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• Archive: Topic Areas:WorkshopCategory:Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2012Faculty:Rick Hanson, PhDDuration:1:55:29Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :Apr 29, 2012 Description Description: The first emotion our ancestors evolved was fear—and we remain highly threat reactive today, continually overestimating threats and underestimating opportunities and resources.
• We’ll explore multi-ple methods for helping clients “cool the fires” of fear and anger, and internalize inner strength and an appropriate sense of safety. Educational Objectives: Summarize the evolutionary causes of the brain’s threat reactivity.
• Describe two methods for helping clients access a greater sense of personal strength.
• *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.