Transforming Anxiety and Stress
by Integrating the Embodied Brain

Apply the principles of Interpersonal Neurobiology (“IPNB”) to help your clients transform their stress and anxiety into resilience and well-being.

Anxiety and stress are prevalent

Whether you are a mental health practitioner, physician, or parent, you have undoubtedly experienced heightened levels of anxiety and stress in your professional or personal life in the last two years. In fact, anxiety has become the most common mental health challenge in the United States, affecting 40 million people annually.

Traditional approaches focus on just managing anxiety and stress

Although there are several methods for reducing anxiety and stress, many focus on managing the experience, rather than integrating it.

The IPNB approach to transforming stress and anxiety

Through the lens of IPNB, anxiety is understood as an outcome of an individual’s state of mind based on their subjective experience and the ways that the human brain functions as an “anticipation machine” as it gets ready for what might happen next.  When the stress of getting ready for something meaningful to happen arises, this predictive tendency of the brain can then narrate panic as we inadvertently construct our own mental images of a threatening future of our own imagination. By cultivating the mental functions of attention, intention, and awareness, we strengthen our ability to identify the source of anxiety and then harness the capacity to promote integration, transforming the energy of threat and alarm into the drive toward resilience and harmony.

Course Overview

Although many therapeutic techniques look to eliminate stress and anxiety as a source of suffering, few describe how the experience can be utilized as a catalyst for transformation. In this program, we will take a closer look at the difference between anxiety and stress, and how these two experiences are fundamental components to the process of resilience and healing. By understanding the mind as an emergent, fully embodied, self-organizing process, you will be able to harness the power of the mind to process and integrate stress in an empowered way.

Through the lens of interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB), anxiety is understood as an outcome of an individual’s state of mind based on their subjective experience. By analyzing attention, intention, and awareness, we can not only identify the source of anxiety, but how to combine these properties to promote integration and resolution.

In this program, you will learn how to incorporate teachings from neuroscience, psychology, quantum physics, and contemplative practices, to discover an integrative approach for helping individuals transform their brain by building the capacity to integrate energy and information.

 Here are some highlights of what you will learn:

Course Details

9

Hours of Course Video

3

Hours of Live Q&A with Dr. Siegel

9

Homestudy CE Credits

Scientific Foundations of Anxiety and Stress

Cutting-edge science and insights into the dynamics of anxiety and stress and how to transform them.

Practical Exercises
and Tools

Collection of practical tools and exercises to transform stress and anxiety

Online Learning Community
and Study Groups

The option to join an online learning community or study groups with your peers to share and collaborate

Our Students

Who Takes this Course?

This course was designed for mental health practitioners but it can broadly benefit any professional who is helping others manage their stress and anxiety.

Meet Your Teacher

Dr. Dan Siegel

Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute which focuses on the development of mindsight, teaches insight, empathy, and integration in individuals, families and communities.

Dr. Siegel is one of the leading experts in developmental attachment and was trained as an attachment researcher with one of the pioneers of attachment theory, Dr. Mary Main. He is also trained in the Adult Attachment Interview. 

Dr. Siegel has published extensively for both professional and lay audiences. His five New York Times bestsellers are: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence, Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D: The Whole-Brain Child, and No-Drama Discipline. His other books include: The Developing Mind, The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, and The Mindful Therapist. He has also written The Yes Brain and The Power of Showing Up with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D. Additionally, Dr. Siegel serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology which currently contains over seventy textbooks.

What Our Students Have to Say

Testimonials

"Dr. Dan Siegel possesses one of the most brilliant minds of our century. His ability to integrate the brain, attachment and relationships in a coherent and simple way is commendable. Studying under Dr. Siegel is highly encouraged. I use his wisdom, knowledge and mindsight strategies in my own private practice."
Angela Bisignano
PhD, Clinical Psychologist
Los Angeles, CA
"Interpersonal Neurobiology provides concepts and interventions I implemented with clients in my practice on day one of starting the course. It provided a conceptualization of the human experience that is philosophically expansive for my professional development and offered practical direction to better support Clients. It has been an exceptional journey of growth that touches every aspect of my life."
Elinor Jewett
LMFT, Venice, CA

Sample Course Lecture

Here is a sample lecture from this course.

Join Today

Live Course

Course Starts May 20th, 2024

  • 9 hours of Course Video

  • 3 Live Q & As with Dr. Dan Siegel

  • 9 Homestudy CE Credits

  • Archive of all Live Q & As

  • Online Learning Community

  • Online Study Groups

  • Lifetime Access to the Content

Eight payments of

$69 / week

Early Bird Pricing Ends May 1st

$57 / week

On-Demand Option

  • 9 hours of Course Video

  • 9 Homestudy CE Credits

  • Lifetime Access to the Content

Eight payments of

$59 / week

Early Bird Pricing Ends May 1st

$47 / week

Continuing Education Credit (CEC) Information

This course is designed for mental health practitioners.

