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>>Learn How to Recover Hope and Reach Goals When All Seems Lost<<

Donald Altman, M.A., LPC, is a psychotherapist, international mindfulness expert and award-winning author with over 15 books in the psychology and mindfulness field who has taught mindfulness to thousands of healthcare professionals. Past Vice-President of The Center for Mindful Eating and featured in The Mindfulness Movie, he is profiled in the Living Spiritual Teachers Project.

He has taught at Portland State University and Lewis and Clark College Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and spent several years as a senior mental health therapist at the Providence St. Vincent Eating Disorder and General Psychiatric Clinics, as well as at his own clinic. Donald has contributed articles to the Psychotherapy Networker, and has written chapters for The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Group Therapy and A Thousand Hands: A Guidebook to Caring for Your Buddhist Community.

Mindfulness for Resilience: Mindfulness Tools for Bouncing Back from Adversity    

WEBINAR 6 Hours

In this 6-Hour Webinar, you will learn the following skills for overcoming obstacles and reaching goals:

• Intro to Resilience and Mindfulness, 4 Resilience Factors and 4 Resilience Skills
• Resilience and Mindfulness Research; Mindfulness meditation for Resilience
• Psychology of Hope; Pathways to Resilience with Willpower and Waypower (Agency)
• Demonstration a focused word practice for emotional regulation and resilience
• Research on mindfulness for cravings and impulse control
• Demonstrate a 4-Part practice for emotional regulation, response flexibility, and finding resources
• Laughter for resilience and changing fixed mindsets
• Strengths for resilience; how to use a strengths intervention; web assessments for addressing strengths
• A Visual Resilience Roadmap for Clients
• Using narrative to locate coping skills and strengths
• Behavior for Building Relationship Resilience
• Loving-kindness affirmation; research and utilizing this as a secure attachment priming for resilience

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the concept of psychological hope and explain the role of hope in building resilience.
2. Discuss how in-session strategies can be employed to apply response flexibility to clients.
3. Explain how stories and metaphors can be applied as a means 0f identifying strengths and modeling appropriate coping skills.
4. Discuss how clients working through trauma can be taught to redirect attention toward “safe anchors.”
5. Describe how the act of pausing can be operationalized by clients to help them disconnect from triggers and regulation emotions.
6. Analyze the relationship between social connection and resilience.
7. Explain how mindfulness tools can improve resilience by enhancing relationships through interpersonal effectiveness.
8. Analyze how self-care skills serve as a buffer to mental health issues during periods of stress
9. Assess research on gratitude and characterize the potential benefits and limitations associated with these studies.
10. Discuss how security priming words can be used with clients working through depression and grief to establish felt safety and trust.

Instructional methodology  (X) Lecture (X) On-line Presentation (X) Audio/Visual  (X) Experiential Exercises

Who Is This Webinar For?

While this program was originally designed for psychologists, social workers and counselors, anyone can use it:

• Individuals
• Coaches
• Parents
• Teachers
• Business 
• Healthcare Professionals 

No special training or knowledge is needed to try out the mindfulness tools here. Donald Altman, M.A., LPC has trained over 15,000 caregivers–mental health counselors, psychologists, social workers, physicians, nurses and occupational therapists–on how to use mindfulness as a healing intervention. Now, you can access these tools directly… with the same materials used to train healthcare professionals.

READ BEFORE ORDERING:  THIS PROGRAM IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR COUNSELING OR THERAPY. The information in this course is meant only for education purposes, and not as a substitute for mental health professional care or medical advice. No implied or expressed guarantee regarding the effects of these recommendations or practices can be given, and no liability assumed. It is the responsibility of the viewer and user of these materials to stop anytime that they need to.