Personality development is actually the development from the organized pattern of attitudes and behaviors which makes an individual distinctive. A quick definition could be, personality is composed of the characteristic designs of feelings, behaviors and thoughts which make a person special.
Let's Talk About Mental Health - NDC Oslo 2018Arthur Doler
It’s a great time to be in technology. And yet despite the improvement in our tools, we somehow don’t spend time talking about how to maintain our most important tool - the one between our ears. Your mental health is arguably the single most important factor in your ability to perform well, avoid burnout, and build resiliency, but we shroud the topic in secrecy, stigma, and co-opted clinical language that makes us think we know what's going on. We often don't even speak of what we feel to family and friends until we're facing a crisis.
We need to change all of that. You don't have to stay in the dark, and you *don't* have to suffer alone. In this talk we’ll start with some basics about mental health, then cover the most common mental health challenges facing developers, and then learn about some techniques to supercharge your brain by improving your mental hygiene (whether you have a psychological disorder or not). Most importantly, you’ll learn how to have a conversation with your coworkers (and other people in your life) about supporting each other and finding your best selves.
Slides for Living Well with Difficult Emotions Online GroupMichael Changaris
These slides are two groups in the living well with difficult emotions group. They focus on thoughts skills, exercise, wise mind, and other ways to help fight depression.
Katie Thompson presents on the comprehensive treatment of Binge Eating Disorder. This presentation explores combining the theories of DBT, ERP, IFS and Experiential approaches.
Let's Talk About Mental Health - Nebraska.Code 2018Arthur Doler
It’s a great time to be in technology. And yet despite the improvement in our tools, we somehow don’t spend time talking about how to maintain our most important tool - the one between our ears. Your mental health is arguably the single most important factor in your ability to perform well, avoid burnout, and build resiliency, but we shroud the topic in secrecy, stigma, and co-opted clinical language that makes us think we know what's going on. We often don't even speak of what we feel to family and friends until we're facing a crisis.
We need to change all of that. You don't have to stay in the dark, and you *don't* have to suffer alone. In this talk we’ll start with some basics about mental health, then cover the most common mental health challenges facing developers, and then learn about some techniques to supercharge your brain by improving your mental hygiene (whether you have a psychological disorder or not). Most importantly, you’ll learn how to have a conversation with your coworkers (and other people in your life) about supporting each other and finding your best selves.
This slide deck is a small list of useful clinical tools that I find help people. You can print it into a flip booklet that is easy to carry into appointments. It is only used for educational purposes.
It’s a great time to be in technology. And yet despite the improvement in our tools, we somehow don’t spend time talking about how to maintain our most important tool - the one between our ears. Your mental health is arguably the single most important factor in your ability to perform well, avoid burnout, and build resiliency, but we shroud the topic in secrecy, stigma, and co-opted clinical language that makes us think we know what's going on. We often don't even speak of what we feel to family and friends until we're facing a crisis.
We need to change all of that. You don't have to stay in the dark, and you *don't* have to suffer alone. In this talk we’ll start with some basics about mental health, then cover the most common mental health challenges facing developers, and then learn about some techniques to supercharge your brain by improving your mental hygiene (whether you have a psychological disorder or not). Most importantly, you’ll learn how to have a conversation with your coworkers (and other people in your life) about supporting each other and finding your best selves.
Personality development is actually the development from the organized pattern of attitudes and behaviors which makes an individual distinctive. A quick definition could be, personality is composed of the characteristic designs of feelings, behaviors and thoughts which make a person special.
Let's Talk About Mental Health - NDC Oslo 2018Arthur Doler
It’s a great time to be in technology. And yet despite the improvement in our tools, we somehow don’t spend time talking about how to maintain our most important tool - the one between our ears. Your mental health is arguably the single most important factor in your ability to perform well, avoid burnout, and build resiliency, but we shroud the topic in secrecy, stigma, and co-opted clinical language that makes us think we know what's going on. We often don't even speak of what we feel to family and friends until we're facing a crisis.
We need to change all of that. You don't have to stay in the dark, and you *don't* have to suffer alone. In this talk we’ll start with some basics about mental health, then cover the most common mental health challenges facing developers, and then learn about some techniques to supercharge your brain by improving your mental hygiene (whether you have a psychological disorder or not). Most importantly, you’ll learn how to have a conversation with your coworkers (and other people in your life) about supporting each other and finding your best selves.
Slides for Living Well with Difficult Emotions Online GroupMichael Changaris
These slides are two groups in the living well with difficult emotions group. They focus on thoughts skills, exercise, wise mind, and other ways to help fight depression.
