Description
Even though mindfulness has become ubiquitous in our profession, it often remains a challenge to motivate clients to bring practices into their everyday lives. In this workshop, you’ll explore a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to helping clients incorporate mindfulness into their daily routine to treat a diverse range of issues. You’ll discover:
- The Five Core Skills of mindfulness-setting intentions, cultivating awareness, stabilizing attention, self-regulation, nurturing loving kindness-that form the foundation of transformative mindfulness practices
- Key neuroscience insights such as the effective drivers of neuroplasticity and implicit memory that are critical to changing the brain
- How to identify and transform clients’ unhealthy core negative beliefs and patterns by teaching an accessible brain-changing mindfulness practice
CPD
CPD
- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 3.0 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
Faculty
Mindfulness Center of Southern Maine
Outline
- Introductory Mindfulness Exercise
- Welcome & Objectives
- Mindfulness in Today’s Society
- What is Mindfulness?
- Concepts within Mindfulness
- Self-Directed Neuroplasticity
- Goal of Enlightenment
- Mindfulness Path for Growth
- Transforming Negative States
- Cultivating Positive States
- Five Core Skills of Mindfulness
- Intentions
- Awareness Witnessing
- Three Foundations of Mindfulness
- Self-Regulation
- Attention
- Loving-Kindness
- The Circle of Liberation in Mindful Practice
- The Mindful Practice Steps
- Concluding Mindfulness Exercise
Objectives
- Identify the deeper meaning in even the smallest experience.
- Establish how barriers to implementing mindfulness can be overcome using informal techniques clients can incorporate into their daily lives.
- Characterize how clinical tools that increase self-awareness can be used in therapy to help clients better manage their thoughts, emotions and behaviors.
- Articulate the importance of the connection between therapist and client in contributing to positive clinical outcomes, and delineate how mindfulness may enhance the therapeutic relationship.
Target Audience
Psychologists, Physicians, Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Behavioral Health Professionals
