Rick Hanson – Using Positive Neuroplasticity for Change That Lasts

Description

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.
Rick Hanson – Using Positive Neuroplasticity for Change That Lasts
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.

Handouts
Manual – Using Positive Neuroplasticity for Change That Lasts (7 MB) 37 Pages Available after Purchase Transcript (88.3 KB) 15 Pages Available after Purchase

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