This program offers 9 homestudy CE credits for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.

  • Please visit our Continuing Education Credit information page for full CEC Provider information, including license applicability, attendance requirements, and cancellation and grievance policies.
  • For those licensed by a different board, please contact your licensing board directly to verify that the credits offered by the Mindsight Institute will be accepted. The Mindsight Institute does not confirm the applicability of credit for those with licenses different than those listed on our CEC information page.
  • Credit is awarded for recorded instructional time only and does not include optional live Q&A sessions, if available.
  • The SCA is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16887 for 9 contact hours.

To review this program’s learning objectives, please click here.

Additional Benefits

Satisfaction Guaranteed

If you are not completely satisfied, we will promptly issue you a refund within 7 days from the start of the course

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Group Program

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Have Questions?

Continuing Education Credit (CEC) is co-sponsored by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) and the Mindsight Institute.

CECs are available for psychologists, and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, Nurses, and Chiropractors, and may be applicable for other licenses. It is the responsibility of the participant to determine if their accreditation board will accept the credits offered by the Mindsight Institute. To learn more, please visit our CEC Information Page.

No, there is no additional charge to receive CE Credits. To obtain your CE Credits and Certificate, please email the Mindsight Institute Team at info@mindsightinstitute.com to request an exam (you can take an exam after completion of each segment or at the end of the entire course – that is up to you). Once your exam is graded and processed, a digital CE Credit Certificate will be emailed to you.

Absolutely. Once you have completed the course, just email the Mindsight Team at info@mindsightinstitute.com and a Certificate of Completion will be processed and a digital copy will be emailed to you.

Dr. Siegel is well-known for his ability to make complex scientific concepts accessible, and provides plenty of detailed applications to our work and personal lives.  Rest assured that prerequisites and/or a science background are not required in order to benefit from this course.

Once you enroll in the class, you will receive details from the Mindsight Institute via email regarding access to your course and the online learning community. These emails will be sent prior to the first day of the class.We will be rolling out two lectures each week. You will receive access to the first segments of the course prior to the first day of the course being live and open, and then the next set of lectures will be made available to you in the following week, and so on…This is a self-paced program and you will be able to learn at your convenience. We do, however, encourage you to take part in the online learning community, and to join the 3 live, weekly Q & A sessions with Dan to ask questions and discuss material suggested in the corresponding course sequence.

Friday, May 31st, 12 PM PST
Friday, June 7th, 12 PM PST
Friday, June 14th, 12 PM PST

Not a problem! We will record each live Q&A for viewing by course participants at any other time convenient to their schedule.

The course is a self-paced program that does not require live attendance. The only times that we have scheduled are for the live Q & A sessions and we have done our best to accommodate our students from around the globe. Our current course has participants from over 20 countries. Also, we will record each session so you can view it at your convenience.

In addition, we would encourage you to keep in contact with other students and our team here at the Mindsight Institute via the online learning community. This will be a great resource for you and will offer you the opportunity to exchange ideas with other students, and even submit questions for Dr. Siegel if you cannot make any of the live Q & As.

You can pay for the course upfront with either Paypal or Credit Card or enroll in our weekly payment plan. The weekly payment plan is only available for credit cards.

They will remain in your Library forever.

The course videos cannot be downloaded; however, they can be watched on any device and can be streamed at your convenience.

Yes! If for any reason you are unhappy with the course please contact us within the first 7 days for a full refund.

The online community will be a gathering place for additional learning and sharing and will be made up of your peers who are also registered for the class. This will also be the location where all notices, reminders, and more information will be shared from the Mindsight Institute and Dr. Siegel. Once you enroll in the course, you will get an email invitation with all of the instructions to join the online learning community.

Join Today

Live Course

Course Starts May 20th, 2024

  • 9 hours of Course Video

  • 3 Live Q & As with Dr. Dan Siegel

  • 9 Homestudy CE Credits

  • Archive of all Live Q & As

  • Online Learning Community

  • Online Study Groups

  • Lifetime Access to the Content

Eight payments of

$69 / week

Early Bird Pricing Ends May 1st

$57 / week

On-Demand Option

  • 9 hours of Course Video

  • 9 Homestudy CE Credits

  • Lifetime Access to the Content

Eight payments of

$59 / week

Early Bird Pricing Ends May 1st

$47 / week

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