Bouncing Back: Rewire the Brain for Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth

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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 maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She presents professionally and receives compensation, and she receives royalties as a published author. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Linda Graham has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Assess your client’s levels of stress and trauma effectively to implement appropriate somatic tools to improve treatment outcomes.
2. Determine how the differences among secure, ambivalent, anxious and disorganized attachment categories can better inform clinical assessment of trauma.
3. Teach clients tools of self-directed neuroplasticity to reverse the impact of stress and trauma on brain functioning and their capacities to cope.
4. Integrate skills to help clients cultivate positive emotions to shift brain functioning from contracted survival responses to larger perspectives and openness to change.
5. Utilize practices of mindfulness and self-compassion with clients to help recover the capacities of the prefrontal cortex for response flexibility and resilience.
6. Incorporate specific memory reconsolidation techniques to help clients change how they perceive and respond to memories of past traumatic events.

Outline

Essentials of Brain and Behavior Shift

• Evolution and development of human brain
• Impact of relationships on brain development and coping strategies
• Four mechanisms of brain change
• Four practices that accelerate brain change

Recover Equilibrium When Experiencing Stress and Trauma

• Body-based tools to regulate the stressed-out/numbed-out cycles of the nervous system
• Body-based tools reduce symptoms of PTSD
• Social engagement tools to antidote the brain’s innate negativity bias
• Sensorimotor approaches to manage surges of emotions
• Practices to prime the brain’s plasticity-receptivity to learning

Manage Emotions Skillfully

• Shift out of the brain’s ruminative negative judgments
• Rewire memories of toxic shame
• Manage anxiety when facing the new or the unknown
• Experience new self-acceptance and self-appreciation
• Strengthen one’s sense of self and self-worth
• Recover internal working models of resilience

Reflection-Re-Appraisal of Events

• Re-frame meaning and consequences of challenges and catastrophes
• Finding silver lining in difficulties and disasters
• Contextualizing traumatizing events in coherent narrative
• Re-engagement with larger world; accessing resources; recovering self-efficacy
• Finding renewed meaning, purpose, authentic and resilient self

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