Katie Thompson presents on the comprehensive treatment of Binge Eating Disorder. This presentation explores combining the theories of DBT, ERP, IFS and Experiential approaches.
Let's Talk About Mental Health - Nebraska.Code 2018Arthur Doler
It’s a great time to be in technology. And yet despite the improvement in our tools, we somehow don’t spend time talking about how to maintain our most important tool - the one between our ears. Your mental health is arguably the single most important factor in your ability to perform well, avoid burnout, and build resiliency, but we shroud the topic in secrecy, stigma, and co-opted clinical language that makes us think we know what's going on. We often don't even speak of what we feel to family and friends until we're facing a crisis.
We need to change all of that. You don't have to stay in the dark, and you *don't* have to suffer alone. In this talk we’ll start with some basics about mental health, then cover the most common mental health challenges facing developers, and then learn about some techniques to supercharge your brain by improving your mental hygiene (whether you have a psychological disorder or not). Most importantly, you’ll learn how to have a conversation with your coworkers (and other people in your life) about supporting each other and finding your best selves.
This slide deck is a small list of useful clinical tools that I find help people. You can print it into a flip booklet that is easy to carry into appointments. It is only used for educational purposes.
It’s a great time to be in technology. And yet despite the improvement in our tools, we somehow don’t spend time talking about how to maintain our most important tool - the one between our ears. Your mental health is arguably the single most important factor in your ability to perform well, avoid burnout, and build resiliency, but we shroud the topic in secrecy, stigma, and co-opted clinical language that makes us think we know what's going on. We often don't even speak of what we feel to family and friends until we're facing a crisis.
We need to change all of that. You don't have to stay in the dark, and you *don't* have to suffer alone. In this talk we’ll start with some basics about mental health, then cover the most common mental health challenges facing developers, and then learn about some techniques to supercharge your brain by improving your mental hygiene (whether you have a psychological disorder or not). Most importantly, you’ll learn how to have a conversation with your coworkers (and other people in your life) about supporting each other and finding your best selves.
Mindfulness teaches us to focus our attention on what is happening at the moment, the now. The exercises are a form of training your attention. During pregnancy, we want to help you to be the driver of your thoughts instead of your thoughts driving you.
During this session, you will learn a technique called, the body scan. It will assist you to remain focused and connected to the present moment and thereby be positively focused during the pregnancy.
Mindfulness has long been practiced and used to help people to handle adversity, stay healthy and perform well. This engaging session will provide an excellent opportunity to develop your knowledge and understanding of Mindfulness and how to practice and build your skills.
Objectives
Define mindfulness
Discuss how mindfulness can be beneficial
Differentiate it from meditation
Explore the concepts of mindfulness
Identify Mindfulness Activities
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Lecture - Livingston Library - 6.6.18 - Ni...Summit Health
Mindfulness helps us become more aware of habitual reactions to stressful situations. In a lecture presented by Nicole D. Swain, LPC, NCC, ACS, ACT, learn how a mindful approach can help you identify this cycle and create new ways to address daily and persistent stressors. Ms. Swain is a Diplomat of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and provides cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) services to individuals and couples.
An introduction to the masterclass series for 'You Are Not Your Brain'. The four step solution to changing bad habits, ending unhealthy thinking and taking control of your life.
Register your interest in attending the masterclass (live or on demand) here: http://josiethomson.com/brain
Most approaches to mindfulness are geared toward the individual level and not the social or community level to which traditional mindfulness methods were targeted. It is not only about our own personal growth but the enlightenment of the community as a whole. We are never separate. And this insight is fundamental for any effective wellbeing effort (workplace or otherwise). This experiential webinar will feature a cursory overview of mindfulness (definition, measurement, practices) and participants will be invited to complete introspective surveys about their own mindfulness to help ground the social conversation for the webinar. We will then contemplate seven different ways in which wellness champions can show up in a mindful way within the social context (community or sangha) of their work setting. These are listed below. Participants will be invited to self-assess their capacity for each and given tools to continue developing each.
· The Values Clarifier (Your Cause, Calling, or Legacy)
· The Intentional Centerer (Breathe…Breathe…Breathe)
· The Heedful Relater (Loving Kindness)
· The Compassionate Nudger (Mindfully Encourage)
· The Knower of Impact (Integrity, Foresight, and Social Contagion)
· The Thriver (All Stress is Grist for the Mill)
· The Garnerer of Trust (We are One)
Learning Objectives
1) Define mindfulness and identify at least one measure and practice of mindfulness
2) Distinguish intra-personal mindfulness from inter-personal mindfulness
3) Identify seven different ways that wellness champion may embody mindfulness in their interactions with others
About The Presenters
Dr. Joel Bennett President
Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems
Website: www.organizationalwellness.com
Joel Bennett, PhD, is President of Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems (OWLS), a consulting firm that specializes in evidence-based wellness and e-learning technologies to promote organizational health and employee well-being. Dr. Bennett first delivered stress management programming in 1985 and OWLS programs have since reached over 30,000 workers across the United States.
