st Leading Edge presents best-selling author Dr. Norman Doidge in his 1 workshop:

The Brain That Changes Itself™: The Neuroplasticity Revolution for Helping Professionals (Friday, November 19, 2010, 9:00am to 4:30pm in Toronto, venue TBA)

The discovery that the brain is plastic is the most important change in the understanding of the brain in 400 years. Scientists used to think that the adult brain was hardwired, fixed, like a machine with parts, its circuits unchanging. The doctrine of the unchanging brain gave rise to a neurological fatalism that meant people with brain damage or mental limitations were, by definition, in all cases condemned to live with them. The mind could change, but not the brain. Talk therapy—was often seen as “just talk,” and not a serious biological intervention. Neuroplasticity is the property of the brain that allows it to change its structure and function through mental experience. Neuroplasticity can help refine existing practices and approaches in a wide range of settings that include psychotherapy, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, social work and education. Using inspiring films of actual patients who had “incurable” medical conditions as they undergo neuroplastic change, this workshop will demonstrate the core principles of neuroplasticity. From case examples, you will see how understanding plasticity can improve your therapeutic effectiveness regardless of setting. The seminar will offer transformational, practical information, and open new ways for you to help people, and expand how you live your life with your plastic brain.

You will learn: • To apply the core principles of neuroplasticity regardless of your therapeutic background or approach • The epochs of plasticity across the lifespan, and the four different kinds of plasticity • Why, if the brain is so plastic, we missed that fact for 400 years • The core neuroscience experiments that prove the brain is plastic • The full range of conditions—psychiatric, neurological, medical, emotional—that neuroplastic interventions can treat, including learning disorders, inability to access emotions, OCD and anxiety disorders, PTSD, attachment disorders, psychosis, chronic pain, ADD, autistic spectrum disorders, cognitive disorders from stroke, brain injury, MS, CP, epilepsy, rehabilitation problems, speech and sensory problems, internet and other addictions, and bad habits • The plastic paradox: How neuroplasticity gives rise to not only flexible, but rigid behavior, and how to improve your effectiveness with seemingly rigid clients • To identify when plasticity is a resistance to change • The latest neuroplastic brain exercises and neuroplastic training techniques that can supplement psychotherapy, or get a “stuck” client moving again and to help better regulate their brains • The contributions of Freud and Pavlov and the founders of psychotherapy to our understanding of neuroplasticity • How close relationships, the proper therapeutic relationship, and love can put the brain in a neuroplastic state • The neuroplastic components of memory, resolving resistance, dissociation, transference, sleep and dreaming • How to change your practice when you return next Monday morning

Praise for bestselling The Brain That Changes Itself: “The power of positive thinking finally gains scientific credibility. Mind-bending, miracle-making, reality-busting stuff...with implications for all human beings, not to mention human culture, human learning and human history.” —The New York Times “Brilliant...Doidge has identified a tidal shift in basic science...The implications are monumental.” —The London Times “A master at explaining science to the rest of us…the best possible guide.”—Globe and Mail “He has illuminated the foundations of psychological healing.”—Charly Hanly, PhD. President of the International Psychoanalytic Association “Fascinating … Doidge’s book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.” --, MD

Biography Norman Doidge, MD, FRCPC, is a world leader in explaining neuroplasticity, and his award winning book, The Brain the Changes Itself, is an international and New York Times bestseller, #1 bestseller in Canada and Australia, and is available in multiple languages in over 90 countries. Dr. Doidge is on Faculty at the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Psychiatry's Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and a training analyst at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis.He has made keynote presentations on four continents, at the UN, the White House, Yale, London School of Economics, The Genoa Science Festival, a Harvard-MIT conference on Learning and the Brain, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, and the Bejing Institute of Neuroscience (October, 2010). Dr. Doidge recently hosted TVO’s 25 hour television special Mysteries of the Mind: From Brilliant to Broken. The Brain That Changes Itsellf is now a documentary film with a sequel on the way.

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