Traumatic Stress
Healing with Breath
NOW CLOSED
Friday 20 May 2022
A live webinar with Dr Richard P. Brown and Dr Patricia L. Gerbarg
CE Credits: 3 hours
- This event will not be recorded
- Bookings close at 4.00am EDT Tuesday 17 May
Breath-Body-Mind™ (BBM), is a programme of evidence-based, mind-body practices derived from yoga, qigong, meditation, martial arts, Open Focus Attention Training, and modern neuroscience developed by the holistic psychiatrists Richard Brown and Pat Gerbarg. Their methods have been used to relieve anxiety, depression, and PTSD in survivors of mass disasters, including the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks, Haiti earthquake, Gulf Horizon oil spill, genocide and slavery in Rwanda, South Sudan and Nigeria, Middle East refugees, Rohingya refugee children, and the COVID crisis. Veterans and active military personnel have also benefited from BBM.
READ MORE...Richard will teach participants simple techniques to rapidly reduce stress, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, depression, and negative mood states for their own self-care. Improving stress tolerance is essential during the COVID pandemic, when healthcare providers must stay alert and function well despite increased workloads, workplace risks, and stressors within their own families.
Pat will explain scientific theories about how specific breath practices may affect the way we think, feel, and behave. This includes Polyvagal Theory, interoception, Vagal-GABA Theory of Inhibition, and clinical studies. BBM techniques decrease defensive over-reactivity, activate social engagement and connectedness, and enhance other treatment modalities, including psychotherapy, behavioural therapy, and CBT. BBM can be taught live, online during and after the COVID pandemic.
FULL PROGRAMME
09.00 EDT
Introductions
09.10
Dr Richard Brown
Experiential Practices: Breath-Body-Mind
Richard will lead participants through rounds of movement, breathing, and attention training that rapidly balance the autonomic system, reducing defensive reactions (fear, anxiety, anger, and mistrust) while activating the social engagement system and positive psychophysiological states (calmness, feelings of safety, empathy, closeness, trust, and bonding). Mindful awareness of the breath and internal sensations enhances awareness of internal changes as they occur.
09.50
Q&A
10.00
Break
10.15
Dr Patricia Gerbarg
Healing With Breath: Neuroscience and clinical practice
Pat will discuss neurophysiological theories and clinical applications. We will see how specific breath practices can affect perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Using slides and video clips, she will review clinical studies, individual illustrative cases, and BBM programmes that have helped individuals with anxiety, depression, or trauma, both children and adults. Pat will show how BBM breath practices are easily integrated into other forms of therapy, including psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, crisis intervention, behavior therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, family therapy, yoga therapy, individual and classroom educational activities, athletic performance, music, dance, and other artistic activities.
11.00
Q&A
11.15
Break
11.30
Dr Richard Brown
Experiential Practices: Breath-Body-Mind
Richard will lead a second round of BBM practices and introduces Open Focus Attention Training (Les Fehmi at OpenFocus.com) along with other more advanced methods. He will introduce participants to ways of navigating the mind-body-spirit realm through breathing, movement, visualization, and meditative techniques. Understanding and accessing, through regular practice, the critical interoceptive and other mind-body pathways lead us to more effective methods to increase awareness, emotion self-regulation, communication, and co-regulation with our close ones.
12.00
Q&A
12.15
Break
12.30
Dr Patricia Gerbarg
Children Under Stress Learn to Use Their Breath
Patricia will discuss the effects of stress and trauma on infants, children, and teens. She will describe breathing, movement, and visualisation practices for reducing the adverse effects of stress on pregnant women, infants, children, and teens: calm down and focus attention, improve emotion self-regulation and social emotional interactions, reduce anger, facilitate sleep, enhance attention and learning. Videotapes of children describing their own experiences and how they use BBM techniques to help themselves deal with stress, anger, sadness, and difficulty sleeping will be shown. Resources for learning more about methods and programs for children are provided.
12.50
Q&A
13.00
End
FEES (USD)
Bookings close at 4:00am EDT Tuesday 17 May
Live Webinar:
$96 (Member $48)
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CE
This event is accredited by:
- NBCC
Certificates of attendance for 3 hours will be provided.
To receive the full CE credits, you are required to attend 100% of the live event. No partial credit will be given.
This event is NOT accredited by the following organisations:
- ASWB
- NYSED (Psychology)
- NYSED (Psychoanalysis)
- NYSED (Social Workers)
Please note, that this event is not being recorded and no CE test post event will be available and so you will need to attend all of the live event to receive the CE certificate.
Please contact events@conferonline.org for any further questions.
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VENUE
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SCHEDULE
Friday
09.00 EDT Introductions
09.10 Experiential Practices: Breath-Body-Mind
09.50 Q&A
10.00 Break
10.15 Healing With Breath: Neuroscience and clinical practice
11.00 Q&A
11.15 Break
11.30 Experiential Practices: Breath-Body-Mind
12.00 Q&A
12.15 Break
12.30 Children Under Stress Learn to Use Their Breath
12.50 Q&A
13.00 End
CONTENT LEVEL
- Intermediate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Identify and experience the link between breath, body and mind.
- Discover simple techniques to rapidly reduce stress, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, depression, and negative mood states for their own self-care.
- Explain scientific theories about how specific breath practices may affect the way we think, feel and behave.
- Discuss the effects of stress and trauma on infants, children and teens.
TARGET
AUDIENCE
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychotherapists
- Addiction Professionals
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychiatrists
- Other related mental health professions.
BOOKING CONDITIONS
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- You cancel in writing to info@conferonline.org 60 days before the first date of the event you have booked, in which case you will be entitled to a 100% refund.
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