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Mental Health & Well-Being Global Summit
Day 7: THE BIG PICTURE: MENTAL HEALTH, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND INTERCONNECTION
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Deepak Chopra, MD
Exploring Consciousness as a Path to Healing
- Understanding true mental health from a perspective of consciousness
- Learning what you can do to transcend your story when you are feeling stuck
- How technology tools such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence can be useful in helping people along their mental health journey of healing
Michael Singer
Notice That You Are Noticing: Understanding the Seat of Consciousness
- How being centered in the seat of consciousness is the key to relaxing, letting go of resistance and accessing the river of joy that naturally flows inside
- Discovering wellness and mental well-being as our natural, underlying state
- How shifting the emphasis from the content of our minds, to our relationship with our inner experiences, results in mental health resilience
Dan Siegel, MD
IntraConnected: Expanding Awareness and Exposing the Lie of the Solo-Self
- Finding that, by engaging in practices to open awareness, it is possible to strengthen your attention and widen your perspective
- Identifying the emotions we experience when we expand our solo-self and liberating it into a transcendent state of being
- Why exposing ourselves to emotions such as gratitude, compassion and awe reduces anxiety and depression
Kazu Haga
It’s Okay to Not Feel Okay: Integrating Mental Health, Justice and Non-Violence for Collective Well-Being
- Why we need to acknowledge our collective experience of harm – whether we call it trauma or not – to understand how our well-being is affected
- How systemic forms of injustice and oppression perpetuate trauma
- How meeting conflict with empathy and compassion starts with the self
Nina Vasan, MD
Meeting People Where They Are: Using Technology to Provide Mental Health Support
- Working toward a goal of making mental health resources available to billions of people worldwide through the use of technology
- Recognizing that the number of people experiencing mental health challenges is far greater than we realize
- Exploring the positive influence of social media in creating community and connection, and integrating mental health into the platforms’ algorithms
Mimi Guarneri, MD
Nourishing the Mind and Body: An Integrative Approach to Wellness
- Discovering the ways mental health and well-being are completely integrated with physical health and well-being
- Exploring the link between emotional trauma, loss, and grief to a decrease in cardiovascular health
- Understanding how genetic testing can provide valuable information in prescribing medications or recommending nutritional support
Don Miguel Ruiz
You Are Your Own Masterpiece: Shaping Your Story and Prioritizing What Matters
- The power of turning faith inward, and cultivating faith in ourselves to masterfully create the story of lives
- Understanding that our beliefs, perceptions, behaviors and everything happening in the world creates opportunities to examine whether we react from fear or faith
- The power of turning faith inward, and cultivating faith in ourselves to masterfully create the story of our lives
Ray Lewis
No Excuses: Building a Solid Foundation of Mental Clarity
- How physical activity can lead to mental clarity
- Ways to acknowledge and manage your mental health challenges
- Overcoming doubt, fear and distraction by cultivating mental clarity
Move Your Mental Health Daily Practice
Lynne Brick, B.S.N, M.A., co-founded the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation and is also an owner of Brick Bodies Fitness Services, Inc., which owns and operates a chain of health clubs in the Greater Baltimore area.
