Mindfulness and Biofeedback for
Resilience and Self-regulation Workshop

Instructor: Inna Khazan, PhD

Location: Harvard SOCH (Student Organization Center at Hilles) 
59 Shepard St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Date: Friday, June 2 and Saturday, June 3, 2017
8:30 - 5:30 pm, includes two 15-minute breaks and hour lunch break

Cost: $250 Early Bird Registration avalable until April 7, 2017
$299 Registration Rate 

CE credits: This workshop is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor 16 Continuing Education (CE) Credit Hours for psychologists. CEs for Social Workers Pending. MPA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor Continuing Education (CE) for psychologists. MPA maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

This workshop is open to all in the community. Biofeedback devices and testing will be included in the workshop. All are welcome to participate in this 2-day interactive workshop and training. No meditation experience required.

Workshop Overview: As human beings, we often bring a great depth of skill and knowledge to navigating our personal and professional lives. We do our best each and every day and often lead successful lives and careers. And yet, we are not always able to bring our knowledge and skills to bear in high stress situations, leaving us dissatisfied with our performance. Similar situations happen in our personal lives too. We might “know” how we want to act, but are unable to act in accordance with this knowledge because automatic reactions from our minds and bodies get in the way. For Course Schedule Overview, click here. 

These challenges are not related to lack of any professional or academic skill or experience, and require a set of skills not typically taught anywhere. Our mind’s and body’s abilities to self-regulate are at the core of how we handle stressful situations. Ideally, we want our brains and our bodies to work in ways that foster a resilient response to stress and we want them to recover quickly once the stressful event is over. For most of us, the only way to get there is to specifically train our brains and bodies to self-regulate at all times, and especially when the stakes are high. This is what this workshop is about.

In this course, participants will learn how to help themselves and their clients to increase resilience and ability to self-regulate through the skills of mindfulness, acceptance, and compassion integrated with psychophysiological principles of biofeedback. The course will provide participants with hands-on experience with mindfulness and biofeedback. We will cover specific applications of mindfulness and biofeedback techniques in increasing resilience and self-regulation with the goal of improving client outcomes. Biofeedback techniques discussed in the course will be accessible to all participants, without a requirement to purchase expensive equipment. Additionally, affordable easy-to- use biofeedback equipment will also be available for purchase by those who chose to do so.

As a result of participating in this course, participants will be able to:

1. Discuss concepts of mindfulness, acceptance, and compassion and their relevance to resilience and self-regulation.
2. Discuss psychophysiological principles of resilience and self-regulation.
3. Observe and/or experience specific mindfulness and biofeedback techniques.
4. Explain how to apply mindfulness and biofeedback-based skills in teaching resilience and self-regulation.
5. Begin applying those skills to your own practice

About the Instructor:
Inna Khazan, PhD, BCB is a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, where she has taught biofeedback and supervised trainees since 2008. A clinical psychologist specializing in health psychology and biofeedback, Dr. Khazan also maintains a private practice in Boston, working with clients on optimizing their health and performance, using biofeedback and mindfulness based approaches. She has been invited to give keynote and conference presentations and teach workshops at national and international conferences on the topics of biofeedback and mindfulness. Dr. Khazan has conducted biofeedback and mindfulness trainings for notable institutions in the US and abroad, including the US Navy Special Warfare and the Stuttgart Opera and Ballet Company. Dr. Khazan is recognized as a pioneer in the area of mindfulness and acceptance based biofeedback, and is the author of a highly regarded Clinical Handbook of Biofeedback: A Step-by-Step Guide for Training and Practice with Mindfulness. 

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Refund policy: There is a $75 registration fee if cancelling at least 8 days before the workshop.
50% refund can be between 7 days and 24 hours before the workshop.
No Refund is available if cancellation is within 24 hours of workshop start time. 

For online registration, we only accept credit card payments. If you would like to pay by check, we ask that you deliver the check in-person. Please contact us at cmc@challiance.org if you would like to register and pay by check.