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- Discover how you can help clients “turn states into traits” by deliberately internalizing beneficial experiences to support sustained personal growth and development
- Understand the science of positive neuroplasticity and why typical therapeutic or contemplative interventions don’t always create lasting change
- Explore Dr. Hanson’s HEAL framework and learn a short practice that can be done with clients to apply this approach
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Thank you very much, Dr. Rick Hanson and Ms Michelle Becker, for the enlightening and inspiring session! May the good Lord continue blessing the work you do in helping people help themselves.
Rick’s talks, books, and website offerings just keep becoming more meaningful and practical. It was a pleasure to meet Michelle and she enhanced the talk. I still read Buddha’s Brain yet now reading Rick’s Neurodharma. I really appreciate The Compassion Summit for offering this. Let it be, let it go, let the sunshine in.
– States to Traits
– HEAL process to embodied change
– 3 Breaths practice
– Power of Compassion
Thank you very much Rick for share your tools, resources and practices in this kind and fluent way 🙏🏼
Extremely informative speaker with excellent examples. The facilitation was well done and personalized the conversation.
this was a wonderful perspective and i really enjoyed all your insights!. I will definitely use some of your wisdom in my sessions
Thank you so much for this inspiring talk which has encouraged me to continue broadening my therapeutic methods and giving more agency to my clients
Loved this interview. May I suggest that to turn states into traits, therapists refrain from calling their clients patients? It’s old school and creates an environment of one being wiser and resourced and the other less than.
Thank you so much for that. In November 2019 I flew to Washington DC from London to participate in a four days Positive Neuroplasticity training with Dr Hanson. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole learning experience and felt it was simply excellent. I stayed at the same hotel where the course was also taking place. It was located by a beautiful lake and a whole foods nearby where it was easy to enjoy a delicious lunch during breaks.
On Thursday evening I was awaiting a taxi to take me to the airport to fly back to London. I was feeling so happy and grateful for the learning adventure… and then, hang on, where is my passport???
Unfortunately it was never to be found and I missed my flight. I still went to that airport hoping that ,perhaps, somehow, if I have a go at least, BA might allow me through with my driving licence but no… Quite an adventure and thankfully I managed a new emergency passport the following day in an Embassy. Just a little material to put some of the learnings in practice right away. It was worth it! Thank you.
I’m not going to lie, I listened to this 3 times in 2 days! Just wouldn’t like to miss any piece of it. The dynamic was great, the teaching was humble and yet so inspiring and deep. Can’t say thank you enough! Thanks from Sydney!
Can say something very similar from Dublin. I took notes too. Thanks 😊
so wonderful practice on 3 breaths, hope to practice the HEAL ,And thank you Michelle, wonderful host and questions
I wish to make a PhD with prof. Hanson ….somebody reaching my e mail can tell me how can I procede?
I wish to accept compassion ( this is the positive thing I now linger on it) , but I feel I cannot as I am too fat, and I don’t deserve for this reason, for revenge and need of punish my unworthiness…so there is a positive thing I am lingering in , as Prof. Hanson suggest to do in order to consolidate it changing step by step the Neuroplasticity of my brain 🧠 and there is the universe of negativity I am trying to diminish….we have to consider this when we put on compassion. The famous resistance of psychoanalysis , we have not to forget them for the illusion , the desire , the will to reach the ❤️🩹 healing.
I agree with what Rick speaks of regaring neuroplasticity but the clients seem to think this is not sufficients at times to make changes. Give out handouts to have them answer questions that help them enhance thier neuroplasicity but only a third seem to make changes that are significant. When it happens it makes me cheer as it ie obvios by what was done to push them into legitimate healing and major changes in their future.
Would like to know more of these kinds of tools to plant a better garden for this kind of growth. I try to be as positive and hopeful but not too much so they do not feel like I am selling them on this hope, but it fails with certain Axis II dx of CD cleints and I have not learned how to troubgle shoot with this reluctance to trust as the drugs given to them or their method of coping is often regulated by the limbic system in a negative growth of reliance of things outside themselves as a means to healing.
I always appreciate Dr. Hanson’s thoughts on this problem if he ever presents again. Have a beneficial experience. enriching experience as I note does occur in music oftentimes as a music therapist, and they get excited if I use music which does help at times.
Not sure how I can help them absorb the experience as perhaps I am not building significant trust between the client and therapist, especially since of recent societal issues which has enlarged the lack of trust within society and this grieves me. This is why I was interested in this compassion as I also think my own compassion fatigue has been unleashed significantly. as this profession has been such a joy. Lately it hurts more than ever before, the harder the work the less I succeed. Have been lightening up regularly despite the gravity in the room. This is happening but still warrants how long many of us can persevere. The pandemic has brought a separation from those who gave us strength, oftentimes due to sheer loss of life. Resistance and desensitivity is why we need to revisit it to aide in thier growth.
