Donna Eden and David Feinstein
Thursday All Day • Do you sense that there’s more to health---and healing---than Western medicine understands? Do you want to take back control of your body’s own healing capacities? In this experiential workshop, you’ll discover the wisdom of cultures attuned to the energies

Elisha Goldstein • Thursday All Day

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, is now taught at more than 250 medical centers around the world. Clinical research has demonstrated that MBSR techniques significantly benefit the mind, emotional regulation, and physical health. This daylong workshop will combine

Rubin Naiman • Thursday All Day

For the millions of insomniacs among us, falling and staying asleep is a nightly struggle. Because we assume sleep is an unconscious process over which we have no control, we fail to approach it mindfully. In this workshop, we’ll explore an innovative approach integrating mindfulness, sleep science, and spiritual views of consciousness that can help people

Linda Graham • Thursday All Day

Brain research has shown us how certain interventions can help rewire our clients’ brains, reducing stress, resolving trauma, and recovering resilience. But how much of this knowledge do we bring to the care of our own brains to manage the emotional volatility of difficult clients, reduce our own stress and burnout, to restore our sense of perspective,

Daniel Leven • Thursday All Day

Word-oriented as we are, we lose sight of the fact that our minds follow our bodies, and that whether we’re feeling tense and tired, or fluid and relaxed, the body is the doorway to the brain, not vice versa. In this experiential workshop, you’ll discover how to use physical movement to invigorate your body and teach your brain how to experience positive states

Anh-Huong Nguyen and Thu Nguyen

Thursday All Day • Mindfulness meditation can help us reduce stress, manage pain, and expand our capacity to joyfully embrace life. This workshop, led by teachers ordained by Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, will introduce you to the art

Amy Weintraub • Thursday All Day

Often, to protect ourselves from the exhaustion and anxiety endemic to our culture, we hide behind our professional armor and social mask, losing our sense of connection to others and our deepest selves. We’ll use this day of simple, accessible movement, yoga breathing, and meditation to prepare ourselves for the fullness of the Symposium.

Judith Matz • Thursday All Day

Do you have a diet mentality of “good” and “bad” foods that creates anxiety and takes up lots of mental energy? This workshop will teach you how to use the concept of Attuned Eating to arrive at a place where physical and emotional well-being is more than the number on the scale. We’ll begin by understanding what it means to be an Attuned Eater who

Judith Beck & Deborah Beck Busis
Saturday Afternoon • No wonder dieters have difficulty losing weight and sustaining weight loss---no one taught them how! In this highly interactive workshop, we’ll discuss cases, role-play, create an accountability system, review behavioral experiments, and explore

Amy Weintraub • Saturday Afternoon

While mindfulness meditation has become something of a sovereign remedy for mood dysregulation, many people---particularly those with trauma histories---are just too agitated to tolerate sitting quietly and watching their breath, because they become prey to dark ruminations and even greater anxiety. In this workshop, we’ll focus on several of the more active,