Online Courses - Level 1

OL 101 - IPNB from the Inside Out: An Overview of Interpersonal Neurobiology
Learn the basics of IPNB.

This course includes an in-depth exploration of this exciting new interdisciplinary field, reviewing the core aspects of the mind, the embodied brain, and our interpersonal relationships. We will also discuss the practical applications that emerge from the central concept of integration—the linkage of differentiated elements with one another. With integration we achieve harmony; without integration, chaos and rigidity result. IPNB enables us to then examine a wide range of accessible domains of integration and how we can evaluate their degrees of integration, organize strategies for intervention, and then carry out specific changes in how we focus the mind and communicate within relationships to promote integration in the brain itself.

Recommended Reading
Mindsight: The New Science of Transformation

OL 102 - Brain Fitness: Mindsight Skill Training and the Brain
Learn about how whole brain integration is essential for well-being.

In this course, you’ll be offered practical experiential exercises that can help cultivate neural integration with the focus of your attention. We’ll take the fundamental “Wheel of Awareness” practice and first dive deeply into its application and then explore the ways it can help promote the first of a series of domains, the integration of consciousness. Neural correlates to these skill-based practices will be reviewed and the ways in which mindfulness, mentalization, theory of mind, mind-mindedness and metacognition contrast and compare to mindsight will be discussed.

Recommended Listening
The Mindful Brain
The Mindful Brain Intensive Immersion

OL 103 - IPNB and Relationships: The Neurobiology of We
Learn how relationships influence the brain and the brain influences relationships.

In this interpersonally focused course, we’ll review the highlights of both child and adult attachment research, examine the nature of couples’ therapy and family functioning, review the notion of a “soul friend”, explore the importance of “feeling felt”, and examine the neural correlates of interpersonal attunement and resonance. Mirror neurons, the “resonance circuits”, affect regulation, neural systems theory, and social neuroscience will be explored as we apply modern conceptualizations to child development, education, psychotherapy, and relational well-being.

Recommended Reading
Parenting from the Inside Out

OL 104 - IPNB for Psychotherapists: The Mindful Therapist
Learn how mindsight can make you a more effective therapist.

The most potent positive influences on the outcome of psychotherapy have been shown to be the empathy, presence, and openness to feedback of the therapist. In this in-depth exploration of these common features of psychotherapy, we’ll explore an IPNB view of therapy, from the inside out. You’ll be able to dive deeply into experiential exercises that explore how presence, attunement, and resonance form the beginning stages of what leads to trust, truth, and transformation (three among a dozen “TR” words we’ll be exploring). This seminar introduces a conceptual model, “the plane of possibility”, which combines modern thinking about quantum theory with practical applications to a range of psychotherapeutic situations. Given the finding that our very presence and empathic abilities are at the heart of effective therapy, we’ll be developing further these essential elements in you as a person so that your work as a therapist can be enhanced.

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Online Courses - Level 1