- PLENARY:
HOW TO EMBRACE THE FEMININE WORLD, SAVE THE PLANET AND LIVE TO TELL
THE STORY.
- Ray
Bergen
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- WORKSHOP
(2 hrs):
- HEALING
THE GENDER CONFLICT IN THREE NOT SO EASY STEPS
- Ray
Bergen
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- The
stalemate created by the differences between how men and women
approach interpersonal issues lies at the heart of every
relationship breakdown. This
same difference is played out in issues facing humankind, like
terrorism or global warming.
- This
workshop demonstrates the archetypal roles that men and women can
step into in order to bridge the gap between them. Participants
will learn the three steps for moving from breakdown to connection
which apply equally to the micro world of our relationship as well
as the macro world of politics.
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- AGENDA
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- 1ST
HR: Understanding the nature of these archetypal roles and how
they apply to us.
- 2nd
HR: Learning the three steps
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- LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
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- Participants
will:
- 1)
Understand interpersonal conflict in a whole new way
- 2)
Understand global conflict in a whole new way
- 3)
Gain tools to resolve issues
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Meditation
Prescribed by the Doctor
Presented
by Naras Bhat, MD,
FACP. Cybernetix Medical Institute, 2182 East St., Concord,
California, 94520. Phone: 925-685-4224. Fax: 925-685-6997. Web
address: heartsaver.com
Course
Description
Learn to
prescribe meditation in a single office visit by specific concepts:
what is meditation, why meditate, how to meditate and when to
meditate. Demonstrate meditation using brain wave technology. The course is based
on years of teaching meditation to UC Berkeley students and heart
disease support groups at a community hospital.
Attendee
description
All
biofeedback practitioners and clinicians can attend this program. Of
special interest for people involved in teaching stress control, and
cardiovascular work.
Statement
of Objectives
1. Learn
the concepts of secular meditation and clinical applications.
2. Learn
how to meditate in one moment, one minute, and five minute segments,
any time and anywhere.
3. Learn
the common state dependent psychophysiological denominator of
all meditative systems.
Presenters:
Naras
Bhat, MD, FACP. is a professor
of behavioral medicine, and teaches meditation and integrative
medicine at UC Berkeley. He is a board certified internist, certified
in stress management education by AAPB, and member of AAPB. Author of
widely acclaimed book, How
to Reverse Heart Disease and Cancer. He is director of a heart disease reversing program at
Concord, California. The program consists of weekly educational and
support group, individual sessions of biofeedback to reduce reactivity
of mind-body in general and heart in particular. Dr Bhat is originally
from India, and has studied the mind-body healing from the standpoint
of biological reactivity. He has conducted more than 500 seminars and
workshops all over the world on doable stress control for 21st
century.
Prerequisites
None
Claim
of the course
1. The
altered state of meditation can be accomplished by anybody by
following the user friendly steps.
2.
Meditation and imagery is a useful modality in mind-body clinical
practice. The secular meditation can be taught to the client in a
single office visit.
Examination
Questions
Attached.
Course
outline
1. What is meditation: How
the meditation is a state dependent phenomenon regardless of what
system you follow.
2. Why people fail in meditative practices? Problems
and solutions.
3. How to meditate: The three P's of
meditation: Place, Posture, and Passive state. The three R's of
meditation: Relax the muscles, Respiration watch, and Repeat the sound
(mantra).
4. Meditation dynamics:
what to do with your body and mind during meditation. How to use
creative imageries for stress control, healing, and personal growth.
Hand
outs
Attached.
- Laughter
Yoga: Therapeutic laughter for no other reason
- Naras
Bhat, M.D.
The
unique idea of Laugher Club was discovered in March 1995 by Dr Madan
Kataria, Physician from Mumbai (India). Anyone can laugh in a group
for 15-20 min without depending upon the Sense of Humour, Jokes or
comedy. It combines laughter exercises based on Yoga breathing, which
turns into real laughter when practiced in a group. Now there are more
than 2500 laughter clubs around the world such as India, USA, UK,
Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland,
Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Dubai.