Day 6: THE ANTIDOTES: JOY, WONDER, and CREATIVITY
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Your Day 6 Sessions
Rick Hanson, PhD
Rewired: Change Your Brain With Focused Attention on the Positive
- How we can foster positive mental health using practices that help us grow our inner strengths
- Understanding how practicing loveingkindness and compassion towards ourselves and others fundamentally changes how our brains operate
- Learn 3 neurological hacks to employ when the mind is hijacked by the voice of the inner tyrant
Mariel Hemingway
Tapping Into Your Inner Resources for a More Fulfilling Life
- The value of engaging in practices that promote brain health, such as gratitude, play and laughter
- Finding that the path to well-being is unique for each person and exploring all available resources to discover what works for you
- Realizing that everyone knows intuitively what is healthy for them - they just need to tune into their inner voice
Mavis Tsai, PhD
Come Closer: Tools for Creating Meaningful Connections
- Learning what closeness-generating questions are and how they connect us
- The health risks of loneliness and strategies for creating closeness, intimacy, and extraordinary interaction
- What interpersonal meditation is and how it can enhance your life
Oliver Wood
Soul Poetry: Uplifting the Human Condition Through the Power of Song
- Acknowledging the power of music and lyrics to inspire us through challenging times
- Explore how the creative process of songwriting is a means of both catharsis and connection
- Listen to Oliver play some of his best known songs
Mark Coleman
Coming Home to Our Kinship with Nature
- Discovering why spending time in nature connects us with our aliveness and brings us into a more present state
- The deep and profound sense of awe we experience that goes beyond the chattering mind when we connect with the natural world
- How mindfulness in nature teaches us resilience in the face of adversity
Ask Uncle Jack
I Have to Be Me: Insights From a Nonconformist’s Life
- Discover the challenges and magic of living a creative, nonconformist life
- Why there is so much wisdom to be gained from intergenerational friendship
- How to approach the aging process with wonder and joy
Jewel
Less Anxiety and More Bandwidth: A Heartfelt Message From Jewel
- Discover the two basic states we have: dilation and contraction, and how every thought, feeling and action can be categorized into one or the other
- Gain insight on why pushing away anxiety prevents us from learning what it’s trying to tell us
- Enjoy Jewel’s performance and hear the story behind the songs
Amikaeyla Gaston
Music as Medicine: A Prescription for Love, Peace and Power
- Discover the many healing properties of music, including slowing heart rate, lowering blood pressure, reducing stress, and improving memory
- Learn simple techniques for de-stressing and self-soothing through humming and deep breathing
- Elevate consciousness by choosing empowering thoughts and acting from a place of calm and compassion
Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PhD
Simple Habits for Fostering Friendship, Connection and Joy
- The healing power of community and our intrinsic need for connection
- Why building and reinforcing interpersonal relationships is vital for well-being
- Important steps we can take toward meaningful connection
Russell & Harry Wilson
Mind Matters: Mental Conditioning, Neutral Thinking and Living with Intention
- How mindset training can support mental health & well-being
- The definition of neutral thinking and how it can enhance your well-being
- The power of time management, purposeful living and a positive mindset
Arthur Brooks, PhD
Love Hormone Hacks: How to Boost Your Oxytocin Levels
- The role oxytocin plays in regulating our happiness
- Discovering why physical touch and eye contact combat loneliness
- Three tips for effectively addressing anger or irritation
Move Your Mental Health Daily Practice
Caroll Zeamer is a Regional Fitness Training Manager for Planet Fitness in Pennsylvania and one of the Trainers for the PF United We Move and App workouts. She is an advocate for mental wellness and body positivity.
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A NEW SELF-PACED COURSE from one of the leading voices in integrative mental health and well-being today, Cassandra Vieten, PhD
The New Mental Health: Building Your Own Ecosystem of Well-Being
Would you like to feel more mentally and emotionally strong, balanced, and resilient? Would you like new tools to help elevate the mental well-being of your family members, colleagues, or clients?
This course brings together the most cutting-edge whole-person evidence-based tools to help you build your own personalized ecosystem of mental health and well-being, and learn how to help others create their own.
A BRAND-NEW COURSE from one of the leading voices in integrative mental health and well-being today, Cassandra Vieten, PhD
The New Mental Health: Building Your Own Ecosystem of Well-Being
Would you like to feel more mentally and emotionally strong, balanced, and resilient? Would you like new tools to help elevate the mental well-being of your family members, colleagues, or clients?
This course brings together the most cutting-edge whole-person evidence-based tools to help you build your own personalized ecosystem of mental health and well-being, and learn how to help others create their own.
Here’s the thing: Mental Health and Well-Being are not what you think. Or, not only what you think...
Mental health is not just limited to our insides. It relies on our outsides as well – our relationships, our surroundings, our communities, environments and society. In short, mental health is everywhere.
