The Connecticut Naturopathic Physicians Association
is pleased to present:
Integrating Mindfulness in Clinical Practice
A Training of Mind and Heart
Transform Stress, Pain and Illness into a Journey of Healing
Mindfulness is a potent therapy that complements every other strategy and modality you employ!
Dr Epstein’s workshop is being held at the beautiful Guest House in Chester, CT
Registration plans with or without a sleeping room.
Registration fees include 3 meals (11/19 dinner 11/20 breakfast and lunch).
Bringing a friend? A discount of $40/per person is available with a double room.
Summary of workshop content:
Becoming a Mindful Practitioner
o What is Mindfulness?
o What does it mean to be a Mindful Practitioner?
o Personal and professional clinical therapeutic benefits
o Mindfulness & Stress
o Neuroplasticity and Epigenetics
o Understanding the relationship between the cell (biology) and the self (biography)
o Contemplative Medicine : Reflection, Relationship, Resilience
o How to practice Mindfulness
o 7 Intentions for Meditation and Healing
Mindfulness and the Healing Process
o The Healing Power of Mindfulness – How Mindfulness Heals
o The Relevance of the Therapeutic Relationship to the Healing Process
o Using Mindfulness to Cultivate Unconditional Presence and Compassion
o Interpersonal Neurobiology and compassion
o Preventing Burnout cultivating resilience
o Engaging the Wounded Healer
Clinical Application and Integration
o meditation as medication
o Healing vs Curing
o The Role of Acceptance and Facing Painful Truth
o homeopathy without the remedy
o Cellular resilience and Epigenetics
o Evidence based research – anti-inflammatory effects of Mindfulness
o How to use Mindfulness with Patients
o Working with stress, pain and difficult emotions/challenges
o pain to rain
o Mindfulness in the treatment of Post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, psycho-cardiology, psycho-oncology
As a physician, Dr. Epstein is passionate about helping his patients find authentic and lasting healing.
As a speaker and teacher, Dr. Epstein appears worldwide to help those seeking healing find the right “healing soup” to effectively address their concerns.
As a speaker and teacher for professional healing arts practitioners, Dr. Epstein has taught holistic medicine and counseling on the undergraduate and graduate levels and has trained psychotherapists, social workers, mental health professionals, physicians, nurses, medical students, yoga teachers and other health care professionals in the art & science of Mind-Body Integrative Medicine.
He is a sought after speaker and presenter at professional conferences and conventions, especially for Naturopathic organizations.
Dr. Epstein is a prolific author, publishing a number of articles and a mini-book, “Happiness through Meditation.”