Based on
the experience with thousands people, we systematically present the
phenomenology and neurobiology of laughter, qualitative and
quantitative data from these clubs, and share the proven protocols of
laughter sessions. Statement
of the claim of the course: Laughter yoga is a new group therapy tool
in the era of positive psychology. The therapeutic benefits of
laughter are easily reachable to everyone using this model, regardless
of ones sense of humor or level of otherwise life satisfaction. Once
initiated, the phenomenon of stimulated laughter and its aftermath of
release feeling are similar to spontaneous laughter.
Biodata:
Naras
Bhat, MD, FACP is a board certified specialist in Internal Medicine
and Metabolic Cardiology. He has an active heart disease reversal
clinic at Concord, California focused on the tripod model of heart
disease: plumbing blockage, cholesterol chemistry, and emotional
factors. He was a professor of Behavioral Medicine at Rosebridge
College of Integrative Psychology, and teaches at University of
California, Berkeley. He is immediate past president of Biofeedback
Society of California and serves as board member of AAPB. He is the
author of two popular books: How to Reverse and Prevent Heart Disease;
Reversing Stress and Burnout. He prescribes meditation as well as
medications for his patients.
PLENARY:
The New Story-Mind Connection: Story Patterns Reveal
a New Model of the Psyche
James
Bonnet
In
this talk, James Bonnet will describe a new story model called The
Golden Paradigm which is also a model of the human psyche and was
brought to light by intriguing new patterns discovered hidden in great
stories. These new patterns reveal all of the psychic dimensions,
their structure, their hierarchy, their conflicts and their goals.
This psychological model becomes a story model when it is used to
create new stories. Once you understand these new patterns and models,
you will not only be able to create better stories, you will
understand why the struggle between good and evil is the dominant
pattern in great stories and why it is playing such a significant role
in our lives.
Bonnet
will also explore the source of creativity
and how the conscious and creative unconscious minds can interact to
form a creative partnership which is applicable, not only to
storymaking, but to many different art forms, and can bring powerful
inner resources to light.
WORKSHOP:
Archetype and Metaphor: The Secret Language of Great
Stories and the Human Mind
James
Bonnet
Metaphor
is the symbolic language of story. In this workshop, James Bonnet will
decipher the metaphors found in great stories and the psychological
archetypes they reveal. These archetypes, patterns of action and
cycles of transformation are the same archetypes, patterns and cycles
which run through every individual and every group, and are being
played out in all of life's important stages. The secrets of great
stories, it turns out, are the secrets of the human mind and the study
of story is the study of this remarkable phenomenon. Every great story
reveals some small piece of that magnificent mystery. With this new
deeper understanding of story, there will be no limit to the power and
art that can be created through your work.
Bonnet
will also demonstrate why a knowledge of story and the act of
storymaking are essential links in a creative process that can
reconnect us to our lost or forgotten inner selves and why a vast,
unrealized potential exists within us which a
knowledge of story and storymaking can help to make real.
BIO: James Bonnet http://www.storymaking.com
began his career as an actor and writer. He created the role of James
Roosevelt in the Tony Award winning hit Broadway play Sunrise at Campobello, and at twenty-three he wrote for the
television series It’s A Man’s World. He was elected twice
to the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America and has
written or acted in more than forty television shows and features. For
the last twenty years he has been the director of Astoria Filmwrights,
a research project studying all the significant story models and
theories about story from around the world and their connection to the
creative process, storymaking, psychology, myth and film. The
culmination of this work is the breakthrough “unified” theory of
the origin and nature of story, and a
revolutionary new story model that can teach writers and filmmakers
how to create contemporary novels and films that are significantly
more powerful, successful and real than stories currently are. These radical new ideas are
revealed in his book Stealing Fire From The Gods: A Dynamic New
Story Model For Writers And Filmmakers and his weekend seminar,
Storymaking: The Master Class, and are having a major impact on
writers in all media.
- “What
Good, if any, is Joint Time Frequency Analysis?”
