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• Archive: Even as we look to the latest brain research for techniques to apply in our therapeutic work, we too often neglect the damaging impacts of stress, poor lifestyle choices, and overstimulation from digital devices on our brains and bodies.
• In this recording, you’ll learn empirically-validated techniques to calm your client’s nervous system, help your client come to clarity in decision-making, heal toxic shame, and cultivate your client’s courage to take growth-enhancing risks.Implement lifestyle choices that protect the physical brain as our clients age, and extend the “health span” portion of our lifespanApply the tools of self-directed neuroplasticity in therapy that help reverse the impact of stress and trauma on emotional regulation, learning and memory, and empathyEngage clients with practices such as guided visualizations and process journaling that can enhance the higher brain’s capacity for response flexibility, discernment, planning, creativity, and imaginationApply interventions that help prevent/reverse addiction to digital technology and recover capacities for focused attention and concentration, relational intimacy, introspection, and self-reflectionEmploy valuable resources in the latest findings about the brain and the mind-body connectionBrain structure, overlapping areas of physical pain, emotional pain and temperatureModalities impacting brain structureMultiple approaches, experiences change the brainConsciousness remains unexplainedMindfulness, compassionBurnout and compassion fatigueMacro and micro approaches to self-careThe impact of exercise on brain chemistry and developmentTelomeres, longevity, types of movementThe impact of sleep and rest on brain chemistry and developmentCognitive impairment, depressionSleep improvement strategiesBrief restorative strategiesNutrition supports for brain functionMIND dietNeurotoxinsImpact of obesityThe role of play in sustaining healthy brain functionSocial relationships and well beingThe four intelligences of well beingBody based tools for healing traumaReactivity and healingEmotional regulationPriming the neuroplasticity of the brainRelational intelligenceMindful awarenessModifying perceptions and reactionsExercise: Increasing somatic intelligenceExercises: Breath, posture and movementPositive psychology and neuroscience researchContraction and reactivityResilience and healthAbility to shift perspectiveMindful self-compassion and acceptanceExercise: Hand movement, mindfulness and emotionExercise: Visualization and self-compassionExercise: Moments of kindnessExercise: Guided visualization toward self-acceptanceExercise: Playing Parts and self-integrationExercise: Integrating the inner critic