Pat Ogden, PhD, is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Dr. Ogden is trained in a wide variety of somatic and psychotherapeutic approaches and has over 45 years of experience working with individuals and groups. She is co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, past faculty of Naropa University … Read More
Living Journal with Bonnie Badenoch and Robyn Gobbel: May 20- 1pm PST and 4pm EST, Playfulness IS the Treatment
Playfulness IS the Therapy When feeling stressed, uncertain, or afraid, our brain works hard to protect us by reaching for tools and techniques to use in the therapy room. We can honor our fear and then rest into the truth that presence is the most powerful intervention and playfulness IS the therapy. Playfulness doesn’t need games or props or toys … Read More
THE POWER OF SHOWING UP: How parental presence shapes who our kids become and how their brains get wired, Feb 5, 2020 01:00 PM Pacific Time
Join us February 5, 2020 at 1:00 pm PST for this special webinar with best-selling authors Daniel Siegel, MD and Tina Payne Bryson, PhD as they talk about their newly released book, The Power of Showing Up. Dan and Tina will share how the latest brain and attachment research makes clear that the quality of parental presence is key to … Read More
Oct 9, 2019 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada): The Power of Reflection in a Distracted World with Donald Altman, MA, LPC
We are delighted to have Donald Altman MA, LPC, join the GAINS community in a conversation about using reflection as an important coping skill in a distracted world. Join us as we ask whether the intrusion of technology is causing us to lose our ability to read and think deeply? In our lives that are focused on productivity are we … Read More
Two New books by Allan N Schore to be released March 2019: Right Brain Psychotherapy, and The Development of the Unconscious Mind
We are excited to announce that The Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology is releasing two upcoming books by Allan Schore in March 2019. Right Brain Psychotherapy “The latest groundbreaking, interdisciplinary work from one of our most eloquent and significant writers about emotion and the brain. An exploration into the adaptive functions of the emotional right brain, which describes not only … Read More
David Mars November 14 at 8:00am PST: AEDP for Couples: Micro-movement, Gesture and Body Cues that Accelerate Trauma Treatment
AEDP for Couples: Micro-movement, Gesture and Body Cues that Accelerate Trauma Treatment We are thrilled to welcome David Mars, Ph.D., MFT, to the GAINS community as he leads us on an exploration to clarify and demonstrate how initially unconscious movement in individual treatment sessions can provide an access point for the acceleration of therapeutic work. David will make use of … Read More
May 22, 2018 Considering the Nature of Our Right and Left Hemisphere’s Engagement: a conversation between Iain McGilchrist and Allan Schore
Interaction with the world requires the right hemisphere’s broad attention, which is inclusive and opens up into possibility, coupled with the left hemisphere’s narrow attention, which collapses the world we experience into specificity. The world we live in today, many would argue, is biased toward the style of the left hemisphere. Such a bias precludes the possibility of knowledge that … Read More
May 22, 2018 Considering the Nature of Our Right and Left Hemisphere’s Engagement: a conversation between Iain McGilchrist and Allan Schore
Interaction with the world requires the right hemisphere’s broad attention, which is inclusive and opens up into possibility, coupled with the left hemisphere’s narrow attention, which collapses the world we experience into specificity. The world we live in today, many would argue, is biased toward the style of the left hemisphere. Such a bias precludes the possibility of knowledge that … Read More
All these years later I can still feel the echoes of my fear. By Kirke Olson, Psy.D.
Fear sparked by Hal, a large rage filled teenager with a chair raised high over his head, charging across my science classroom directly at me. His rage and my fear were suddenly interrupted by the noise of smashing glass as the chair crashed into the low hanging overhead light fixtures. We were both stunned. The stunned silence was gradually transformed … Read More
WHY WE EAT, By Richard Hill
We are becoming more informed about the relationship between the gut biota and mental health (see refs 1-7). The “gut-brain axis” is a well recognized, bi-directional communication system. The abstract for Evernsel and Ceylan’s (2015) paper summarizes the pricinciple aspects: The gut microbiota is essential to human health and the immune system and plays a major role in the bidirectional … Read More
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