- Grant
Bright
- The
goal of early computerized EEG recording systems was to make
recordings as reliable and faithful as those seen with the
traditional pen and paper chart recorders.
- As
scientists began to explore the digital recordings, it was found
that computerized eeg recordings actually contained more
information than was seen in the pen and paper chart recorders.
- Advanced
mathematics is a tough subject for many of us. While, computers
do the mathematics for us, it is important to understand that
advanced methods of mathematics offer us views of EEG not seen
in traditional measures.
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- “A
Viable Business Model for Professional NeuroFeedback”
- Grant
Bright
- Many
NeuroFeedback clinicians are effective computer program operators.
They make substantial invests of time, money, and other resources.
Some have thriving practices with waiting lists, while others
check for dial tone to see if their phone working.
- The
difference in success and lack of success lies in an understanding
of effective business methods, clinical strategy, professional
salesmanship, demonstrated energy, personal qualities including
telling effective story telling, office environment, and personal
ethics and integrity.
Workshop
(2 Hr)
- The
CARE Approach to NF Training: Comprehensive, Adaptive
Renormalization of EEG
- Valdeane
Brown
Many
approaches to NF training are based localized theories and/or
collections of discrete protocols. The CARE approach is
fundamentally different and is based on the idea that – regardless
of the specific manifesttion – all disorder involves limitations in
the resilience and flexibility of the CNS. From this perspective
NF Training is done so as to facilitate the return or restoration of
resilience and flexibility – with disorders “dropping away” on
their own as that process unfolds. This greatly simplifies
training as it means that specialized training approaches, particular
sensor sites, and/or unique training sequences are not needed.
An overarching targeting procedure can be useful across context.
This workshop will explore the details of using this kind of approach
regardless of NF training system used.
- plenary:
The 7 Hz Resonances of NF Training: A Central Role For the
Thalamic Pacemaker
-
Valdeane Brown
Traditionally
most NF training uses a single “augment” in combination with 1-2
“inhibits”. This traditional approach necessitates the use
of various assessment procedures in order to ascertain which
particular “augment” and/or “inhibits to use at a particular
time. Recent research has validated the presence of a roughly 7
Hz “central rhythm” that can be traced to the Thalamus. This
research also indicates that there may well be a bi-modal distribution
to Thalamic activity involving both 7 and 14 Hz. Interestingly,
14 Hz has been clearly identified as the central signature of SMR,
when accessed over the sensory-motor strip. We have been
exploring the integration of these two streams, in particular the role
of 7 Hz and its “resonant” patterns in NF training and how the use
of multiple, concurrent targets can yield a single comprehensive
approach to NF training. This presentation will outline how the
various 7 Hz multiples of 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49 and 56 can all be
used concurrently to yield a powerful, yet ultimately simple, adaptive
training approach.
- plenary
(short) Cutting Edge Visualization Techniques As An Assist in NF
Training: Cross Correlation of the AutoCorrelation of Joint
Time-Frequency Analysis
-
Valdeane Brown
Historically
a number of Gausssian statistics have been used to assist in
understanding the potential usefulness of NF training. However
useful these may have been in the past, the reality is that EEG is
neither linear nor Gaussian – and the data from NF training supports
the idea that traditional linear measures are insufficient to capture
both the dynamics of the NF training itself as well as the relevant
outcomes in a large number of cases. Clearly, additional means
are needed in order to truly understand how NF training occurs and how
well it has been implemented in particular instances. There is a
robust literature concerning the use of Cross Correlations of the
AutoCorrelations of Joint Time-Frequency Analyses. These tools
have been applied to NF training and reveal a possible use of this
kind of tools for understanding how well training is progressing, esp
in re: to how the resilience of the CNS has increased as a result of
training. Data from a series of clients diagnosed with seizure
disorders will be used, along with several others, to illustrate the
possible value of this technique.
- NCP
User Group (as before 1 or 2 times)
- Valdeane
Brown
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- Plenary
Topic:
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- “Pathways
Through the Brain”
- Tom
Brownback
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- How
do sensory input, emotion and thought travel through the brain.
