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4-Day Certificate Program Retreat: Mindfulness & Meditation in Clinical Practice

4-Day Certificate Program Retreat: Mindfulness & Meditation in Clinical Practice
Where:
GARRISON, NY
When:
Monday, September 10, 2018 - Thursday, September 13, 2018




Finally, the intensive multi-day mindfulness and meditation training in a retreat setting you’ve been waiting for! You have had exposure to mindfulness. You’ve read the articles and taken one-day classes. You know the benefits, but you’re looking for more …

This is your opportunity to get away, immerse yourself in the evidence for these practices, learn the skills and integrate them into your clinical work. Leave able to teach these skills to others- something most trainings do not give you!

In this magnificent setting in the Hudson River valley, you’ll get more!
  • More answers to your specific questions on how to establish a mindfulness practice in your clinical work.
  • More direction on how to integrate mindfulness into your treatment plans for specific disorders including anxiety, depression and trauma.
  • More practice, guidance and feedback on utilizing mindfulness in specific therapeutic sessions.
Get the direction you’re seeking with the in-depth training that only an intensive retreat can provide!
  • Master the core skills of clinical mindfulness
  • Mindfulness for trauma, anxiety, depression, stress, sex and more!
  • ”Go-to” techniques immediately applicable to your clinical practice
  • Address toxic anger and reduce the body’s anger response
  • Guidance and interactive demonstrations
  • Step-by-step instruction on specific mindfulness interventions and exercises
RETREAT SCHEDULE – Monday–Thursday, September 10-13, 2018

Monday, September 10, 2018
3:00 -4:30 pm* – Check in
4:30 – 5:45 pm – Program Introduction
6:00 – 7:00 pm* – Dinner
7:30 – 8:30 pm – Evening Session/Experiential Activity

Tuesday-Wednesday, September 11-12, 2018
7:00 – 7:30 am* – Optional Meditation Practice
8:00 – 9:00 am* – Breakfast
9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Morning Session
12:30 – 1:30 pm* – Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 pm* – Individual Activity
2:30 – 5:00 pm – Afternoon Session
5:00 – 6:00 pm* – Individual Activity/Leisure Time
6:00 – 7:00 pm* – Dinner
7:30 – 8:30 pm – Evening Session & Experiential Activity

Thursday, September 13, 2018
6:30 – 7:30 am* – Optional Mindfulness & Meditation
8:00 – 9:00 am* - Breakfast
9:30 am – 12:30 pm - Lecture
12:30 – 1:30 pm* – Closing Lunch and program conclusion

*CE hours are not awarded for this time.
Sleeping Accommodations:

If you would like to be paired up with another potential, unknown attendee to take advantage of the double occupancy rate, please call and let us know. We will aim to pair you up if somebody else registers who also would like to share.

In the meantime, please register at the single occupancy rate. If we are able to pair people, the $200 will be credited.


FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE GARRISON INSTITUTE, PLEASE VISIT THEIR WEBSITE www.garrisoninstitute.org
Cancellation Policy: Prior to July 1, 2018, you may receive a certificate for your purchase amount to attend any future live PESI sponsored seminar or a tuition refund less a $100 cancel fee. For cancellations received after July 1, 2018, you will receive a certificate for your purchase amount to attend any future live PESI sponsored seminar.

Please contact PESI customer service for information on non-CE seeking to register as a guest for pricing and other details.

Retreat Outcomes:
  1. Describe how clear psychoeducational descriptions of the relationship between mindfulness, neurobiology, and common disorders can be used to motivate clients to engage in treatment.
  2. Communicate how a case conceptualization that draws upon neuropsychological principles can help clinicians establish realistic expectations and goals with clients.
  3. Formulate treatment plans for anxiety that incorporate mindfulness strategies clients can use in and out of session to help alleviate symptoms.
  4. Dissect the neurobiological underpinnings of how emotions are created, and communicate why this is important to the therapeutic process.
  5. Employ mindfulness training and diaphragmatic breathing techniques that clients can use to help them manage unhealthy anger responses.
  6. Construct treatment plans for depression that incorporate mindfulness interventions that can be used to interrupt rumination and automatic negative thoughts.
  7. Characterize how mindfulness based stress reduction techniques can be used with clients to address prolonged periods of stress that can impact mental and physical health.
  8. Consider the clinical impact of research regarding the effects of mindfulness based practices on the neuropsychological aspects of trauma.
  9. Explore the clinical implications of research regarding the association between mindfulness and relationship satisfaction and outcomes.
  10. Establish how barriers to implementing mindfulness can be overcome using informal techniques clients can incorporate into their daily lives.
  11. Characterize how clinical tools that increase self-awareness can be used in therapy to help clients better manage their thoughts, emotions and behaviors.
  12. Articulate the importance of the connection between therapist and client in contributing to positive clinical outcomes, and delineate how mindfulness may enhance the therapeutic relationship.
  13. Practice counseling skills that happen “in the flow” that help the clinician avoid burnout.
  14. Explain the risks and limitations of using mindfulness in a clinical therapy session.
  15. Give examples of meditation techniques that can be taught to clients in an office setting.
  16. Construct a plan that integrates mindfulness skills into your existing modality of therapy.
RETREAT CONTENT

