Rick Hanson – Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom – PESI

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Speaker: Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
Format: Audio and Video
Media Type: Digital Seminar 

Description

Featuring Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

Neuropsychologist & author of the best-selling book Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom

• 4 steps to internalize positive experiences and heal pain and dysfunction
• Learn from the “Olympic athletes” of brain training (lessons from 2,500 years of contemplative practice)
• Understand the brain’s negativity bias, the greatest challenge in psychotherapy
• Work with the brain’s 3 motivational systems (Approach, Attach, Avoid)
• Strengthen the neural circuits of contentment, belonging and peace
• Teach clients self-directed neuroplasticity

Today’s unprecedented meeting of modern brain science and ancient contemplative wisdom offers you powerful new tools for changing the neural wiring and neurochemistry of the brain.

In this seminar, learn how to use contemplative neuroscience in down-to-earth ways to…

• Weave positive experiences into the fabric of the brain and self
• Stimulate and strengthen the neural circuits of empathy
• Help clients become more mindful

Speaker

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, a Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkley, and a New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 26 languages and include Hardwiring Happiness (Harmony, 2016), Buddha’s Brain (New Harbinger, 2009), Just One Thing Card Deck (PESI, 2018), and Mother Nurture (Penguin, 2002). He edits the Wise Brain Bulletin and has numerous audio programs. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, he’s been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and other major universities, and taught in meditation centers worldwide.

Dr. Hanson has been a trustee of Saybrook University, served on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and was President of the Board of FamilyWorks, a community agency. He began meditating in 1974, trained in several traditions, and leads a weekly meditation gathering in San Rafael, California. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR, and he offers the free Just One Thing newsletter with over 114,000 subscribers, plus the online Foundations of Well-Being program in positive neuroplasticity.

He enjoys rock-climbing and taking a break from emails. He and his wife have two adult children.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Rick Hanson maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaker honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Rick Hanson is a member of the International Positive Psychology Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Mindfulness Research Association.

Target Audience
Counselors, Psychologists, Case Managers, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

• Describe major mechanisms of neuroplasticity.
• Explain how to build self-compassion into the brain.
• Describe the evolutionary basis of the brain’s negativity bias.
• Summarize the three basic steps of “taking in the good” (TIG).
• Integrate the fourth step of TIG to heal painful experiences.
• Explain how to activate contentment, belonging and peace.

Outline

• The Promise of Self-Directed Neuroplasticity
  How the mind changes the brain
  Lessons from 2,500 years of meditative practice
  Neural circuits of self-compassion
  Getting on your own side
  Virtue, mindfulness and wisdom—resting on the neural functions of regulating, learning and selecting
• The Challenge of Evolution
  Chasing carrots and dodging sticks
  The negativity bias of the brain
  How that bias undermines psychotherapy
• The Power of Implicit Memory
  Memory systems, explicit and implicit
  The importance of inner resources
  Factors of neuroplasticity
• Taking in the Good
  Turning good facts into good experiences
  Savoring positive emotions and perspectives
  Priming implicit memory systems
  Working with children
  Why it’s good to feel good
  Living gratefully
• Clearing Old Pain
  Exploiting the “weak link” in memory consolidation
  Pairing positive experiences with old pain
  Special considerations for trauma
• Natural Happiness
  The resting state of the brain: Calm, contented, caring
  The brain’s three motivational systems: Approach, Attach, Avoid
  The reactive mode of greed, heartache and hatred (broadly defined)
  How to build up the neural circuits of the responsive mode of gladness, love and peace

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