- From
an international 10-20 System point-of-view, where does primary
sensory processing take place; sensory perception; sensory
comprehension. How does emotional memory get triggered by
sensory input, etc., etc., etc. What are the implications for
neurodiagnostics and neurotherapy.
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- Panel
“To Q or not to Q”
-
Tom Brownback
- Panel
– Case Study – Comparing QEEG verses non-QEEG approaches to
determine training placements, band widths, whether to train to
increase or decrease amplitude and other neurotherapy
recommendations.
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ws4 Functions,
Pathologies and Frequencies at Each of the International 10-20 System
Placements within a Fully Integrated Neurofeedback System (BMANS)
Thomas
S. Brownback, M.Ed, Linda Mason Brownback, M.A.
This
workshop will cover perspectives (views) of the brain; brain
neuroanatomy and neurophysiology and descriptions of the functions
associated with different EEG frequencies. Based in this knowledge,
participants will then learn the pathways through which information
travels through the brain, including how this information is colored
by emotion. The culmination of this portion is an understanding of how
executive decision-making takes place. All of the neuroanatomy and
neurophysiology will be constantly referenced to the International
10-20 System placements.
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- Neurotechnologies of the Spirit;
Emergent Properties as Spirituality Evolves on the Wheel of
Science Alfred Collins Chair
- Panel
Enlightenment
and Individuation: Integrating Eastern and Western Technologies
Alfred
Collins www.braindance.us
Neurofeedback
is a spiritual, or psychological, discipline very similar to yoga,
mindfulness meditation, zazen, the medieval “art of memory,” and
even the spiritual exercises of Ignatius Loyola.
To put it as neutrally as possible, it is mind culture.
(Most of us accept now, as Indian philosophy has always
known, that the brain and the mind are one, so it makes no
difference whether we call it “brain culture” or “mind
culture.”) History
teaches us, however, that there are two kinds of mind culture, which
are related to what Friedrich Nietzsche called the “Apollonian”
and “Dionysian” modes of life.
The latter seeks moments of ecstasy, when the structures of
selfhood and perception come tumbling down and we are plunged
into our essential nature. I
call these Dionysian practices “ways of essence” because they
aim to cut through the base metal that hides the essential gold at
the heart of the psyche. The other approach seeks to strengthen and clarify the self
and mind. These
Apollonian practices I call “ways of totality” because they seek
the wholeness of the person rather than ego transcendence.
The Dionysian perspective seeks the deeper self or soul,
whereas the Apollonian view aims to refine and strengthen the ego,
or “executive” parts of the brain and mind.
While most neurofeedback primarily serves the ego,
alpha-theta work and some other approaches are “ways of essence”
that can lead to spiritual breakthroughs.
In the last analysis, though, both aims are present in all
forms of neurofeedback, in different proportions.
Workshop
(2 hours?)
“The
Big Bang: Enlightenment and the Brain”
Alfred
Collins www.braindance.us
Many
have experienced moments of blinding light, when mind and body
dissolved and a flood of joy welled up and erupted in
laughter. Yamada Roshi, a great Japanese Zen teacher with whom
I studied in 1973, saw the image of the sky opening a mouth that
hooted with world-annihilating laughter as he achieved kensho on the
commuter train back home to
Kamakura
. What is happening in the brain during such
experiences? We will review the neurophysiological theories
that have tried to explain these great moments. Some claim
global field synchrony, others see sudden shifts in the orientation
centers of the parietal lobe, and some like James Austin find a
process of etching away ego structures until the whole house of
cards collapses. My own view is that none of these
explanations is adequate and that quantum phenomena, or the
quasi-quantum field structures posited by Roy John, must be
involved. Enlightenment is an event prepared for in ways that
have been suggested by the authors mentioned above, but when it
happens something entirely new takes place, something that comes
from the depths of the mind where quantum processes act in the
service of consciousness. To make this idea plausible I will
discuss some recent ideas of Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff
The
Neurophysiology of Free Will
Thomas
F. Collura, Ph.D., P.E., BCN
- BrainMaster
Technologies, Inc.
