Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy, Mindfulness, and Compassion: What Clinicians Need to Know About Non-Ordinary States
Course description
Ever since Freud, psychotherapists have worked with non-ordinary states such as dreams, hypnosis, and free association to explore and heal the heart and mind. In the past decade mindfulness and compassion practices have become mainstream tools, while more recently research on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP) has mushroomed. Psychedelics, often combined with insights from mindfulness and compassion practices, now offer not only possible breakthrough treatments for PTSD, depression, addictions, and end-of-life anxiety, but provide new insights into the nature of psychological distress and mechanisms of healing.
What can clinicians learn from these developments? What can they teach us about the neurobiology of human suffering and flourishing? How can they inform our psychotherapeutic practice?
In this 5-session course, you’ll learn about practical tools and techniques derived from mindfulness and compassion-oriented treatment. The course explores the history and current state of research of non-ordinary states of consciousness as well as the evidence for and potential cognitive and the neurobiological mechanisms behind Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy. The course also includes discussions of the role of transpersonal and mystical experiences in mindfulness-informed and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Discussions from the course center around theoretical application of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, with a focus on non-psychedelic altered states of consciousness, which can arise from practices such as meditation.
Participants will learn how to use mindfulness and self-compassion practices along with other techniques to harness these healing mechanisms, and will learn about their dangers, limits, and contraindications. Participants will also gain the knowledge clinicians now need to help clients who might be experimenting with psychedelics, or other practices that induce altered states of consciousness, on their own to minimize harm and help them to integrate and grow from their experiences. Teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as the general public.
THE DETAILS
Where: Homestudy Online
Cost: $75 for 10 CE credits
Only Available with Purchase of the Summit Upgrade Package
Faculty
RONALD SIEGEL, PSYD
Psychology Professor, Clinician, Educator, and Author of The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems
FLEET MAULL, MD
Meditation Teacher, Mindset & Habit Change Coach, Social Entrepreneur, Author of Radical Responsibility
Learning Objectives:
Describe the history and current state of research of non-ordinary states in psychotherapy
Explain the evidence for efficacy and mechanisms of action in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
Discuss how mindfulness practices work to resolve psychological distress
Describe the role of compassion and self-compassion in psychotherapeutic progress
Explain what the neurobiology of meditation and psychedelics teach us about psychological suffering and flourishing
Discuss the role of transpersonal and mystical experience in both mindfulness-informed and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
List practical ways to introduce the transformative elements of mindfulness and compassion-informed sessions into other forms of psychotherapy
Assess contraindications for inducing various non-ordinary states in psychotherapy
10 CE Credits
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Dr. Fleet Maull and Heart Mind Institute have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program. For additional information, please contact: CECredits@heartmind.co
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