Terry Marks-Tarlow – Mindfulness and Creativity: Tools to Heal the Body and Transform the Mind

Mindfulness and Creativity – Terry Marks-Tarlow

Mindfulness works! If you respond to the novel and unique sensations of the body, brain and mind in the present moment, you can make your treatment more effective.

Have fun while gathering mindfulness tools to individualize your psychotherapy. Attend this cutting-edge seminar with Dr. Terry Marks-Tarlow for a hands-on, yet informative approach to filling your clinical toolbox.

In this workshop you will use the developmental neurobiology of attachment and trauma as a framework. Dr. Marks-Tarlow will take you through guided meditations to still the mind and calm an over-aroused autonomic nervous system. Drawing and other art techniques will be shown to help clients focus attention and boost self-awareness. Dr. Marks-Tarlow will explain how central metaphors from dreams and spontaneous images help to address somatic symptoms and unify mind/body/brain healing. You will also discover the power of associative mindsets to playfully approach problem-solving with clients. You will learn yoga as a moving meditation that offers a unique set of embodied metaphors.

Watch this recording and gain a neurologically-based understanding of how each technique can apply to clinical disorders like depression, anxiety and PTSD. Enjoy Dr. Marks-Tarlow’s engaging and inspirational style and leave equipped with tools for your clinical practice.

1. Integrate the newest brain research about mindfulness & the brain into your clinical work.
2. Determine how to tailor your clinical work to work more effectively with different attachment styles.
3. Describe how still and moving meditations rewire neural circuitry.
4. Evaluate the essential qualities of healing attention plus mindfulness techniques for your clinical practice that promote each quality.
5. Intervene with multiple mindfulness strategies as interventions for anxiety, depression and the dysregulated emotions of trauma.
6. Teach your clients how to be empowered through intention and attention to make new choices and break toxic lifestyle habits.
7. Model how the healing power of creative expression can help to heal trauma, create meaning and promote growth with your clients.

GET MINDFULNESS AND CREATIVITY: TOOLS TO HEAL THE BODY AND TRANSFORM THE MIND OF AUTHOR TERRY MARKS-TARLOW

Brain, Body & Nervous System

• Origins of health and trauma in the mind, body and brain
• Mindfulness tools for interactive regulation
• Self-regulation for clients between sessions
• Work with different attachment styles

Individualize Treatment

• Access the wisdom of your body’s cues
• Boost clinical intuition & embodied response
• Down-regulate symptoms of over-arousal
• Up-regulate symptoms of under-arousal
• Tap into creativity to unblock stuck places & access neuroplasticity

Mindfulness Meditations

• Still the mind to induce calm
• Focus the mind to boost attention
• Open the mind to enhance receptivity
• Widen the mind to stimulate creative problem-solving
• Offer compassion to enhance self-care and care of others

Creativity

• Drawing techniques increase calm & self-awareness
• Guided imagery plumbs the depths of the self
• Dreams, spontaneous imagery & waking suggestions stimulate change
• Central metaphors capture problems, while pointing towards solutions
• Harness inspiration & vision

Yoga

• A holistic mind/brain/body system of moving meditations
• Gain a set of embodied metaphors
• Seek balance, strength, flexibility, equanimity & grace
• Breath work to enhance emotional regulation
• Expand possibilities through setting intentions

GET MINDFULNESS AND CREATIVITY: TOOLS TO HEAL THE BODY AND TRANSFORM THE MIND OF AUTHOR TERRY MARKS-TARLOW