Oakwood Village, Ohio
- This
talk will review the technical and philosophical aspects of the
human attribute of free will, and will also
discuss the impact of neurofeedback on the expression
of free will. This will include a review of current
thought on how the human brain and mind give rise
to free will in the ability to forsee and understand
alternative possible futures, in
the ability to choose
between them, and in the ability to act upon those
choices.
- Essential
physiological and information-processing
mechanisms and attributes of a freely acting being will be
identified, and impediments to free decision making will also be
discussed. It will be shown that, although we can begin to
structure a systematic theory of free will, there remain
profound mysteries that are still
unsolved, and may be fundamentally unsolvable.
- In
addition, consideration will be given to
the possibility or impossibility of creating artificial devices
that have free will, and how this consideration sheds light on
natural beings that have free will. Ultimately, it is
believed that this line of thought will help us to fully
appreciate the role of humans in the universe, as well as
the role of
neurofeedback and related techniques in the development
of free will, and its fullest expression in the form of
individual freedom of thought, choice, and action.
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- A
novel timesharing approach to supervised clinical neurofeedback
- Tom
Collura and Tom Boone
- This
workshop will describe a novel approach to supervised clinical
neurofeedback, in a clinical setting. This approach provides the
ability for a single clinical director and technician to oversee
8 or more clients at once, and provide services centered around
neurofeedback, but including other counseling, motivational, and
instructional elements. All clients are accompanied by family
members or coaches who are taught the basics of neurofeedback,
and oversee the details of the training.
Clients purchase "time sharing" allottments of
training time, which includes the rental of the equipment and
clinic space, and can be used at any time. Clients schedule
themselves to use the equipment, and are in fact leasing the
instruments, as well as the time of the clinical director and
technician.
The equipment is situated in a large shared environment
separated into training areas, allowing the clinical staff to
see the overall progress of training. Computer-networked EEG
systems provide the ability to monitor all training areas from a
central computer.
The clinical director oversees all training, and manages clients
using a variety of motivational and instructional techniques,
which augment and extend neurofeedback. These techniques include
the use of audio tapes, EEG- controlled photic stimulation,
EEG-controlled games and devices, one-on-one counseling, and the
awarding of prizes, based on neurofeedback performance.
Overall, the quality of the neurofeedback training is
maintained, while costs and clinical professional time are
reduced. In addition, the involvement of the family members and
coaches provides an opportunity for interaction that is
beneficial at many levels. This provides a reinforcement to the
neurofeedback training, as well as a positive experience for the
family, and an opportunity for clinicians to observe and work
with family or coach interpersonal dynamics.
Based on this approach, a small office is now able to serve a
considerably greater number of clients, in an atmosphere that is
characterized by support
and cooperation.
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Neurofeedback
Practicum - Remote Training
Tom
Collura
This
workshop will be a hands-on demonstration, and participants are
invited to bring equipment for in-class work. The emphasis will be
on working up and managing remote clients, using home, school, or
office-based equipment. Methods will be shown to handle simple
assessments, set up protocols and controls, administer them to
clients, and maintain ongoing control and supervision.
Each
participant will have the opportunity to understand how to manage
remote clients for neurofeedback training, as well as how to set
up and monitor training from a central location, with clients in
diverse locations.
Plenary:
Our Exciting Stroke: Five Years Later
Frank & Mary Deits
On
Feb 6, 1999 near the end of the Winter Brain Conference, Mary
experienced a major hemorrhagic stroke.
This was the beginning of a journey of discovery and
healing for each of us. The process has tested and refined our
model of bio/neurofeedback. We have learned a lot and are excited
to share the experience!
In
this short presentation we will track Mary’s progress over the 5
years to date, discuss our approach, and share a few experiences
that have happened along the way.
Workshop
Dealing
with Stroke: A Look at Alternative Approaches.
Frank & Mary Deits
The Experience of Stroke and Other
Brain Injuries
Following Mary’s
major hemorrhagic stroke while attending the 1999 Winter Brain Mind
Conference we embarked on a journey of healing. Our emphasis has
been on encouraging her organism to move toward wellness. We were
determined to take advantage of Mary’s background and motivation.
