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.
Mary NurrieStearns, Rick Nurriestearns – 3-Day Experiential in Mindfulness, Yoga & Meditation: Applications for Mental Health Clinical Practice
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
