Full Course Description
Transforming Anxiety and Stress by Integrating the Embodied Brain
Apply the principles of Interpersonal Neurobiology (“IPNB”) to help your clients transform their stress and anxiety into resilience and well-being.
Anxiety and stress are prevalent
Whether you are a mental health practitioner, physician, or parent, you have undoubtedly experienced heightened levels of anxiety and stress in your professional or personal life in the last two years. In fact, anxiety has become the most common mental health challenge in the United States, affecting 40 million people annually.
Traditional approaches focus on just managing anxiety and stress
Although there are several methods for reducing anxiety and stress, many focus on managing the experience, rather than integrating it.
The IPNB approach to transforming stress and anxiety
Through the lens of IPNB, anxiety is understood as an outcome of an individual’s state of mind based on their subjective experience and the ways that the human brain functions as an “anticipation machine” as it gets ready for what might happen next. When the stress of getting ready for something meaningful to happen arises, this predictive tendency of the brain can then narrate panic as we inadvertently construct our own mental images of a threatening future of our own imagination. By cultivating the mental functions of attention, intention, and awareness, we strengthen our ability to identify the source of anxiety and then harness the capacity to promote integration, transforming the energy of threat and alarm into the drive toward resilience and harmony.
Program Information
Objectives
- Distinguish between anxiety, stress, and the role of worry.
- Identify how the Four Facets of Mind relate to the experience of anxiety.
- Define neuroplasticity and why it is important to the transformation of anxiety.
- Distinguish between sensation and preoccupation.
- Choose neurophysiological techniques to reduce anxiety.
- Examine “stress” from an IPNB lens to build resilience and a growth mindset.
- Determine the role of agency in the experience of anxiety.
- Identify the four practices to increase stress resilience.
- Identify three goals of living from the plane of possibility.
Outline
Although many therapeutic techniques look to eliminate stress and anxiety as a source of suffering, few describe how the experience can be utilized as a catalyst for transformation. In this program, we will take a closer look at the difference between anxiety and stress, and how these two experiences are fundamental components to the process of resilience and healing. By understanding the mind as an emergent, fully embodied, self-organizing process, you will be able to harness the power of the mind to process and integrate stress in an empowered way.
Through the lens of interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB), anxiety is understood as an outcome of an individual’s state of mind based on their subjective experience. By analyzing attention, intention, and awareness, we can not only identify the source of anxiety, but how to combine these properties to promote integration and resolution.
In this program, you will learn how to incorporate teachings from neuroscience, psychology, quantum physics, and contemplative practices, to discover an integrative approach for helping individuals transform their brain by building the capacity to integrate energy and information.
- Here are some highlights of what you will learn:
- The conceptual definition of anxiety and the role of stress
- The Four Facets of Mind - Understanding the mind as apart of a complex system
- What are the fundamental functions of Integration
- The neuroscience of motivation - The 3 emotions related to anxiety
- 4 S's of Attachment - Characteristics of healthy attachment
- How to utilize the Wheel of Awareness therapeutically for the treatment of Anxiety
- The role of quantum physics on the influence of energy and possibilities
- The 3 elements that determine our experience of the Self
- The Relationship between identity and belonging
- Afferent versus Efferent Neurons and implications for an Embodied Brain
- Characteristics of reactive versus receptive states and implications for integration
- Window of Tolerance and thresholds for integration
- How relationships impact the creation of anxiety and stress, and can transform it to a sense of meaning and connection
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Physicians
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Segment 6: The Details of the Hand Model of the Brain
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Segment 7: States of Mind and the Anticipating Brain
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Segment 8: Attachment and Anxiety
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Segment 9: The Wheel of Awareness
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Segment 10: The Practice of the Wheel of Awareness
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Segment 11: Awareness and Energy
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Segment 12: Awareness, Energy and Possibilities
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Segment 13: One Reality, Two Realms
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Segment 14: Living From the Plane of Possibility
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Segment 15: Anxiety and Self
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Segment 16: Self, Identify and Belonging and Anxiety
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Segment 17: The Embodied Brain
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Segment 18: Diving Deeper Into the Embodied Bran and the Experience Between In Group and Out Group Distinction
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Segment 19: From Reactivity to Receptivity
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Segment 20: Lost in Familiar Places
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Segment 21: Living as a Noun or Living as a Verb
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Segment 22: Relationships, Anxiety, and Stress
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Segment 23: Trust, Transformation, and Integration
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Segment 24: Summarize and Reflect
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Segment 25: Practical Applications and Tools
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