Applying the Neuroscience of Well-Being
Linda Graham
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 … Read more>>
The Keys to Transforming Habitual Patterns
Betsy Polatin
Expand the capacity to express yourself by using a unique approach that combines the Alexander Technique for neuromuscular reeducation, breathing coordination, and somatic experiencing. This workshop will offer hands-on guidance and simple … Read more>>
A Day of Powerful Practices
Gina Biegel
Kick judgments, worries, daily to-do lists, and everyday stressors to the curb. Immerse yourself in practices from the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn and colleagues. Simple and powerful practices … Read more>>
Evoking Alternative Realities in the Consulting Room
Irene Siegel
The modern therapist and the ancient shaman share a desire to alter negative mindsets, create healing, and inspire transformation. In fact, therapists can learn from shamans’ recognition of multidimensional realities and … Read more>>
Revealing Your Soul’s Purpose
Amy Weintraub
This day of LifeForce Yoga practices will nourish your physical, emotional, and mental body, clearing whatever blocks you from reconnecting with a vision of your true nature. The unique and evidence-based breathing, meditation, and … Read more>>
The Four Levels of Consciousness
Rudolph Bauer
Through the world’s contemplative traditions, the spiritual journey usually involves an expansion of consciousness from everyday experience to an awareness of oneness with the universe. The journey’s stages begin with a heightened appreciation … Read more>>
Learning to Balance Your Life Energies
Patrick Dougherty
You’ve no doubt heard about Qigong, but how much do you really know about the benefits of this simple practice? Here’s your chance to directly experience its positive effects. Qigong opens up … Read more>>
A Day of Movement, Meditation, and Dance
Daniel Leven
The heart is our core, our vital energy center. In this full-day experiential workshop, awaken your heart to new energy through a balanced blend of movement, meditation, and dance. You’ll discover … Read more>>
Applications in Therapeutic Process and Healing Trauma
Jim Morningstar & Jessica Dibb
Sometimes the simplest solutions to discomfort can be right under our noses. When breathing gets deregulated as the result of emotional habits and past traumas, debilitating behavioral and … Read more>>
Finding Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy in Later Life
Andrea Brandt
More than 100 million Americans are over the age of 50 today, and while research concludes we can grow and enhance our lives at every age, stereotypes about aging still … Read more>>
Enriching Therapy with Buddhist Psychology
Karen Kissel Wegela
With clients you find particularly difficult to work with, it can be a relief to reconnect with what the Buddhists call bodhichitta, the innate, heartfelt kindness that first inspired you to … Read more>>
How to Deepen the Experience of Therapy
Janina Fisher
We often use terms like hard-hearted to describe those who can’t seem to feel empathy or connect to their own emotions, forgetting that the roots of open-heartedness grow out of safe … Read more>>
What Works and What Doesn’t
Jonah Paquette
Although the field of mental health has traditionally aimed to “fix what’s wrong,” the newer subfield of positive psychology instead helps us to “build what’s strong.” In doing so, we buffer against a … Read more>>
Harnessing Your Social Engagement System
Dafna Lender & Jon Baylin
We all know therapists who seem magically able to establish a powerful sense of trust and connection with even the most distrusting clients. In this workshop, we’ll take a close … Read more>>
A New Approach to Overcoming Self-Criticism and Self-Sabotage
Tim Desmond
When our clients are overwhelmed by anxiety, adrift in depression, or hobbled by trauma, a lack of self-compassion is often at the heart of their difficulty. Thankfully, research has shown … Read more>>
Gentle Protocols for Rewiring the Brain
Courtney Armstrong
Parts 1 & 2
Hypnosis is making a comeback as research demonstrates its effectiveness in relieving anxiety, resolving traumatic memories, and reducing chronic pain. Find out why hypnosis is an effective tool … Read more>>
Transforming Adversity into Learning and Growth
Linda Graham
Parts 1 & 2
Helping clients develop flexible and adaptive strategies for coping with both everyday disappointments and extraordinary disasters is at the heart of the therapeutic process. In this workshop, we’ll … Read more>>
Bringing Transformative Life Lessons into Therapy
Lisa Ferentz
Parts 1 & 2
Whatever they’ve been through, all our clients retain an inner wisdom that can help lift them, like a pair of ruby slippers, up and out of dissatisfaction and … Read more>>
A New Model for Private Practice
James Gordon & Sabrina N’Diaye
Parts 1 & 2
Increasingly, therapists are looking for alternatives to the office-bound rigidity of traditional private practice. This workshop offers a vision of practice, which includes a dynamic … Read more>>
Applying Dyadic Mindfulness in Your Work
Halko Weiss & Maci Daye
Parts 1 & 2
While traditional talk therapy relies largely on conscious awareness, research shows that explicit brain functions have only limited impact on our feelings and behaviors. In … Read more>>
How Do We See Our Role?