That’s why it doesn’t make sense to focus only above the neck to cultivate mental and emotional balance and resilience. Mental health and well-being rely on a whole bunch of stuff, like your:
- biology – including “hard-wiring” and genetics, but also your hormones, blood sugar, microbiome (gut health), neurotransmitters, vitality, brain function, structure and more…all of which are affected by and can be influenced by:
- exercise and movement
- what, how and when you eat
- sleep quality, cycles of activity and renewal
- time in light/sunshine vs. dark
- exposure to heat and cold
- and much more
- strong relationships, friendships, social support and community
- connection to nature, animals, and the Earth’s elements and seasons
- connection to religion or spirituality for some, and for others important human values such as truth, justice and beauty
- experiencing and expressing virtues such as honesty, gratitude and love
- having a sense of meaning and purpose
- engaging in art, music, creativity and play
- being able to contribute or be of service to others, society and the world
- taking time in contemplation, reflection, mindfulness, meditation and quiet time
Given what we know now, focusing solely on the head (like, only addressing brain chemistry, or only addressing thinking patterns) to treat mental health issues or cultivate mental well-being — in ourselves, in our loved ones, in society — just doesn’t make sense.
Our mental health and well-being rely on an interlocking set of practices and conditions (an ecosystem) that we can gradually build over time to create the optimal conditions for our well-being in body, mind and spirit. The great news? We know what these practices and conditions are, and we can build a personal system that supports our thriving.
What will you get in the course?
Straight talk, inspiration, and science-based information and tools you can start to use right away to elevate your psychological, behavioral, social and spiritual well-being.
A whole new view of mental health and well-being that is optimistic, heart-centered and evidence-based that empowers you to create the next chapter of your life.
Who is the course for?
This course is for people on their own, in families, neighborhoods, communities, or workplaces, or for professionals who work with clients, customers, or patients who want a brand-new toolbox to elevate their mental and emotional well-being.
Mental health and well-being affect us all. We all live on a spectrum of mental health and well-being and move up and down the spectrum at different points in our lives.
Some of us experience mental health symptoms or disorders most of the time for most of our lives. This can qualify for what we call a mental health disability. Some of us will never or hardly ever have mental health symptoms or disorders. But we all live on the mental health spectrum, and most of us move up and down the spectrum at different points in our lives.
- 1 in 4 people meet the criteria for a mental health disorder in any given year
- That doesn’t count everyone who experiences mental health symptoms
- A substantial proportion of us will experience some level of mental health symptoms at one time or another
- Nearly every one of us will have a friend or family member who experiences mental health symptoms or disorders
- That means nearly everyone reading this either have themselves or knows someone who’s faced depression, abuse, substance dependence, bipolar mood, obsessive-compulsive disorder or others this year
- And all of that doesn’t even count the people who are languishing, feel lonely or disengaged, or have other dysfunctional behaviors
If you’ve ever dealt with your own or loved ones’ mental health challenges, you know it can feel impossible – like banging your head against the same wall over and over again. The new mental health gives us reason for hope, and not just hope – but actual evidence-based pathways toward greater mental well-being.
Each of our minds is a completely unique tapestry that has been woven together from the threads of our genetics, our life experiences, karma/destiny (if you believe in such things), and both beautiful and deeply odd patterns. For some the threads have become quite tangled, for others, it may be necessary to unravel and re-weave, and for many, we can learn to love and live with the patterns we have and gradually feel empowered to become the weavers of the next chapters of our lives – making choices about the patterns we want to create. This course will help you do that.
Beyond Mental Health...
Regardless of whether we have mental health symptoms or disorders, every single one of us can work toward greater mental health and well-being.
This means greater thriving, flourishing, a stronger sense of meaning, purpose and connection, a more robust resilience in the face of life’s ups and downs, and more authentic and genuine engagement with others and the world – more contentment, happiness, compassion and lovingkindness.
This kind of life is available to everyone, everywhere, by paying greater attention to creating the conditions and practices that both science and the world’s wisdom traditions tell us work.
