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| From Reactivity to Inner Peace: Practices to Disarm the Fight-or-Flight Reflex, "Stress-Proof" Your Brain and Heal Painful or Traumatic Experiences | Salem Hospital, Oregon | Sep 10, 2010, 6:00pm 8:00pm |
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| At times, stress, sorrow, fear or anger can overcome you with both mental and physical consequences. Rick Hanson will talk about how these emotions affect your brain, how changes in your brain impact your immune system and what you can do to improve your psychological well-being. He will discuss how our brain and mind are connected, how to emphasize the positive to overcome the negative and how to change our brains for our own benefit. He draws on psychology, neurology and contemplative traditions to share tools that you can use in daily life for greater happiness, love, effectiveness and wisdom. |
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| Taking in the Good: The Practical Neuroscience of Resilience and Happiness | Portland, Oregon, WA | Sep 11, 2010, 9:00am 5:00pm |
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| In this clinically relevant and practical workshop, Rick Hanson draws on the integration of neuroscience and mindfulness to outline three basic steps for weaving in the positive, as well as a fourth, optional step, for healing trauma. Ways to deepen trust and intimacy in relationships, and improve motivation for treatment will also be covered. There will be a presentation, discussion, and optional experiential activities. No background with neuroscience is needed. |
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| Buddha's Brain Seminar | Sheraton Hotel, Bloomington, MN | Sep 16, 2010, 8:00am 4:00pm |
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| Rick Hanson will give a daylong seminar on the topic of his best selling book, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom. Buddha's Brain draws on the latest research to show how to stimulate and strengthen your brain for more fulfilling relationships, a deeper spiritual life, and a greater sense of inner confidence and worth. Dr. Hanson will show how to:
For those unable to attend this live event, a live webcast will be screened. Click here to register for the virtual webcast. Hosted by PESI, providers of continuing education seminars. |
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| Buddha's Brain Seminar | Radisson Hotel, Roseville, MN | Sep 17, 2010, 8:00am 4:00pm |
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| Rick Hanson will give a daylong seminar on the topic of his best selling book, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom. Buddha's Brain draws on the latest research to show how to stimulate and strengthen your brain for more fulfilling relationships, a deeper spiritual life, and a greater sense of inner confidence and worth. Dr. Hanson will show how to:
Hosted by PESI, providers of continuing education seminars. |
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| Taking in the Good: Weaving Positive Emotions, Optimism and Resilience into the Brain and the Self | Live Oak Center, El Dorado Hills, CA | Sep 24, 2010, 9:00am 4:30pm |
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| In this clinically focused and practical workshop, Rick Hanson shows how to use the brain’s machinery of memory to get at the essence of beneficial change in psychotherapy and any other process of personal growth: the internalization of positive experiences. Drawing on recent discoveries about neuroplasticity, he will present a simple, four step process that weaves positive experiences into the structure of the brain and the fabric of the self. | |||
| Your Best Brain: A Benefit Workshop for The Wellspring Institute | San Rafael, CA | Sep 25, 2010, 9:30am 1:30pm |
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| Your brain is the bottom-line for how you feel and act: change your brain, and you change your life. In this four-hour workshop on Saturday, September 25, in San Rafael, CA, Rick Hanson, Ph.D. and Jan Hanson, M.S., L.Ac. will cover ten great ways to change your brain for the better – for more joy, more fulfilling relationships, and more peace of mind and heart. Grounded in brain science, you’ll learn practical, research-based ways to: • Feed your brain with the right foods and supplements • Calm down the amygdala for less anxiety and other negative emotions • Energize the neural networks of compassion, empathy, and love • Boost acetylcholine to light up the circuits of learning and memory • Tap into your brain’s natural core of happiness • Increase levels of key neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine without medication – for improved mood, attention, and motivation • And much, much more Space is limited |
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| Forgiveness and Assertiveness | Spirit Rock, Woodacre, CA | Oct 2, 2010, 9:30am 5:00pm |
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| To be able to enter deeply into relationship, it is necessary to be able both to forgive and to assert yourself skillfully. This experiential workshop will get into the nitty-gritty of how to bring the Buddha’s profound teachings on interrelatedness, lovingkindness, and virtue (sila) into the messy real world of relationships with family members, lovers, friends, bosses, and co-workers. We'll cover: the primacy of relationships in evolution, and the deep capacities for both loving altruism and fearful aggression; the neural machinery of emotional reactivity and developing grievances with others; effective and realistic practices of assertiveness and forgiveness. (With Fred Luskin, PhD, Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project) (CEUs available) |
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| The San Diego Mindfulness Conference - Buddhism & Psychology: The Art of Counseling | San Diego, CA | Oct 7, 2010, 10:30am 5:00pm |
