Tara Brach – Radical Acceptance with Tara Brach, Ph.D.: Integrating Meditation to Heal Shame and Fear in Clinical Practice
- Faculty:
- Tara Brach
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 4 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Oct 14, 2016
Description
Outline
Radical Acceptance and Meditation Overview
- Cause of the pervasive sense of personal deficiency in contemporary culture
- Practice – establishing intention, quieting mind, sensory awareness
- Understand the cause of emotional suffering from the perspective of
- Buddhist psychology
- Western psychology – attraction, aversion
- Evolutionary psychology- negativity bias
- Preponderance of shame in western culture
Meditation for Emotional Resilience, Emotional Intelligence and Deep Transformation
- Neuroplasticity
- Shifting from “Fight Flight Freeze” to “Attend and Befriend”
- Present centered non-judgmental attention
- Cultivate concentration and quiet mind
- Develop resource states (love, relaxation, peace, etc.)
- Counter dissociation – cultivate sensory-based attention
- Current research – efficacy of mindfulness and therapeutic healing
- Practice & Discussion: Guided exercise in embodied presence.
Radical Acceptance: Cultivate the Two Wings of Awareness
- Basic principles and components of
- Buddhist mindfulness meditation
- Role of concentration in cultivating mindfulness
- Objects of concentration (audio, kinesthetic, visual)—differential uses of objects
- Working definition of mindfulness
- Radical Acceptance: The two wings of awareness
- Practice & Discussion: The two wings – “yes” meditation
The RAIN Model: Apply Meditation to Emotional Suffering
- A model for how we get locked into shame and fear
- Transform shame and fear- pathways of reconnecting
- Introduce RAIN: recognizing, allowing, investigating, nurturing
- Introduce version of RAIN with additional resourcing
- Comprehensive case review
- Practice & Discussion: RAIN for self-compassion
Releasing Armor: Cultivate a Forgiving Heart
- Research on forgiveness
- The process of forgiving- recognizing stories, contacting vulnerability
- Need for clinical support
- Sequence of attentional strategies
- Case study
- Practice & Discussion: Classical forgiveness
Evolving our Capacity for Compassion
- The alchemy of arousing compassion
- Working with both dissociation and the tendency to get flooded
- Practice & Discussion: Compassion Meditation
Positive Neuroplasticity – “Seeing the Good”
- The gift of mirroring
- Deepening intimacy and connection- in our individual and collective psyche
- Practice & Discussion: Cultivating loving kindness
Faculty
Tara Brach, Ph.D. Related seminars and products: 4
Tara Brach, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, an internationally known teacher of mindfulness meditation, and the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. She is author of bestselling Radical Acceptance and True Refuge, and leads accredited workshops for mental health professionals interested in integrating meditation into the practice of psychotherapy. Tara offers meditation retreats at centers in the United States and in Europe. Her podcasted talks and meditations are downloaded about a million times each month. In addition to her public teaching, Tara is active in bringing meditation into DC area schools, prisons and to underserved populations, and in activities that promote racial justice.
Speaker Disclosure
Financial: Tara Brach is the found of Insight Meditation Community of Washington. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Tara Brach has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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