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Upcoming events for 2013 are listed below. To view earlier entries, please visit the Calendar Archives:

Event
Location
Date

Bouncing Back Author Event
East West Books, Mountain View, CA
April 18, 2013
7:30pm

A brief overview of how our brains develop resilience—or don’t—and how we can harness the innate neuroplasticity in our brains to recover the 5 C’s of coping: Calm, Clarity, Connections to Resources, Competence, and Courage. Question and answer period to follow.

Bouncing Back Author Event
Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
April 23, 2013
7:00pm

Bouncing Back
Kripalu, Stockbridge, MA
April 26-28, 2013

Resilience is the innate capacity to respond flexibly to the hiccups and hurricanes of life. This workshop blends discoveries in modern brain science with tools from mindfulness practice and relational psychology to teach you practical, brain-savvy ways to bounce back from dilemmas and disasters. Using guided meditations, breath and movement exercises, dialogues with a partner, inquiry in small groups, and large group discussions, you learn to efficiently harness the innate neuroplasticity of your brain to rewire old patterns of coping. This rewiring is often immediate and permanent.

In this experiential weekend, you learn to

Stay calm in a crisis
Find clarity in seeing possibilities and creating options
Connect to resources and community
Become competent at being flexible and adaptive
Nurture the courage to persevere.

Rewire your brain from the neurons up, recovering a resilience that can last you a lifetime.

Bouncing Back Author Event
Readers Books, Sonoma, CA
May 2, 2013
7:30pm

Bouncing Back: Resilience and Renewal
Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, CA
May 24-26, 2013

A weekend of strengthening your inner resources and the natural resilience that supports your well-being and flourishing.

In this experiential weekend, you’ll learn to use more than a dozen tools and techniques – drawn from the intersection of brain science, relational psychology and mindfulness practices – that will help you handle the everyday disappointments and extraordinary disasters of life with more calm, courage, and flexibility.

No matter how you may have been impacted by stress and difficulties in the past, you can learn new and creative ways to navigate the twists and turns of life more flexibly and resiliently now.

Practical exercises help you learn to use the power of positive emotions to put the brakes on negativity, broaden your perspectives, and create a “left shift” in your brain toward more optimism and exploration.

You’ll cultivate the mindful awareness that can help you reflect on your experience, shift perspectives, discern options and choose actions wisely.

You’ll strengthen the resonance circuit in your brain that allows you to connect skillfully and intimately with others.

You’ll practice the self-compassion that leads to genuine self-acceptance and self-care. You can not only get through hard times but thrive in their midst.

Through exercises imaginative designed to help you rewire your brain, you’ll learn to harness the neuroplasticity innate in your own brain that encodes the learning of new capacities, immediately and permanently.

You’ll leave the workshop with new skills to chart your course with confidence across the great seas of life.

Positive Emotions Build Resilience
Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
September 13-15, 2013

Cultivating positive emotions—gratitude, serenity, joy, compassion, awe—reverses the impact of negativity on mood, health, and coping behaviors. Positivity immediately broadens our perspectives and options and builds long-term resources of deeper self-acceptance, fosters greater collaboration and connections with others, and strengthens the brain’s capacities to learn new skills, new points of view, new ways of being. You will learn practical tools to generate more optimism, sense of purpose, resilience, creativity and fulfillment, and move from “not so good” or even “good enough” to flourishing.

The Neuroscience of Resilience and Renewal
Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
September 15-20, 2013

This experiential workshop is saturated with brain-savvy resources for recovering resilience—our body-brain’s innate capacities to cope with the dilemmas and disasters of everyday life, and to restore vitality and life balance.
Linda guides participants through practical tools and techniques of:

resourcing through breath and movement
deepening emotional empathy and self-compassion
shifting perspectives through mindful awareness and reflection
expanding relational resonance and resourcing in community
evolving consciousness toward compassion and connection

Linda integrates recent discoveries from modern neuroscience with guided meditations and
visualizations, experiential exercises and inquiry in dyads and small groups, and stimulating
dialogue and discussions in large groups.

Participants learn to harness their own neuroplasticity to:

reduce stress, return to their window of tolerance, and restore well-being after overwhelm
activate the release of oxytocin, the hormone of safety and trust, bonding and attachment, calm and connect
cultivate pro-social emotions to antidote the negativity bias of the brain
re-wire habitual patterns of response and resolve old traumas to increase adaptability and flexibility in coping strategies
recover social connectivity and replenish the wellspring of balance and wholeness

Participants take home new understanding, new perspectives, and a new sense of competence to recover their own inner resilience.

The Neuroscience of Mindfulness and Compassion in Psychotherapy
California Institute of Integral Studies
November 21, 2013
6:15pm-9:15pm

Clinicians learn a variety of mindfulness-based clinical modalities through the Mindfulness and Compassion in Psychotherapy Certificate Program of the California Institute of Integral Studies. Linda will present on The Neuroscience of Mindfulness and Compassion in Psychotherapy to help clinicians tune into their own internal states as they work with clients.

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