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Anatomy of Intimacy: INFIDELITY - Beyond Trauma to Transformation

EVEN THE MOST EXPERIENCED therapist can feel overwhelmed by couples struggling with infidelity. Conventional wisdom maintains that infidelity is always traumatic and a symptom of a troubled relationship, while recent thinking suggests there is no one-size-fits-all. This program brings together a stellar group of experts on infidelity, offering two intense days of stimulating, thought-provoking presentations along with practical clinical skills.

The goal of this program is to present a wide range of clinical thinking about what exactly constitutes infidelity and the various approaches to treatment. Learn the most current methods for guiding a couple to best determine whether the legacy of an affair will be a break-up, simply surviving, or a transformative experience. Issues of countertransference and the therapist’s life experience will be considered, with a focus on the values of the therapist that can affect clinical decisions.

Program CD Price: $130.00
Homestudy Price: $150.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 CE Hours
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Healing Moments in Trauma Treatment (3-day) program [recorded March 2011]

This extraordinary 3-day program brings together distinguished experts in the fields of mindfulness, attachment, trauma, interpersonal neurobiology, and trauma-based disorders.

We illuminate the mechanisms underlying how brain and body processes are shaped by attachment and emotion during development. Discover how the experiences of trauma, deprivation, and neglect impact the developing mind and how therapeutic relationship can promote healing.

Objectives:

1) Outline 3 models for trauma treatment.

2) Integrate aspects of the mind/body connection.

3) Identify 5 steps in effective use of EMDR.

4) Describe 5 ways to use brain research in clinical treatment.

5) Evaluate 2 models designed to foster mindfulness in clients.

“A Mindfulness Approach To Trauma” Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD with program introduction by Marion Solomon, PhD

“Mindfulness and The Person Of The Therapist” Daniel Siegel, MD

“Putting Neuroplasticity into Clinical Practice with Neurofeedback: Rewiring the Brains of Children and Adults Who Lack Safety, Self-Regulation, Capacity for Play and Executive Functioning” Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD

“Integrating Mindfulness into the Moment: A Clinician’s Map for Cultivating Awareness, Attention and Intention” Pat Ogden, PhD

Panel discussion Day 1 Friday Presenters

“Redefining Trauma and Its Hidden Connections: Identifying and Reprocessing the Experiential Contributors to a Wide Variety of Disorders” Francine Shapiro, PhD

“Healing Trauma and Creating Secure Attachments Through EMDR" Debra Wesselman, MS, LIMHP

“Safety as a Transformative State: Mindfulness from a Polyvagal Perspective” Stephen W. Porges, PhD

“Primary Process Brain-Emotional Imbalances in Depression: Toward Direct Affective Interventions in Psychotherapeutic Practice” Jaak Panksapp, PhD

“Intersubjective Mindfulness: Facilitating Mindfulness in the Traumatized Child though the Mindfulness of the Therapist” Dan Hughes, PhD

Panel discussion Day 2 All Presenters

“…and His Heart Grew Three Times Bigger That Day” (Dr. Seuss): Using Dyadic Mindfulness to Enhance Receptive Affective Capacity in Both Patient and Therapist Diana Fosha, PhD

“Trauma, the Brain, and Consciousness” V. S. Ramachandran, MD

“The Art and Science of Trauma Treatment “Pat Ogden, PhD and Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD

“The Reciprocal Organization of the Cerebral Hemispheres and its Implications For Our Understanding of Mind’ Iain McGilchrest, MD

Panel discussion Day 3 All Presenters

Program CD Price: $180.00
Homestudy Price: $200.00
Homestudy Credit: 21 CE hours
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How People Change: Relationships and Neuroplasticity in Psychotherapy

Examine how the social brain adds to the process of change.

This program integrates research related to the nature of the brain, mind and body. Discover remarkable new insights into how people change as we explore the deeply social nature of the brain, investigate the properties of healing relationships and learn ways that new scientific insights provide us with a deeper understanding of how psychotherapy works.

In addition to understanding the mechanisms of change, this program examines how the social brain results in the kinds of communication that adds to the process of change.

(Recorded March 2013)

PRESENTATIONS:

The Spinoza Problem and Its Relevance to Modern Psychiatry

Irvin Yalom, PhD with Introduction by Marion Solomon

In an Unspoken Voice: The Nonverbal Narrative in Transforming Traumatic Experience

Peter Levine, PhD

Love and War in Intimate Relationships: How Couples Change

Stan Tatkin, PhD

Panel Discussion I

All Presenters

Introduction to Change: The Internal and Interpersonal Nature of the Self-Organizing Mind

Daniel J. Siegel, MD

Psychotherapy Relationships That Work: Evidence-Based Responsiveness

John Norcross, PhD

How Children Communicate Within the Therapeutic Relationship: Interweaving Communications of Curiosity and Empathy

Dan Hughes, PhD

Panel Discussion II

All Presenters

Disintegration as the Core of Complex Trauma: A Developmental Approach to Fostering Cohesion

Russell Meares, PhD

Embodied Minds: Changing Minds in Dynamic Psychotherapy

Margaret Wilkinson, PhD

Knowing Each Other, Changing Together: Mutuality and Therapeutic Action

Jessica Benjamin, PhD

The Development of the Right Brain Across the Lifespan: What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Allan Schore, PhD

Discussion

Daniel J. Siegel, MD

Panel Discussion III

All Presenters

Program CD Price: $140.00
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Mindful Living and the Neurobiology of Love

This 2-day program provides practical steps to transforming oneself and liberating the mind toward compassionate and empathic relationships. Drawing upon the rich wisdom of Buddhist practice and an innovative synthesis of over a dozen branches of contemporary science.

