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• Archive: Topic Areas:Psychotherapy | KeynoteCategory:Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2012Faculty:Rick Hanson, PhDDuration:59:50Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :Apr 29, 2012 Description Description: To compensate for the brain’s innate negativity bias – making it like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones, which sensitizes couples to hurts and conflicts and undermines psychotherapy – we’ll explore a vital method in self-directed neuroplasticity: identifying key positive experiences and then registering them deeply in implicit memory.
• Educational Objectives: Describe how the brain evolved a negativity bias.
• Teach clients the three steps of deliberately internalizing positive experiences.
• *Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality* Faculty Rick Hanson, PhD Related seminars and products: 5 RICK HANSON, PHD, is a neuro-psychologist and author of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (with Rick Mendius, M.D.; foreword by Dan Siegel, M.D. and Pref- ace by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D.), published in 21 languages— as well as the forthcoming, Just One Thing.
• Founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom and Affiliate of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, Hanson has taught at Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard, and in meditation centers in Europe, North America, and Australia.