Rick Hanson – Using Positive Neuroplasticity for Change That Lasts

Rick Hanson – Using Positive Neuroplasticity for Change That Lasts

Description of Using Positive Neuroplasticity for Change That Lasts

Most of our beneficial experiences wash through the brain like water through a sieve. Meanwhile, our stressful painful experiences sink into it like a sponge. The brain’s “negativity bias” undermines the benefits of therapy for many clients. But we can beat this bias by teaching clients how to turn passing experiences like gratitude and self-worth into lasting inner strengths hardwired into their own nervous system. This recording will explore the neuroscience of lasting healing and growth, and provide many practical tools for heightening the beneficial impacts of our clinical interventions.

Objectives

1. Utilize the neural mechanisms of social-emotional learning to create durable cognitive changes in client stress management.
2. Teach clients three methods for heightening the neurological internalization of therapeutic experiences.
3. Mitigate the impact of the brain’s negativity bias on mood and anxiety levels.

Outline

• Participants will understand why most of what clients experience in psychotherapy has no lasting value
• Participants will learn how increase the conversion of passing experiences into lasting changes of neural structure or function
• Participants will learn how to apply these general methods to developing key inner strengths in clients such as self-compassion, self-regulation, and positive mood

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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