That breathing helped me immediately yawn which is always my seeing my own relaxation when this occurs. The last two breaths made me seerely saddened probably due to all the losses which made me aware that I have neglected by grief work…As one ages we have more losses than abiltihy to process. Maybe I should redo gried groups I did in my earlier years in graduate school. Thanks for the lecture and the comments along the presentation gave me a spark of joy to presevere..
Wow, this was so fantastic on so many levels, I feel like writing all about it, but I will just say that + and how lovely are both Rick Hanson & Michelle Becker (Human beings reflecting a certain sort of light/Grace). Thanks
Thank you for your caring, depth, and trail-blazing. Thank you for your tireless educating on neuroplasticity and giving us the tools for change. I always feel renewed hope from your work because “it works”.
Beautiful session. Thank you both. The wisdom here was relevant to me as well as my clients. Experiencing compassionate supervision has made a great difference to my openness and resilience. Early days for me but I am hopeful I am on the sustainable path.
I think the word ‘undiscovered’ is very different and has very different implications from ‘unconquered’; that would be something completely else and was not at all what was intended here it seems to me. There are lots of countries I haven’t yet discovered; I have no intention of ever dominating or conquering them in any way but would love to discover them.
Feeling grateful for these tools, and would like to offer some feedback. Dr. Hanson, when you made reference to a proverb in the beginning of the session – something like “the future is the undiscovered country” I noticed my body tighten and my ability to feel receptive and attentive diminished. To hear these words stated from someone with your identities and position of power brought up a sense of sadness as I fell witness to a microagression going uncorrected. The words you used play on concepts linked to the violence of colonialism (i.e. the idea that lands can be “discovered,” especially by white and non-indigenous peoples, in the context of the U.S. where we all in fact all live on unceded and stolen, not discovered” land). Again, regardless of intention, which I know was to help us understand a concept, the impact of such words is harmful. In the spirt of compassion, I wanted to draw your attention to this as the concepts you are conveying are important – too important, I think, to be atriculted using violent imagery.
hi Liz, I am grateful for you and your comment- hopefully it will be read by the presenter as it is very important, especially in a group of mindfulness teachers/therapists. Thank you again.
one other thing, I believe Ruby Sales may be the original source for the question “Where does it hurt?”
Liz, this metaphor is of the mind being explored in order to be healed, not conquered and subdued. He likes metaphors! He also used the metaphors, driving a bus, growing a flower garden, playing a song on the inner iPod, to describe working with the mind. Did you notice that he also specifically says at around 33 minutes that the language he uses for his prompts reflect his own white middle class tastes/experiences, and notes that some people won’t like or relate to his choice of words, and that you should use prompts that suit you and your clients? That being said, I’m sorry you were triggered, and if you were triggered, others might be also. Colonialism is real, so thank you for sharing.
Wonderful presentation! Thank you to two beautiful and compassionate human beings. Dr. Hanson, you bring hope to the world.
YES to the compassion movement and yes to everything about this. Thank you. Thank you.
Very enriching. Appreciated
Dr. Rick is so easy to understand.
Love his work. He is so good to this world.
Thank you, Dr. Hanson, for so thoughtfully sharing your knowledge, wisdom and insights in such practical ways. Much appreciation and gratitude for your pioneering efforts in the field, which raise the bar for everyone. May we all contribute towards meaningfully shifting states to traits! Deep bows,
Wow, Rick, you are the BEST!
Thank you very much Rick & Michelle for this interview, it was very generous and useful. Thank you
Fantastic session from Dr Hanson who never disappoints!
“The song is playing but are you recording?” sums up the growth 2.0 idea so well for me! thank you also to Michelle for being such a great host for this session!
Breathing in mindfulness, then just feelings, and last the good feelings about love and belonging to help people develop gradually the neuroplasticity in the brain from the slow process of appreciating the benefits and rewards of compassion for the lasting positive traits of a happy life.
Excellent presentation! In every aspect. The information , fluidity ,kindness ,authenticity and hard look to the way therapists are not clear about the goal and do not teach the skillful means was priceless .The caring and humble demeanor a bonus to the wisdom shared. Thank you for your service .
Thank you both. The breathing exercise was very effective for me. I, too, will listen again to absorb as much as possible, and retain it!
Oh my goodness what a wonderful session! So much to learn and appreciate. Thanks you both for your generous sharing of these ideas and practices.
I loved this talk and I’m so excited to learn more about positive neuroplasticity!
Rick Hanson is a master in puting into words all the differents steps of mindefulness, self-compassion. I love when he begings by stating how many steps there will be in the practice, so we can learn how to learn.
Rick Hansen is a lovely human.
My dog walked over to me during that phase of the practice and leaned in to be petted.
Powerful and deeply appreciated. Enjoyable to listen to your breadth and depth of mind and kindness. I will listen more times in hopes to integrate fully. Thank you Rick & Michelle!