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| Managing the Caveman Brain in the 21st Century - Keynote Address | Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, CA | February 4, 2012, 12:00pm 1:30pm |
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| Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth: Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Education and Research Conference The human brain evolved in three stages: reptile, mammal, and primate. Each stage has a core motivation: avoid harm, approach reward, and attach to "us." Modern life challenges these ancient neural systems with bombardments of threat messages, the endless stimulation of desire, and social disconnections and tensions of industrial, multicultural societies. This talk will explore brain-savvy ways to cultivate mindfulness in young people, and then use that mindfulness to internalize a greater sense of strength and safety, contentment, and being loved. |
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| Your Best Brain: A Benefit Workshop for the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom | San Rafael, CA | March 10, 2012, 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, March 10, in San Rafael, CA, Rick Hanson, PhD and Jan Hanson, MS LAc 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 This workshop will benefit the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, which publishes the Wise Brain Bulletin, offers all the great resources at WiseBrain.org, and hosts the Skillful Means wiki (methods for psychological and spiritual growth). |
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| Taking in the Good: Using Neuroplasticity to Weave Resources into the Brain and the Self | Institute of Noetic Sciences - Teleseminar | March 14, 2012, 5:00pm 6:00pm |
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| How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children. | |||
| FACES Conference - The Art & Science of Mindfulness & Counseling: A Revolution of the Heart | Hilton Torry Pines, La Jolla, CA | March 21, 2012, 8:30am 12:00pm |
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| Keynote: The Negativity Bias and Taking in the Good 8:30 am – 10:00 am The brain's evolved bias is like Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones. The unfortunate results include stress and threat reactivity, anxiety, depression, and limited gains in psychotherapy. Happily, through tree steps of mindful attention, we can internalize positive experiences in implicit memory systems, weaving resources for well-being, coping, and kindness into the fabric of the barin and the self. Keynote: Pairing Positive and Negative to Fill the Hole in the Heart 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Implicit memory systems – including expectations, emotional residues and reactive patterns – are a primary target of therapy. Since they are vulnerable to change during consolidation, the skillful pairing of positive and negative material in awareness can gradually soothe and ultimately replace negative implicit memories. This workshop will explore neuro-savvy methods for doing this, including how to identify the positive material that will best "antidote" old pain or deficits in internalized resources. |
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| Taking in the Good: Using Neuroplasticity to Weave Resources into the Brain and the Self | Institute of Noetic Sciences - Teleseminar | March 21, 2012, 5:00pm 6:00pm |
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| How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children. | |||
| The Neurology of Awakening | Spirit Rock, Woodacre, CA | March 25, 2012, 9:30am 5:00pm |
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| The latest brain research has begun to confirm the central insights of the Buddha and other great teachers. 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 will offer user-friendly information with lots of practical methods. We’ll cover:
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| Taking in the Good: Using Neuroplasticity to Weave Resources into the Brain and the Self | Institute of Noetic Sciences - Teleseminar | March 28, 2012, 5:00pm 5:00pm |
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| How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children. | |||
| Taking in the Good: Using Neuroplasticity to Weave Resources into the Brain and the Self | Institute of Noetic Sciences - Teleseminar | April 4, 2012, 5:00pm 6:00pm |
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| How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children. | |||
| Public lecture | Sivanananda Ashram, Bahamas | April 7, 2012, 8:45pm 9:45pm |
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| Workshop - Details TBA | Sivanananda Ashram, Bahamas | April 8, 2012, 12:00pm 1:30pm |
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| Workshop - Details TBA | Sivanananda Ashram, Bahamas | April 9, 2012, 12:00pm 1:30pm |
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| Taking in the Good: Using Neuroplasticity to Weave Resources into the Brain and the Self | Institute of Noetic Sciences - Teleseminar | April 11, 2012, 5:00pm 6:00pm |
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| How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children. | |||
| Buddha's Brain Seminar | Portland, ME | April 17, 2012, 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 | New York, NY | April 18, 2012, 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: Using Neuroplasticity to Weave Resources into the Brain and the Self | Institute of Noetic Sciences - Teleseminar | April 18, 2012, 5:00pm 6:00pm |
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| How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children. | |||
| Buddha's Brain Seminar | Philadelphia, PA | April 19, 2012, 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 | Boston, MA | April 20, 2012, 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: Using Neuroplasticity to Weave Resources into the Brain and the Self | Institute of Noetic Sciences - Teleseminar | April 25, 2012, 5:00pm 6:00pm |
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| How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children. | |||
| Couples Conference 2012 - Attachment, Differentiation and Neuroscience in Couples Therapy | San Mateo, CA | April 28, 2012, 4:30pm April 29, 2012, 5:00pm |
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| Taking in the Good: Using Neuroplasticity to Weave Resources into the Brain and the Self | Institute of Noetic Sciences - Teleseminar | May 2, 2012, 5:00pm 6:00pm |
