Whether coping with small annoyances or full-blown disasters, this workshop leads you through a step-by-step process to strengthen the response flexibility, innate in your brain and your being, that you need to find calm, clarity and courage in the midst of any adversity.

This workshop offers practical tools informed by modern neuroscience to shift the functioning of the brain out of contraction and reactivity into more receptivity and openness, more resilience.

Mindful empathy and self-compassion practices from Western psychology and the Buddhist wisdom tradition strengthen the resilience you need to find calm, clarity and courage in the midst of any adversity. Spring 2019 Mindfulness retreat (open only to program participants)

The calling, the study, the learning, the practice, the experiences, the learning, the teaching/sharing, the learning. Sufi Women’s Organization, Women in Action luncheon

Helping clients harness the brain’s processes of change to rewire coping strategies that are defensive, dysfunctional, and blocking of growth, and to encode new more flexible patterns of response, is the focus of this training. (closed to enrolled participants)

Implement lifestyle choices that protect the physical brain while applying tools of self-directed neuroplasticity to reverse the impact of stress and trauma on emotional regulation, learning and memory, and empathy.

Clinicians can help clients harness their innate capacities for resilience, change negative patterns that block growth, heal from toxic shame, retire the inner critic, and recover inner well-being.

People do learn and grow from meeting the challenges and adversities of the human condition when they have support, resources, and skills to do so.  People can recover capacities that reduce the impacts of stress and trauma, recover inner stability, meaning and purpose, and move them into thriving and flourishing. California Institute of Integral Studies Public Programs