Mary NurrieStearns, Rick Nurriestearns – 3-Day Experiential in Mindfulness, Yoga & Meditation: Applications for Mental Health Clinical Practice
Faculty:
Mary NurrieStearns | Rick Nurriestearns
Duration:
18 Hours 18 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
May 01, 2019
Description
Watch this workshop recording for a unique opportunity to participate in an intensive, experiential and rejuvenating experience while learning techniques to help your clients. You will learn the latest scientific brain research related to yoga and mindfulness and how to implement brain changing practices, yogic interventions, specific mindfulness techniques, and self-compassion techniques in all phases of your therapy sessions.
This recording takes it a step further because you will experience first-hand the transformative power of meditation and mindful activities during clinical exercises and demonstration. Each day contains a balance of lecture with times of clinical meditation exercises, clinical yoga practices, and lunch will be provided for you to practice mindful eating.
Watch Mary and Rick NurrieStearns, who have co-led yoga and meditation workshops and retreats for several years and bring close to 70 years of combined experience in clinical meditation and clinical yoga practice. They are experts at showing clinicians how to empower clients to:
Apply mindful and yoga techniques to reduce anxiety, depression, shame, grief, chronic pain, and/or unworthiness.
Use self-compassion to make dramatic therapeutic changes.
Access beneficial memories to increase optimism and personal strength.
Incorporate mindfulness strategies to stay in the moment to soothe distressing emotions and relieve old trauma patterns.
Apply yoga interventions to calm the nervous system, as well as increase body and present moment awareness.
Cultivate an inner best friend to mitigate shame and decrease self-blame.
Strengthen relationships, increase authenticity, and sharpen problem-solving skills.
Unmask true values to establish meaningful goals in therapy.
This is a rare opportunity that you won’t want to miss! You are sure to leave feeling refreshed and excited to take this back to your clinical practice!
Handouts
Manual – 3-Day Experiential in Mindfulness, Yoga & Meditation: Applications for Mental Health Clinical Practice (8.6 MB) 79 Pages Available after Purchase
Outline
Reduce Anxiety, Depression, and Unworthiness
Neuroscience – Psychoeducation and Practices
Neuroplasticity – your brain’s ability to organize and learn
The triune brain
Primary emotional motivators
Negativity bias of your brain
Savoring the good and affiliation system of the brain
Social brain: causes and conditions
Default mode network, salience network and central executive network of the brain
Neuroscience exercises for clinical use
Use of art expression to personalize learning
Use of small group sharing (not therapy) for learning
Exploration of emotional motivators, social brain and savoring the good to personalize learning and small group sharing
Reduce Feelings of Overwhelm, Dissociation and Shame
Lead Clients to Emotional Stabilization
Emotional stabilization skills
Body scan and sensory input for stabilization
Mindful breathing practices
Impact of yoga on nervous system
Emotional Freedom Technique
Mindful walking
Clinical examples of emotional stabilization skills
Practice emotional stabilization skills
Teach Clients to Observe and Choose Thoughts
Experience the Impact of Thoughts
Nonjudgmental observing of thoughts
Naming – write thoughts down
Recognize, distance and dis-identify from narrative of self-identity
Relate to the voice of the inner critic
Address negative thoughts regarding chronic pain
Store consciousness/mind consciousness and therapeutic implications
Use of chants, mantras, songs for healing
Nourishing wholesome thoughts – use of repetition and concentration
Habit tendencies and neuronal pathways
Accessing beneficial memories
Clinical examples of relating to thoughts therapeutically
Exploration of observing and choosing thoughts to personalize learning and small group sharing
Help Clients Approach and Alleviate Distressing Emotions While Cultivating Emotional Aliveness
Treat Distress with Mercy
Be there for grief
Comfort pose and self-love mantra
Emotional Freedom Technique for client self-care
Yoga for emotional trauma/anxiety
Yoga for depression
Clinical examples of treating distress with mercy
Activity to personalize the client’s experience
