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Agenda:

 Day 1 – Friday October 23

 8:00am – 9:00am – Introduction & Orientation

• Pragmatics for the Workshop

• Introduction of Attendees

• Introduction & Background of Instructor

 9:00am --10:00am -- Your Brain on Meditation

• Meditation as Mental Training

• Meditation Defined

• How Meditation Changes the Brain

• The 4 (primary) types of Meditative Practices

• Meditation Brainwave Basics

• Matching Meditation with Goals and Needs

  • Mental Health Implications

• Choosing a NeuroMeditation style

  • Self-Assessment: NeuroMeditation Style Inventory (NMSI)

 10:00am – 12:30pm – Introduction to Focus NeuroMeditation 

• Focused Attention Basics

• Tips and Strategies

• Guided Practice

• Focus Meditation and ADHD

  • Research evidence: meditation improves attention and cognitive functions

  • Meditation changes theta/beta ratio

• Brain Networks and Focus Meditation

  • Primary brain regions involved in Focus Practice

  • Focus NeuroMeditation protocols: 2 channel and sLORETA

• Focus Meditation Coaching Strategies

Day 2 - Friday, October 30

 8:00am – 10:30am –Mindfulness & Anxiety

• Anxiety and Stress: the Link

• The Mind Creates Stress

• Predicting the Future

• Mindfulness Defined

  • Ways to Practice

  • Mindfulness Begins with the Body

  • Mindfulness & Grounding

• The Story-Telling Mind

  • Thoughts are not facts!

  • Challenging the Storyteller

  • Daily Mindfulness

• Mindfulness Meditation Basics

  • Mindfulness Tips: RAIN

• What about PTSD?

  • Mindfulness as a Trigger

  • Relaxation as a Trigger

  • Trauma Informed NeuroMeditation

• The Anxious Brain

  • Brain Regions

  • Research

• Brain Networks and Mindfulness Meditation

  • Overlap with Focus

  • Salience Network

  • Mindfulness Brainwaves

  • The Research

• Two Forms of Mindfulness

  • Thoughtless Awareness

  • Thoughtful Awareness

  • Mindfulness NeuroMeditation Protocols

• Related Strategies to Quiet the Brain

  • Virtual Reality

  • RSA Breathing

 10:30am --12:30pm –Open Heart & Depression 

• The Depressed Brain

• Frontal Asymmetry

• Lovingkindness/Compassion Meditation and the Brain

  • The Research: Brain Regions

  • The Research: Brain Waves

  • Lovingkindness vs. Focus Meditation

• Virtual Reality + Neurofeedback

• Open Heart NeuroMeditation protocols

  • 2 channel

  • sLORETA

• Accessing Positive Emotions

  • Appreciation

  • Gratitude

• Deepen the Positive

  • Taking in the Good

Day 3- Friday, November 6

8:00am – 10:00pm –Quiet Mind NeuroMeditation

• Quiet Mind Basics

• Quiet Mind Brainwaves

• Zen

• Transcendental Meditation

• Quiet Mind Tips and Strategies

  • Open Focus

  • Audio Visual Entrainment

• Quiet Mind Brain Regions

  • The Research

  • Quiet Mind NeuroMeditation Protocols

• 2 channel

• sLORETA

• Additional Strategies

  • Supplements

  • Essential Oils

  • Music

  • Vibroacoustics

10:00am – 11:30am – Deep States NeuroMeditation

• Insights from Psychedelic Medicine research

• Psychedelic medicine and mental health

• Consistent brain patterns of the psychedelic state

• Altered States Brain Waves

• Altered States Brain Regions

• The Entropic Brain

• Altered States Neurofeedback

• Preliminary Data

• Applications

• Adjunctive Strategies

11:30am – 12:30pm – Final Comments 

• Questions/Concerns

• Next steps/certification

• Wrap Up