It’s kind of like a garden. This course will help you figure out the right soil, nutrients, water, amount of sunshine, shade and the stakes in the ground that will help your personal garden grow. Just like this, you can build environments, activities, practices, people, animals, places, and things that interact to support your “garden” of mental well-being. The more you build this ecosystem, the better you can thrive and flourish, no matter what genetic and life-experience hand you’ve been dealt.
Why now?
We’ve all heard that we are in a mental health crisis. But what you may not have heard is that we are also at the beginning of a mental health renaissance. A huge breakthrough in how we view psychological well-being is underway. Our methods of cultivating mental, emotional and spiritual well-being are rapidly expanding.
And YOU can be one of the first to bring them all together in a plan for mental health and well-being that is customized to you, and you can track over time, as well as learning how to help others create their own plan.
Are you ready to take your life to the next level?
Course: Live 6 Week Course Begins May 2nd
Meet Your Teacher
Cassandra Vieten, PhD
Cassandra Vieten, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and researcher specializing in integrative health. She is an internationally recognized public speaker and course leader, specializing in integrative approaches to psychological well-being.
She is a Senior Advisor at the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation, who is co-hosting this course, co-chair of their Scientific Advisory Board, and served as their Executive Director from 2019-2022.
Currently she is a Clinical Professor at the Centers for Integrative Health at the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, where she directs the Center for Mindfulness. At UC San Diego, she is also the Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and the co-founder and Clinical Psychology Director of the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative.
She is author of Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life; Mindful Motherhood: Practical Tools for Staying Sane During Pregnancy and Your Child’s First Year; and Spiritual and Religious Competencies in Clinical Practice: Guidelines for Psychologists and Mental Health Professionals.
Meet Your Teacher
Cassandra Vieten, PhD
Cassandra Vieten, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and researcher specializing in integrative health. She is an internationally recognized public speaker and course leader, specializing in integrative approaches to psychological well-being.
She is a Senior Advisor at the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation, who is co-hosting this course, co-chair of their Scientific Advisory Board, and served as their Executive Director from 2019-2022.
Currently she is a Clinical Professor at the Centers for Integrative Health at the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, where she directs the Center for Mindfulness. At UC San Diego, she is also the Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and the co-founder and Clinical Psychology Director of the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative.
She is author of Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life; Mindful Motherhood: Practical Tools for Staying Sane During Pregnancy and Your Child’s First Year; and Spiritual and Religious Competencies in Clinical Practice: Guidelines for Psychologists and Mental Health Professionals.
What People Say About Cassandra Vieten
“After attending 40+ years of transformational course, it is rare to find an experiential course that is THIS immediately applicable, useful and grounded in scientific research.”
– Alexandra H, Palo Alto, CA
“Cassi’s presence, knowledge, amiability, and acceptance of everyone and every question was an extraordinary example of how to BE. Truly, I felt inspired from the first day!”
– Karen B, San Francisco, CA
“What a wonderful course! So happy to be a part of this community. A truly enlivening experience.”
– Kameron T, Portland, OR
How the course will work
Course + Summit
Summit
Full Refund Available for 14 Days from Purchase
9 APA CE credits available at checkout for an additional fee with your purchase of the Course. APA CE credits accepted by California Board of Behavioral Sciences for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal. Professionals in other states need to check applicability for their licensure.
What will you learn?
It includes science-based methods for boosting mood, regulating negative emotions, staying balanced, and dealing with symptoms. It also includes experiential practices from the world’s wisdom traditions for stress reduction, equanimity (or being less reactive), mind-body awareness, connection and healing, and building resilience.
Session 1: The New Mental Health
This session makes it clear how and why it really is a new day for mental health and covers some of the key tenets of the mental health renaissance.
It busts some myths of mental well-being and introduces some surprising new ways of thinking about and approaching psychological wellness. It delves into how we can reframe the spectrum of mental health symptoms, moving from a pathologizing, stigmatizing view, to one that embraces psychological neurodiversity.
It introduces the ecosystem approach and gets you started on how to build one for yourself (or for loved ones or clients). It also covers how self-care and health care interact for mental wellness: reducing stigma, asking for help and what roles counseling, crisis support, medication and intensive treatment can sometimes play as part of your ecosystem.
