Consciousness is fundamental to human change processes, and in this immersive experience you will learn about the art and science of cultivating the kinds of conscious experiences that promote wellbeing, cultivate resilience, foster integrative neurological growth, raise telomerase levels to maintain and repair the ends of chromosomes, optimize epigenetic regulators to decrease inflammatory diseases, and improve other physiological measures of medical health. These states of consciousness also are essential for relational health, equanimity and neural integration.
Both presentations and experiential immersions focus on what the mind is and how to cultivate a healthy mind. One aspect of mental life is the process of being aware, the ways we know and have a sense of the known within our subjective experience of being alive. When we combine a deep view of consciousness with emerging findings from the study of the social brain, we will see that clinical work to promote mental health can be greatly enhanced with these new insights and practical applications.
Mind includes consciousness and information processing, as well as a regulatory function called “self-organization.” This emergent, self-organizing process of the mind is both embodied—it is within our bodies including our brains—and in our relationships with others. How consciousness itself may relate to this self-organizing function will be explored in depth and clinically relevant information and practices will be offered to cultivate a healthy mind.
The presentations included are:
• Love and Well-Being - Jack Kornfield & Trudy Goodman Kornfield
• Mindfulness/Heartfulness = Shauna Shapiro
• Therapeutic Relational Presence: Cultivating Shared Consciousness for Positive Well-Being - Shari Geller
• Learning to Be a Self, from Reward to Habit, and How Conscious Awareness can Tap Into this Process for Self-Transcendence - Judson Brewer
• The Wheel of Awareness and the Integration of Consciousness - Dan Siegel
• Panel d1
• Mind-body Medicine, Consciousness and Health - Helen Lavretsky
• The Art and Science of Self Compassion - Kristin Neff
• Train Your Mind to Save Your Brain - Gary Small
• Toward Creating a Natural Anti-Depressant Brain - Elisha Goldstein
• Building Cognitive Resilience with Mindfulness Training in High Stress Cohorts - Amishi Jha
• The Art and Science of Presence: Awareness of Embodied Social Identity as a Pathway to Interconnectedness - Dan Siegel & Rhonda Magee
• Panel d2
• The Enlightened Brain: Mapping the Brain of Higher Consciousness - Deepak Chopra
• What can Alzheimer’s Teach us About the Brain, Mind and Self? - Rudolph Tanzi
• Living the Living Presence - Menas Kafatos
• The Nature of Mind - Dan Siegel
• Discussion & Q & A - Chopra, Kafatos, and Siegel
• Final Panel
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Discuss the relationships between and employ the 4 training modalities (Love, Compassion, Equanimity & Inner Well-being) of the Buddhist Psychology map.
• Utilize a 3 step forgiveness process with clients and patients
• Discuss how presence with others (relational presence) activates a shared state of consciousness
• Utilize two different methods of integrating mindfulness and meditation in clinical work
• Summarize 3 ways to utilize tools to activate relational presence & embedded relational mindfulness
• Illustrate how mindfulness practices help us "unlearn" unhealthy habits
• Identify three neurobiological ways that habits are formed
• Outline 4 integrative aspects of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, and their direct implications for clinical practice.
• Plan an approach to working with traumatized clients, incorporating five tools that clinicians can apply therapeutically.
• Define the acronym SAFE and the role the practice of it plays in deconditioning the depression loop.
• List the 4 questions that can install positive beliefs in even the most stuck clients.
• Identify 3 brain structures associated with self-referential processing.
• Explain the relationship between telomere shortening and healthspan.
• Recognize 4 risk factors for age-related cognitive decline.
• Identify 3 core elements of mindfulness.
• State 3 goals of mindfulness research.
• Discuss the neurophysiological underpinnings of therapeutic presence.
• Discuss the unifying framework for understanding and integrating interdisciplinary concepts.
• Outline 3 aspects of quantum physics that may be relevant for the practice of psychotherapy.
• State 3 common elements between psychoanalysis and quantum physics.
• Discuss how humans connect to the cosmos and its role in Mindfulness based therapy.
This program is eligible for 17 Hours of CE Credit.
The following continuing education credit options are available for this program:
Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors, Licensed Educational Psychologists & Licensed Clinical Social Workers: Lifespan Learning Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, & LEPs. Lifespan Learning Institute maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. (provider # 050085)
Psychologists: Lifespan Learning Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Lifespan Learning Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. The Ethical Principles of Psychologists will be upheld.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Board of Registered Nurses and IMQ/CMA are California accrediting organizations. It is the responsibility of participants licensed in other states to verify whether their Licensing Board will accept the CE Credit we offer.
