Upcoming Courses

Meditation for Everyday Living and Peak Performance for Mental Health, Medical, and Surgical Practices

Daniel Brown, PhD, ABPH

December 2, 2016 – December 3, 2016 | Boston, MA | The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel More Information

This evidence-based workshop integrates the practical spiritual wisdom from the Eastern meditation traditions and self-hypnosis and visualizations with other methods of positive psychology from the Western traditions to address staying in the ‘flow’ and bringing one’s best self to everyday living. These methods include: visualizations for developing optimal performance states; positive states of mind to potentiate mastery of being in everyday life; training the mind to develop everyday well-being and happiness; concentration training to cultivate continuous and complete focus on whatever you are doing at the moment; insight meditation to reduce reactivity and develop a non-reactive openness to experience; and visualizations to develop sensitivity, gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion for others. The outcome of participation in this workshop will be the enhancement of everyday living, well-being and performance excellence. Teaching in this workshop is by lecture and experiential visualization and meditation practices.

This course is designed so that participants will be able to:
  • Identify meditative, concentration methods and visualization practices in order to apply them to applications in clinical settings and everyday living;
  • Review how meditation and visualization practices are evidence-based treatments;
  • Develop meditation practices in order to bring optimal energy states to everyday living;
  • Use concentration meditation to stabilize the mind so that it stays focused on whatever you intend it to stay on without distraction;
  • Apply mindfulness meditation training to cultivate continuous and complete presence to whatever you are doing at the moment;
  • Utilize insight meditations to reduce reactivity and develop a non-reactive openness to experience;
  • Integrate Eastern meditation traditions with self-hypnosis and visualization practices from Western psychotherapy traditions to benefit their patients and themselves;
  • Utilize visualizations for developing and calling upon optimal self-states, for transforming negative emotional states into well-being and everyday happiness, and for developing vital engagement in everyday life as a therapist and to oneself;
  • Utilize meditative, concentration, and visualization practices to help enhance peak performance.

Additional Information

Friday, December 2, 2016
7:30 am – 8:30 am Registration
8:00 am – 10:45 am Introduction: Relationship between peak performance, optimal states, flow states, and everyday self-contentment and happiness; conditions which hinder or potentiate optimal states.
10:45 am – 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Integrative approach to the development of optimal states, visualization practices to develop and draw upon optimal states. Q&A.
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30 pm – 3:15 pm Cultivating attitudes that potentiate optimal states; zone of optimal functioning; practices to develop the right level of energy. Q&A.
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30 pm – 5:15 pm Concentration Training I: goals of concentration training; directing and intensifying attention; dealing with problems of concentration, e.g. distracting thought, imbalanced energy states.

Saturday, December 3, 2016
8:30 am – 10:45 am Concentration Training II: the 9 states of concentration training; awareness (mindfulness)training to awaken the senses. Q&A.
10:45 am – 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm The Applications of Mindfulness to Everyday Living: full presence and happiness; transforming negative states through pure, non-reactive awareness.
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30 pm – 3:15 pm The Applications of Mindfulness to Everyday Living (continued): Cultivating well-being through insight meditations.
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30 pm – 5:15 pm The Applications of Mindfulness to Everyday Living (continued): Developing sensitivity and compassion for others. Q&A.
5:15 pm Adjourn

Beth Israel Deaconess Department of Psychiatry Foundation, Inc./Contact Hours: 15

Accreditation:

The Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 15.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.

Through an agreement between the American Medical Association and the European Union of Medical Specialists, physicians may convert AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to an equivalent number of European CME Credits® (ECMECs®). Information on the process of converting AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ to ECMECs® can be found at: www.eaccme.eu.

Psychologists: The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Counselors: The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program. This program meets the criteria for 15.00 clock hours.

Nurses: The Continuing Education Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, meets the specifications of the Board of Registration in Nursing in Massachusetts. (244 CMR).

Social Workers: For information on the status of the application to the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, please call 617-754-1265 or email sjruiz@bidmc.harvard.edu