Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth 2012 – Conference Videos

All the footage from the groundbreaking mindfulness and youth conference at UCSD in 2012!

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Full Conference
The entire Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth Conference - 15 videos, over 20 hours.
Price: $79.00
Keynote: The Mindful Child: Teaching the New ABCs of Attention, Balance and Compassion – Susan Kaiser-Greenland
Susan covers the relationship between the theory, practice and research associated with the emerging field of mindfulness and youth, the importance of self-care and self-growth and offers tips for integrating mindfulness into your daily life.
Price: $20.00
Breakout #1: Integrating Mindfulness into the K5 Classroom: Lessons Learned From Teaching Over 13,000 Students – Megan Cowan
Participants will learn (or be reminded) of the background of mindfulness, its current application in education, the benefits supported by research and neuroscience.
Price: $20.00
Breakout #2: Race to Right Here Right Now: An Introduction for Utilizing and Disseminating Mindfulness with Adolescents – Gina Biegel
This session includes beginning mindfulness practices through the specific curriculum of the MBSR-T program adapted for work with adolescents.
Price: $20.00
Breakout #3: Mindful Parents: Resilient Children: Teaching Mindful Parenting Practice through Group and Individual Psychotherapy – M. Lee Freedman
This workshop describes a multi-dimensional model of therapeutic intervention in which mindful parenting practices are taught in individual, family and/or group therapy.
Price: $20.00
Keynote: Managing the Caveman Brain in the 21st Century – Rick Hanson
Dr. Hanson explores brain-savvy ways to cultivate mindfulness in young people, and then use that mindfulness to internalize a greater sense of strength and safety, contentment, and being loved.
Price: $20.00
Panel Discussion – Susan Kaiser-Greenland, Rick Hanson, Amishi Jha, Pamela Seigle, Chip Wood
Panel Discussion – Susan Kaiser-Greenland, Rick Hanson, Amishi Jha, Pamela Seigle, Chip Wood
Price: $20.00
Breakout #4: Sex, Drugs, Facebook and Ice Cream – Joe Klein
This talk presents a way of engaging adolescents in real talk about habitual and impulsive behaviors and sincere effort towards learning and practicing mindfulness skills for becoming free of self-defeating ruts.
Price: $20.00
Breakout #5: Teaching Mindfulness to Urban & At-Risk Adolescents – Chris McKenna & Sam Himelstein
This workshop focuses on the real world implementation of mindfulness with urban, adolescent populations.
Price: $20.00
Keynote: From Dazed and Distracted to Attentive and Calm: What the Neuroscience of Mindfulness Reveals – Amishi Jha
Dr. Jha's presentation examines if mindfulness training may be an antidote to pervasive mind-wandering.
Price: $20.00
Keynote: Courage in Schools: Connecting Hearts and Minds in the Adult Community – Pamela Seigle and Chip Wood
In this keynote, Pam and Chip engage in an interactive exploration of strategies and approaches focusing on reflection, renewal, and relationships.
Price: $20.00
Breakout #6: Still Quiet Place: Proven Practices for Teaching Children and Teens the Skills for Peace and Happiness–Amy Saltzman
In this session you will participate in practices from the 8-week Still Quiet Place curriculum that you can take home to use in your work with children and teens.
Price: $20.00
Breakout #7: Brain Abnormalities Associated with Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents – Amy Garrett
This session reviews the prevalence of adolescent mood and anxiety disorders, and describes the brain abnormalities associated with each illness, as revealed through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research.
Price: $20.00
Workshop #1: Mindfulness for Professionals Working with Adolescents: A Training in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program for Teens (MBSR-T) – Gina Biegel
This is an overview of the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program for Teens that has been researched to be an effective intervention to reduce adolescent stress.
Price: $20.00
Workshop #2: Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Children (MBCT-C) – Randye Semple
Clinicians will learn ways to use the self-knowledge gained from their own practice to help children develop new ways of relating to the mind states that are characteristic of anxiety disorders.
Price: $20.00
Breakout #9: Bringing the Soul Back to School: Lessons Learned from over 15 Years of Teaching Mindfulness and Mind-Body Health in Israeli Schools – Nimrod Sheinman, ND
Sheinman describes a unique primary school in South Tel-Aviv, where the Sfat HaKeshev program (Mindful Language, in Hebrew) became an important integral part of the school's life for the last 10 years.
Price: $20.00
Teen Panel Discussion
Teen panel discussion with teens from the mindfulness community - Sara Phelps, Maddie Siegel, Talon Brodeur, Meghan Phelps, and Lindsay Appleyard.
Price: $20.00