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| 10:30 – 12:00 noon | KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Being and Doing—Activating Neural Networks of Mindful Presence Distinct neural networks appear to underlie two contrasting states of mind. One network is for "doing" (goal-directed, oriented toward past & future, and tightly focused). The other one is for "being" (acceptance in the present moment, spacious) – a vital skill for clients (and therapists). "Doing" networks routinely overcome "being" networks in the untrained mind, so this talk will present ways to activate and sustain the neural substrate of spacious contented awareness. 3:30 – 5:00 p.m | The No-Clinging Brain: From Greed, Hatred & Insecurity to Gratitude, Peace, & Belonging The human brain has three primary motivational systems - to approach, avoid and attach. While these help us survive, they also make us suffer. Disturbances in them lead to everyday experiences of frustration, fear and anger, and shame. This workshop will draw on insights and practical methods from contemplative neuroscience to present an integrated model of how these three motivational systems can be used in a healthy way, fulfilled, and even transcended. |
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| The Science of a Meaningful Life: Gratitude and Taking in the Good | Greater Good Science Center, Berkeley, CA | Oct 22, 2010, 9:00am 5:00pm |
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| A day-long seminar teaching how (and why) to boost gratitude in yourself and others. This one-of-a-kind event will feature presentations by University of California, Davis, psychologist Robert Emmons, the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, and neuropsychologist Rick Hanson. |
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| The Hard Things That Open the Heart: Practicing with Difficult Conditions | Spirit Rock, Woodacre, CA | Oct 23, 2010, 9:30am 5:00pm |
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| This is for people grappling with difficult conditions – both internal and external – and for caregivers and friends who support those individuals. These include challenges with the body, mind, and life cir cumstances. We’ll cover Buddhist perspectives and practices for difficult conditions; lovingkindness for oneself and for any being who suffers; brain-savvy ways to strengthen your capacity to be with the hard stuff; and methods from the intersection of the dharma and neuroscience for lifting mood and cultivating joy. (With James Baraz and Rick Mendius, MD) (CEUs available) | |||
| Buddha's Brain Seminar | Crowne Plaza, King of Prussia, PA | Oct 25, 2010, 8:00am 4:00pm |
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| Rick Hanson will give a daylong seminar on the topic of his best selling book, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom. Buddha's Brain draws on the latest research to show how to stimulate and strengthen your brain for more fulfilling relationships, a deeper spiritual life, and a greater sense of inner confidence and worth. Dr. Hanson will show how to:
Hosted by PESI, providers of continuing education seminars. |
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| Buddha's Brain Seminar | Crowne Plaza, Cherry Hill, NJ | Oct 26, 2010, 8:00am 4:00pm |
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| Rick Hanson will give a daylong seminar on the topic of his best selling book, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom. Buddha's Brain draws on the latest research to show how to stimulate and strengthen your brain for more fulfilling relationships, a deeper spiritual life, and a greater sense of inner confidence and worth. Dr. Hanson will show how to:
Hosted by PESI, providers of continuing education seminars. |
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| London Insight - The Neurodharma of Love | London, UK | Oct 30, 2010, 10:00am 5:00pm |
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| Supported by both Buddhism and Western psychology, the keys to healthy relationships include empathy, compassion, kindness, equanimity, and appropriate assertiveness. These states of mind are based on underlying states of your brain. The emerging integration of modern neuroscience and ancient contemplative wisdom offers increasingly skillful means for activating those brain states – and thus for cultivating an open and caring heart, effective communication, balance during upsets, and more fulfilling relationships. |
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| London Insight - Not Self In The Brain | London, UK | Oct 31, 2010, 10:00am 5:00pm |
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| The biological evolution of awareness and the apparent self; what neuroscience tells us about the distributed and endlessly variable neural nature of the apparent self; the stress, suffering, and interpersonal difficulties that come from “excesses of self”; the importance of healthy self-compassion and self-advocacy; how to heal injuries to self-worth; methods for taking things less personally, relaxing possessiveness, and feeling more at one with all things. |
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| Buddhist Psychology in Neuroscience and Meditation | Ghent, Belgium | Nov 5, 2010, 9:00am Nov 6, 2010, 5:00pm |
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| The latest brain research has begun to confirm the central insights of the Buddha. And it's suggesting ways you can help your brain to enter deeper states of mindfulness, quiet, and concentration. Suffering, joy, and freedom all depend on what happens within your nervous system. Skillful practice thus means being skillful with your own brain. This experiential workshop - led by neuropsychologist and meditation teacher Rick Hanson - will offer user-friendly information about your brain and lots of practical methods. There will be time for questions and discussion, no background with meditation or neuroscience is needed. Workshop PDF: http://www.mbsr.be/documents/101105-101106Two-dayworkshopRickHanson_000.pdf |
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| Equanimity Workshop | Freiburg, Germany | Nov 12, 2010, 6:00pm Nov 14, 2010, 12:30pm |
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This workshop will be a combination of presentation, optional experiential activities, and discussion. No prerequisites are necessary and the seminar will be in English with translation.
