Mind Skills Training
Managing the mind is an essential step to gain greater control in life and especially for those with a Bipolar condition.
A critical key in changing our responses is to change the way we see or interpret situations. So often it is what we are telling ourselves when we are experiencing a state of alarm that either moves us towards a more optimum state of being or away from it.
Our thinking and our relationship with ourselves is primary and is where we have the greatest potential for breakthroughs. During the Mind Skills training, you will learn how to see the mindsets, belief systems and frames of reference that are operating in your life and how to develop new ways of seeing.
Managing stress is also an essential part of the training. You will learn some of the finest approaches to both understanding and mastering the stress response. Do we simply react to what happens or can we learn to use stress breaking techniques and strategies to go beyond our habits and become masters of our experience.
You will learn focusing techniques and how to settle the mind into states of ease and calm. By relaxing the mind and releasing tension, we can become more aware of subtler levels of thinking and be more present to what is happening, both in the world around us and in ourselves. We will teach you how to get more in touch with your inner knowing, and how to use this to open up to deeper feelings, and so better manage your emotions.
An important part of the program covers Mindmapping, the master note taking skill that develops memory, attention and creativity in order to be more effective in daily tasks. It will enable you to create Life Plans, be more creative with brainstorming, explore ideas with your friends and family and generally enhance your career.
Memory training will be a featured part of Mind Skills. By improving your memory for different types of information with short and long term recall you will build your confidence and radiate this around you. We all have vast, untapped mental potential and releasing this in practical ways is both life-affirming as well as useful in the everyday world of work.
These 2 full days are designed around some core principles based on well established mind/brain research. The style of the training is fun and highly interactive with lots of practice in the skills, including work in 2’s and in small groups. As an integral part of your Bipolar Advantage Program it will integrate and enhance much of what you will learn from the other educational workshops.
Summary of Sessions
- Introduction to Mind Skills
- Setting the frame with the core principles of how the mind works, how it gets stuck and the basis of our habits and dysfunctional patterns.
- Stepping into the creative mind
- Releasing the past, tracking the present and creating the future.
- Mindmapping
- Seeing the whole picture. Practical training in this master skill for personal reflection, introspection, life planning and creativity.
- Mindsets
- Insights and shifts in to how we see our world and other people.
- Memory strategies and time management
- Tools and strategies for enhanced recognition, retention and recall to support life changes. Memory techniques for all kinds of personal information needs.
- Stress awareness skills
- Models and practical methods to manage and control our response to demanding life situations.
- Strategies for personal change
- Focusing thoughts and emotions through the power of attention and mindfulness drawing on ancient wisdom practices for personal growth.
- Mental rehearsal practice
- Using the success strategies gleaned from top performers in business, the performing arts and the world of sport to establish ways of embedding new habits and build confidence.
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