Tara Brach on Radical Self-Acceptance: Healing Shame and Fear in Clinical Practice by Tara Brach

Together, you’ll explore how the practices of mindfulness and compassion will allow your clients to fully embrace their lives and connectedness with others while being more compassionate toward the “unforgivable” parts within themselves through the powerful tools of Radical Self-Acceptance.

• • The cause of the pervasive sense of personal deficiency and preponderance of shame in western culture.

• • The cause of emotional suffering from the perspective of Buddhist psychology, Western psychology, and Evolutionary psychology.

• • The current research on meditation for emotional resilience, emotional intelligence and deep transformation.

• • How to transform your client’s shame and fear with the R.A.I.N. model.

• • How to help your client shift from “fight flight freeze” to “attend and befriend.”

• • How to apply Buddhist mindfulness meditation to your clinical practice — the principles and components you need to understand.

• • The process of forgiving and how your clinical support can help clients release their armor.

• • How to evolve our capacity for compassion; working with both dissociation and the tendency to get flooded.

• How positive neuroplasticity can deepen intimacy and connection in our clients’ individual and collective psyche.

Through Tara’s expert and insightful commentary, case studies and practices, you’ll develop highly practical, evidence-based skills that will strengthen your current clinical approach and improve your therapeutic outcomes.

The digital world has created an alternative reality that’s altered our relationship with our senses, bodies, and the very notion of who we are. In this session, you’ll explore how to help clients both deepen their awareness of their relationship to the cyberworld and challenge its powerful grip on them by:

• Enhancing their ability to pause and deepen their experience of presence in the world
• Recognizing the trancelike quality of digital reality and how to awaken from it
• Exploring the psychology of boredom and how it keeps us from being fully connected to the moment
• Developing a cyber-diet to guide your daily use of digital technology and maximize its positive benefits

Dive into a deep discussion focused on the paradoxical “craft” of meditation — how we deliberately practice certain “skillful means” to quiet the mind so that we may attain a seemingly effortless embodied state of radical and liberating “natural presence,” in which we simply let life be just as it is.