Biofeedback/neurofeedback played a large part in the process with
most every modality being involved at some time. We have kept our
eye on the journey rather than the destination. After 5 years major
changes are still happening.
This workshop is
an opportunity to understand the stroke experience from a unique
perspective. Some
of the topics to be covered are:
- The
medical decisions made during the acute phase of the recovery.
- Mary's
experience of the stroke.
·
The use of
biofeedback, neurofeedback, and HEG including the choice of
placements, filters, and modalities.
·
The rehab
hospital experience and our decision to take over the process
ourselves.
·
Our approach
to the risk/benefit issue.
·
Application
of our experience to the rehab setting.
Expect
a lively, informal, challenging workshop with ample time for
questions
Suggested
reading: My Exciting Stroke by Mary Deits
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- Neurofeedback
– Quo Vadis?
- Controversies
In The Field Of Neurofeedback
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- Presenter
- Dr.
Wolfdieter Diersch, LL.M.
- Rützhaubstr.
13
- D
67346 Speyer
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Phone
+49 (0) 6232 29
15 99
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Fax
+49 (0) 6232 29 15 99
- Email
diersch@corestar.de
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- Summary
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Dr. Diersch
offers Neurofeedback in his own practice in Speyer (Germany).
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- From
his own experience of researching the field in 2002 he shares his
knowledge and provides valuable background information, which will
help others to decide whether they should enter the field of
Neurofeedback.
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- Dr.
Diersch has entered the field, because he is convinced that
Neurofeedback is a very powerful tool to help clients to help
themselves with many problems on the physical, the emotional and
the mental level, and after the problem solving phase, the client
can continue Neurofeedback for peak performance training or
training of optimal flow and functioning.
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- For
those who have entered the field or have decided to enter it, Dr.
Diersch
- will
touch some controversial topics of the field:
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Neurofeedback:
Training vs. medical treatment
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Effectiveness of Approach:
Protocol vs. Comprehensive
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Quality of the Equipment
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Training of the Neurofeedback Practitioner
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Supervision and Intervision
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FOUNDATIONS
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
COHERENCE
TRAINING: WHY DO IT?
Les
Fehmi
Coherence
applies to brain waves of a given frequence which maintain a
consistent relationship with each other, extremes of which are
often thought of in neurofeedback circles as undesirable.
The optimizing effects of training phase synchrony, a
particular kind of coherence, one in which brain waves of specific
frequency peak and trough at the same time, will be described.
PLENARY
DESCRIPTION:
SYNCHRONY VS. ASYNCHRONY TRAINING:
THERE LIES THE RUB
Les
Fehmi
In
recent years the subject of coherence and synchrony has come to
the forefront in neurofeedback circles, leaving many confused
about the difference between the two and wondering whether it is
good or bad to have coherent or synchronous brain waves. Coherence
applies to brain waves that maintain a consistent relationship
with each other. Phase
synchrony describes a particular kind of coherence, one in which
brain waves of a specific frequency peak and trough at the same
time. When they peak and trough perfectly in time they are said to
be phase synchronous. Brain
synchrony can be trained at two sites, or globally over the whole
head, at many sites. It
also can be trained between individuals, which will be discussed
and demonstrated in our workshop this weekend.
Synchrony
training, especially in the peak alpha range of frequencies, helps
the brain to return to non-biased and flexible functioning,
relaxed and yet ready to attend and direct itself as may be
appropriate or ideal to the situation.
Sometimes during this zero bias and ready way of
functioning, and especially after periods of practice, people
report feelings of oneness, unselfconsciousness, intimacy, a
reduction in stress symptoms and an increase in peak performance
skills. Since the brain is biased towards creating islands of asynchronous
activity, which the brain does in order to make objective reality
known to us, the training of synchrony is a significant
normalizing tool.
