Linda Graham, M.F.T., has a full-time private psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and leads trainings nationwide on the emerging integration of relational psychology, mindfulness and neuroscience. She is the author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience (New World Library, 2013) and publishes a monthly e-newsletter Healing and Awakening into Aliveness and Wholeness, archived on her website.
In this daylong, participants will learn to apply practices of mindfulness, self-compassion and resonant relationships to the factors that predict genuine post-traumatic growth, including acceptance of reality (and the consequences of what happened) and appreciating the new life that emerges because of the difficulty, not just in spite of it.
Developing flexible and adaptive strategies for coping with everyday disappointments is the heart of any transformative process. Modern neuroscience illuminates how the brain encodes its strategies for coping and has shown mindfulness and compassion practices to be two of the most powerful agents of brain change, thus behavior change.
Developing flexible and adaptive strategies for coping with everyday disappointments is the heart of any transformative process. Modern neuroscience illuminates how the brain encodes its strategies for coping and has shown mindfulness and compassion practices to be two of the most powerful agents of brain change, thus behavior change.
In this daylong, participants will learn to reverse the impact of stress and trauma and come out of anxiety, depression, grief, loneliness, guilt and shame. Participants learn to deepen their self-compassion and empathy, connect to inner resources and relationships that are healthy and nourishing, and, through mindful awareness and reflection, discern options and make wise choices that leads to thriving and well-being.
Learn to reverse the impacts of stress and trauma: coming out of anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, loneliness, guilt and shame; and rewire the inner critic.
