The six week online course Positive Neuroplasticity Training (PNT) is a deep experiential exploration of powerful methods for turning passing experiences into lasting inner resources - like self-compassion, mindfulness, grit, gratitude, and self-worth - encoded in your nervous system. This course is eligible for 18...
The Professional Course is very hands-on and practical, showing you how to apply the powerful ideas and methods from the Positive Neuroplasticity Training in your work with others. It’s perfect for those who are working with others: therapists, healthcare providers, educators, business consultants, trainers, coaches, mindfulness and...
Rick Hanson will offer a daylong workshop based on teachings from his new book, Neurodharma at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA.
Join NYT bestselling author Rick Hanson, PhD, to learn how to strengthen the neural circuitry of deep contentment and profound inner peace. Based on teachings from his new book Neurodharma this experiential workshop will provide you with methods for cultivating and embodying unshakable presence of mind, a courageous heart, and serenity in a changing world.
Our relationships are fundamental to how we experience life and cope with challenges. Join New York Times bestselling author and psychologist, Dr. Rick Hanson, for a live workshop about down-to-earth practical help for important relationships, with a focus on effective ways to handle issues, grounded in the combination of strength and heart....
The Positive Neuroplasticity Training is about taking charge of the structure-building process of your own brain. You will learn how to activate positive experiences, prolong and enrich them, and then heighten their absorption into emotional memory.
Join Rick Hanson, Ph.D. for his popular Neurodharma retreat, based on his new book, Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. Throughout history, people have sought the heights of human potential – to become as wise, strong, happy, and loving,...
This is the professional training for Rick’s online Positive Neuroplasticity Training, September 19 - October 24, 2020. With the Positive Neuroplasticity Training as a prerequisite, this practical, hands-on training applies the methods of Positive Neuroplasticity to clinical, educational, human resources, and personal growth settings. It’s perfect for...
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. will present an online 3-hour workshop for the Australian Clinical Psychology Association (ACPA) annual conference. The webinar is entitled “A Neuropsychology of Awakening: Cultivating Resilience and Wellbeing with the Brain in Mind”. Developments in neuroscience reveal an underlying neural basis for “ways...
This two-day experiential workshop explores the embodied basis of deep experiences of present moment awareness, contentment and love, and the sense of being one with everything.
Join Rick Hanson, Ph.D., and Robert Thurman of Tibet House/Menla for an enriching discussion on Passion Without Attachment: Practicing with Embodied Emptiness. This is a LIVE broadcast from Menla on January 28 at 7pm EST (4pm PST). REGISTER
Spacious awareness, deep contentment, boundless love, and inner peace are valuable for everyday life, not just the heights of human potential. Recent neuroscience is revealing how to develop these wonderful ways of being in the human brain. Join Rick Hanson, Ph.D., for an experiential exploration...
Join psychologist and New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Rick Hanson, for a special live 2-day online workshop on changing your mind – for good.
Join Dr. Daniel Ellenberg and Dr. Rick Hanson for a powerful live workshop on The Courage to Connect that will help you be more open and confident, so you can express yourself more fully and have deeper, more fulfilling relationships. This Experiential Workshop Includes: 7...
Ever think about becoming a certified Positive Neuroplasticity Training teacher? If you've completed the PNT + the Professional Course, you are eligible to take the PNT teacher-training course. This two-day workshop will give you the skills and confidence to run your own 18-hour Positive Neuroplasticity...
Join Dr. Rick Hanson for a powerful, experiential dive into growing calm strength in shaky times, The 3-hour workshop explores: Practical tools you can use right away to stay calm under pressure, release fear and anger, tap into the power of the heart, and feel...
Join Dr. Rick Hanson for this full-day online workshop, hosted by Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Continuing Education (CE) credit available. Throughout history, people have sought the heights of human potential—to become as wise, strong, happy, and loving as a person can be. Now, thanks to...