Exploration of approaching and alleviating emotions to personalize learning and small group sharing
Promote Self-Compassion and Increase Emotional Resilience and Self-Acceptance in Clients
Why Kindness to Self at Times Cause Distress
Who has seen your goodness? – restoring trust
Teachers of compassion
The voice of the inner friend
Three-part self-compassion note
Offering loving kindness to any inner aspect that feels not deserving
Compassion for the inner critic
Tonglen practice – receiving suffering and sending compassion
Clinical examples of utilizing self-compassion
Exploration of compassion practices to personalize learning and small group sharing
Resources to Regulate Nervous System and Restore Self-Worth in Clients
Causes of Unworthiness and Shame
Impact of shame on brain – default network and pain system
The physiology of shame
Differentiate among shame, defiance, and noble posture
Simple yoga for healing the physiology of shame
Narrative of unworthiness
Create a new narrative of self
Life review/eulogy to discover true values
Clinical examples of treating unworthiness and shame
Write eulogy to discover true values and small group sharing
Mindfulness Applications for Specific Clinical Use
Mindfulness Communications Process for Conflict Resolution and Emotional Bonding
Mindful eating practice and research on mindfulness for overeating
Learn and practice leading mindful exercises and yoga for emotional trauma/anxiety and depression
Faculty
Mary NurrieStearns, MSW, LCSW, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Mary NurrieStearns, MSW, LCSW, C-IAYT, teaches seminars and retreats to teach clinicians how to take mindfulness skills, brain based protocols for treating shame and office-based yoga back to their clients. These evidence based clinical interventions move therapy forward by improving emotional regulation, restoring healthy nervous system functioning and cultivating healthier thought patterns. Both mindfulness and yoga practices have brought healing and calm to Mary’s clients and students.
Mary provides participants with the latest research results and pulls together the work of experts in the mental health field who are proponents of both practices (i.e. Bessel van der Kolk, Jon Kabat-Zinn). She draws on 37 years as a mental health professional counselor and 27 years of meditation and yoga practice. She is a certified yoga therapist, seasoned yoga teacher and ordained member of Thich Naht Hahn’s Order of Interbeing.
Mary is the author of Healing Anxiety, Depression and Unworthiness: 78 Brain-Changing Mindfulness & Yoga Practices (PESI, 2018), Yoga for Anxiety with Rick NurrieStearns (New Harbinger, 2010), Yoga for Emotional Trauma with Rick NurrieStearns (New Harbinger, 2013), Yoga Mind – Peaceful Mind with Rick NurrieStearns (New Harbinger, 2015), and Daily Meditations for Healing and Happiness: 52 Card Deck (PESI, 2016). Mary is the co-editor of Soulful Living (Hci, 1999) and former editor of Personal Transformation magazine. She has produced DVDs on yoga for emotional trauma and depression. Mary teaches across the United States.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Mary NurrieStearns maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as an author for New Harbinger’s Publishing. Ms. NurrieStearns receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Mary NurrieStearns has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.
Rick Nurriestearns
Rick NurrieStearns has co-led yoga retreats for 14 years. He has been immersed in consciousness studies, meditation and mindfulness practices for four decades. For 20 years, he was involved in publishing transformational books and magazines.
He was the publisher of Lotus and Personal Transformation magazines, and co-author of the books Soulful Living, Yoga for Anxiety, Yoga for Emotional Trauma and Yoga Mind, Peaceful Mind. He is a long time mindfulness student of Thich Nhat Hanh and a member of the Order of Interbeing.
Rick experiences chronic pain from an airplane crash and suffered from a tick borne disease. He relies on mindfulness practices for healing and has learned that you can cultivate happiness and inner peace even when you are hurting.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Rick NurrieStearns receives royalties as an author for New Harbinger’s Publishing.
Non-financial: Rick NurrieStearns has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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