Rick Hanson – 4-Day – Positive Neuroplasticity Course with Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

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THE ESSENCE OF POSITIVE NEUROPLASTICITY: FUNDAMENTALS OF POSITIVE BRAIN CHANGE AND HOW TO MEET YOUR CLIENTS’ CHALLENGES BY HELPING THEM GROW DURABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES

The crucial function of psychological sources to deal with purchasers’ challenges and vulnerabilities

• The stress-diathesis mannequin: Challenges, vulnerabilities, sources
• Assets situated in world, physique and thoughts
• The particular alternative and worth of psychological sources
• Overview of psychological sources (i.e., psychological sources) which are clinically related
• Why most of our psychological sources are realized: acquired, not innate
• The mandatory two stage strategy of any studying, together with buying all psychological sources: activation and set up
• Why experiencing doesn’t equal studying
• Why most therapeutic experiences would not have lasting worth
• Exercise: Assist purchasers establish important challenges and vulnerabilities, after which establish related psychological sources for these

The Neuropsychology of Studying

• The mind’s advanced negativity bias
• Scientific implications of the low conversion of therapeutic experiences to lasting modifications of neural construction and performance
• Main mechanisms of expertise-dependent neuroplasticity
• What’s constructive neuroplasticity
• Exercise: Dialogue in regards to the medical implications of the negativity bias
• Exercise: Clarify the negativity bias to a consumer

Shoppers as Lively Learners

• Environmental, behavioral and psychological components that improve studying, and thus the acquisition of psychological sources
• The particular alternative and worth of psychological components of studying
• Empower purchasers to be energetic brokers of their therapeutic and rising
• Two sorts of psychological components: Contextual and engagement
• The chance and worth of engagement components
• Scientific advantages of purchasers actively participating the experiences they’re having to steepen their studying/therapeutic/grown curves
• Exercise: Expertise the 2-stage strategy of studying whereas utilizing engagement components
• Exercise Clarify the 2-stage strategy of studying to a consumer, after which describe engagement-sort psychological components of studying

The Three Methods to Have interaction the Thoughts Productively

• Letting go – observing, accepting, exploring the contents of consciousness
• Letting go – stopping, reducing, or releasing adverse or traumatic materials
• Letting go – creating, sustaining, or rising constructive supplies
• What’s mindfulness; why mindfulness is a part of letting go and letting in
• How letting be, letting go, and letting in type a pure therapeutic sequence
• Exercise: Expertise the 3 ways to interact the thoughts
• Exercise: Clarify the 3 ways to interact the thoughts to a consumer
• Exercise: Apply the 3 ways to interact the thoughts

Instructing Positive Neuroplasticity to Shoppers

• The science of constructive neuroplasticity
• Find out how to information purchasers by experiential practices
• Determine and work by key blocks to having and internalizing useful experiences, similar to distractibility, worry, disgrace, nervousness, social expectations and trauma
• Exercise: Find out how to clarify constructive neuroplasticity to a consumer

HAVING, ENRICHING, AND ABSORBING EXPERIENCES: HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE POSITIVE EXPERIENCES CLIENTS ARE ALREADY HAVING, TURNING PASSING STATES INTO LASTING TRAITS

Overview of the HEAL Framework of Engagement Components of Studying

• Have a useful expertise
• Enrich it – rising the neural exercise underlying an expertise
• Soak up it – rising the sensitivity of the reminiscence-making mechanisms of the mind
• Hyperlink constructive and adverse supplies
• Exercise: Expertise the HEAL course of
• Exercise: Find out how to clarify the HEAL course of to a consumer

Having Useful Experiences

• Discover useful experiences within the foreground and background of consciousness
• Create useful experiences; overview of some ways to do that
• The 5 components of an expertise: Ideas, perceptions, feelings, needs, actions; why every is a chance for buying a side of a psychological useful resource
• Deal with “yes, but” and different blocks to purchasers having useful experiences
• Exercise: Expertise the 5 components current in an expertise of playfulness
• Exercise: Information a colleague to pay attention to the 5 components current in an essential expertise

Enriching Experiences to Enhance Their Neural Registration

• 5 components of Enriching: Period, depth, embodiment, novelty, salience
• Exercise: These three components utilized to an expertise of a psychological useful resource
• Exercise: Clarify these three components to a consumer
• Exercise Information a colleague by utilizing these three components of Absorbing to deepen the internalization of an expertise of psychological useful resource

LINKING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MATERIALS: USE POSITIVE MATERIALS TO SOOTHE, CONTEXTUALIZE, AND REPLACE NEGATIVE MATERIALS

Overview of Linking Positive and Destructive Materials

• Implicit and express reminiscence
• How adverse materials is consolidated, activated, and reconsolidated within the mind
• The window of time throughout which the reconsolidation of adverse materials will be disrupted
• 3 ways to handle adverse materials: Develop related psychological sources, affiliate constructive to adverse, disrupt the reconsolidation of the adverse
• Self-compassion: A key useful resource for managing adverse materials, and an instance of Linking
• Exercise: Expertise the Hyperlink step
• Exercise: Clarify the Hyperlink step to a consumer
• Exercise: Information a colleague by the Hyperlink step

Dialogue and Software of Materials Introduced

• 4 methods to make use of constructive neuroplasticity and the HEAL framework with purchasers
• Adapt constructive neuroplasticity for youngsters
• Exercise: Dialogue with a colleague about utilizing constructive neuroplasticity and the HEAL framework with a number of difficult purchasers
• Exercise: Find out how to clarify the Hyperlink step to a consumer
• Exercise: Information a consumer by the Hyperlink step

