This workshop is approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the OPQ (RAO3146-19).
Early registration rate ($200 + taxes) ends April 15th, 2020. Regular fee: $225 + taxes. Anyone interested in attending this live workshop must register by May 6th, midnight, at the latest.
TITLE
How to train the craving brain to break habits and become more resilient, and
Making lemonade out of lemons: working with fear and uncertainty to grow kindness and connection
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Human beings are vulnerable to cravings and habits - compulsions to constantly check social media, overeat, smoke, excessively drink, or other behaviors, people find themselves repeating uncontrollably. Why are bad habits so hard to overcome? The key to understanding this is learning how our minds work. Armed with this understanding, we can tap into the process to find a key to conquer the cravings we know are unhealthy and foster natural capacities for awareness and kindness.
Pscyhologists and psychotherapists need to understand how the mind works. Armed with this understanding, they can help clients to conquer unhealthy cravings and foster natural capacities for awareness and kindness. This workshop will show you how!
And as a bonus...
If, in these uncertain times related to Covid-19, you or your clients are feeling fear, struggling with uncertainty, stress eating or becoming addicted to checking the news, you are not alone. Never before have we collectively faced so much change from the past and uncertainty about the future. Our minds instinctively move toward survival, yet may inadvertently create and deepen habits that harm us individually and separate us from others. Yet with some understanding of the basic building blocks of our brains, we can move from anxiety to action, from separation to connection.
Through a combination of conceptual learning and direct experiential exercises, this workshop will teach practical tools for anyone looking to bring together a deep understanding of how their mind works with tangible tools for working with difficult mental states, letting go of “bad” habits and creating healthy habits.
BIOS
Jud Brewer MD, PhD is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery” with more than 20 years of experience in mindfulness training and
scientific research. He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Dr. Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety. He is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry at the Schools of Public Health & Medicine at Brown University, and a research affiliate at MIT. He has trained US Olympic coaches, and his work has been featured on 60 Minutes, TED (10+ Million views), Time magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera (documentary about his research), Businessweek and others. Dr. Brewer founded MindSciences to move his discoveries of clinical evidence behind mindfulness for anxiety, eating, smoking and other behavior change into the hands of consumers (see www.drjud.com for more information).
Dr. Robin Boudette, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, behavior-change expert, and mindfulness teacher with more than 25 years of clinical experience. She co-founded the University Medical Center at Princeton Eating Disorders Program and has dedicated more than 20 years to the treatment of disordered eating. As a psychologist at Princeton University Health Services, she founded the Mind-Body Health Team and developed mindfulness intentions for students, staff and faculty. For the past 4 years she has worked with Judson Brewer, MD, PhD. at Mindsciences offering online groups and coordinating the Behavior Change Facilitator Training. She also teaches at the Mindfulness Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Dr. Boudette studied integrative medicine, training extensively in both yoga therapy and mindfulness meditation, and is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction instructor. She regularly presents at national professional conferences, weekend workshops, and retreats.
OBJECTIVES
- Understand how habits are formed and perpetuated
- Learn how mindfulness can help us step out of our old habits
- Gain insight into how we can tap into our own reward-based learning processes through curiosity
- Learn how mindfulness can change our default brain patterns
OTHER TOPICS TO BE COVERED IN THIS WORKSHOP
- Fear + uncertainty = anxiety. Anxiety + social contagion = panic
- How to spread connection instead of contagion
- How to stop compulsively checking the news
- How to work with uncertainty (and take it one day at a time)
- How to train your brain to use kindness to create connection during a crisis -and make it a habit
- Why uncertainty and anxiety worsen sleep, and what to do
- Working with anticipatory grief (and differentiating denial based in fear from grief)
- And more…
