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Meditation for Everyday Living and Peak Performance for Mental Health, Medical, and Surgical Practices
Friday, December 04, 2020, 8:00 AM to Saturday, December 05, 2020, 5:00 PM EDT
Category: CE Events: Adult Individuals

This evidence-based course is an integration of the best of Western scientific research from peak performance and positive psychology with the great contemplative traditions of the East. The course addresses a gap in the Western psychotherapy traditions, which emphasize the eradication of negative emotional states, by instead focusing on the implications of various positive emotional states for psychological and physical health. Emphasis to understand the neurocircuitry of peak performance, sustain concentration, training positivity, and prosocial behavior. This course provides an up-to-date review of the theory and practice of concentration from its ancient origins to modern brain science to how it works to alleviate psychological and physical distress and provides opportunities for attendees to cultivate their own personal meditation practices. The course will also teach these tools in response to COVID-19. The concentration aspects of this course hold great promise not only for clinicians’ own personal development and are also a remarkably powerful tool to augment virtually every form of psychotherapeutic and medical treatments. Through lecture, demonstration, Q&A and experiential exercises, you will learn how to use mind-training practices to enhance performance excellence, vital engagement in work and everyday activities, mastery over everyday living, and to enhance positivity and prosocial behavior. Participants with no meditation experience, as well as seasoned practitioners, will find this course helpful both personally and clinically.

Hosted by The Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School (HMS) for CEs. For more info, visit the Harvard Medical School (HMS) website.