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Enhancing Neuroplasticity by Linda Graham

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Description

The more we apply the discoveries of neuroscience to our clinical work, the more skilled we can become at tailoring interventions to match clients’ specific difficulties and guide them through the changes in brain functioning that best catalyze their growth. Whether clients are stuck in repetitive defensive patterns, struggling to stabilize a coherent sense of self, or progressing slowly toward new resilient behavior, teaching clients specific tools for rewiring the brain can lead to their thriving and flourishing beyond the consulting room. In this workshop, you’ll discover how to:

Teach clients tools of self-directed neuroplasticity to reverse the impact of stress and trauma on brain functioning and their capacities to cope
Cultivate positive emotions to shift brain functioning from contracted survival responses to larger perspectives and openness to change
Use practices of mindfulness and self-compassion to recover the capacities of the prefrontal cortex for response flexibility and resilience
Strengthen capacities of empathy and deepen skills of relational intelligence to foster healthy, resonant relationships.

Choosing experiences to rewire the brain

Mindfulness

Compassion
Tools of intelligence
Purposes of enhancing neuroplasticity

Regulation, relation, reflection and resilience

Strategies for implementing positive neuroplasticity
Brain structures and systems related to perception of safety

Functions of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system

Consequences of hypoarousal and hyperarousal

Unconscious nature of autonomic systems
Therapeutic interventions to optimize feelings of safety

Beneficial exercises: breath, touch, posture and movement

Nonverbal cues and therapeutic communication

Therapeutic resonance and healing

Techniques for developing resonance

Deep listening and acceptance of emotions

Mindfulness and self-compassion
Therapeutic exercise: Compassionate friend
Shifting brain functioning through positive emotions

Neuroscience research

Gratitude exercise: Web of life

Imagination
Default mental play space

Therapeutic exercise: Wished for outcome

Meta-processing and brain change

Journaling and creating a coherent narrative

Summary and clinical take-aways

More information about Medical:

Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease,
typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.

Medicine has been around for thousands of years, during most of which it was an art (an area of skill and knowledge) frequently having connections to the religious and
philosophical beliefs of local culture. For example, a medicine man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher and physician would apply bloodletting according to the theories of humorism.
In recent centuries, since the advent of modern science, most medicine has become a combination of art and science (both basic and applied, under the umbrella of medical science).
While stitching technique for sutures is an art learned through practice, the knowledge of what happens at the cellular and molecular level in the tissues being stitched arises through science.

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