Deepak Chopra, MD - Founder of The Chopra Foundation and the Chopra Center for Well-Being. Dr. Chopra is a world-renowned pioneer and author/co-author of numerous books in mind-body medicine and personal transformation, most recently: Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being and Super Genes: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being. chopra.com
Judson Brewer, MD, PhD - Director of Research at the Center for Mindfulness and Associate Professor in Medicine and Psychiatry at UMass Medical School. Dr. Brewer develops novel mindfulness programs for addictions studying the underlying neural mechanisms using standard and real-time fMRI. judsonbrewer.com
Elissa Epel, PhD - Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, at University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and Assistant Director of the Center for Health and Community. Dr. Epel studies the impact of chronic stress on biological aging mechanisms, and how meditation interventions may buffer stress effects and promote psychological and physiological thriving. profiles.ucsf.edu/elissa.epel
Shari Geller, PhD - Psychologist, author of A Practical Guide to Cultivating Therapeutic Presence, and co-author of Therapeutic Presence: A Mindful Approach to Effective Therapy. Dr. Geller is a teaching faculty member at York University and University of Toronto and co-director of the Centre for MindBody Health. sharigeller.ca
Bonnie Goldstein, PhD - Director of Lifespan Psychological Services and Adjunct Professor, USC School of Social Work. Dr. Goldstein is a Psychology Consultant for Lifespan Learning Institute and co-editor of the Handbook of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, Vols. I & II. She is also the co-author of numerous papers integrating Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Embedded Relational Mindfulness©. drbonniegoldstein.com
Elisha Goldstein, PhD - Cofounder of The Center for Mindful Living. Dr. Goldstein developed an international six week program, A Course in Mindful Living, and is the author of Uncovering Happiness, The Now Effect, and Mindfulness Meditations for the Anxious Traveler. He is also the co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook and MBSR Every Day. elishagoldstein.com
Jack Kornfield, PhD - Co-founder, Insight Meditation Society. Dr. Kornfield helped create Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA and is a renowned author with numerous publications including A Path with Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry; Teachings of the Buddha; Seeking the Heart of Wisdom; Living Dharma; A Still Forest Pool; The Art of Forgiveness; A Lamp in the Darkness; and A Wise Heart. jackkornfield.com
Trudy Goodman Kornfield, PhD - Founding Teacher of InsightLA, the first center to combine training in Insight (Vipassana) Meditation, MBSR, MSC, and non-sectarian mindfulness and compassion. Dr. Goodman Kornfield is a contributing author of the Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness, Compassion and Wisdom in Psychotherapy, and Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. trudygoodman.com
Amishi Jha, PhD - Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Contemplative Neuroscience, Mindfulness Research & Practice Initiative, University of Miami. Dr. Jha’s research focuses on the brain basis of attention, working memory, and contemplative/mind training techniques that strengthen the brain’s attention networks. amishi.com
Menas Kafatos, PhD - Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor of Computational Physics, and Director of the Center of Excellence of Earth Systems Modeling and Observations at Chapman University. Dr. Kafatos has numerous publications integrating research on quantum physics, cosmology working extensively in the area of consciousness, and is co-author with Deepak Chopra of the forthcoming book, You Are the Universe. menaskafatos.com
Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS - Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. Dr. Lavretsky is the director of the Late-life Depression, Stress and Wellness Research Program at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Her research explores mind-body approaches for the prevention and treatment of mood and cognitive disorders in older adults. www.semel.ucla.edu/latelife
Kristin Neff, PhD - Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. A pioneer and one of the world’s leading experts on the psychological health benefits of self-compassion, Dr. Neff has developed a scale to measure the construct, used by researchers worldwide. She is also the author of Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind. self-compassion.org
Pat Ogden, PhD - Founder and Education Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, an internationally recognized school specializing in somatic and cognitive treatment approaches integrating Embedded Relational Mindfulness© for therapeutic growth. Dr. Ogden is the co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, past faculty of Naropa University, author, and international lecturer. She is the first author of two groundbreaking books on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org
Shauna Shapiro, PhD - Professor, Santa Clara University. Dr. Shapiro is an internationally recognized expert in mindfulness with twenty years of meditation experience. She is the co-author of The Art and Science of Mindfulness, and Mindful Discipline: A loving approach to setting limits and raising an emotionally intelligent child. drshaunashapiro.com
Daniel Siegel, MD - Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. Dr. Siegel is Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute and Medical Director of the Lifespan Learning Institute and is also the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dr. Siegel’s numerous publications include: The Mindful Brain, The Developing Mind and many others. drdansiegel.com
Gary Small, MD - Professor of Psychiatry, Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Director of both the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and the UCLA Longevity Center. Dr. Small leads a research team focusing on the early detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and age-related cognitive decline, and has authored numerous books on these topics. drgarysmall.com
Rudolph Tanzi, PhD - Professor of Neurology and holder of the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Neurology at Harvard University. Dr. Tanzi is also the Vice-Chair of Neurology (Research) and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital where he investigates the genetic causes of Alzheimer’s disease. He is the co-author of Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being and numerous other books. bit.ly/tanzilab
Disclosure: The Lifespan Learning Institute and UCLA Longevity Center have implemented a process where everyone who is in a position to control the content of any educational activity must disclose any relevant financial relationship with a commercial interest.
CE Hours: 17 Hours
format: mp4 video
Presenter(s): Judson Brewer, Deepak Chopra, Elissa Epel, Shari Geller, Bonnie Goldstein, Elisha Goldstein, Trudy Goodman Kornfield, Amishi Jha, Menas Kafatos, Jack Kornfield, Helen Lavretsky, Rhonda V. Magee, Kristin Neff, Pat Ogden, Shauna Shapiro, Daniel Siegel, Gary Small
Time: 17 Hours 9 Minutes (19 videos)
Year 2017
