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From Psychological Healing to Spiritual Transformation (A108)


Average Rating:
   4
Faculty:
Tara Brach, Ph.D.
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Apr 03, 2004
Product Code:
NPC095511
Media Type:
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Description

Session 1:

  • Understanding Buddhist Psychology and Meditation
  • The cause of emotional suffering from perspective of Buddhist psychology
  • Role of meditation in emotional and spiritual transformation
  • Radical acceptance and mindfulness
  • Awareness of body and breath
  • Meditations: Concentration, mental noting, and developing embodied awareness

Session 2:

  • Developing Compassion and Mindfulness
  • Understanding strategies for resisting difficult emotions
  • Mindfulness and dis-identifying from thoughts and stories
  • Developing self-compassion
  • Meditations: Mental noting, releasing the story, awakening compassion

Session 3:

  • Transforming Shame and Fear
  • Understanding how emotions proliferate through reactivity
  • The two lenses of awareness
  • Strategies for using meditation for post-traumatic stress
  • Psychotropic medication and meditation
  • Meditations: Discovering a safe refuge; developing mindfulness in face of fear and shame

Session 4:

  • Meditation and Relationships
  • Identifying unconscious strategies that create an "unreal other"
  • Five intimacy-enhancing strategies
  • Recognizing vulnerability and inherent goodness
  • Bodhisattva Path Meditations: Forgiveness and compassion

Session 5:

  • The Fruition of Radical Acceptance
  • Trusting ourselves
  • Facing impermanence and loss
  • Becoming "intimate with all things" in daily life
  • Meditations: Establishing aspiration; wise reflection and inquiry; sacred pause and embodied presence

Top of Form

Objectives:

1. Describe Buddhist psychology's perspective on emotional suffering and healing
2. Describe the basic principles of Buddhist mindfulness meditation and classical practices of loving kindness, forgiveness, and compassion
3. Describe how to apply Buddhist mindfulness and heart meditations as therapeutic strategies for fear and shame
4. List 4 common clinical situations in which meditation would have therapeutic value.

5. List the components of Radical Acceptance and explain the benefits of cultivating the practice.

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

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Marriage & Family Therapists

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Faculty

Tara Brach, Ph.D.'s Profile

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Tara Brach is a founder and senior teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington D.C. A clinical psychologist and leading Western teacher of Buddhism, Brach is nationally known for her skill at integrating psychotherapy with a range of meditative and mindfulness practices. Her books include Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha and, most recently, True Refuge: Three Gateways to a Fearless Heart. To learn more about Tara Brach, visit www.tarabrach.com.

 

Speaker Disclosure:

Financial: Tara Brach is the found of Insight Meditation Community of Washington. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial:  Tara Brach has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.


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