Advanced Mindfulness Techniques that Change the Brain: Rewire Depression, Anxiety and Toxic Lifestyle Habits

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This workshop will get you thinking in new ways about how to utilize mindfulness to your patients.

• The newest brain research about mindfulness and the brain
• Mindfulness-based techniques to use with clients right away
• A deeper understanding of how mindfulness works for clinical disorders—including depression, anxiety and toxic lifestyle habits

This seminar recording is different - it will help you to meet clients where they are at, as you deepen and broaden your own mindfulness practice during the day. Mindfulness expert, Donald Altman will show how mindfulness creates new brain pathways—and lasting change from the inside out.
Donald Altman will teach the core mindfulness skills that enhance any mindfulness-based therapy. Transform your practice and use these new mindfulness intervention skills in your practice the very next day, as you work with clients to overcome depression, anxiety, and other toxic lifestyle habits. ​

OUTLINE

Cutting Edge Research on Mindfulness

• Effective as anti-depressants
• Keeps the mind from wandering
• The quantum brain and other new brain and mindfulness research

Advanced Mindfulness Vocabulary

• Traditional terms of mindfulness
• Meeting the client with a broader view of mindfulness
• Brain integration

The Four Core Mindfulness Practices

• Breathing awareness
• Mind awareness
• Body scan
• Movement awareness

Get Unstuck from Depression

• Stress regulation
• Mindful laughter

Overcome Anxiety

• Use nature’s engaging power to restore focus
• Mindful walking to manage the uncertainty of transition
• Retrain the mind to be kind, compassionate, and balanced

Toxic Lifestyle Habits

• Getting aligned with values and meaning
• Embracing gratitude and affirmations
• The “G.L.A.D.” technique
• Finding peace with “Be the Pebble” practice

OBJECTIVES

• Utilize the newest brain research about mindfulness and the brain to improve therapy with anxiety, depression, and toxic life style habits.
• Experience the 4 core methods of developing a mindfulness practice that works.
• Identify mindfulness strategies that act as interventions for anxiety, depression and toxic lifestyle habits.
• Explain how to restore the brain’s energy when depleted.
• Recognize how clients can be empowered through intention an attention to make new choices and break toxic lifestyle habits.
• Use the main mindfulness skills that enhance any mindfulness-based therapy.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Donald Altman, M.A. LPC, is a psychotherapist, award-winning writer, former Buddhist monk, and teacher. An adjunct professor at Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, he is also a faculty member of the Interpersonal Neurobiology program at Portland State University and teaches various classes blending mindfulness and Interpersonal Neurobiology.

A prolific writer whose career spans more than 25 years, Donald has authored several pioneering books on mindfulness, beginning with his 1998 Art of the Inner Meal. His book The Mindfulness Code was named as “One of the Best Spiritual Books of 2010.” He has also authored Meal By Meal, Living Kindness, and his newest book One Minute Mindfulness.

In addition to his books, Donald was a staff writer for an EMMY-Award winning children’s television (The Magic Door, CBS Chicago), won an American Medical Writer’s Association Award, co-created the first interactive comic strip on America Online, and has had articles appear in New Age Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and Independent Business Magazine, among others.

Donald reaches out to the professional community by serving as the vice president of The Center for Mindful Eating. Donald works extensively with mindful meditation in his own life, as well as offering these tools to others through his books and classes. He teaches mindfulness and spiritual values around the country. He is dedicated to bringing these ancient practices in tune with modern living and to invite wellness into our stress-filled lives. Donald is also a member of the Burma Buddhist Association. An avid motorcyclist, he enjoys riding his motorcycle along the beautiful Oregon coast.

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