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Strengthen Your Mindfulness Practice

• Routine, meaning, and connection to support consistent practice
• Mindfulness and nature practices
• The four foundations in mindfulness
• Transform barriers within your practice
• Practices:
  • Breath
  • Pleasure/pain
  • Open/choice-less
  • Body
  • Thoughts and emotions
  • Loving kindness
  • Compassion

Mindfulness Techniques to Build Trust and Connection with Your Clients

• Affect regulation techniques for therapist and client
• Techniques to create empathetic connection
• Eliminate compassion fatigue with compassionate presence
• Exercises to build clients trust in themselves

Enhance Motivation with Creative Mindfulness Strategies

• Visuals, metaphors, and poetry to explain mindfulness
• Motivate clients with neuroplasticity
• Strategies to shift the ”Automatic Pilot”
• Exercises to teach reacting vs responding

Start and Sustain: How to Lead Formal and Informal Mindfulness Practices

• Embodiment of mindfulness
• Options for posture, range of experience and types of practice
• How to adapt practices to the unique needs of clients
• Leading inquiry strategies for deepened experience of mindfulness
• Mindful daily moments, brief practices and other informal practices

Mindfulness Techniques and Experiential Exercises for Enhanced Treatment of:

Anxiety & Stress

• Exercises to increase awareness of stress response
• Techniques to relax the arousal state
• Reduce anxious thoughts with:
  • 3-minute breathing practice
  • Mindful walking practice

Trauma

• Grounding and orienting techniques for felt safety
• Somatic exercises for emotional regulation
• Strategies to support overwhelm with breath and body practices

Shame and Guilt

• Body awareness practices to soften shame and guilt
• Care for shame with self-compassion
• Mindful antidotes to self-judgement
• Letting go exercises to shift attention and attitude

Anger

• Mindfully be with the body in anger
• Formal and informal practices to work with anger
• Respond vs. react exercises

Insomnia

• Diaphragmatic breathing to improve sleep
• Interventions for challenging thoughts linked to insomnia
• Mindful practice with technology

Depression

• Manage negative self-talk with awareness of thoughts
• Cope with limited energy through energy awareness practices
• Nature meditations that boost well-being

Pain

• Psychological well-being and chronic pain
• Breath awareness practices to decrease acute pain and manage chronic pain
• Loving kindness/compassion meditations for pain reduction

Eating Disorders

• Mindful eating fundamentals
• Sense awareness skills to shift bad eating habits
• Mindful skills for responding to cravings
• Awareness practices for satiety and hunger

Addiction

• Mindful awareness of triggers for relapse prevention
• Urge surfing: mindfulness interventions to cope with urges
• Taking in the good – noticing the good events in life

ADHD

• Stretch attention span with focus building practices
• Mindful movement for controlled attention
• STOP practices for reduced impulsiveness

Group and Individual Session Plans

• To improve client outcome
• Mindfulness-based group programs and emotional resonance
• Identify opportunities in one to one clinical sessions
• Determine which format is best for your client
• Situations that may contraindicate applying mindfulness

Assessment, Growth and Support

• Assess how practices are working for the client
• Grow the path of practice for clients
• Cultivate joy in mindfulness practice