Session 2: Move Your Mental Health
This session describes how exercise and movement are linked to mental health, which forms are most important for mental well-being overall, as well as which are best for depression, anxiety, etc.
It describes ways of approaching exercise that work best when we are feeling down, includes how to leverage gamification, affect-based exercise and individual and app-based personal training. We will explore ways to include movement in your mental well-being ecosystem.
Session 3: Nourishing Mental Well-Being
This session discusses the evidence for how eating, nutrition, gut health and enjoying food is related to mental health and well-being. It provides food recommendations for specific mood and mental/emotional situations, and general ways of eating that can be helpful.
This session focuses specifically on food enjoyment as a strong support for mental wellness. It promotes an “additive” model focused on ADDING new foods with increased nutrient density and reduced caloric density, rather than a “subtractive” model, which focuses on what you can’t eat. It also provides information on supplements and improving gut health, adding another core element to your ecosystem.
Session 4: Expanding Mental Well-Being
This session focuses on how we can expand our practices for mental well-being to include such things as spending time in nature, being outdoors, interacting with animals, engaging in art, music and creativity.
These activities might seem like “luxury items” – things that can be added once we get all our ducks in a row. But in fact, they are actually core building blocks of mental wellness, and amazing antidotes to the stuff that causes anxiety, stress, or low-mood.
We will review the science, recommend practices, and work together on what role these will play in your ecosystem.
Session 5: Connection and Purpose
The focus of this session is how friendships, peer-support, groups, volunteering and other forms of getting connected to others, are essential to mental well-being, as well as how to navigate social anxieties or conflicts with more ease.
We’ll also dive into the science of meaning and purpose, and how those can be key drivers of both cognitive, emotional and behavioral health; in other words, what we think, how we feel and what we do.
As our ecosystem continues to build over each session, practices for connection and purpose will take their place in a growing set of resources to support our well-being.
Session 6: Quiet Time, Contemplation, Spirituality and/or Meaning
In this final session, we examine the crucial role that rest, mindfulness and other contemplative practices, as well as spirituality or meaning, will play in your ecosystem of mental well-being.
We review the robust evidence emerging for practices of breathing and deep rest, as well as the evidence for mindfulness and contemplation (different from rest and relaxation), in cultivating mental well-being.
We also touch into the relationship between spirituality (for many), and meaning making (for everyone), in mental wellness.
Finally, we pull together the complete ecosystems we’ve developed, and review how to use them and continue to craft them on an ongoing basis.
Other possible “what you’ll get”
- Reduce stress, distress, and mood disturbance
- Improve emotion regulation & increase positive emotion
- Encourage mindful eating, body movement, and an active lifestyle
- Increase your ability to tolerate and regulate stress without resorting to unhealthy behaviors
- Treat yourself and others with kindness and compassion, including healthy boundaries
- Increasingly approach your experiences, regardless of their content, with acceptance, and willingness to meet things as they are, with open eyes and an open heart
- Make decisions and take actions that are in alignment with your values and long-term goals
Course: Live 6 Week Course Begins May 2nd
Course + Summit
Summit
Full Refund Available for 14 Days from Purchase
9 APA CE credits available at checkout for an additional fee with your purchase of the Course. APA CE credits accepted by California Board of Behavioral Sciences for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal. Professionals in other states need to check applicability for their licensure.
What People Say About Cassandra Vieten
Your teachings and imparting of practices were with such clarity, openness and care. Each week unfolded into the next, keeping the practices alive and understandings deepening and growing. It was one of the most well integrated and integratable programs that I have experienced.
– Carolyn A.
My course leader was excellent in every way - organized, thorough - the course was nothing less than inspirational. I walked away informed, with an array of new tools, filled with love, and more intelligent. I offer my highest recommendation
– James A.
Course + Summit
Summit
Full Refund Available for 14 Days from Purchase
9 APA CE credits available at checkout for an additional fee with your purchase of the Course. APA CE credits accepted by California Board of Behavioral Sciences for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal. Professionals in other states need to check applicability for their licensure.
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