The Mindful Therapist: An Approach to Cultivate Your Mind to Be the Best Therapist with Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. – Daniel J. Siegel

Join Dr. Siegel in an exploration of the mind, what it means to be mindful, and how to cultivate presence and mindfulness in the therapeutic relationship. In this workshop, Dr. Siegel will provide a deep understanding of the nature of the mind through an interpersonal neurobiology and mindsight lens, which serves as a foundation to further explore the areas of mindfulness, attention, intention and consciousness. Dr. Siegel will teach you how to integrate mindfulness into the clinical setting – from conceptualization, to treatment planning, to intervention.

While learning to be a more mindful therapist benefits your clients’ journey towards healing, it also supports your own well-being. Dr. Siegel explains how being more mindful and learning to be present helps to avoid therapy burnout. This also helps increase health in body, mind and relationships while it promotes kindness and compassion, improving the life for both you and your clients.

Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. is the leading authority on interpersonal neurobiology. His work is changing our understanding of the brain and improving the outcomes of psychotherapy. Mindsight comes from his years of research and clinical practice in the areas of mindfulness, neuroscience and attachment. Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of Emotional Intelligence, compares the potential of Mindsight to Darwin’s theory of evolution and Freud’s theory of the unconscious. This workshop is a must to revolutionize your work as a therapist and lead a more fulfilling life!

1. Explain how brain science permits a new way of viewing mindfulness, personal transformation and the therapeutic relationship.
2. Implement the three components of the learnable skill of mindsight: insight, empathy and integration.
3. Define the mind, which is missed in the field of mental health.
4. Utilize a comprehensive assessment based on the domains of integration.
5. Design personally tailored interventions focusing on specific combinations of domains of integration for individual clients.
6. Implement treatment strategies according to a person’s attachment patterns that will optimize integration.
7. Explain how treatment planning is a collaborative process of the therapeutic relationship.

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Mindfulness and Why it Matters

• Mindfulness research
• Practice from Buddhism to Western culture
• Attention and consciousness

Role of Mindsight in the Therapeutic Process

• Neural integration
• The power of neuroplasticity to change the brain
• The plane of possibility and the neural nature of consciousness
• Mind as an embodied, relational, self-organizing and emergent process of energy and information flow
• The plane of possibility and the neural nature of consciousness
• Therapeutic interactions can promote neural integration

The Essential Pathways Toward Trust, Truth and Transformation

• Illuminating the pathways of change
• Transform ourselves to create neural integration
• The wheel of awareness
• Practical daily steps to cultivate a mindful brain
• Differentiate between empathy, compassion, kindness and joy

The Neurobiology Of:

• Presence
• Attunement
• Resonance

Implement in Clinical Work

• Assess a range of symptoms that impair healing
• Interventions focusing on specific combinations of domains of integration
• Treatment planning collaborated with the therapeutic relationship
• Strategies according to a person’s attachment patterns that will optimize healing

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