Donald Altman – 3-Day Advanced Mindfulness Course

Outline

• Mindfulness Research at the Cutting Edge
  • Mindfulness As a metacognitive skill
  • Wandering thoughts can have negative effects
  • The ability to breathe reduces anxiety and rumination
  • Many useful (and completely free) web resources
• Introduce Mindfulness For Your Clients
  • Increase your mindfulness vocabulary
  • Help clients understand mindfulness
  • Find the right metaphor
  • Using clients’ learning styles
  • Practice: Get into the Present Moment
• The Power of Sense Grounding
  • Sensual grounding can reduce anxiety
  • Mindfulness For transitioning between activities
  • Physical grounding method for dropping into the body
  • Progressive muscle relaxation can be integrated
  • It is ideal for visual, spatial, and hands.-On styles
  • Practice: Palm the Present Moment
• Brain Basics, Metacognition and Interpersonal
  • Neurobiology
  • Depression and anxiety: Emotional regulation
  • Balance the brain’s default survival mode
  • Cortisol and its effects on learning, memory, and immune system
  • Visual Brain Model for Clients
  • The brain’s mindfulness module
  • Training the brain to calmly respond and metacognition
  • Navy Seals, arousal control and parasympathetic nervous System
  • Heart rate variability and relaxation response
  • Practice: The Power to Breathe
  • Practice: Ask your clients to do the following-Minute Question
• The Behavioral side of Mindfulness
  • Awareness training in core skills for living a healthy lifestyle
  • Good sleep hygiene
  • Sleep well
  • Strategies and rituals for sleeping
  • Healthy eating/nutrition
  • Caffeine, protein (neurotransmitters), and the brain
  • Exercise
  • Technology management – How weapons may be used to distract the mind
  • Assessment of Technology and Time: Practice
  • Concentrate the mind (useful to treat ADHD)
  • Incorporate breath with a word/image
  • Practice: Be the Pebble
• Mindful laughter for depression and grief
  • Tools for the ”terminally serious”
  • Research on laughter and mood
  • The biochemistry of laughter and human laughter response
  • Therapy with laughter and laughter yoga
  • Practice: The Lightness and Laughter of Laughter
• Storytelling has a positive impact on our lives.
  • Storytelling can be used to overcome depression and build connections
  • Fredrickson’s Broaden and Build Theory of Positive
  • Emotions
  • Broaden attention; find resilience
  • Stories are essential to attachment
  • A story of strengths can help you build relationships
  • Practice: Strengths Identification & Strengths Journal
• Manage moods with attention and selective memory
  • Attention and memory are the keys to mastery
  • Enjoy the moment
  • Enjoy the Here and Now of Pleasantness by Practicing
  • To savor the future and past, use selective memory
  • Practice: Enjoying Success: Past and Future
• Positive emotions can be increased by harnessing gratitude
  • Be grateful for your sadness and manage it with gratitude
  • Gratitude research
  • Four psychological reasons to be grateful
  • Techniques to increase support and interpersonal gratitude
  • Practice: The G.L.A.D. Technique
• You can heal emotional pain through acceptance, forgiveness, and compassion
  • Moving forward from trauma requires forgiveness
  • Forgiveness is a skill
  • Research on compassion practice
  • Brain function is changing
  • Security priming to increase feelings of safety and trust
  • Create positive emotions and have the ability to tap into your resources
  • Love is practiced-Affirmation of Kindness
• The Truth About Stress
  • Telomeres, aging and biological markers of stress
  • Assess and identify client stress levels
  • Perceived Stress Scale
  • Epstein Stress-Management Inventory
  • Practice: Be a smart stress-taker-Avoider
• Mindfulness For Addictive Cravings
  • Emotional regulation to control cravings
  • Grounding can be used to control impulses and cravings
  • Do it!-T-O-P Grounding Technique
• Change your perception of pain Mindfulness Chronic Pain
  • Introduction to the Body Scan practice
  • Demonstrate the ability to pay attention without distractions-Judging
  • Applications that use a powerful grounding method
  • Practice: Surf the Body (The Body Scan).
• The Power of Sense Grounding Trauma
  • Dissociate yourself from PTSD and negative emotions
  • Three types of sense grounding
  • Practice: Concentrate on your Favorites
• Mindfully managing transitions can reduce anxiety
• Move and be in nature to manage transitions
  • Process orientation vs. Outcome orientation
  • Attention Restoration Theory
  • The effects of nature on moods, focus, and healing
  • To be present, slow down and connect with the natural world
  • Integrated Tools
  • Try groundwork-Surfing (Mindful Walking).
  • Practice: Lowering the volume with Nature
• Re-Refocus and rethink your vision
  • Work with people in difficult situations
  • Metacognition: A path to insight
  • Bear meditation can be practiced
• It’s all in one
  • Make a mindfulness map for your clients
  • Bundling practices
  • Engage in learning styles
  • Maintain skills
  • Follow-Up and reinforcement

  • Research limitations and potential risks of mindfulness-based treatment