Applying Mindfulness to Enhance Self-Compassion & Self-Regulation in Clinical Practice
In this program, psychologist and consultant Dr. Christopher Willard brings mindfulness, compassion and self-compassion into psychotherapy. The Program will examine the role of compassion and self-compassion in self-regulation, co-regulation and healing in and out of the therapy hour. Exploring the physiology and neuroscience of mindfulness and compassion, with practical techniques to soothe attachment wounds, relieve anxiety, trauma, depression, even addiction. From practices ranging for thirty seconds to thirty minutes, for in and out of the clinical hour, participants will learn trauma sensitive techniques that will leave participants and your clients empowered, embodied, and better regulated in their challenging internal and external worlds.
All orders include the entire presentation with handouts and a CE test.
Streaming videos and audio downloads will be available immediately after checkout
Mailed CD and DVD formats include the printed handouts and CE test in an attractive portfolio
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Identify the key elements of self-compassion and mindfulness
- Summarize the interpersonal neurobiology of self-compassion and compassion practices and their effects on depression, anxiety, and stress
- Gain practical neuroscience research about mindfulness and selfcompassion
- Use self-compassion and compassion practices to reduce compassion fatigue/burnout/secondary trauma in practitioners and other caregivers.
- Share self-compassion strategies with others, safely minimizing risks of dissociation and decompensation in traumatized individuals.
Topics
What is Mindfulness?
- Visualizations, Sensory Practice, Check In Practices, Perspective Practice
- The Physiology of Mindfulness and Compassion
Basics of Breathwork
- The CHOICE Method of Adapting Mindfulness and Compassion
- Mindfulness and Compassion for You
What exactly is Self-Compassion?
- Soft Landing, Compassionate Countertransference
- Self-Compassion and Mindfulness for Body, Mind, and Relationships
Neuroscience and the State of the Research
- Matching the Practice to the Patient
- Mindfulness and Compassion with Youth and Families