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MOL 101 - IPNB from the Inside Out

• An overview of interpersonal neurobiology (“IPNB”) • Explore in-depth this exciting new interdisciplinary field, reviewing the core aspects of the mind, the embodied brain, and our interpersonal relationships • Discuss the practical applications that emerge from the central concept of integration—the linkage of differentiated elements with one another • Examine a wide range of accessible domains of integration and learn to 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

MOL 102 - Brain Fitness: Mindsight Skill Training and the Brain

• Learn how whole brain integration is essential for well-being • Participate in practical experiential exercises that can help cultivate neural integration with the focus of your attention • Take the fundamental “Wheel of Awareness” practice and 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 • Review neural correlates to these skill-based practices and the ways in which mindfulness, mentalization, theory of mind, mind-mindedness and metacognition contrast and compare to mindsight

MOL 103 - IPNB and Relationships: The Neurobiology of We

• Learn how relationships influence the brain and the brain influences relationships • Review the highlights of both child and adult attachment research • Examine the nature of couples’ therapy and family functioning • Discover the importance of a “soul friend” and “feeling felt” • Examine the neural correlates of interpersonal attunement and resonance • Explore mirror neurons, the “resonance circuits,” affect regulation, neural systems theory, and social neuroscience as we apply modern conceptualizations to child development, education, psychotherapy, and relational well-being

MOL 104 - IPNB for Psychotherapists: The Mindful Therapist

• Learn how mindsight can make you a more effective therapist • Examine an IPNB view of therapy, from the inside out • Explore through experiential exercises, 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) • Learn about the conceptual model, “the plane of possibility,” which combines modern thinking about quantum theory with practical applications to a range of psychotherapeutic situations • Further develop the essential elements that our very presence and empathic abilities are at the heart of effective therapy

MOL 201 - Clinical Assessment

• Learn how to identify chaos and rigidity • Use mindsight to examine chaos and rigidity in clinical evaluation • Re-examine the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders through an interpersonal neurobiology (“IPNB”) lens • Re-think the symptoms and syndromes as examples of chaos and rigidity • Uncover which domains of integration may be impaired in chaos and rigidity • Chart strategies for intervention for identifying the impaired domains of integration

MOL 202 - Treatment Planning

• Learn how to design interventions to help promote differentiation and linkage within the domains of integration • Find where differentiation and linkage may be impaired • Identify the domain of integration that is not developed in a given individual, couple or family’s life • Choose an effective treatment strategy with the assistance of the domains, ranging from the integration of consciousness to interpersonal integration • Consider the development of the mind as an embodied and relational process that regulates the flow of energy and information • Understand the mind as it develops across the lifespan

MOL 203 - Therapeutic Interventions

• Learn how stimulating neuronal activation and growth can promote integration across the identified domains • Understand IPNB view that for any therapy to be effective, it must change the brain • See how “SNAG” is used to stimulate neuronal activation and growth • Explore the powerful presence of the therapist in the therapeutic relationship • Review the principles of neuroplasticity and apply them to the implementation of therapeutic interventions • Learn how the close paying of attention, the sense of trust and receptivity created within the attuned therapeutic relationship and the specific forms of novelty promote integration • Explore how a therapist actually stays “present” in therapy while simultaneously keeping an eye on the movement of the individual toward integration

MOL 204 - Beyond the Therapy Suite

• Learn about IPNB in the family room, the classroom, and the board room • Hear why bringing health into families, schools, communities and organizations is a central goal of interpersonal neurobiology • Explore the opportunity we as mental health professionals have to not only define the mind, but also to illuminate the nature of a healthy mind • Extend this work out into the community to create a larger impact • Explore how to apply the basic IPNB principles of SNAGging the brain toward integration in ways that can have a positive ripple effect in creating well-being in our individual and collective lives • Demonstrate how teaching the skills of mindsight can help promote integration in these various aspects of our interwoven lives

MOL 1 - Mindsight in the Development of the Self

MOL 2 - Mindsight in Our Life Stories

MOL 3 - Mindsight in Life and Love

MOL 4 - Mindsight in Lifelong Parenting

MOL 5 - Mindsight in Our Mental Health

MOL 6 - Mindsight in the Workplace

MOL 7 - Mindsight in Our Schools

MOL 8 - Mindsight in Lifelong Learning

MOL 301 - Teaching and Learning from the Inside Out: Memory and Narrative as Relational and Embodied Experiences

We’ll dive deeply into the way a teacher can harness the power of memory by embracing the reality that we are a social and story-telling species. We learn best by engaging with others in emotionally captivating narratives. • Explore why story is so powerful in our lives • Understand how narratives effect memory • Identify the role of novelty in the encoding of stories and memory • Find out what emotion has to do with remembering • Learn how factual knowledge becomes “meaningful” • Explore what motivates optimal learning

MOL 302 - The Interpersonal Neurobiology Sphere of Knowledge: Embracing the Power of Mindsight and a Consilient View of Our Human Lives

We’ll build on our immersion into learning and stories by focusing directly on how a sphere of knowledge can be conveyed with meaning and emotion so that it is both remembered and made useful. • Review the principles of IPNB that can be taught to students in K-12 and beyond • Discuss how parents can benefit from Mindsight and the IPNB sphere of knowledge • Explore how organizations can benefit from IPNB • Identify how individuals might best be taught about mindsight and integration • Examine the steps we can take to teach IPNB to policymakers • Understand how mental health programs can teach about the mind and, in particular, a healthy mind

MOL 303 - Embracing Science and Subjectivity: The Challenges of an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Mind and Mental Health

The mission of weaving all branches of science into one perspective is at the heart of IPNB’s efforts to find a consilient view of the mind and mental health. Though “mind” is not defined in the various fields—from psychology and psychiatry to education and philosophy—IPNB offers a working definition with practical applications in these fields. Embracing the challenge of a new definition of the mind in the teaching of IPNB provides us with a deep and integrated understanding of the principles and practices of this new field and how to best convey them to others. • Learn how we can best teach about the mind and its embodied and relational origins • Review what the challenges and controversies are in teaching about consciousness, attachment, and mental health • Discuss the ways in which the science of integration illuminates the nature of emotion • Explore how knowing about the brain informs our understanding of well-being • Demonstrate how the concept and process of integration can best be taught • Examine the ways in which the “mind-brain-relationship” triangle of well-being helps in teaching about mental health

MOL 304 - The Mindsight Approach in Action: Cultivating the Practical Applications of IPNB from Synapse to Society

In our final quarter, we’ll further the integration of what we’ve been reading and discussing. We’ll cover the steps to take to teach the essence of IPNB as part of everyday living. At its core, the process of teaching this interdisciplinary field is about a way of being that promotes deeper self-understanding and more compassion for others, leading to an expansive sense of what the self is in our ever-changing world. • Define “embodied knowing” • Examine how others “learn by example” • Discuss the neurobiology that may explain what Mahatma Gandhi meant when he said that we must be the change we wish to see in the world • Understand what facts, concepts, and non-conceptual knowing are and how they are interrelated • Learn what a “process” entails and how it can best be taught by example • Explore how integration made visible is kindness and compassion