However,
as important as synchrony training is, the training of individuals
in what I call AOn/Off@ training, specifically asking the brain to alternately produce whole
head phase synchrony (AOn@)
and whole head phase asynchrony (AOff@), yields the attentional flexibility which is respopnsible for general
normalization of physiology. The value of including AOff@ training is to promote brain wave flexibility.
The brain learns to shift easily into both synchrony and
then asynchrony, both dissolving objective reality and
recreating it, avoiding rigidity and stimulating fluidity.
Thus, there is no rub: both synchrony and asynchrony
training are important, just as bidirectional training is
important to thermal, EMG, or GSR biofeedback training.
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- SYNCHRONY
TRAINING FOR INDIVIDUALS AND COUPLES
- Les
Fehmi and Susan Shor Fehmi
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- In recent years the subject of coherence and synchrony
has come to the forefront in neurofeedback circles, leaving many
confused about the difference between the two and wondering whether it is good or bad to have coherent or
synchronous brain waves. As many of you know, Les Fehmi has been talking about
the value of "on/off phase synchrony training coupled
with Open Focus training for over thirty years, myself for over
twenty. This training protocol is practiced in our Princeton
Biofeedback Centre along with other more familiar neurofeedback
protocols.
- Coherence applies to brain waves that
maintain a consistent relationship with each other. Phase
synchrony describes a particular kind of coherence, one in which
brain waves of a specific frequency peak and trough at the same
time. When they peak and trough perfectly in time they are said
to be phase synchronous. Brain synchrony can be trained at two
sites, or globally over the whole head, at many sites. It also
can be trained between people, which is a very exciting option.
- In one of our synchrony protocols we train people in what
we call "on/off training, specifically asking the brain to alternately produce whole
head phase synchronous alpha ("on") and whole head
phase asynchronous alpha ("off), using a neurofeedback
instrument of Les' design. Along with Open Focus training, an attention technique that also encourages
the brain to move toward whole head phase synchrony,
neurofeedback synchrony training has proven to be valuable as a neurological normalizing tool.
- Synchrony training, especially in the peak alpha range of
frequencies, helps the brain to return to non-biased and
flexible functioning, relaxed and yet ready to attend and direct
itself as may be appropriate or ideal to the situation.
Sometimes during this zero bias way of functioning, and
especially after periods of practice, people report feelings of
oneness, unselfconsciousness, intimacy, a reduction in stress
symptoms and an increase in peak performance skills. The value
of including "off training is to promote
brain wave flexibility, the brain learns to shift easily into both
synchrony and then asynchrony, avoiding rigidity.
- One of the more interesting applications of synchrony
training is with couples to foster connectedness. The couple may consist of a pair of any kind, a parent and
child, two friends, business partners, two siblings, employer and employee,
teacher and student, coach and player, romantic partners or any
other combination in which connectedness is desired. The
protocol employs the use of linked neurofeedback that requires
both partners to produce whole head phase synchronous brain
waves, in phase in their own brain, and in phase with each
other, in order to get feedback. Neither partner will get
feedback if they are out of synchrony with the other. The
resultant experience can be a sense of harmony and unity between
people, dubbed "the honeymoon
response" by one of our married clients.
- Until now, individual and couples' synchrony training
required the use of a stand-alone, multichannel, phase sensitive EEG of Les' design. Recently, Les
designed a less expensive Synchrony Converter that will turn any neurofeedback
instrument into a five channel, phase sensitive, EEG which
can train synchrony all over the head in the way that the more
expensive stand-alone synchrony trainer does. With two
Converters, any existing dual channel EEG feedback instrument
can be turned in to a couples synchrony trainer as well. It was
Les' desire to help people
to convert whatever neurofeedback instruments they already own
into one that does synchrony
training.
- As the neurofeedback community becomes more sophisticated,
we understand the value of many different kinds of brain wave training. There is a place for whole head
phase synchrony training at one end of the continuum, as well as
a place, at the other end of the continuum, for more localized
synchrony and asynchrony training, as in the ADD protocols. We
use many of them, for they all yield
specifically different treatment outcomes.
