HMS-CME

Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education

Winter Seminar: Meditation and Visualization Practice for Everyday Living and Well-Being and to Enhance Peak Performance

Date: 3/1/2010 - 3/5/2010
Course #: 03024345
Who should attend: psychology, behavioral medicine, mental health, psychiatry, social workers, oriental medicine
Tuition:

	Registration fee	$850.00
	Students and Residents/Fellows in Training Only	$495.00

Location: Ocean Reef Club - Key Largo, Florida, 35 Ocean Reef Drive, Key Largo, FL 33037
Director(s): Daniel Brown, PhD, ABPH|Lawrence E. Lifson, MD
Offered by: Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry

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March 1‑5, 2010
Ocean Reef Club, Key Largo, Florida

Offered by: Massachusetts Mental Health Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry

Course Directors: Lawrence E. Lifson, MD and Daniel Brown, PhD, ABPH

Early Registration Cut-off Date December 18, 2009

Teaching in this seminar is by lecture and experiential visualization and meditation practices.

OBJECTIVE

This seminar will help attendees:

Integrate Eastern meditation traditions with self‑hypnosis and visualization practices from Western psychotherapy traditions;
Utilize visualizations for developing and calling upon optimal self states, and for transforming negative emotional states into well‑being;
Utilize meditation practices for bringing optimal energy states to everyday living;
Use concentration meditation to stabilize the mind so that it stays focused in whatever you intend it to stay on without distraction;
Use mindfulness meditation training to cultivate continuous and complete presence to whatever you are doing at the moment;
Utilize insight meditations to reduce reactivity and develop a non‑reactive openness to experience;
Use visualization practices to develop sensitivity to and compassion for others.

This course is supported in part by an unrestricted education grant from OmegaBrite.

Attendance Limited

MEDITATION AND VISUALIZATION PRACTICE FOR EVERYDAY LIVING AND WELL‑BEING AND TO ENHANCE PEAK PERFORMANCE
Ocean Reef Club

Monday, March 1, 2010 ‑ Introduction: Ordinary mind and everyday unhappiness; relationship between peak performance, optimal states, flow states, and everyday self‑contentment and happiness; conditions which hinder or potentiate optimal states; integrative approach to the development of optimal states; visualization practices to develop and draw upon optimal states.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 ‑ Cultivating attitudes that potentiate optimal states; zone of optimal functioning; practices to develop the right level of energy.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 ‑ Basic Concentration Training: goals of concentration training; directing and intensifying attention; dealing with problems of concentration, e.g. distracting thought, imbalanced energy states, dullness.

Thursday, March 4, 2010 ‑ Advanced Concentration Training: the 9 states of concentration training; awareness [mindfulness] training to awaken the senses.

Friday, March 5, 2010 ‑ The Applications of Mindfullness to Everyday Living: full presence and happiness; transforming negative states through pure, non‑reactive awareness; cultivating well‑being through insight meditations; developing sensitivity to and compassion for others.

ACCREDITATION

Physicians: Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Harvard Medical School designates the Winter Seminars and Weeklong Esalen Seminars for a maximum of 15 and the Weekend Esalen Seminars for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Psychologists: The Massachusetts Mental Health Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Massachusetts Mental Health Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

Counselors: Massachusetts Mental Health Center is approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors to offer continuing education to participants. All weeklong programs meet the criteria for 15 credit hours. The weekend seminars meet the criteria for 10 credit hours.

Social Workers: For information on the status of the application to the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, please call 617‑ 998‑5029 or email: mkmcgona@bidmc.harvard.edu.

Nurses: Massachusetts Mental Health Center is approved by the Arizona State Nurses Association to offer continuing education credits to participants. All week‑long programs meet the criteria for 15 contact hours. The weekend seminars meet the criteria for 10 contact hours.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: Application for continuing education credits has been made to the Massachusetts Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Winter Seminar Fees Postmarked by 12/18/09 Postmarked after 12/18/09 Additional Weeks

Registration Fee $750 $850 $495 x _____ # of weeks

Residents*/Fellows‑in‑Training*/Full‑time Students Only $495 $495 $495 x _____ # of weeks

All foreign payments must be made by a draft on a United States Bank or by Visa or MasterCard.

