Mindfulness and the Brain
Britta Hölzel, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School.
Yosef G. Gurevitch L.C.S.W.
NY / NJ Center for Mindfulness
Sunday, June 26 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
at
NYC Seminar and Conference Center
71 West 23rd street,
New York, NY
Presenters:
Britta Hölzel, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Giessen in Germany. She received her MA in Psychology from Frankfurt University, and her PhD from Giessen University. She conducts MRI research to investigate the neural mechanisms of mindfulness practice. Her research focuses on the effects of mindfulness practice on attention and emotion regulation as well as on structural changes in the brain. She is a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction instructor, and recently, she has been involved in projects to adapt mindfulness-based interventions for patients with bipolar disorder.
Yosef G. Gurevitch L.C.S.W., is the Director of the NY/ NJ Center for mindfulness, where he facilitates Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) programs for the general public and Mindfulness-Based trainings and workshops for professionals. He has completed extensive trainings at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness, In addition to training with Zindel Segal (founder MBCT).
Workshop Abstract:
The workshop will focus on the usefulness of mindfulness in clinical practice and its effect on different brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perspective taking. These findings are based on Anatomical Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI).
The workshop is also geared to illustrate some of the process level features of mindfulness, such as acceptance, defusion, creative ways of relating to thoughts and emotions, perspective taking, self referential perspectives, present moment orientation and self and other compassion. Current cotextualistic philosophies, theories and clinical practices aimed at identifying and facilitating these processes will be presented in service of identifying further learning that participants can engage in post-workshop.
The workshop will contains significant use of mindfulness practice and involves mindfulness exercises and practices that facilitating mindfulness processes to be used as personal practice and in clinical interventions with clients. These exercises will show how we can bring mindfulness processes directly into clinical interactions. Thus in addition to deictic learning there is significant experiential exercises.
Learning Objectives:
Learning objectives will be taught through deictically, though clinical examples, and experiential exercises. By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:
1. Identify the effect of mindfulness practice in different brain regions and
the functions these regions involved with.
2. Gain a process level understanding of mindfulness functions.
3. Utilize mindfulness interventions with clients that facilitate acceptance,
creative ways of relating to and defusing from thoughts and emotions,
perspective taking, self referential perspectives, present moment
orientation and self and other compassion.
4. Have a general knowledge of current cotextualistic philosophies, theories
and clinical practices, which are aimed at identifying and facilitating
mindfulness processes in clinical practice.
5. Apply Mindfulness interventions with various client populations.
Continuing Education and Certificates:
5.75 Hourse of Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists is available upon request by the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science maintains responsibility for the program (There is an additional $20 fee for those requesting CE credits) To be eligible, you must attend the complete training, sign in and out, and complete a post training evaluation. This event is being co-sponsored by the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) in conjunction with: NEFESH, NYC-ACBS, and the NY/ NJ Center for Mindfulness.
All attendees will receive a certificate of completion.
Limited number of space is available; please register early to ensure participation
A full refund is not guaranteed for cancellations within 2 weeks of the workshop date.
A significant portion of the revenue is donated to NYC-ACBS
Contact info:
If you have any further questions about the content of the workshop. Yosef can be contacted By Email: info@nynjcfm.com or by phone: 973-747-2614