Free Guided Practices
Free Guided Practice: Creating a Circle of Support
We can all use support and encouragement from other people from time to time, perhaps especially in these times of uncertainty and discouragement. Our resilience gets a tremendous boost when we feel the comfort of shared humanity, knowing that we’re all in this together. Here’s a 6-minute video offering two practices to help you both […]
Free Guided Practice – Create a Resource of Safety Before the Flak Hits the Fan
We can create many resources for resilience as we go through our days, imagining and rehearsing them ahead of time before the flak hits the fan. A very effective resource is the Safe Place, created as a visualization in our imagination, because whatever we can imagine is real to the brain. And when we can […]
Free Guided Practice: How You Respond to the Issue…Is the Issue
I teach How you respond to the issue…is the issue all the time because it is true, all the time. (Thank you, Frankie Perez, for the languaging.) And then I teach how to shift our responses to any issue by shifting from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. As I teach in this video. […]
Free Guided Practice – Deep Listening Leads to Conscious, Compassionate Connection
Just as resilience is needed now more than ever in these troubled and troubling times, deep listening – honoring, accepting, understanding, empathy, compassion, sometimes forgiveness – is needed now more than ever to create the safety of conscious, compassionate connections that support resilience for ourselves and our communities. This 4-minute guided practice from Resilience 2.0 […]
Free Guided Practice in Recovering from Feeling Badly about Less-then-Resilient Coping, from Resilience 2.0™
In the new online Resilience 2.0™ course, you’ll be practicing guided imagination exercises like this one to radically re-frame your view of yourself in those moments of less-than-proud-of behaviors and less-than-resilient coping, with clear explanations of the brain science behind why these tools work so reliably. The 8-week course will lead you through dozens of […]
How Can I Help Clients with Overwhelming Emotions?
Another mini-interview with Psychotherapy Networker – such timing. Exploring how positive emotions are not a bypass for dealing with difficulties. In fact, they shift the functioning of the brain to more receptivity, openness to learning, and optimize. resilience is the direct measurable cause and effect outcome. I will be teaching many exercises to cultivate gratitude, […]
Free Guided Practice in Moving from Distress to Calm, from Resilience 2.0™
In the new online Resilience 2.0™ course you’ll be practicing exercises like these to move from reactivity and distress to a sense of calm, ease, and safety in connection, with clear explanations of the brain science behind why these tools work so reliably. The 8-week course will lead you through dozens of the experiential exercises […]
The ABC’s of Working with Emotions
This mini-video interview with me about How Can I Help Clients Work with Overwhelming Emotions? was synchronistically recorded by the Psychotherapy Networker two weeks ago. In it I describe my ABC method for working with emotions, in clients or in ourselves. The video, courtesy of Psychotherapy Networker, is an excellent preview of the tools and […]