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| How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children. | |||
| Awakening Joy | Berkeley, CA and online | May 22, 2012, 7:30pm 9:30pm |
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| Awakening Joy is an engaging and highly regarded Internet course, with an add-on option to attend onsite recording sessions in Berkeley, California. The course starts each year the first week in February and lasts for 10 months. During this time, the fun and nourishing material gradually, but deeply, impacts one's life, resulting in increased well-being and joy. Joy is not for just the lucky few–it’s a choice anyone can make. Rick Hanson will present on the theme of Integrity as part of the 2012 Awakening Joy course. |
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| Awakening Joy | Berkeley, CA and online | May 23, 2012, 7:30pm 9:30pm |
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| Awakening Joy is an engaging and highly regarded Internet course, with an add-on option to attend onsite recording sessions in Berkeley, California. The course starts each year the first week in February and lasts for 10 months. During this time, the fun and nourishing material gradually, but deeply, impacts one's life, resulting in increased well-being and joy. Joy is not for just the lucky few–it’s a choice anyone can make. Rick Hanson will present on the theme of Integrity as part of the 2012 Awakening Joy course. |
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| How to Build a Benevolent Brain | Osher Center, San Rafael | May 26, 2012, 9:00am 5:00pm |
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| Practical ways to activate and sustain the neural circuits of peacefulness, happiness, and love. | |||
| Mindfulness and Compassion in Psychotherapy | California Institute of Integral Studies, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94103 | June 2, 2012, 9:00am 5:00pm |
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| CIIS is proud to announce the formation of a Mindfulness and Compassion in Psychotherapy Certificate Program. The program has a unique emphasis on development of the internal state of the psychotherapist. It extends beyond ideas and skills acquisition to address the deeper issue of how a psychotherapist can utilize her or his own compassion and mindfulness to inspire clients, and to create a healing relationship that encourages the unfolding of the psyche at its most essential levels. | |||
| Mindfully Taking in the Good | Vienna, Austria | June 30, 2012, 12:00pm 1:00pm |
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| Mindfulness in Medicine, Psychotherapy and Society Conference Your brain evolved a negativity bias that makes it like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones. Therefore, a foundation for happiness is to deliberately weave positive experiences into the fabric of your brain and your self. We’ll explore the three steps that actually do this, plus the optional fourth step for healing old pain. |
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| Being and Doing: Activating Neural Networks of Mindful Presence | Vienna, Austria | June 30, 2012, 1:00pm 5:00pm |
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| Mindfulness in Medicine, Psychotherapy and Society Conference We engage life in two distinct ways that are based on two different neural networks. "Doing" is task-oriented, preoccupied with the past or the future, tense, tightly focused, and full of the sense of "I" - while "Being" is at ease, in the moment, relaxed, spacious, and with less sense of "I." “Being” is a vital resource for both psychotherapy and daily life – yet our busy and worried culture relentlessly trains the brain to overpower “Being” with “Doing.” This experiential workshop will explore effective ways for clients to stimulate and therefore strengthen being networks: the neural substrate of mindful presence. And we'll conclude by applying the "Being" mode to spiritual practice, so that – in the words of the Buddha – “in the seen there is only the seen, in the thought only the thought, so that there is no 'I' there: thus the end of suffering." |
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| Equanimity | Spirit Rock, Woodacre, CA | August 12, 2012, 9:30am 5:00pm |
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| Equanimity means not reacting to your reactions… and that is both a wonderful relief from upsets and traumas, and a profound resource for spiritual growth. In Buddhism, equanimity is one of the four Brahmaviharas (“Divine Abodes”), and it’s sometimes considered the foundation of the other three: compassion, lovingkindness, and sympathetic joy. Equanimity breaks the chain of suffering by helping you not react to the pleasant/unpleasant feeling tones of experience with craving and clinging. Your equanimity, a state of mind, is based on underlying states of your brain. Modern neuroscience is revealing new ways to cultivate those brain states – a potent combination with time-tested Buddhist practices. This experiential workshop will offer user-friendly information with lots of practical methods. We’ll cover: • The Buddha’s teachings on equanimity • The neurological machinery of emotional reactivity • How equanimity works in your brain to prevent, cool, and heal destructive emotions • Strengthening “top-down,” frontal lobe influences • Training “bottom-up,” limbic system reactions to be less fearful and angry, and more peaceful, connecting, and constructive • “Neurodharma” perspectives on healing from trauma |
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| Buddha’s Brain: Building the Neural Circuits of Mindfulness, Inner Peace, and Not-Self | Estes Park, CO | August 20, 2012, 9:00am August 21, 2012, 5:00pm |
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Recent neuroscience shows that you can use your mind alone to change your brain for the better. This experiential workshop will cover:
The Wake Up Festival: A 5-Day Experience of Transformation - a Sounds True conference |
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| Taking in the Good: Weaving Positive Experiences into Your Brain and Being | Estes Park, CO | August 23, 2012, 9:00am August 25, 2012, 5:00pm |
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The brain evolved to be like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones. This kept our ancestors alive in the wild, but today it harms well-being, health, and longevity. This experiential workshop will cover:
The Wake Up Festival: A 5-Day Experience of Transformation - a Sounds True conference |
