Wisdom from Rick Hanson's Networker Symposium Keynote
Rick Hanson • 9/30/2020
Rick Hanson describes how becoming more mindful of our body and thoughts, and the link between the two, can make us happier and less afraid of life's uncertainties.
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Focusing on the People, Places, and Activities that Give Us Sanctuary
Rick Hanson • 3/18/2020
A Networker Symposium highlight, therapist and author Rick Hanson invoked the spirit of Mr. Rogers to help attendees better acknowledge their connection with each other and savor their most inspiring experiences.
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Cultivating Positivity and Virtue in Yourself and Your Clients
Rick Hanson • 5/29/2019
Weaving together insights from evolutionary biology, modern neuroscience, positive psychology, and mindfulness practices, neuropsychologist Rick Hanson claims the difficulty at the core of human experience is our perpetual struggle to overcome the negativity bias wired into our brains. Here, he explains how understanding the brain can help therapists and their clients grow inner strengths.
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Neural Reductionism Puts Therapists—and Their Clients—on a Slope of Declining Responsibility
Rick Hanson • 6/14/2018
By Rick Hanson - It’s perfectly natural to be enthralled by the explosive growth of neuroscience. But people come to therapists because they want something to change: they want to feel or act differently or understand themselves or others better. These changes of mind, of course, require changes of brain. But in many ways, the essence of therapy is developing inner strengths.
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Five Ways to Help Them Cope with Stress, Improve Mood, and Stay Energetic
Rick Hanson • 7/7/2017
By Rick Hanson - Motherhood isn't, in itself, a psychological or medical problem. But the challenges inherent in childbearing and childrearing can lead to clinical consequences, with studies showing that mothers are more likely to have depressive moods, more stress than fathers, and frequent conflicts with their partner. Here are five ways to help them cope.
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Taking Heart
Rick Hanson • 11/11/2016
By Rick Hanson - Editor's Note: In the wake of the turmoil of the long election campaign and Tuesday night’s unexpected results, many of us—both therapists and clients alike—are wondering how to make sense of our emotional reactions and how to get our bearings again. Putting the politics aside, what do we know as therapists that can guide us in moving forward in both our personal lives as well as our work with clients?
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An Openhearted Reflection from Rick Hanson's 2016 Symposium Address
Rick Hanson • 6/3/2016
In a moving closing address, Rick Hanson invoked the spirit of Mr. Rogers to help attendees better acknowledge their connection with each other and savor their most inspiring Symposium experiences at the meeting.
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Creating Lasting Change
Rick Hanson • 2/8/2016
Rick Hanson, a neuropsychologist and author of
Buddha's Brain, will be a keynote speaker at this year's
Networker Symposium. Here, he talks about our brain's negativity bias and how to help our clients overcome it. After all, our job as therapists is to help our clients make lasting changes by changing the brain.
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Rick Hanson on 5 Simple Steps to Use Right Away
Rick Hanson • 8/20/2015
Our brains are very good at learning from the negative—that's what helped our distant ancestors learn what to avoid of they wanted to stay alive. But it interferes with our lives today when we react to stressful situations as if they were life and death. They're usually not.In this brief clip, Rick Hanson, author of Buddha's Brain and Hardwiring Happiness, walks us through surprisingly simple steps that can shift our memory systems to internalize positive experiences and states with equal efficiency.
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Rick Hanson on Working with the Brain for Lasting Change
Rick Hanson • 8/10/2015
People seek us out because they want change. Some clients want to be less anxious or less depressed, some want to be better able to control themselves in interactions with other people, and others seek greater self-knowledge or an open-ended existential exploration. But for someone to change, their brain must change too.
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