of mindfulness, as well as specific tools you can use right away in working with a broad range of clients. Take home cutting-edge information on the interface between neuroscience and therapy.

This seminar is designed to provide you with specific resources and tools for working with a broad range of client issues. If you have meditation experience, this seminar will enable you to refine and deepen your practice. If you are new to meditation, you will learn practical meditative techniques you can use right away in your work with your clients. Terry will utilize experiential exercises throughout the day to enhance your learning.

OUTLINE

A Mindfulness Path for Growth

  • Transforming negative states
    • The origin of Core Negative Beliefs
    • Neuroscience-enhanced Attachment Theory
    • Coping mechanisms and safety strategies
  • Cultivating positive states

Review of Mindfulness Basics

  • The big aspiration of mindfulness
  • Mindfulness as a skill-based path
  • Mindfulness as a practice of manifesting best intentions
  • Mindfulness as a path of transforming neural networks
  • Mindfulness as a path of healing

The Core Skills of Mindfulness

  • Clarifying, setting and re-affirming intention
  • Cultivating a witnessing awareness
  • Stabilizing attention
  • Strengthening self-regulation
  • Practicing loving-kindness

Stabilizing and Deepening Mindfulness

  • Meditation as a foundation for mindfulness
  • Giving the brain “an evolutionary nudge”
  • The three levels of meditative practice
  • Formal and informal practice

Experiential Exercise and Discussion of Meditation Experience

Negative States and Basic Brain Function

  • The triune brain
  • The brain’s alarm system
  • Fight-flight-or-freeze and stress responses
  • Explicit and implicit memory and the persistence of implicit patterning
  • Emotional hijackings and neural disintegration
  • Emotional memory and the present experience of anxiety, anger and depression
  • Case examples

Neuroscience Research and Transformation

  • The paradigm shift in neuroscience: Neuroplasticity
  • Interpersonal neurobiology
  • Mirror neurons and empathy
  • Reconsolidation” of negative memories, messages and energies
  • Teaching clients a transformative mindfulness practice

Seven Resources Supporting Mindfulness and Lasting Happiness

  • The witness
  • Brain function
  • Self-regulation
  • Life story
  • Insight development
  • New realities
  • A personal strategy and practice

OBJECTIVES

  • Describe a useful mindfulness growth path.
  • Identify the core skills of mindfulness.
  • Describe the latest developments in neuroscience related to effective counselling.
  • Explain the dynamics and effects of the brain’s survival and alarm system.
  • Teach easy-to-understand mindfulness skills and practices to clients.
  • Identify foundational meditative techniques and their relationship to mindful living.
  • Evaluate and strengthen your own mindfulness.
  • Apply specific mindfulness skills and practices in both your personal and professional lives.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Terry Fralich is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor practicing in Maine and has been an Adjunct Faculty Member of the University of Southern Maine Graduate School. Terry is also an attorney who practiced law in New York City, Los Angeles and Portland, Maine, prior to becoming a counselor. During this time, he studied extensively with leading Tibetan teachers—including the Dalai Lama—and with some of the Western pioneers of mindfulness work—including Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield and John Welwood. Inspired by their teachings and his own study of meditation, Eastern wisdom traditions, transpersonal psychology and mindfulness, he left the legal profession, earned a master’s degree in clinical counseling and began both his counseling practice and his teaching activities.

Terry is a Co-Founder of the Mindfulness Center of Southern Maine. He led many workshops at the Center and in Maine—generally in meditation, mindfulness, the latest developments in neuroscience and personal spirituality. In addition, Terry has taught more than 250 courses throughout the country on similar topics for mental health professionals. His book, Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A Seven-Step Guide to Mindfulness presents both a clear exploration of the importance of mindfulness in our lives and a practical, accessible approach to nurturing growth and well-being through the path of mindfulness. Terry has pursued his own meditation and mindfulness practice for 33 years.


To order the book, Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A 7-Step Guide to Mindfulness, please visit our product store.


 

 

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Terry Fralich, LCPC's Profile

Terry Fralich, LCPC Related seminars and products

Mindfulness Center of Southern Maine


Terry Fralich, LCPC, is a co-founder of the Mindfulness Retreat Center of Maine and former Adjunct Faculty Member of the University of Southern Maine Graduate School. He has led more than 400 seminars, trainings and retreats at the Center, at Omega Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, both nationally and internationally. His expertise consists of mindfulness, neuroscience, CBT, brain change, emotional intelligence, stress reduction, meditation and the treatment of anxiety and depression. He has been teaching transformative mindfulness skills and practices for 20 years and has pursued his own practice of mindfulness and meditation for 40 years.

Terry studied extensively with His Holiness the Dalai Lama for 25 years and with some of the American pioneers of mindfulness, including Jon Kabat-Zinn and John Welwood. His first book, Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A 7-Step Guide to Mindfulness, was cited as one of “the 12 essential books on mindfulness.” His second book, The Five Core Skills of Mindfulness: A Direct Path to More Confidence, Joy and Love, presents his clear and unique approach to mindfulness practice as a powerful force for healthy change in our everyday lives. Prior to becoming a mindfulness therapist, academic and author, Terry was an attorney who practiced law in New York City, Los Angeles and Portland, Maine.

Speaker Disclosure:

Financial: Terry Fralich is in private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Terry Fralich has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.


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Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Target Audience

Social Workers, Psychologists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Case Managers, Physician Assistants, Therapists, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals

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