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FACES provides the following mental health ceu credit: APA, NAADAC, CAADAC, NASW, NBCC, WMHCA, CA Board of Behavioral Sciences.
FACES is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists, and maintains responsibility for the program.
There are a limited number of special room rates of $185 + tax (single or double). Please call the hotel directly at 1-858-558-1500 (7 am-7 pm PST) or Central Reservations at 800-445-8667 for reservations before March 9, 2009, and ask for the FACES –Awakening to Mindfulness room rate. You can also register directly on our weblink: http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/SANTPHH-FACE-20090401/index.jhtml.
Parking is available at the hotel: self parking is $10/day and valet parking is $12/day. Both have in/out privileges.
Mindfulness skills are the core skills in DBT, an empirically supported treatment for individuals with severe and complex mental disorders. This talk outlines the specific mindfulness skills used in DBT.
The roots of mindfulness practice are in the contemplative practices common to both Eastern and Western spiritual disciplines. This talk describes the application of these mindfulness skills in treating severe and complex disorders.
Effective engagement with clients depends on compassion, but there are barriers to compassion, hidden in the normal processes of human mind. In this talk I will present a seven component model drawn from Acceptance & Commitment Therapy that suggests how to dismantle these barriers. I will show applications of these concepts to social justice, the therapeutic relationship, and to therapy itself.
This presentation provides an overview of MBRP, a group based, 8 week outpatient program that combines traditional RP with mindfulness meditation. Various meditation strategies are described to cope with urges and craving (e.g. “urge surfing”) and preliminary outcome data will be presented.
This presentation surveys the new research on how the mind and brain change each other, exploring the neural circuits of attention, and practical methods for activating the brain states that support steady mindfulness. The presentation ends with an exploration of profound states of mindfulness, including concentration practices, bliss, and transforming insight.
Typically positive experiences flow through awareness without being registered in emotional memory (even though they may greatly outnumber negative ones), which undermines resiliency, optimism, and coping. We cover neurologically-savvy methods for mindfully internalizing positive experiences (including for children), to build psychological resources and lift mood.
The new model of chronic pain does not solely reside in tissues, but rather is a systems problem related to the interactions of the mind, body and emotions. Awareness Based Sensory Integration is described for the chronic pain patient.
In this first session we share the twelve most transformative principles of Buddhist Psychology. Based on the recognition of each person’s Buddha Nature and nobility, this is a psychology of compassion and inner transformation. We explore the fundamental principles for the alleviation of suffering, the range of mindfulness trainings, the recognition of multiple levels of consciousness, positive mental health, shift of identity, human potential and tools for emotional healing and awakening.
In this session we use case studies, storytelling and direct exercises to illustrate the power of mindfulness and presence in psychotherapy practice. We illustrate how to introduce and work with practices of mindfulness of body, feelings, mind and relational fields. We include important Western research and how the field of mindfulness studies has grown.
The awakening heart is described in Buddhist Psychology as filling with lovingkindness, compassion, joy and peace. In this session, we explore the powerful and radical ways to evoke these beautiful qualities.
One of the greatest forms of suffering in our culture is self-aversion and the fear of personal failure. Buddhist practices of mindful presence and self-compassion directly de-condition the patterns of beliefs and feelings that imprison the heart. This session includes case studies, guided meditations and Buddhist teaching that address healing difficult emotions and discovering our natural goodness and wholeness.
The power of forgiveness is one of the greatest gifts and liberations available to the human heart. Buddhist psychology teaches that forgiveness can be learned and developed, for ourselves, for others, individually and in the difficulties and troubles of the world. In this session we explore ways to cultivate the transformative art of forgiveness, through cases, practical examples and our own direct practice.
In this session, we learn how to empower our clients/patients to embody the power of mindfulness, so that our circle of connectedness and love widens to embrace the healing of the earth and benefit all that lives. “We are not independent, but interdependent”, declared Buddha; “tied to a single garment of destiny” said Martin Luther King, Jr. This is the reality taught to us by mindfulness itself. Breathing in, we quiet the mind and open the heart. Breathing out, we bring our gifts to the world. These two breaths express our wisest human fulfillment.
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