Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind

Welcome! Building on the foundation created by pioneers Daniel Siegel, Allan Schore, Marco Iacoboni, Stephen Porges, Iain McGilchrist, and others, we at Nurturing the Heart are steeped in relational neuroscience, sharing it to support clinicians and healthcare professionals, parents, teachers, and anyone interested in living life in collaboration with the brain's natural healing and meaning-making processes. 

Through consultations, trainings near and far, and retreats, many of our programs offer immersion experiences so that we can be together long enough for this profoundly relational perspective to become part of who we are and how we live our lives, as well as work in our professions. We believe that in this way, we can each become a daily, embodied resource for bringing into being a more awake, resilient, and compassionate world. There is also much joy to be found in the relationshps that arise in these gatherings!

4 spaces remaining for the June 7-9 Re-Weaving the Fibers of Attachment Workshop/Retreat with Bonnie Badenoch, Dr. Coease Scott, and Sarah Peyton

Bonnie Badenoch, co-founder of Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind, is author of Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, The Brain-Savvy Therapist's Workbook, and (co-edited with Susan Gantt), The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Group Psychotherapy and Group Process.

 "Being a Brain-Wise Therapist is filled with the wisdom of a seasoned front-line therapist who writes like a poet and understands science as if she were a full-time academician."

Daniel Siegel, foreword

Released in 2013!

From Allan Schore:

"This groundbreaking volume offers a number of creative contributions that integrate extensive group psychotherapy experience with cutting edge neuroscience. Writing on work with children, adults, and couples, all authors utilize the interdisciplinary perspective of interpersonal neurobiology to model the conscious and unconscious psychoneurobiological mechanisms that underlie the explicit and especially implicit change mechanisms embedded in group psychotherapy. This book will be of great value to our understanding of how effective emotionally-focused group work can act as a growth-facilitating environment for optimizing brain circuits in the 'social, emotional' right brain, the biological substrate of the human unconscious mind. It also serves as a theoretical source for the development of evidence-based, yet clinically sound group psychotherapy models."

Available for preorder through Karnac, Amazon.com, and some local booksellers

Stillness

Dr. Coease Scott and I have the honor of sponsoring

A Residential Retreat in the Pacific Northwest facilitated by

Mike Boxhall, RCST, FCSTA

Sunday, October 27 – Thursday, October 31, 2013

[no previous hands-on experience required]

Alton L. Collins Retreat Center, Eagle Creek, OR

(about one hour from Portland International Airport)

 “There is no difference between this work and meditation. It is an embodied joint practice. The outcome is the opportunity of a different and better adapted way of being, less subject to the patternings of yesterday, or at least, a better way of being with the suffering.”

Mike Boxhall 

  Mike has been doing this work for over 40 years, and in the past, has mostly concentrated on working with therapists of one kind or another. More recently, it has become apparent that this is not a work to be reserved for some exclusive club of people, but may be offered to anyone who is, perhaps, seeking to deepen into the meaning in life. 

Here is the brochure for all the particulars.

For additional information, you can email or call Coease at (503) 287-8579.

To reserve your place, email or call Bonnie at (360) 601-6859.

For 2013

In the Portland/Vancouver area

June 7-9, 2013

[4 spaces remaining]

Reweaving the Fibers of Attachment:

A 3-Day Depth Healing and Personal Transformation Workshop/Retreat

Sarah Peyton, Bonnie Badenoch, Coease Scott

Reserve your place by emailing Sarah

Download the brochure here for more information and registration details

For 2014

Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind

in the lovely Pacific Northwest

Dates now available for the year-long, experience-rich trainings in interpersonal neurobiology with Bonnie Badenoch

space for 16 participants

Download the brochure here for more information and registration details

Email Bonnie at bonnie@nurturingtheheart.com to register for this small group experience

 Ongoing Opportunities

Interpersonal Neurobiology Study Groups - Portland/Vancouver

 in depth exploration of the application of the principles of interpersonal neurobiology - for therapists, educators, bodyworkers, and interested others

facilitated by Bonnie Badenoch

original Tuesday afternoon group is full

second Tuesday afternoon group is now also full

Email Bonnie at bonnie@nurturingtheheart.com for more information or to put your name on the waiting list for the Tuesday groups

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Individual and Group Consultations for Clinicians

on Skype or freeconferncecall.com (the latter can be recorded for later listening)

Email Bonnie at bonnie@nurturingtheheart.com for more information