KEY PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES: HOW TO IDENTIFY SPECIFIC PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES THAT ARE MATCHED TO CLIENTS’ PSYCHOLOCIAL ISSUES

Our Three Wants and Two Methods of Assembly Them

• The three elementary wants of any animal, together with people: Security, satisfaction, connection
• The assembly of those wants by Avoiding harms, Approaching rewards, and Attaching to others
• Social mind concept
• Why there may be extra to human life avoiding ache and approaching pleasure
• The reptilian, mammalian, and primate/human levels of mind evolution and their relationship to the Avoiding, Approaching, and Attaching programs
• Our fundamental two methods of assembly wants: The Responsive and Reactive modes, with out stress and with stress
• Clarify what it means when purchasers go to Responsive mode and Reactive mode and the influence of every
• Exercise: Dialogue with a colleague about these three wants and two modes for assembly them

Figuring out Key Psychological Assets Matched to Shoppers’ Wants

• Demonstration by teacher with a volunteer of figuring out key sources
• Overview of sources for security, satisfaction & connection
• The worth in repeatedly internalizing experiences of wants sufficiently met
• The metaphors of repeatedly petting the lizard, feeding the mouse, and hugging the monkey
• Exercise: Information a colleague to establish key sources for a difficulty
• Exercise: Expertise of a fundamental sense of security, satisfaction, and connection: peace, contentment, and love

Serving to Shoppers to Determine and Internalize Key Psychological Assets

• Exhibit by teacher with a volunteer of figuring out and internalizing a number of key sources, utilizing the HEAL framework
• Dialogue of what helped this go nicely
• Exercise: Information a colleague to establish and internalize a number of key sources, utilizing the HEAL framework

GROWING STRENGTHS FOR SAFETY: ESTABLISH A FOUNDATION OF CALM AND SAFETY IN WHICH CLIENTS CAN GAIN THE CONFIDENCE THEY NEED TO MEET CHALLENGES

Key Assets for Being and Feeling Secure

• Indicators of challenges to security: worry, anger, helplessness
• Why we advanced to overestimate threats and underestimate alternatives and sources
• Blocks to decreasing nervousness
• Exercise: Expertise of calm energy
• Exercise: Expertise of noticing you might be mainly alright proper now
• Exercise: Clarify to a colleague how you can have and internalize extra experiences of calm energy and fundamental alright-ness, and really feel much less nervousness

Assist Shoppers to Enhance Assets for Security

• Extra sources for security: sense of company, safety, and refuge
• Our vulnerability to buying realized helplessness
• Dialogue of what helped this go nicely
• Particular purposes to trauma
• Exercise: Information a colleague to establish and internalize sources for being and feeling safer, utilizing the HEAL framework

GROWING STRENGTHS FOR SATISFACTION: BUILD HEALTHY MOTIVATION IN CLIENTS AND HELP THEM SET UP AND ACHIEVE GOALS

Key Assets for Being and Feeling Extra Glad

• Indicators of challenges to satisfaction: Frustration, loss, ennui, boredom
• Ambition with out pushed-ness, aspiration with out attachment
• Exercise: Expertise of gratitude and gladness
• Exercise: Expertise of aim accomplishment and feeling profitable
• Exercise: Clarify to a colleague how you can have and internalize extra expertise of gratitude, happiness, and success, and really feel much less frustration

Assist Shoppers to Enhance Assets for Satisfaction

• Liking and wanting within the mind; get pleasure from with out craving
• Find out how to use associational studying to extend motivation
• Particular purposes to dependancy
• Exercise: Information a colleague to extend motivation for one thing, utilizing the HEAL framework

GROWING STRENGTHS FOR CONNECTION: IMPROVE CLIENTS’ RELATIONSHIPS AND INCREASE THEIR SENSE OF SELF-WORTH

Key Assets for Being and Feeling Extra Related

• Indicators of challenges to connection: harm, rejection, loneliness, hatred, inadequacy, disgrace
• Regular narcissistic wants
• Exercise: Expertise of feeling cared about and caring
• Exercise: Information a colleague by internalizing psychological sources for higher self-value, utilizing the HEAL framework

Assist Shoppers to Enhance Assets for Connection

• Three neural circuits of empathy
• The robust coronary heart: combining kindness and assertiveness, love and energy
• Exercise: Clarify the circuits of empathy to a consumer and exploring how the consumer may very well be extra emphatic in each day life
• Exercise: Information a colleague the psychological sources that assist the robust coronary heart, and how you can have and internalize experiences of those sources

Managing Challenges From the Responsive Mode

• Exercise: Expertise of peace, contentment, love
• Exercise: Discover with a colleague how you can handle a key problem from the Responsive mode, together with what this might be like and really feel like
• Exercise: Information a colleague by having and internalizing an expertise of a key useful resource for managing difficult from the Responsive mode, utilizing the HEAL framework

APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: LEARN HOW TO ADAPT AND APPLY THESE METHODS TO MEET A VARIETY OF NEEDS AND SITUATIONS

Use Positive Neuroplasticity and the HEAL Course of for Specific Scientific Points and Conditions

• In mindfulness coaching
• With despair
• Particular points from contributors
• Exercise: Dialogue with a colleague about purposes to a number of purchasers

Scientific Penalties of Societal Components

• How financial, cultural, and different environmental components have an effect on psychological well being, for higher or worse
• How internalizing psychological sources and residing more and more from the Responsive mode helps individuals be much less weak to manipulations of worry and anger, possessiveness and greed, and grievance and vengeance towards others
• Ultimate dialogue
• Exercise: Expertise of peace, contentment and love

LIMITATIONS OF THE RESEARCH AND POTENTIAL RISKS