We all face loss and grief — it’s an inevitable and important part of existence. But when we resist the normalcy of loss, it can cause even more suffering. Join Rick Hanson, Ph.D., on August 13 and 14th for a LIVE online workshop on reparative...
Introducing... The Foundations of Well-Being 2.0! We've learned so much over the last 8 years of delivering our original FWB course about what works best, what helps the most, and how to guide people through this path — and we've applied those lessons to a...
Starting February 18, join New York Times bestselling author and psychologist, Dr. Rick Hanson, for down-to-earth practical help for important relationships, with a focus on effective ways to handle issues, grounded in the combination of strength and heart. LEARN MORE
Most of us have experienced this: a painful memory, a recurring worry, or a disturbing negative thought that we just keep returning to over, and over, and over. This is rumination, and while it’s quite common, it’s not helpful or productive and it can be...
In this 2-day workshop with Dr. Rick Hanson, you'll learn experiential practices for building up a strong sense of love and support inside yourself so you can start accepting and healing from past wounds. Get the Early-Bird $100 discount when you register by August 4. More Information
Dr. Ramani Durvasula is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and expert on the impact of toxic narcissism. She is a Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, and also a Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg.
The focus of Dr. Ramani’s clinical, academic, and consultative work is the etiology and impact of narcissism and high-conflict, entitled, antagonistic personality styles on human relationships, mental health, and societal expectations. She has spoken on these issues to clinicians, educators, and researchers around the world.
She is the author of Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving a Relationship With a Narcissist, and Don't You Know Who I Am? How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility. Her work has been featured at SxSW, TEDx, and on a wide range of media platforms including Red Table Talk, the Today Show, Oxygen, Investigation Discovery, and Bravo, and she is a featured expert on the digital media mental health platform MedCircle. Dr. Durvasula’s research on personality disorders has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and she is a Consulting Editor of the scientific journal Behavioral Medicine.
Dr. Stephen Porges is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He is a former president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and has been president of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences, which represents approximately twenty-thousand biobehavioral scientists. He’s led a number of other organizations and received a wide variety of professional awards.
In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological states in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders, and has had a major impact on the field of psychology.
Dr. Porges has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers across a wide array of disciplines. He’s also the author of several books including The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation.
Dr. Bruce Perry is the Principal of the Neurosequential Network, Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, and a Professor (Adjunct) in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago and the School of Allied Health at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. From 1993 to 2001 he was the Thomas S. Trammell Research Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and chief of psychiatry at Texas Children's Hospital.
He’s one of the world’s leading experts on the impact of trauma in childhood, and his work on the impact of abuse, neglect, and trauma on the developing brain has impacted clinical practice, programs, and policy across the world. His work has been instrumental in describing how traumatic events in childhood change the biology of the brain.
Dr. Perry's most recent book, What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, co-authored with Oprah Winfrey, was released earlier this year. Dr. Perry is also the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, a bestselling book based on his work with maltreated children, and Born For Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered. Additionally, he’s authored more than 300 journal articles and book chapters and has been the recipient of a variety of professional awards.
Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith is a child clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma and issues of race. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard and then received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She performed postdoctoral work at the University of California San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital. She has combined her love of teaching and advocacy by serving as a professor and by directing mental health programs for children experiencing trauma, homelessness, or foster care.
Dr. Briscoe-Smith is also a senior fellow of Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and is both a professor and the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Wright Institute. She provides consultation and training to nonprofits and schools on how to support trauma-informed practices and cultural accountability.
Sharon Salzberg is a world-renowned teacher and New York Times bestselling author. She is widely considered one of the most influential individuals in bringing mindfulness practices to the West, and co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts alongside Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Sharon has been a student of Dipa Ma, Anagarika Munindra, and Sayadaw U Pandita alongside other masters.
Sharon has authored 10 books, and is the host of the fantastic Metta Hour podcast. She was a contributing editor of Oprah’s O Magazine, had her work featured in Time and on NPR, and contributed to panels alongside the Dalai Lama.
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