MASTER THE CORE SKILLS OF MINDFULNESS

Treatment Concepts
  • Introduction of mindfulness to clients
  • Mindfulness as self-directed neuroplasticity
  • Mindfulness as a skill-based path
  • Reconsolidation of neural networks through mindfulness practice
  • Experiential exercise: self-regulation techniques
Strengthening Therapeutic Presence
  • Benefits of therapeutic presence: presence, attunement, resonance, trust
  • Stabilize the mind: the foundation of focus
  • Self-regulation: the foundation of settledness
  • Spaciousness: the foundation of openness
Five Core Skills of Mindfulness
  • Clarify, set and re-affirm intention
  • Cultivate witnessing awareness: metacognition
  • Stabilize attention
  • Strengthen self-regulation
  • Practice loving-kindness for self and others
  • Experiential exercise: stability of attention and awareness
Neuroscience and Mindfulness
  • Effective drivers of neuroplasticity
  • Interpersonal neurobiology: importance of early experiences
  • Formation of mental models: core negative beliefs
  • Neuroception and the operation of the brain’s survival mechanisms
  • Explicit and implicit memories
  • Adaptive safety strategies: negative side effects
  • Experiential exercise: cultivate an inner refuge
Mindfulness Practices that Change the Brain
  • Themes in beginning mindfulness practice
    • Am I focused or distracted?
    • Am I settled/grounded or tight/churning?
  • Mindful transitions: a practice for new clients
  • Stop-breathe-reflect-choose practice
  • Development of client self-talk, scripts and mantras
  • Positive visualization practice
  • Cultivate a new vision of self: transform core negative beliefs
TRAUMA, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, RELATIONSHIPS, ANGER, STRESS AND SEX

Mindfulness for Trauma
  • Cultivate safety and groundedness
  • The dysregulated nervous system
  • Experiential exercise: positive visualization
Mindfulness for Anxiety
  • Witness the anxious mind
  • Get unstuck from anxious rumination
  • Experiential exercise: self-regulation practices for anxiety
Mindfulness for Depression
  • Core negative beliefs that power depression
  • Cultivate motivation and action
  • Experiential exercise: develop behavioral plans with the client
Mindfulness for Relationships
  • Clarify intentions that work in relationships
  • Transform unhealthy patterns
  • Experiential exercise: cultivate positive experiences/exchanges
Mindfulness for Anger
  • Understand the source of anger energy
  • Identify the anger storm
  • Clarify the practice when anger arises
  • Experiential exercise: rehearsal of the stop-breathe-reflect-choose practice
Mindfulness for Stress
  • Educate the client about the impact of stress
  • Change the stress reaction through practice
  • Experiential exercise: strengthen awareness of stress response, shifting to relaxation response
Mindfulness for Sex
  • Create conditions for healthy and mutually satisfying sex
  • Open to the full power of sexual intimacy
Mindfulness In-Session
  • Avoid compassion fatigue
  • Approach each session as meditative practice
  • Counsel “in the flow”
  • Experiential exercise: Sky-Like Mind Practice

TERRY FRALICH, LCPC

Terry Fralich, LCPC, is a co-founder of the Mindfulness Retreat Center of Maine and former adjunct faculty member of the University of Southern Maine Graduate School. He has led more than 400 seminars, trainings and retreats both nationally and internationally. His expertise consists of mindfulness, neuroscience, CBT brain change, emotional intelligence, stress reduction, meditation and the treatment of anxiety and depression. He has been teaching transformative mindfulness skills and practices for 20 years and has pursed his own practice of mindfulness and meditation for 40 years. Terry studied extensively with his Holiness the Dalai Lama for 25 years and with some of the American pioneers of mindfulness. He is the author of Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A 7-Step Guide to Mindfulness and The Five Core Skills of Mindfulness: A Direct Path to More Confidence, Joy and Love.



Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Terry Fralich is in private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Nonfinancial: Terry Fralich has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.
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