1-Day Workshop for Professionals

Melanie Greenberg, PhD

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SYDNEY 30 July 2018SMC Conference & Function Centre,66 Goulburn Street, Sydney NSW

MELBOURNE 1 August 2018Bayview on the Park 52 Queens Road, Melbourne VIC

BRISBANE 3 August 2018Mantra on Queen570 Queen Street, Brisbane City QLD

ADELAIDE 6 August 2018Next Generation Health Club,War Memorial Drive, North Adelaide SA

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Melanie Greenberg, PhD

STRESS-PROOFING THE BRAINApplying Neuroplasticity, Mindful

Self-Compassion and Positive Psychology to Overcome Stress, Anxiety & Trauma

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Melanie Greenberg, PhD, is a practicing psychologist and executive coach in California, and an expert on managing stress, health, and relationships using proven techniques from neuroscience, mindfulness, and CBT. A former psychology professor, Dr Melanie Greenberg is a sought after presenter and a key-note speaker. Her book “The Stress-Proof Brain” is an Amazon bestseller in Neuroscience. She’s been featured in USA Today, CNN, BBC and Psychology Today. With more than twenty years of experience as a professor, writer, researcher, clinician, and coach, Dr Greenberg has delivered workshops and talks both in the USA and internationally. She writes the Mindful Self-Express blog for Psychology Today, and is a popular media expert who has been quoted on cnn.com, forbes.com, BBC Radio, ABC News, Yahoo! Shine, and Lifehacker, as well as in Self, Redbook, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Fitness Magazine, Women’s Day, and The Huffi ngton Post. She has also appeared on radio shows like Leading With Emotional Intelligence, The Best People We Know, Inner Healers, and Winning Life Through Pain. Dr Greenberg was named one of the 30 Most Prominent Psychologists to Follow on Twitter.

PROGRAM OUTLINE.

Advances in neuroscience and health psychology, positive psychology, and mindful self-compassion provide us with new tools to energise, strengthen, and update our approach to therapy. This innovative training program will teach you how to apply tools from neuroscience and mindful self-compassion in your clinical practice - transforming clients’ lives, providing them with new hope and tools and energising your approach. When clients understand that they can actually rewire their brains by practicing new ways of thinking and behaving, they are more motivated to tolerate discomfort in order to change. With these new techniques we can help clients overcome helplessness, avoidance and rigid negative self-views. We can help them develop stress tolerance and a growth mindset that helps them overcome the constraints of the past and rebuild their inner and outer worlds for increased calm, authenticity, engagement and positive focus.

Skilled clinician and author, Melanie Greenberg, PhD will teach you how to:

» Apply proven brain-based and mindfulness strategies to help clients cope with past and present;

» Teach clients stress resilience and mental toughness skills from positive and health psychology;

» Motivate clients and calm the brain’s stress response using the power of neuroplasticity;

» Help clients overcome fear-based living, self-limiting mindsets and avoidant or addictive patterns; and

» Cultivate the skills of mindful self-compassion and cognitive flexibility.

Learn new tools to transform your practice - making therapy more dynamic and interesting, creating more hopeful, engaged and empowered clients.

STRESS-PROOFING THE BRAIN: OVERVIEW › Calming the amygdala: Grounding, mindfulness, self-

compassion, perceiving control. › Moving forward with the prefrontal cortex: Cognitive

fl exibility, stress mindset change, taking in the good, mind-body health.

GROUNDING STRATEGIES FOR STABILISING AND REDUCING ANXIETY

› Yoga, relaxation, breathing, present-moment focus, soothing with the senses, creativity.

› Orienting and sensorimotor strategies, bilateral stimulation. › Mental imagery - safe place, boundaries, energetic, moments

of calm, strength, and competence. › Left-brain strategies - task focus and engagement. › Staying in the window of tolerance.

MINDFULNESS STRATEGIES › Qualities of mindfulness states: open, non-judgmental,

fl uid, deliberate. › Observing and accepting inner experience (thoughts,

feelings, sensations). › Slowing things down, emotion regulation strategies. › Reducing identifi cation with negative self-images. › How mindfulness changes the brain. › Mindfulness practices - breathing, watching thoughts, urge

surfi ng, open awareness. › Application to anxiety, depression, addictions, PTSD.

SELF-COMPASSION STRATEGIES › Self-kindness, common humanity, focus on unmet needs. › Application to depression, anxiety, stress- management,

trauma, insecure attachment. › Practices - Metta meditation, soften, soothe and allow,

dialogues with inner critic. › Overcoming guilt and perfectionism. › Link to Schema Therapy - Healthy Adult mode, Inner

Child Mode. › Working with parts of the self - Authentic vs Defensive.

COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIOURAL STRATEGIES › How anxiety and depression narrow attention, create

self-focus and cognitive rigidity. › Worry and rumination cycles - link to prefrontal cortex and

default mode network - why thought suppression doesn’t work.

› De-catastrophising and probability estimation. › Cognitive de-fusion. › Using metaphors (monsters on the boat, bouncy ball

underwater, supermarket shelves, etc). › Internalised negative schemas (helpless, unworthy, unsafe,

etc) and schema change strategies.CREATING POSITIVE STATES OF MIND TO COUNTER STRESS

› How our brains are wired to the negative. › Positive emotions can promote physiological recovery

from anxiety and fear. › Reappraising anxiety as excitement, challenge emotions. › Flow and optimal experience, Gratitude diaries. › Commitment, control and challenge: growth mindset.

LIVING HEALTHY IN THE FACE OF STRESS › Healthy coping strategies - exercise, meditation, yoga, rest. › Mindful eating and self-regulation strategies.