- At this workshop we will discuss the relationship of
attention to the various brain wave training approaches commonly
in use. We will discuss how to perform synchrony training
individually and as a couple. We will also demonstrate the use
of the Synchrony Converter for individuals and couples. A
limited opportunity for personal experience is available for a
few workshop participants.
- Susan Shor Fehmi
- 317 Mt. Lucas Road Princeton, New Jersey 08540
- 609-924-0782
- email:
lesfehmi@ix.netcom.com
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- Neurofeedback
for The Attachment Disordered Patient: Protocols, Practice and
Patience
- Sebern
Fisher
Attachment
Disorder is a vastly under-recognized clinical and societal problem.
Early attachment breaks disrupt optimal brain development,
particularly in the right hemisphere, which in turn significantly
impairs regulation of affect. Schore
argues convincingly that without “good enough” affect regulation
there can be no development of self or other.
Neurofeedback training offers the single most efficacious approach
to affect regulation for the profoundly disregulated population.
Hence it is vital that neurofeedback practitioners understand
this increasingly widespread clinical problem, know what protocols
best address it and know what, along neurofeedback, is required for
a successful outcome.
Topics
to be covered: Etiology of Attachment Disorder, assessment, signs
and symptoms, present approaches to treatment and the integration of
neurofeedback.
3.
AGENDA:
First
45 minutes Etiology,
assessment, signs and symptoms of attachment disorder
last
1.25 hour Treatment approaches, neurofeedback protocols; integration
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- WS
If
one type of treatment leads to stagnation, try another one”.
Adaption of different neuro-techniques to the individual needs of
the client
- Uwe
Gerlach
- Skilled
neurotech-healers have a differentiate toolbox at their disposal.
The tools in our practice are:
- -
classical
neurofeedback
- -
light
and sound
- -
acoustic
techniques like binaural beats
- -
healing
and relaxation music
- -
guided
imagery
- -
for
kinesthetic needs of the body we newly introduce magnetic field
therapy
- -
breating
techniques like our breat-walk
- As
we have a sort of sixth sense to actually diagnose our clients we
may e. g. choose only SMR training for a child this time. In the
next session with our child we use healing music combined with
light-sound. If a client actually suffers from a certain pain we
add a specific magnet field near the pain area to an Beta reward,
Theta suppress feedback training to enable the client to control
and diminish the pain.
- In
the workshop we give detailed and practical guidelines when and
how to use which metod for a special diagnosis.
- Brief bio -
Dr. Uwe Gerlach, Germany:
-
- Today
I'm 52 years old, my profession is physicist. My normal career was
in the field of materials science. I did a lot of scientific
research and worked many years as a materials engineer. My second
career began in the early 80's with a severe sickness consisting
of a deep depression and phobias. I cured them with the aid of
bodily centered psychotherapy (holotropic breathwork) and two
years of daily deep relaxation training. The relaxation methods
were breathwork, floatation tank and sauna. In addition to
psychotherapy I experienced transpersonal phenomena and spiritual
transformation similar to descriptions of Stanislav Grof.
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- Since
1990 I am part of the Megabrain movement in Germany. I wrote two
books around these topics and became an expert of brain
technology. From 1991 til today, I offer mental training workshops
assisted by light and sound technology. Many workshops take place
in great holiday clubs. In the past three years I became
interested in neurofeedback and studied its main structure and its
actual state-of-the-art. Two years ago I founded my own company
"info-brain" in collaboration with medical doctors and
trainers experienced in light and sound technology.
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- Signature:
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- Uwe
Gerlach
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- Curriculum
vitae:
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- 24.6.44
Born in Romania
- 1950
- 70
primary and high school, university study
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til the degree of physicist in
Germany
- 1975
doctorat in physics, materials science
- 76
- 84
research in materials science
- 85
- 92
materials engineer in a company producing heavy machinery
- 92
- 95
leading position in a business software company
- 90
- today
expert in light and sound technology, publishing
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three books about this topic,
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head of the company
"info-brain"
- 93
- 97
second marriage with the teacher and therapist Gordana
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