Audience: all experience levels welcome
Format: Virtual, Synchronous
Cost: $725
Dates: Wednesdays: February 23rd, March 2nd & 16th
Time: 8am - 12:30pm PST
Instructor: Jeff Tarrant, PhD

This workshop will help attendees learn how to select a meditation style based on clients presenting concerns and provide a host of practical strategies for each of the meditative styles. Our approach can be used on many different neurofeedback systems, including Brain Master, New Mind, and BioTrace+.

The format of this training will include:

• 3 group meetings spread out over 1 month

• 2 semi-private mentoring sessions (2-3 people).

• Each of the group meetings will be 4.5 hours in length, cover the basic didactic material and provide demonstrations of the protocols discussed.

• Group-size will be limited to 12 people to allow in-depth discussion, questions, and interaction during the meetings.

• As part of the training, you will receive all of the BrainMaster protocols along with handouts, and a PDF of the PowerPoint deck.

Between meetings, you will work with the meditation styles covered in the previous session and participate in semi-private mentoring sessions with the Instructor. The mentoring sessions will be scheduled at a mutually agreeable time(s) and designed to help clarify, fine-tune, problem solve, or consult based on your specific needs.

Dates and Topics for the Group Sessions (conducted through Zoom):

Wednesday, February 23rd, 8:00-12:30 PST: Introduction, Overview, Choosing a Style, Focus Style

Wednesday, March 2nd, 8:00-12:30 PST: Mindfulness & Open Heart Styles

Wednesday, March 16th, 8:00-12:30 PST: Quiet Mind & Deep States Styles

Required Equipment Access & Volunteer Subject:

Because of the distance format, it will be important that you have the equipment and volunteer subjects to work with between sessions. We currently have pre-designed protocols for BrainAvatar (2-channel and sLORETA), BioTrace+ and New Mind systems. In addition, the protocols can be created in any 2 channel EEG software that allows you to do amplitude training.

If you don’t already own equipment, you may purchase a kit directly through us.

Dates of Live Online Training: Wednesdays February 23rd, March 2nd & 16th

Please note: Registration is limited to 8 people to support deeper learning and practical application. Thank you for your understanding.

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CEU’s: CEU’s are available through R. Cassidy Seminars and must be purchased separately ($40). Click the link below to purchase.

Agenda:

 Day 1 –

 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 -

 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 -

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