Lindsay Simone, Manager of Wellness Programs
ACEC Life & Health Trust
Lindsay currently serves as Manager of Wellness Programs for the Designed Wellness program that is offered to all firms that are members of and have medical insurance coverage through ACEC Life & Health Trust. She graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received a Masters in Wellness Management and Business from Ball State University.
Have you heard that mediation would be good for you, but think that your mind is too busy to actually try it? While yogis have known about the benefits of meditation for thousands of years, there is growing scientific evidence showing the benefits of daily meditation—especially in our hectic, modern world. A few of the most compelling benefits include: brain health, stress and anxiety reduction, increased attention span, reduced age-related memory loss, enhanced self-awareness and improved sleep. In this program, we'll explore what meditation really is, why even YOU can do it, and learn some techniques that can help start your home practice (with as little as 3 minutes per day). Meditation can be done anywhere, any time—busy mind or not. Meditation really is for everyone!
resilience is the order of the day when life knocks you down
If you have been experiencing some of the following signs and symptoms most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks, you may be suffering from depression:
Persistent sad, anxious, or “empty” mood
Feelings of hopelessness, or pessimism
Irritability
Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, or helplessness
Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities
Decreased energy or fatigue
Moving or talking more slowly
Feeling restless or having trouble sitting still
Difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions
Difficulty sleeping, early-morning awakening, or oversleeping
Appetite and/or weight changes
Thoughts of death or suicide, or suicide attempts
Aches or pains, headaches, cramps, or digestive problems without a clear physical cause and/or that do not ease even with treatment
pump up your energy
www.thinktankent.com
info@thinktankent.com
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Canadian Immigration Tracker March 2024 - Key SlidesAndrew Griffith
Highlights
Permanent Residents decrease along with percentage of TR2PR decline to 52 percent of all Permanent Residents.
March asylum claim data not issued as of May 27 (unusually late). Irregular arrivals remain very small.
Study permit applications experiencing sharp decrease as a result of announced caps over 50 percent compared to February.
Citizenship numbers remain stable.
Slide 3 has the overall numbers and change.
Many ways to support street children.pptxSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
Jon Hershfield - Applying Mindfulness to Traditional CBT Tools How to Enhance What Works in Terms Your Clients Understand
1. Jon Hershfield, LMFT
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT
International OCD Foundation 23rd Annual Conference 2016
Chicago, IL
Applying Mindfulness to
Traditional CBTTools: How to
Enhance WhatWorks in
TermsYour Clients
Understand
2. Why pay attention to
mindfulness?
• Mindfulness is used in ACT, DBT, MBSR, and a
la carte
• Varied definitions of the word “mindfulness”
• Need specifics for when and how to apply to
OCD treatment without losing the
effectiveness of CBT
3. Mindfulness
• Paying attention to the present moment
• Non-judgmental observation of internal
experiences
• Letting go of resistance to discomforting
thoughts, feelings, and sensations
4. Core Elements of CBT
• Psycho-education on the disorder and its
treatment conceptualization
• Cognitive restructuring – challenging
distorted thought processes
• Behavioral therapy – exposure with response
prevention (ERP)
5. Psychoeducation and Mindfulness
• Why do I think this way?
• Do other people have these thoughts?
• What if these thoughts mean something
important?
6. The spotlight
Hershfield, J and Corboy,T. (2013)The MindfulnessWorkbook For OCD: A Guide toOvercomingObsessions and Compulsions
Using Mindfulness and Cognitive BehavioralTherapy. New Harbinger Publications:Oakland,CA
7. The spotlight
Hershfield, J and Corboy,T. (2013)The MindfulnessWorkbook For OCD: A Guide toOvercomingObsessions and Compulsions
Using Mindfulness and Cognitive BehavioralTherapy. New Harbinger Publications:Oakland,CA
8. Thoughts as mental events
• Thoughts are thoughts, not threats (not
“JUST a thought” – which implies value)
• Value is unknown, not intrinsic
• To be acknowledged, observed
• Be curious about them, not avoidant
9. Feelings as raw data
• Feelings are feelings, not facts
• Not evidence, significance is unknown
• Appraisals of physical sensations
• To be experienced in the moment, not sought after or
checked for
• Pain (a present experience) vs. suffering (same
experience plus resistance)
10. Physical sensations as nerves
firing
• Not mandates to act
• Also not evidence, personal significance
uncertain (i.e. groinal response as fear or arousal)
• Cause unknown
• To be experienced, not explained unless
medically impairing
11. Mindfulness and cognitive
restructuring
• Changing what-if to what-IS (attention to
presence of thought, not content appraisal)
• Not neutralizing or reassuring
• Aim to discourage compulsions, not get
certainty
12. Common distortions and
reframes
• Black-and-white
• I am dirty
• I am uncomfortable because my finger
touched something and I don’t know what
was on it
13. Common distortions and
reframes
• Catastrophizing
• I’m might get AIDS and die
• This is a typical thought for me when I see a
cut. I can’t predict the future.
