The Importance of Love, the Primal Refuge
An Openhearted Reflection from Rick Hanson's 2016 Symposium Address
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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VIDEO: Rick Hanson on Overcoming the Brain’s Negativity Bias
Creating Lasting Change
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.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: Changing the Brain to Take In the Good
Rick Hanson on 5 Simple Steps to Use Right Away
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.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: Our Bottom Line Responsibility as Therapists
Rick Hanson on Working with the Brain for Lasting Change
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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Turn Passing Experiences into Inner Strength
How the HEAL Process Works
With clients, I summarize the process of turning passing positive experiences into lasting inner strengths by using the acronym HEAL: Have a positive experience, Enrich it, Absorb it, and Link the positive experience to negative material in order to soothe and even replace it.
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Teaching the Brain to be Strong
The Importance of Installing Positive Traits
People come to a therapist because they want something to change: they want to feel or act differently, understand themselves or others better, or relate to things in a more spacious and accepting way. These changes of mind, of course, require changes of brain.
Daily Blog
What's Next for Brain Science and Psychotherapy?
Looking Toward the Future of Neuroscience and Therapy's Connection
The “Decade of the Brain” officially ended 14 years ago, but certainly not the explosive growth of neuroscience research, nor the popular interest in the three pounds of tofu-textured tissue between our ears.
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The Next Big Step
What’s Ahead in Psychotherapy’s Fascination with Brain Science?
Labeling behavior in fancy neurophysiological terms can make what we do sound more scientifically rigorous than the notoriously fuzzy language of psychotherapy, but how clinically useful is this brain language anyway?
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12/3/2020
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BESSEL A VAN DER KOLK, MD
EBONI WEBB, PSYD
SUSAN JOHNSON, ED.D.
RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD
GABOR MATÉ, MD
TAMMY NELSON, PHD
ALEXANDER KORB, PHD
DEB DANA, LCSW, LICSW
KENNETH CARTER, PHD, ABPP
ALBERT "SKIP" RIZZO, PHD
KATHLEEN M CHARD, PHD
EMILY NAGOSKI, PHD
MONNICA T. WILLIAMS, PHD, ABPP
ABI BLAKESLEE, SEP, CMT, MFT, PHD
JUD BREWER, MD, PHD
LISA COYNE, PHD
MEG JAY, PHD
JANIS PHELPS, PH.D.
JESSICA SCHLEIDER, PHD
JILL STODDARD, PHD
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EBONI WEBB, PSYD
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RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD
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TAMMY NELSON, PHD
ALEXANDER KORB, PHD
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ALBERT "SKIP" RIZZO, PHD
KATHLEEN M CHARD, PHD
EMILY NAGOSKI, PHD
MONNICA T. WILLIAMS, PHD, ABPP
ABI BLAKESLEE, SEP, CMT, MFT, PHD
JUD BREWER, MD, PHD
LISA COYNE, PHD
MEG JAY, PHD
JANIS PHELPS, PH.D.
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JILL STODDARD, PHD
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52 Practices for More Happiness, Love and Wisdom
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Applying the Power of Neuroscience to Heal Trauma, Attachment, Shame and More
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RICK HANSON, PH.D.
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Living with Life's Uncertainties
Wisdom from Rick Hanson's Networker Symposium Keynote
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.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: Rick Hanson on the Healing Power of Refuge
Focusing on the People, Places, and Activities that Give Us Sanctuary
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.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: Building Inner Strength with Brain Science
Cultivating Positivity and Virtue in Yourself and Your Clients
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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The Siren's Song of Neuroscience
Neural Reductionism Puts Therapists—and Their Clients—on a Slope of Declining Responsibility
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.
Daily Blog
Creating a Support System for New Mothers
Five Ways to Help Them Cope with Stress, Improve Mood, and Stay Energetic
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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In the Wake of the Election ...
Taking Heart
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?
Daily Blog
The Importance of Love, the Primal Refuge
An Openhearted Reflection from Rick Hanson's 2016 Symposium Address
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.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: Rick Hanson on Overcoming the Brain’s Negativity Bias
Creating Lasting Change
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.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: Changing the Brain to Take In the Good
Rick Hanson on 5 Simple Steps to Use Right Away
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.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: Our Bottom Line Responsibility as Therapists
Rick Hanson on Working with the Brain for Lasting Change
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.
Daily Blog
The Next Big Step
What’s Ahead in Psychotherapy’s Fascination with Brain Science?
Labeling behavior in fancy neurophysiological terms can make what we do sound more scientifically rigorous than the notoriously fuzzy language of psychotherapy, but how clinically useful is this brain language anyway?
Magazine Article
In Consultation
The Motherhood Marathon: Acknowledging the challenge of modern childrearing
Too many therapists underestimate the psychological trials of motherhood.
Magazine Article
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Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, a Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkley, and a New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 26 languages and include Hardwiring Happiness (Harmony, 2016), Buddha’s Brain (New Harbinger, 2009), Just One Thing Card Deck (PESI, 2018), and Mother Nurture (Penguin, 2002). He edits the Wise Brain Bulletin and has numerous audio programs. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, he’s been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and other major universities, and taught in meditation centers worldwide.
Dr. Hanson has been a trustee of Saybrook University, served on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and was President of the Board of FamilyWorks, a community agency. He began meditating in 1974, trained in several traditions, and leads a weekly meditation gathering in San Rafael, California. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR, and he offers the free Just One Thing newsletter with over 114,000 subscribers, plus the online Foundations of Well-Being program in positive neuroplasticity.
He enjoys rock-climbing and taking a break from emails. He and his wife have two adult children.
Dr. Hanson has been a trustee of Saybrook University, served on the board of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and was President of the Board of FamilyWorks, a community agency. He began meditating in 1974, trained in several traditions, and leads a weekly meditation gathering in San Rafael, California. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR, and he offers the free Just One Thing newsletter with over 114,000 subscribers, plus the online Foundations of Well-Being program in positive neuroplasticity.
He enjoys rock-climbing and taking a break from emails. He and his wife have two adult children.
