Description
You know how important it is for clients to have confidence in their clinician – to know the comfort of working with someone who’s invested extra time and effort to build the necessary skills to provide treatment at the highest level.
Rochelle Calvert – 3-Day Comprehensive Mindfulness Training: Advanced Mindfulness Practitioner Course
But standing out from the crowd can be tough. When clients have so many options, how do you differentiate yourself from your colleagues?
Watch this recording and dramatically improve your mindfulness skills for enhanced treatment of anxiety, trauma, shame, depression, addiction, chronic pain and more!
Get answers to your questions on organizing and leading a mindfulness practice with clients, learn to effectively use numerous core and advanced mindfulness skills and exercises, and get detailed instruction on incorporating them into treatment with plans for pairing them with the specific mental health disorders you see in your office each day.
Handouts
Manual – 3-Day Comprehensive Mindfulness Training: Advanced Mindfulness Practitioner Course (17.3 MB) 99 Pages Available after Purchase
Outline
Strengthen Your Mindfulness Practice
Routine, meaning, and connection to support consistent practice
Mindfulness and nature practices
The four foundations in mindfulness
Transform barriers within your practice
Practices:
Breath
Pleasure/pain
Open/choice-less
Body
Thoughts and emotions
Loving kindness
Compassion
Mindfulness Techniques to Build Trust and Connection with Your Clients
Affect regulation techniques for therapist and client
Techniques to create empathetic connection
Eliminate compassion fatigue with compassionate presence
Exercises to build clients trust in themselves
Enhance Motivation with Creative Mindfulness Strategies
Visuals, metaphors, and poetry to explain mindfulness
Motivate clients with neuroplasticity
Strategies to shift the â€Automatic Pilotâ€
Exercises to teach reacting vs responding
Start and Sustain: How to Lead Formal and Informal Mindfulness Practices
Embodiment of mindfulness
Options for posture, range of experience and types of practice
How to adapt practices to the unique needs of clients
Leading inquiry strategies for deepened experience of mindfulness
Mindful daily moments, brief practices and other informal practices
Mindfulness Techniques and Experiential Exercises for Enhanced Treatment of:
Anxiety & Stress
Exercises to increase awareness of stress response
Techniques to relax the arousal state
Reduce anxious thoughts with:
3-minute breathing practice
Mindful walking practice
Trauma
Grounding and orienting techniques for felt safety
Somatic exercises for emotional regulation
Strategies to support overwhelm with breath and body practices
Shame and Guilt
Body awareness practices to soften shame and guilt
Care for shame with self-compassion
Mindful antidotes to self-judgement
Letting go exercises to shift attention and attitude
Anger
Mindfully be with the body in anger
Formal and informal practices to work with anger
Respond vs. react exercises
Insomnia
Diaphragmatic breathing to improve sleep
Interventions for challenging thoughts linked to insomnia
Mindful practice with technology
Depression
Manage negative self-talk with awareness of thoughts
Cope with limited energy through energy awareness practices
Nature meditations that boost well-being
Pain
Psychological well-being and chronic pain
Breath awareness practices to decrease acute pain and manage chronic pain
Loving kindness/compassion meditations for pain reduction
Eating Disorders
Mindful eating fundamentals
Sense awareness skills to shift bad eating habits
Mindful skills for responding to cravings
Awareness practices for satiety and hunger
Addiction
Mindful awareness of triggers for relapse prevention
Urge surfing: mindfulness interventions to cope with urges
Taking in the good – noticing the good events in life
ADHD
Stretch attention span with focus building practices
Mindful movement for controlled attention
STOP practices for reduced impulsiveness
Group and Individual Session Plans
To improve client outcome
Mindfulness-based group programs and emotional resonance
Identify opportunities in one to one clinical sessions
Determine which format is best for your client
Situations that may contraindicate applying mindfulness
Assessment, Growth and Support
Assess how practices are working for the client
Grow the path of practice for clients
Cultivate joy in mindfulness practice