14. Common distortions and
reframes
• Emotional reasoning
• I feel gay, I must be in denial
• Things I obsess about make my heart rate go
up and when I check my groin I notice
sensations
15. Common distortions and
reframes
• Mind reading
• The conference attendees think I’m an idiot
• I don’t know what they’re thinking. I often
assume people are thinking negative things
about me.
16. Other distortions
• Disqualifying the positive
• Magical thinking
• Selective abstraction
• Personalizing
• Should/must statements
• Magnifying
17. Mindfulness and ERP
• Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP)
• Gradually making contact with feared stimuli
while resisting urges to compulsively neutralize
or reassure
• Mindfulness = ERP to being in the presence of
unwanted thoughts/feelings without engaging in
rituals
18. ERP Goals
• Bring the unwanted thought or feeling into the
present moment
• Stay with the discomfort associated with uncertainty
about the thought/feeling
• Resist the urge to avoid or change this discomfort
• Willingness to cope with all possible outcomes
because there’s no other choice
19. Meditation and OCD
• Asking an OCD sufferer to clear their mind is
counterproductive – do not clear, notice busy
• 10,000 hands pulling you away from your anchor –
meditation may seem impossible, empathize
• Performance evaluation, more effort = less success
• The point is to exercise the muscle that allows you to come
back from an obsession, from the “what IF” to the “what
IS”, not to relax
20. Mindful Meditation Goals
• Allow unwanted thoughts and feelings to be
present when they occur
• Acknowledge the associated discomfort
• Observe (not react to) urges to avoid or
change the discomfort
21. Basic meditation (the “practice”
of mindfulness)
• Optional entering the meditation: few deep breaths, then
closing the eyes and breathing “normally”
• Checking in: “Here I am in this space.” The weight of the body.
Touch: Feet on the floor, legs on the seat, hands on the lap, air
on the face. Tastes, smells. Sounds: Opening up the ears to
sounds close and far away. Mood: Howzitgoin right now?
• Body scan: Printing out a mental picture paying attention to
the body and how it appears from the inside, starting with the
head and ending with the feet.
22. Basic meditation (the “practice”
of mindfulness)
• Noticing the in-breath.
• Noticing the out-breath. “Following” the breath.
• Counting if helpful (1 in, 2 out, 3 in, 4 out. Up to 10, starting
over when distracted) or noting “in” and “out”
• Noting when wandered off. That’s thinking. That’s feeling.
• Attempting to return the focus to the breath. Gently
attempting, not succeeding or failing. Engaging this
wander/return activity for the remainder of the meditation
(anywhere from a minute to 20 or more).
23. Basic meditation (the “practice”
of mindfulness)
• Letting the mind do whatever it wants. Releasing any
efforts to note or return.
• Optional exiting: Noticing the sounds, the hands, the legs,
the feet.
• Opening the eyes.
• Doing nothing. (not evaluating the success or failure of the
meditation)
• Doing something.
24. Why Meditation Can Help
• Adds an additional tool to the tool box (but beware of using
meditation as escape from pain)
• Reinforces the concept of homework completion and discipline in
overcoming OCD.
• Built-in ERP to fears of inadequacy, unwanted thoughts/feelings,
and fear of wasting time.
25. • Allows for the question, “What would I do in this
moment if this trigger occurred while I was meditating?”
• Makes the assessment of “thoughts as thoughts” more
habitual/instinctual, less prone to ritualizing, taking the
bait, or self-reassuring.
Why Meditation Can Help
26. When Mindfulness Attacks
• Thoughts are “just” thoughts is a judgment
• “It’s not me, it’s my OCD” vs. “It is me and so be
it.” – the problem with relabeling/reattributing
• Perfectionism and the solving ritual
• Checking the present
• Meditation as a compulsion
27. Encouraging Mindful Self-Talk
• “Hey, look at that…”
• “Duly noted…”
• “Good one, OCD!”
• Accepting the presence of the typical “...aaand
right on schedule”
• “That’s just how I think.”