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| Buddha’s Brain: Lighting up the Neural Circuits of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom | Esalen, Big Sur, CA | September 23, 2012, 8:00pm September 28, 2012, 12:00pm |
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| With the power of modern neuroscience, informed by ancient contemplative wisdom, you can use your mind alone to change your brain for the better. We’ll explore “self-directed neuroplasticity” for steadying the mind (key to both worldly success and spiritual practice), cooling the fires of stress reactivity, weaving positive experiences into the fabric of your brain and self, and taking life less personally. And as a bonus, you’ll learn about the research-based foods and supplements that optimize neurochemistry. Participants will learn how to: • Take in good experiences to feel happier and more confident – defeating the brain’s negativity bias, which is like Velcro for bad experiences but Teflon for positive ones • Train the brain to cool down stress, greed, and hatred – and come home to one's natural core of calm and contentment • Energize the neural networks of compassion, empathy, and love – and clear out resentment, envy, and ill will • Improve attention for daily life, mindfulness, and meditation • Feel more at one with the world, and less separate and vulnerable • Get the nutrients one's brain needs to maintain a good mood, relieve anxiety, sharpen memory, and strengthen concentration |
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| Buddha’s Brain Seminar | Portland, OR | October 1, 2012, 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 | Seattle, WA | October 2, 2012, 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 | Denver, CO | October 4, 2012, 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: Using Neuroplasticity to Weave Resources into the Brain and the Self | Adams College, Denver, CO | October 5, 2012, 9:00am 5:00pm |
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| How the brain evolved a “negativity bias” that continually looks for, reacts to, and stores negative experiences; how this shapes the interior landscape of the mind, leading to pessimism, depressed and anxious mood, and over-reactions; the neural machinery of memory; how to “trick” that machinery into weaving positive experiences into the brain and the self, leading to greater resilience, happiness, and interpersonal effectiveness; applications to particular situations, including healing trauma, cooperation with medical or psychological treatment, and raising or teaching children. | |||
| The Neurodharma of Love | Spirit Rock, Woodacre, CA | October 27, 2012, 9:30am 5:00pm |
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| On the whole, we experience our greatest joys and sorrows in our relationships. Supported by both Buddhism and Western psychology, the keys to healthy relationships include empathy, compassion, and kindness. 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, and more fulfilling relationships.This experiential workshop will offer user-friendly information with lots of practical methods. We’ll cover: • The primacy of relationships in evolution, and the deep capacities for both loving altruism and fearful aggression • The deep neurological circuits of virtue, empathy, and caring – the foundation of healthy relationships • Unilateral virtue in relationships • Strengthening empathy • Moving beyond “us and them” to extend lovingkindness to the whole wide world |
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| FACES Conferences - The Art & Science of Mindfulness & Counseling: A Revolution of the Heart | Las Vegas, NV | November 1, 2012, 8:30am 12:00pm |
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| Keynote: The Negativity Bias and Taking in the Good 8:30 am – 10:00 am The brain's evolved bias is like Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones. The unfortunate results include stress and threat reactivity, anxiety, depression, and limited gains in psychotherapy. Happily, through tree steps of mindful attention, we can internalize positive experiences in implicit memory systems, weaving resources for well-being, coping, and kindness into the fabric of the barin and the self. Keynote: Pairing Positive and Negative to Fill the Hole in the Heart 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Implicit memory systems – including expectations, emotional residues and reactive patterns – are a primary target of therapy. Since they are vulnerable to change during consolidation, the skillful pairing of positive and negative material in awareness can gradually soothe and ultimately replace negative implicit memories. This workshop will explore neuro-savvy methods for doing this, including how to identify the positive material that will best "antidote" old pain or deficits in internalized resources. |
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| Sounds True Deep Dialogue | November 15, 2012, 9:00am 5:00pm |
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| Not-Self in the Brain | Spirit Rock, Woodacre, CA | December 15, 2012, 9:30am 5:00pm |
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| We all experience having a particular identity which helps us navigate in the world – but that very sense of self is also a great source of suffering, as we cling to its wants and react to how others treat it. The Buddha taught that not-self was one of the three fundamental characteristics of existence, alongside impermanence and suffering – but what he actually meant by that has been the subject of much discussion ever since. In this workshop, we will examine the apparent “self” – and its release – in light of Buddhism, evolution, and modern brain science; these perspectives inform each other, and together they offer powerfully practical tools for deconstructing the apparent self. We’ll explore: Presumptions about the apparent “self” in Western philosophy, psychology, and every day life The actual, direct experience the compounded, transient, and dependently arising nature of “selfing” The distributed, variable, conditioned – thus “empty” – nature of self-ing in the brain The costs and benefits of the apparent “me, myself, and I” The paradoxical importance of taking in healthy “narcissistic supplies” to relax selfing How to activate the lateral networks in the brain that support open, spacious awareness and minimal selfing |
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For additional information on any program above, please email me.
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