NICABM – How to Apply Mindfulness to Your Clinical Work

How Mindfulness Can Change Both the Brain and the Body

Daniel Siegel, MD

• Mindfulness and DNA: How Mindfulness Can Raise Telomerase Levels and Change Chromosomes
• What It Means to Be Present and How It Creates Better Health and Happiness
• How to Turn a Mindful State Into a Mindful Trait
• Why What You Do With Your Mind Changes the Structure of Your Brain
• How Mindfulness Can Help Integrate the Brain

Mindfulness and the Gateways to Refuge: Finding the True Self

Tara Brach, PhD

• The One Key Thing a Practitioner Must Do to Help Clients Return to Their True Self
• How Mindfulness Can Help Us Minimize Reactivity
• Why False Refuges Look so Enticing
• Four Subtle False Refuges That Are Difficult to Recognize
• How to Find the Aliveness and Tenderness That Is in the Present Moment
• How the Sacred Art of Pausing Can Help Clients Break Unhealthy Patterns
• The Importance of Recognizing That Beliefs Are Real but Not True
• Why Mindfulness Is the Best Strategy for Coming Back to Wholeness

How to Grow Love and Compassion Out of Suffering

Jack Kornfield, PhD

• How Mindfulness Training Transforms Brokenness
• Why Over-Identifying with a Role Can Cause Tremendous Suffering
• How to Use Mindfulness and Loving Awareness to Become Free of the Past
• Thinking “Skillfully”: How to Apply Mindfulness to Solve Conflict
• Strategies for Overcoming Feelings of Unworthiness, Shame, and Guilt
• Why We Must Bring a Quality of Beginner’s Mind to Our Work

Dialectical Behavior Therapy – A New Approach to Treating Distressing Emotions

Marsha Linehan, PhD

• Mindfulness Practices to Help Your Clients Tolerate Distress and Difficult Moments
• The Three Essential Skills of Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Why Focusing on Change Can Be Ineffective in Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
• Why Dialectical Behavior Therapy Is So Effective in Combating Thoughts of Suicide
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Obesity – Treating the Behavior, Not the Biology

How to Help People Connect to Loving Awareness: Expanding Our Capacity to Give and Receive Unconditional Love

Ram Dass, PhD

• Why It Is so Difficult to Give and Receive Unconditional Love
• How Mindfulness Can Allow Us to Disassociate From “Roles” and Improve Healing
• Why Health Problems Can Sharpen Attunement
• How to Love Even the People You Dislike
• How to Help Patients Overcome the Fear of Growing Old
• Why Mindful Living Prepares Us for Dying

Deconstructing Death: How Mindfulness Can Help People Manage Life’s Ultimate Transition

Joan Halifax, PhD

• GRACE – Five Steps to Cultivate Compassion When Your Attention Is Divided
• Why Practitioners Need to Regulate Their Own Response to Suffering in Order to Help Their Patients
• An Exercise in Becoming Grounded: How to Prime Attention, Equanimity, and Strength
• Healing Fictions: What They Are and How They Structure Lives and Affect Treatment
• The Art of Sitting With Not Knowing
• How to Look Past Our Biases to Serve With Openness

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