Byron Clinic Professional Development
Norman Doidge, M.D.
The Power of Thought: Updates in Brain Plasticity
Join acclaimed researcher Norman Doidge as he explores the latest research into the brain’s amazing capacity to heal, and how to apply these discoveries to clinical practice.
Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne: May 2018
wisemind.com
Your Online Specialist Psychologist
Psychologists and Psychiatrists with 6 to 10 years’ university study and over 5000 hours working face to face with people just like you. Sessions from Bessel van der Kolk, Janina Fisher, Pat Ogden.
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Pat Ogden PhD
Wisdom of the Body, Lost and Found: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Approach
Byron Clinic is excited to present Pat Ogden in Australia. Pat is a pioneer in somatic psychology and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.
Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne: November 2017
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Trauma, the Brain & Biology: Foundations & Treatment of Trauma
The author of the ‘bible of traumatic stress’, the bestselling The Body Keeps the Score, Dr van der Kolk will present the very latest clinical methods in the resolution of traumatic experiences and the restoration of self.
Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne: December 2017
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Psychologists and Psychiatrists with 6 to 10 years’ university study and over 5000 hours working face to face with people just like you. Sessions from Bessel van der Kolk, Janina Fisher, Pat Ogden & Alan Fruzzetti.
Byron Clinic News
Why do so many people find psychological change so difficult?
Change, in the brain, is not a rare event, it is the day to day modus operandi. But if that’s the case, why do so many people find psychological change so difficult? If change is so possible, why do some people seem to get more rigid as time passes?
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Anorexia and the “Plastic Paradox”
Anorexia Nervosa and other eating disorders have the highest mortality rate in all of mental health. Norman Doidge explores a new approach that takes the best of depth psychology psychotherapies and the newest developments in neuroplasticity and brain training.
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Norman Doidge: Why Two Brains?
Why do we have two different brain hemispheres? And what difference does understanding this make in our lives and in how we treat patients?
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Using Shakespeare to Ease the Trauma of War
Bessel van der Kolk will introduce a short piece of LIVE theatre at his coming workshops and then open the room up for comment and discussion.
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Bessel van der Kolk: Trauma, the Brain & the Body
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies.
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Pat Ogden on PTSD
An Individual with PTSD will often relive the traumatic events through nightmares, flashbacks and can experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt, frightening thoughts, numbness and feelings of detachment from others.
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Bessel van der Kolk: Trauma Lives Within
Trauma is an inability to inhabit one’s body without being possessed by its defenses and the emotional numbing that shuts down all experience, including pleasure and satisfaction.
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Pat Ogden on Resolving Childhood Trauma
The language of the body communicates implicit meanings and reveals the legacy of trauma and of early or forgotten dynamics with attachment figures.
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Alan Fruzzetti PhD on ‘Anhedonia’
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy has been shown, in dozens of studies, to be very effective at reducing self-harm, suicide attempts, aggression, substance use problems, eating disorders, relationship chaos and distress.
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Since 2009, Byron Clinic’s extensive professional development program has aimed to keep health care professionals skilled and up-to-date with current and emerging treatment practices.
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Janina Fisher: 2016Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane: March 2017 -
Cathy Malchiodi: 2016Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane: November 2016 -
Marsha Linehan: 2016Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane: March 2016 -
Norman Doidge: 2016Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane: May 2016 -
Bessel van der Kolk: 2016Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane: March 2016 -
Bessel van der Kolk: 2015Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane: March 2015 -
Bill Miller: 2015Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane: March 2015 -
Marsha Linehan: 2014Sydney, Melbourne: March 2014 -
Bessel van der Kolk: 2012Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane: March 2012 -
Bill Miller: 2012Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane: 2012
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