[Download Now] The Advanced Mindfulness Toolbox for Rewiring the Brain: Intensive 2-Day Mindfulness Training for Anxiety, Depression, Pain, PTSD, and Stress-Related Symptoms – Donald Altman

Donald Altman will demonstrate a variety of powerful clinical tools for helping clients to rewire the brain as they overcome clinical anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Over 40 million Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder, 25 million from clinical depression, and 100 million from chronic pain. The workshop uses practical and evidence-based tools to change clients’ reactions to these and other forms of suffering.

This workshop will make brain science easy to understand for your clients. You will be able to demonstrate to clients how they can regulate emotions through practices such as focused attention, selective memory, and strengths-based stories. You will learn how to adapt these tools for different populations in order to create a clear path to health for clients. This training will have you returning to your practice with a comprehensive menu of tools that can be used to regulate emotions and find calm.

Donald has created compelling trainings. This special workshop is sure to get you excited and excited about usingMindfulness for joy, calm, and healing in your own life, as well as in your therapy practice. You will want to take advantage of this unique training opportunity.

1. Describe and define mindfulness in a more broad way for the client.
2. Summarize the basics lessons of Interpersonal Neurobiology and how mindfulness can rewire the brain.
3. Explain the effects of stress and cortisol, and how diaphragmatic breathing turns on the parasympathetic nervous system.
4. Demonstrate how to use stories as a way to shift awareness, enhance relationships, and recognize strengths.
5. Use key mindful body practices that lead to better self-care and cognitive brain function.
6. Describe multiple evidence-based methods for shifting attention that produce greater positive emotions moment by moment.
7. Discuss the difference between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ stress, and the 4-methods for reducing stress.
8. Examine the damaging effects of stress at cellular level and how lifestyle changes can alter these.
9. Demonstrate stress-reducing transition skills through movement and walking.
10. Describe how to use guided meditations designed to help clients to better accept, reframe and manage pain.
11. Effectively use the practice of constructive distancing to help clients get a broader perspective on any situation.
12. Describe affirmations and methods for developing self-compassion and feelings of safety, trust, and forgiveness.

There is diligence and cutting-edge research.

• Mindfulness as a metacognitive skill
• Negative effects of a wandering mind
• Breathing reduces rumination and anxiety
• Useful (and free) web resources

You should be aware of mindfulness to your clients.

• Expand Your Mindfulness Vocabulary
  • Help clients understand mindfulness
  • Find the right metaphor
  • Using clients’ learning styles
• Practice: Getting into the Present Moment

The strength of the ground.

• Anxiety reduction with sense grounding
  • Mindfulness for transitioning between activities
  • Physical grounding method of dropping into the body
  • Integrates progressive muscle relaxation
  • Good for spatial, visual, hands-on learning styles
• Practice: Palm the Present Moment

There’s a lot of jargon in neuroscience.

• Emotional Regulation for Depression and Anxiety
  • ​Balance the brain’s default survival mode
  • Effects of cortisol on learning and immune system
  • Visual Brain Model for clients
  • The brain’s mindfulness module
  • Train the brain for calm response and metacognition
  • Navy Seals, arousal control & parasympathetic nervous system
  • Heart rate variability & relaxation response
• Practice: The Power of Breath
  • Enhancing effectiveness of a breathing practice
• Practice: Ask Clients the 3-Minute Question

The emotional side of thinking.

• Core lifestyle skills awareness training
  • Sleep hygiene
    • Managing sleep
    • Sleep rituals and strategies
  • Healthy eating/nutrition
    • Caffeine, protein, neurotransmitters, and the brain
  • Exercise
  • Manage Technology
  • How weapons of mass distraction may be rewiring the brain
• Practice: Assessment of Technology and Time
  • Focus the mind (useful for ADHD)
  • Integrate breath with a word/image
• Practice: Be the Pebble

LAUGHTER FOR DEPRESSION AND GRIEF: TOOLS FOR THE TERMINALLY SERIOUS.

• Research on laughter and mood
• Biochemistry of laughter & human laughter response
• Laughter yoga and laughter in therapy
• Practice: The Lightness of Laughter

The power of story telling is changing.

• Storytelling to overcome depression and build relationships
  • Fredrickson’s Broaden and Build Theory of Positive Emotions
  • Broaden attention; find resilience
  • Stories are fundamental to attachment
  • Build relationships through a story of strengths
• Practice: Identifying Strengths & Strengths Journal

Moods can be manipulated through attention and memory.

• Master attention and memories
  • Savoring of the present moment
• Practice: Here and Now Pleasantness
  • Using selective memory to savor the past and future
• Practice: Savoring Success: Past, Present, and Future

Positive emotions can be increased by paying attention.

• Managing depression with gratitude
  • Gratitude research
  • Four psychological reasons for gratitude
  • Techniques that make gratitude interpersonal and enhancing Supportive social networks
• Practice: The G.L.A.D. Technique

Emotional pain can be alleviated through acceptance, forgIVENESS, and COMPASSION.

• Forgiveness for moving forward from trauma
  • Forgiveness is a skill
  • Research on compassion practice
  • Changes in brain function
  • Security priming for feelings of safety and trust
  • Develop positive emotions and resources
• Practice: Loving-Kindness Affirmation

The truth about stress.

• Biological markers of stress: telomeres and aging
• Identify and assess client stress levels
  • Perceived Stress Scale
  • Epstein Stress-Management Inventory
• Practice: Be a Smart Stress-Avoider

MINDFULNESS FOR ADDICTIVE TAXES.

• Emotional Regulation for Cravings
  • Impulse Control and Craving Control Using Grounding
• Practice: S-T-O-P Grounding Technique

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• Introduction to the Body Scan Practice
• Research and history
• Demonstrates how to pay attention non-judgmentally
• Powerful grounding method; applications
• Practice: Surf the Body (The Body Scan)

Suppressing trauma is possible because of the power of psychics.

• Three kinds of sense grounding
• Practice: Focusing on Favorites

It is possible to reduce an itch by manipulating transformation.

• Managing transitions through movement and nature
  • Process orientation vs. outcome orientation
  • Attention Restoration Theory
  • Effects of nature on focus, moods, & healing
  • Slowing down with nature to get present
• Integrated Tools:
  • Practice: Ground-Surfing (Mindful Walking)
  • Practice: Turning Down the Volume with Nature

Visioning and reorganizing.

• Working with difficult, unresolved life situations
  • Metacognition as a path to insight
• Practice: Bear Meditation

Putting it all together.

• Creating a mindfulness roadmap for clients
  • Bundling practices together
  • Engage through learning styles
  • Maintaining skills
  • Follow-up and reinforcement

GET THE ADVANCED MINDFULNESS TOOLBOX FOR REWIRING THE BRAIN: INTENSIVE 2-DAY MINDFULNESS TRAINING FOR ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, PAIN, PTSD, AND STRESS-RELATED SYMPTOMS OF AUTHOR DONALD ALTMAN

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