Mindfulness, Healing and the Neurobiology of Love integrates the best understandings of eastern psychology with the powerful discoveries of modern empirical research to provide a timely vision into the nature of a healthy way of being in our modern and fast changing world.

Program CD Price: $130.00
Homestudy Price: $150.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 CE Hours
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Mindful Solutions for Success and Stress Reduction at Work

There is no doubt about it, today's business is a round-the-clock atmosphere. We are hounded with external pressures, overwhelmed with information overload, asked to deliver more with less, work longer hours, and have less personal time for renewal activities. What is the result? Self-inflicted attention deficit disorder, exhaustion, lack of focus, reduced health, and burnout. This leads to lower job satisfaction, morale, and productivity. Hardly the results we want.

What more and more business leaders are finding is instead of doing more things faster, you need to learn how to prioritize your attention and do the most important things really well. That is the key to being effective in today's New Business World. So the issue isn't how to manage your time, the issue is more about managing your attention with the most important things in work and life.

This program provides tools to effectively identify and focus on the most important things right now, reduce your stress levels, and become more successful in your everyday life.

In bringing mindfulness into your everyday life you will eventually be able to listen better, anticipate and solve problems, see solutions, have more confidence and energy, and be happier and more successful at work with a sense of balance and focus. Ultimately, this will give you the ability to do the work you want to do and live the life you want to live.

Program Objectives:

• Increase awareness of ineffective habitual patterns that you unknowingly engage in

• Gain a renewed sense of control and choice in the present moment

• Be able to break the cycles of distraction and wasted time that too often lead to overwhelm and stress.

Program CD Price: $15.00
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Toward A New Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships (3-day program)

This program focuses on integration of essential implicit communications within the therapeutic alliance. This includes recent interpersonal neurobiological models that describe the right brain/mind/body systems, the impact of this on communications, and newer bodily-based trauma models that focus on the enduring impact of stress on the central and autonomic nervous systems.
Relationships are the most important aspects of the therapeutic encounter. Relationships are also primary for physical, mental well-being.
Explore how relationships shape the brain, and how the brain shapes relationships? We will see how early attachment disturbances can lead to a wide variety of adult relational problems, especially when combined with unresolved trauma. The ability to form and sustain reciprocal interpersonal relationships is notably disrupted in individuals who experience early traumas in attachment patterns.

PRESENTATIONS:

DAY ONE

Introduction
Bonnie Goldstein, PhD

“One Hundred Names for Love”

Diane Ackerman, D.Litt

“Attachment, Culture and Relationships”

Marion Solomon, PhD

“A New Approach to Couples Therapy”

Harville Hendrix, PhD

“Passion, Vitality and Emotional Intimacy in Love
Relationships”

Ellyn Bader, PhD

“The Science of Trust and Betrayal”

John Gottman, PhD

“Discussion”

Daniel J. Siegel, MD & Alanis Morissette, Artist



“Panel Discussion I with All Presenters”

Moderator: Bonnie Mark-Goldstein, PhD

DAY TWO

Introduction

Marion Solomon, PhD

“The Neurobiology of Relationships”

Daniel J. Siegel, MD

“Perspectives from Regulation Theory: Early Brain

Development and the Increased Prevalence of Severe

Mental Disorders in U.S. Youth”

Allan Schore, PhD

“Our Social Baseline: How Healthy Relationships Increase
the Efficiency of Our Thoughts and Actions”

James Coan, PhD



“Body to Body Conversation: Implicity Co-Constructing Intersubjectivity”

Pat Ogden, PhD

“A Neural Love Code: The Body’s Need to Engage and Bond”

Stephen Porges, PhD

Panel Discussion II with All Presenters

Moderator: Bonnie Goldstein, PhD

DAY THREE

Introduction

Marion Solomon, PhD

Meaning Making

Edward Tronick, PhD

Mentalization and the Transformation of Fear in Psychotherapy

Arietta Slade, PhD

Emotion Focused Therapy - The Transforming Power of Affect

Les Greenberg, PhD

The Divided Brain

Iian McGilchrist, MD

Integration

Daniel J. Siegel, MD

Panel Discussion III with All Presenters

Moderator: Marion Solomon, PhD

Program CD Price: $180.00
Homestudy Price: $200.00
Homestudy Credit: 19
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