If paying by CHECK, please make payable to Harvard Medical School and mail with completed registration form to Harvard Medical School‑Department of Continuing Education, PO Box 825, Boston, MA 02117‑0825.

If paying by credit card, please register online via the REGISTER NOW! link above.

Telephone or mail‑in registration with credit card payment is not accepted.

Inquiries should be directed to the above address, made by phone: (617) 384‑8600, Monday ‑ Friday, 10 AM to 4 PM (EST), or by email: hms‑cme@hms.harvard.edu

Upon receipt of registration a confirmation will be mailed to the address listed on the form.

TUITION REFUND POLICY

A handling fee of $60 is deducted for cancellation. Refund requests must be received by mail one week prior to the course. No refunds will be made thereafter.

COURSE LOCATION

OCEAN REEF CLUB, an exclusive retreat, is located on tropical Key Largo in the Florida Keys, 54 miles south of Miami International Airport. The Club is an oasis of natural beauty and outstanding amenities within the setting of a private club community. Amenities include two championship 18‑hole golf courses, a private beach, a lawn and tennis center with eight courts (six lighted), croquet, miniature golf, jogging trails, a host of water recreation and a private airstrip. Luxurious accommodations include an oceanfront inn, condominiums, villas and estate homes.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Reservations must be made by January 20, 2010 to receive the group rate. Call (305) 367‑2611 ext. 5000 or email: reservations@oceanreef.com. Please mention you are with the Harvard Medical School group. Please visit Ocean Reef Club's website at http://www.oceanreef.com.

TRAVEL

Please do not make non-refundable airline reservations until you have been confirmed into your course. You can make your airline reservation by calling the HMS Travel Desk toll free 1(877) 4-HARVMD (1-877-442-7863) Monday - Friday 9 AM - 8 PM (EST). From outside the U.S., Canada and Virgin Islands, please call (617) 559-3764.

DISCOUNT CAR RENTAL

Information on car rentals will be sent along with confirmation of enrollment.

TRAVEL

Daniel Brown, PhD, ABPH
is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. He has taught hypnotherapy workshops for 38 years. He is the author of over a dozen books including 4 textbooks on hypnotherapy, including Hypnotherapy and Hypnoanalysis and Hypnosis and Behavioral Medicine. He was the founder of the Division of Behavioral Medicine at The Cambridge Hospital in the 1980s. Since 1990 he has taught a course on Peak Performance in Sports and the Worksite at Harvard Medical School, and recently taught a course of performance excellence for judges. He studied meditation practice for 38 years, including Patanjali’s Yogasutras with the great historian of religion, Mircea Eliade and others, Burmese mindfulness meditation in Burma with its originator, Mahasi Sayadaw and many other masters, and Indo‑Tibetan concentration and insight meditation with Geshe Wangyal, Denmo Loncho Rinpoche and Yeshe Tapgyay. He learned Mahamudra meditation from numerous Tibetan lamas. He spent 10 years translating meditation texts from Tibetan and Sanskrit. As a Western psychologist he spent 10 years conducting outcomes research on beginning and advanced mediators, with an emphasis on researching the nature of enlightenment. He has taught meditation retreats internationally for 18 years, alone and in collaboration with a number of Tibetan meditation masters, and is a lineage holder in both the Burmese and Indo‑Tibetan Buddhist meditation traditions. He is the author of 4 books on meditation including Transformations of Consciousness and Pointing Out the Great Way, and two books in collaboration with H.H. The Dalai Lama. Dr. Brown’s background in both Western psychology and Eastern meditation traditions offers a unique integration of the contemporary Western research on peak performance and positive psychology and the classical Buddhist meditation lineage traditions.

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