William Doherty, Kenneth Hardy, Esther Perel & Richard Schwartz
We therapists are certainly in the business of helping people change, but are we also invested in getting them to experience transformation? Beyond … Read more>>
How to Embrace Somatic Wisdom
Daniel Leven
Too often our focus as therapists is on our client’s verbal narrative. What happened? Where? When? We tend to neglect another powerful storyteller: the client’s body. In fact, the body records our emotional … Read more>>
Uncoupling A Deadly Dyad
Martha Teater & Don Teater
The opioid epidemic is spilling into consulting rooms as more therapists encounter clients overusing these dangerous medicines to treat their chronic pain. Although behavioral interventions are the treatment of choice for … Read more>>
Fostering Well-Being in a Digital World
Jonah Paquette
These days, we’ve become so attached to our digital gadgets, websites, and apps that it’s easy to lose sight of a fundamental question: aside from the immediate rewards they provide, are they … Read more>>
How Brain Science Can Inform Interventions
Frank Anderson
Therapists often get shaken and lose confidence in their approach when a client’s trauma response edges into seemingly uncontrollable extremes of rage, panic, or suicidal desperation. This workshop provides an essential road … Read more>>
Technology in the Treatment Room
Sebern Fisher
Try as we might through talk and somatic therapies, it can be very difficult to shift the states of fear, shame, and rage that haunt clients with early developmental traumas. Fortunately, recent research … Read more>>
Turning Reactivity into Equanimity
Kate Cohen-Posey
You may be excited about cutting-edge advances in brain research, but do you know how to translate them into practical methods that may reduce clients’ resistance, transform deeply disturbing emotions, and reinforce treatment interventions? … Read more>>
Leading Clients to Self-Leadership
Richard Schwartz
Parts 1 & 2
Healing is a word derived from the German hailjan, meaning “to make whole.” To truly heal isn’t easy, since it involves reconnecting with polarized and often volatile subpersonalities, or … Read more>>
A Somatically Based Resource
Nancy Napier
Parts 1 & 2
We’ve all internalized rules growing up that defined who and what we could be. Attempts to break these largely unconscious rules can elicit powerful physical and psychological survival responses that … Read more>>
The Art and Science of Memory Reconsolidation
Bruce Ecker
Parts 1 & 2
There’s a world of difference between liberating, lasting therapeutic breakthroughs and incremental changes that are readily undone by relapses. What controls that difference is memory reconsolidation, the … Read more>>
Mindfulness, Psychotherapy, Identity, and Love
Jack Kornfield & Trudy Goodman
Supported by neuroscience research, mindfulness practice has demonstrated its ability to ease stress, control anxiety and depression, and improve cognition, focus, and memory. As its reach and influence has increased, … Read more>>
Gratitude and Meaning in Caring for Aging Parents
Barry Jacobs & Julia Mayer
While caring for aging parents is often portrayed as a physical, psychological, and financial burden, there’s a growing body of research suggesting that caregivers can derive important … Read more>>
Engaging the Wisdom of the Body
Joan Klagsbrun
There’s a resource, implicit in each of us, that has the capacity to accelerate the healing process and make therapy more effective. Focusing invites clients to pause and access their “felt sense,” … Read more>>
The New Neuroscience of Pain
Howard Schubiner
Nearly half of all clients in therapy have physical pain, yet for the majority of these individuals, their pain has no clear medical cause. This is particularly true for those with back and … Read more>>
How to Safely Navigate Emotional Storms
Deb Dana
When life—and therapy—brings scary moments, it’s the body’s autonomic nervous system that takes action. Polyvagal Theory has revolutionized our understanding of both how this system works, and how to create safety and … Read more>>
Mindfulness for Teens and Young Adults
Gina Biegel
As they try to navigate the demands of school, online social lives, and daily pressures, many teens and young adults today are worried, in pain, angry, and even out of control. In … Read more>>
How to Match Clients with the Right Methods
Amy Weintraub
Have you ever had clients try a mindfulness exercise that made them more anxious, or get emotionally flooded when you asked them to breathe deeply? What about clients who are … Read more>>
A Mindful Approach to Value-Based Action
DJ Moran
Despite the popularity of mindfulness, not all our clients want to embrace an Eastern philosophy and sit on a meditation cushion every day. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers a way to … Read more>>
Effortless Heart Mindfulness Therapy
Loch Kelly
The essential Self is who we’ve always been and the wise, loving presence we’ve all been looking for. Self is not your ego, a core state, a subpersonality, an archetype, or a mindful witness. … Read more>>
How to Stress-Proof a Relationship
Steven Stosny
Couples often lose the skills they learn in therapy during times of stress, retreating to entrenched habits of emotion regulation and interaction based on childhood coping mechanisms of blame, denial, and avoidance. Our … Read more>>
Ways to Embody Your Symposium Experience
JODY WAGER & NAOMI NIM
While at Symposium’s end you may feel exhilarated by all the new ideas you’ve been exposed to, that excitement may, despite your best intentions, dissipate once you return to … Read more>>
