- Faculty:
- Linda Graham
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 49 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Mar 23, 2017
Description
- Teach clients tools of self-directed neuroplasticity to reverse the impact of stress and trauma on brain functioning and their capacities to cope
- Cultivate positive emotions to shift brain functioning from contracted survival responses to larger perspectives and openness to change
- Use practices of mindfulness and self-compassion to recover the capacities of the prefrontal cortex for response flexibility and resilience
- Strengthen capacities of empathy and deepen skills of relational intelligence to foster healthy, resonant relationships.
Handouts
| ZNM052800 (0.20 MB) | 6 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
- Choosing experiences to rewire the brain
Mindfulness
- Compassion
- Tools of intelligence
- Purposes of enhancing neuroplasticity
Regulation, relation, reflection and resilience
- Strategies for implementing positive neuroplasticity
- Brain structures and systems related to perception of safety
Functions of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
Consequences of hypoarousal and hyperarousal
- Unconscious nature of autonomic systems
- Therapeutic interventions to optimize feelings of safety
Beneficial exercises: breath, touch, posture and movement
Nonverbal cues and therapeutic communication
- Therapeutic resonance and healing
Techniques for developing resonance
Deep listening and acceptance of emotions
- Mindfulness and self-compassion
- Therapeutic exercise: Compassionate friend
- Shifting brain functioning through positive emotions
Neuroscience research
Gratitude exercise: Web of life
- Imagination
- Default mental play space
Therapeutic exercise: Wished for outcome
- Meta-processing and brain change
Journaling and creating a coherent narrative
- Summary and clinical take-aways
Faculty
Linda Graham, MFT Related seminars and products: 6
Linda Graham, MFT, is an experienced psychotherapist in the San Francisco Bay Area, bestselling author and international speaker. She integrates modern neuroscience, mindfulness practices, and relational psychology in her worldwide trainings. She is the author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being, winner of the 2013 Books for a Better Life award and the 2014 Better Books for a Better World award. She publishes a monthly e-newsletter, Healing and Awakening into Aliveness and Wholeness and weekly Resources for Recovering Resilience. For more information visit www.lindagraham-mft.net.
Linda draws on her own experiences of healing and awakening as well as more than two decades of integrative study, practice and teaching of transformational psychotherapies, vipassana meditation, life coaching, and facilitating groups and workshops to become a skillful guide interweaving many paths of compassionate, conscious connection. She is passionate about integrating the paradigms and practices of modern neuroscience, Western relational psychology and Eastern contemplative practice.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Linda Graham is in private practice. She is an author for New World Library and receives royalties. Ms. Graham receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Linda Graham is an author of monthly e-newsletters.
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