This online activity offers a maximum of 36 CE Credits

(scroll down for learning objectives)

^{The Lifespan Learning Institute and the Mindsight Institute are cosponsors of the Continuing Education programs offered.} 

APA: Lifespan Learning Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Lifespan Learning Institute maintains responsibility for the program and its content. 

CAMFT: Lifespan Learning Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, & LEPs. Lifespan Learning Institute maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. (provider # 050085)

CMA: The Lifespan Learning Institute is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. CMA is approved by ACCME to accredit CME providers.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the California Medical Association (CMA) through the joint providership of Lifespan Learning Institute and the Mindsight Institute.

The Lifespan Learning Institute is accredited by the CMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians.The Lifespan Learning Institute designates this online activity for a maximum of 36 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

It is your responsibility to verify with your licensing board / organization that they will accept the types of CE credit we offer. Out of state LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs should verify with their licensing board if they will accept BBS CE.

CE Credit requests are currently processed bi-monthly - on the second and last Sunday of each month. To request a CE exam for a given course or series, please email Kristi Morelli at info@drdansiegel.com. Upon completion of the exam, please email the exam into us at info@drdansiegel.com for review. Once you have passed the exam, your CE Certificate be emailed to you as soon as it's available. 

Disclosure: The speakers, and planning committee members listed below have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests.

- Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. & Marion Solomon, PhD 

Learning Objectives:

1. Define what the mind is from an interpersonal neurobiology perspective
2. Explain how energy and information flow is regulated and forms the complex system of the mind
3. Differentiate the concepts of consciousness, subjective experience, and information processing
4. Identify the role that mindsight – insight, empathy, and integration – plays in well-being and rewarding relationships
5. Assess and expand a client’s window of tolerance for certain emotions 
6. Highlight the ways in which the brain develops and changes through relationships, consciousness, and neuroplasticity
7. Demonstrate for colleagues and clients Dr. Siegel’s Hand Model of the Brain to support emotional regulation
8. Distinguish the seven nonverbal aspects of communication and their role in connecting with others
9. Analyze how Presence, Attunement, and Resonance foster Trusting relationships – the PART we play in psychotherapy
10. Model reflective dialogues for clients
11. Describe the science of kindness, empathy, compassion, and forgiveness
12. Identify the role self-compassion plays in integration and well-being
13. Outline how relational integration is the basis to neural integration
14. Differentiate among secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized attachment categories
15. Implement findings from the Adult Attachment Interview into clinical assessment and treatment
16. Support client’s ability to create a coherent narrative and earned secure attachment pattern
17. Reframe mental health challenges as opportunities for growth
18. Implement conceptualizations of the 9 domains of integration into diagnosis, treatment planning, and intervention  
19. Embody the 9 domains of integration by engaging in and teaching clients the integrative movement series
20. Guide clients in Dr. Siegel’s Wheel of Awareness practice to integrate consciousness and support well-being
21. Interpret integration of consciousness through Dr. Siegel’s model of the plane of possibility
22. Identify the roles of and relationship between the left and right sides of the brain
23. Recognize impediments to bilateral integration and use clinical techniques to support the growth of bilateral integration
24. Identify when a client has challenges in vertical differentiation and/or linkage within the nervous system and employ methods to support neuroplasticity to achieve greater neural integration and well-being
25. Evaluate impairment of integration in memory processes in everyday life and in trauma
26. Explain the role of both implicit and explicit memory in trauma resolution and health
27. Assess coherency of narrative and identify how to cultivate coherence
28. Reframe “stress” from an interpersonal neurobiology lens to help clients build resilience, grit, and a growth mindset
29. Differentiate layers, aspects, and parts in the context of the sense of self
30. Describe the adaptive strategy of dissociation and ways to work with clients to integrate differentiated states
31. Identify the neurobiological processes, attachment patterns, and innate drives that relate to romantic relationships
32. Develop interpersonal integration and resolve interlocking states through increased resonance and attunement
33. Differentiate the quantum and Newtonian aspects of experience from a physics perspective
34. Evaluate issues of mortality, uncertainty, and transience and the experience of the Arrow of Time in support of temporal integration
35. Reframe the experience of identity from an interpersonal neurobiology lens
36. Assess the evolutionary, cultural, and familial aspects of identity
37. Formulate how to support integration of identity to bring more compassion and kindness into the world