Friday: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm; Saturday 9:00 am – 12:30 pm & 2:30 pm – 6:30 pm; Sunday 9:00 am - 12:30 pm. |
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| Mind Institute Lecture & Workshop | Poland | Nov 17, 2010, 9:00am Nov 18, 2010, 5:00pm |
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| New York Insight | New York, NY | Nov 21, 2010, 9:00am 5:00pm |
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| The Neurodharma of Sex, Love, and Meaningful Relationships | Esalen, Big Sur, CA | Dec 3, 2010, 9:00am Dec 5, 2010, 5:00pm |
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| Through group discussions, meditations, and innovative exercises, you’ll learn how to stimulate and strengthen the neural circuits of empathy, attachment, and love. In particular, we’ll explore how to integrate assertiveness and lovingkindness, and how to ride the roller-coaster of romance and intimate partnership with grace and contentment. | |||
| International Psychology of Health, Immunity & Disease Conference | Keynote Address | Hilton Head, SC | Dec 9, 2010, 9:00am 5:00pm |
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| The Psychology of Health, Immunity, and Disease Conference really is about the wholeness of mind/body medicine...bringing people together with others to explore the latest in successful treatments, to become grounded in the wisdom of ancient traditions, and then to implement this new knowledge and understanding into their own practice. | |||
| Not-Self in the Brain | Spirit Rock, Woodacre, CA | Dec 11, 2010, 9:30am 5:00pm |
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| This workshop will address the thorny and fundamental question of . . . "me, myself, and I." The self – with its tendencies to grasp after possessions and take things personally – is perhaps the premier engine of suffering. We’ll explore the evolution of the apparent self in the animal kingdom, and the ways in which the self is real and is also not real at all, coming to rest more and more in the underlying spacious awareness in which self appears and disappears. | |||
| Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Workshop | Barre, MN | Jan 21, 2011, 9:00am Jan 23, 2011, 5:00pm |
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| Taking in the Good | Dallas, TX | Jan 28, 2011, 9:00am 5:00pm |
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| This workshop shows how to use the brain's machinery of memory to promote a vital aspect of well-being, emotional healing, personal growth, and spiritual practice: the internalization of positive experiences (which defeats the innate, negativity bias of the brain). Drawing on recent discoveries about neuroplasticity, we'll explore a simple, four step process that weaves positive experiences into the structure of the brain and the fabric of the self. | |||
| East Bay Open Circle | Berkeley, CA | Feb 26, 2011, 11:00am 6:00pm |
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| Chrysalis Workshop | South Carolina | Mar 18, 2011, 9:00am Mar 20, 2011, 5:00pm |
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| Networker Symposium | Washington, DC | Mar 24, 2011, 9:00am Mar 27, 2011, 5:00pm |
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| Open Ground Workshop | Sydney, Australia | Apr 16, 2011, 9:00am Apr 17, 2011, 5:00pm |
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| Open Ground Workshop | Melbourne, Australia | Apr 18, 2011, 9:00am Apr 19, 2011, 5:00pm |
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| Buddhist Workshop | Australia | Apr 23, 2011, 9:00am 5:00pm |
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| Kripalu Workshop | Stockbridge, MA | Jun 17, 2011, 9:00am Jun 19, 2011, 5:00pm |
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| Valentin Bookstore Lecture | Hamburg, Germany | Jun 24, 2011, 6:00pm 10:00pm |
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| Workshop - Title TBA | Hamburg, Germany | Jun 25, 2011, 9:00am Jun 26, 2011, 5:00pm |
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| Mindfulness Conference | Zurich, Switzerland | Jul 1, 2011, 9:00am Jul 3, 2011, 5:00pm |
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| Workshop - Title TBA | Munich, Germany | Jul 8, 2011, 9:00am Jul 9, 2011, 5:00pm |
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| Santa Fe Mindfulness Conference; Mindfulness & The Art of Counseling | Sante Fe, NM | Jul 26, 2011, 9:00am Jul 30, 2011, 5:00pm |
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| AABCAP Conference | Sydney, Australia | Aug 13, 2011, 9:00am Aug 14, 2011, 5:00pm |
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| Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Inner Peace | Hollyhock, B.C., Canada | Aug 31, 2011, 6:00pm Sep 4, 2011, 2:00pm |
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| Combining the power of the latest brain science with the wisdom of contemplative practice, this workshop will present practical methods for improving mindfulness and concentration, calming the heart, weaving positive experiences into your brain and your self, and then bringing these new strengths into your relationships with both kindness and assertiveness. (No previous experience with meditation or neuroscience is needed.) |
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| Esalen Weeklong | Esalen, Big Sur, CA | Sep 25, 2011, 9:00am Sep 30, 2011, 5:00pm |
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| Seattle Mindfulness Conference: Mindfulness & The Art of Counseling | Seattle, WA | Oct 12, 2011, 9:00am 5:00pm |
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