Traumatic Stress
Healing with Breath
NOW CLOSED
Friday 20 May 2022
A live webinar with Dr Richard P. Brown and Dr Patricia L. Gerbarg
CPD Credits: 3.5 hours
- This event will not be recorded
- Bookings close at 9.00am BST Tuesday 17 May
Breath-Body-Mind™ (BBM), is a programme of evidence-based, mind-body practices derived from yoga, qigong, meditation, martial arts, Open Focus Attention Training, and modern neuroscience developed by the holistic psychiatrists Richard Brown and Pat Gerbarg. Their methods have been used to relieve anxiety, depression, and PTSD in survivors of mass disasters, including the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks, Haiti earthquake, Gulf Horizon oil spill, genocide and slavery in Rwanda, South Sudan and Nigeria, Middle East refugees, Rohingya refugee children, and the COVID crisis. Veterans and active military personnel have also benefited from BBM.
READ MORE...Richard will teach participants simple techniques to rapidly reduce stress, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, depression, and negative mood states for their own self-care. Improving stress tolerance is essential during the COVID pandemic, when healthcare providers must stay alert and function well despite increased workloads, workplace risks, and stressors within their own families.
Pat will explain scientific theories about how specific breath practices may affect the way we think, feel, and behave. This includes Polyvagal Theory, interoception, Vagal-GABA Theory of Inhibition, and clinical studies. BBM techniques decrease defensive over-reactivity, activate social engagement and connectedness, and enhance other treatment modalities, including psychotherapy, behavioural therapy, and CBT. BBM can be taught live, online during and after the COVID pandemic.
FULL PROGRAMME
14.00 BST
Introductions
14.10
Dr Richard Brown
Experiential Practices: Breath-Body-Mind
Richard will lead participants through rounds of movement, breathing, and attention training that rapidly balance the autonomic system, reducing defensive reactions (fear, anxiety, anger, and mistrust) while activating the social engagement system and positive psychophysiological states (calmness, feelings of safety, empathy, closeness, trust, and bonding). Mindful awareness of the breath and internal sensations enhances awareness of internal changes as they occur.
14.50
Q&A
15.00
Break
15.15
Dr Patricia Gerbarg
Healing With Breath: Neuroscience and clinical practice
Pat will discuss neurophysiological theories and clinical applications. We will see how specific breath practices can affect perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Using slides and video clips, she will review clinical studies, individual illustrative cases, and BBM programmes that have helped individuals with anxiety, depression, or trauma, both children and adults. Pat will show how BBM breath practices are easily integrated into other forms of therapy, including psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, crisis intervention, behavior therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, family therapy, yoga therapy, individual and classroom educational activities, athletic performance, music, dance, and other artistic activities.
16.00
Q&A
16.15
Break
16.30
Dr Richard Brown
Experiential Practices: Breath-Body-Mind
Richard will lead a second round of BBM practices and introduces Open Focus Attention Training (Les Fehmi at OpenFocus.com) along with other more advanced methods. He will introduce participants to ways of navigating the mind-body-spirit realm through breathing, movement, visualization, and meditative techniques. Understanding and accessing, through regular practice, the critical interoceptive and other mind-body pathways lead us to more effective methods to increase awareness, emotion self-regulation, communication, and co-regulation with our close ones.
17.00
Q&A
17.15
Break
17.30
Dr Patricia Gerbarg
Children Under Stress Learn to Use Their Breath
Patricia will discuss the effects of stress and trauma on infants, children, and teens. She will describe breathing, movement, and visualisation practices for reducing the adverse effects of stress on pregnant women, infants, children, and teens: calm down and focus attention, improve emotion self-regulation and social emotional interactions, reduce anger, facilitate sleep, enhance attention and learning. Videotapes of children describing their own experiences and how they use BBM techniques to help themselves deal with stress, anger, sadness, and difficulty sleeping will be shown. Resources for learning more about methods and programs for children are provided.
17.50
Q&A
18.00
End