The Neurobiology of Intuition
The Neurobiology of Intuition
Join our day long retreat-style training on our three vital “brains” of intuition:
HEART BRAIN | GUT BRAIN | ANCIENT BRAIN
WHEN: October 4th, 2024 | 9:00-3:30pm (PT)
WHERE: Phinney Neighborhood Association
6532 Phinney Ave North, Seattle, WA 98103
6 CE Hours for LMHC, LICSW, LMFT
ABOUT THE TRAINING:
Lean on neurobiology to foster your own, or your client's, inner compassion and confidence. Learn the language of the body as a guide towards what needs to be addressed in order to move towards values based living. Strengthen tools to awaken our ancient connection with earth to support your client's resources and increase protective factors.
The Heart Brain
The head and heart are in constant communication through the sophisticated Vagus nerve, an information superhighway running throughout your body. Self-compassion is a word used frequently, yet to fully embrace ourselves with love we must awaken the neuropathways of the heart. The heart has 40,000 sensory neurons picking up internal and external communication at all times. Further, there is ever-increasing research revealing the evolutionary reliance on our heart for wisdom and intuition. You can learn tangible, evidence based tools to awaken the heart & shift towards a state of flow & acceptance. Come learn the language of the heart.
The workshop will include discussion and guided mindfulness practice. Through guided practice you will release tension and learn tools to unravel and release blockages physically, psychologically, and emotionally. Receive tools to re-build the sacred connection with your heart.
The Gut Brain
Gut feeling, gut instinct, listen to your gut. As a culture we have known and felt in our bodies that we have feelings/intuition/instinct communicating from our gut. This ancient knowing is now being studied and research has shown our gut directly communicates with our brain.
This bi-directional communication between gut & brain is called the gut- brain axis and is shown to influence your mood, mental health, inflammation, immune response and overall well being.
Listening to your gut is a superpower.
In this workshop you will learn mindfulness skills to connect with your gut brain. Additionally, you will learn 5 ways to cultivate a healthy gut biome and how to keep it thriving. This training, with facilitators trained in Neurobiology, Nutrition, and Mental health, will take the phrase “you are what you eat,” to deeper and more expansive places. Learn to how to feed your intuition.
The Ancient Brain
“The land knows you, even when you are lost.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Return to your deepest and most intimate relationship, the one with earth. Our nervous system was designed in reciprocal relationship with earth — awaken this ancient knowing as an antidote to our fast paced modern world. Re-learn how to communicate with the trees and be nourished by the plants. Research repeatedly shows spending time in nature improves our mental and physical health. Join us for an immersive exploration of how our bodies' connection with the outside world can aid in the reduction of stress and the increase in positive energy and ideas. We will spend time in a beautiful garden together, learning skills to open your eyes and observe the wonders of nature, inhale the scents, and feel the breeze on your face. Come with curiosity. Leave with a feeling of gratitude.
All are welcome. You will away skills for your own well-being & relationships, and for those in the healing professions integrate these understandings into your clinical care.
Join this training to support your own neurobiology, while also learning how to deliver impactful neurobiological change in your encounters with others.
Our Learning Objectives
Understand the interconnection of gut, brain, and environment
Learn the neurobiological language of intuition
Learn unique experiential practices & how to tailor them for yourself/others
Strategies to foster an intuitive, values guided life
Meet Your Guides
Ellen Slater, LICSW, YT-200
CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER & MINDFULNESS TEACHER
A graduate of University of Chicago and founder of Head & Heart, an integrative wellness center based out of Winthrop, Washington. Her studies, training, and clinical practice focus on the intersection of spirituality and psychology, incorporating the body into traditional psychotherapy. She has specialized in trauma, addiction, and neuroscience including a Fellowship with the Seattle VA Hospital and a year-long immersion in Interpersonal Neurobiology with Dr. Bonnie Badenoch.
With Ellen’s background in neurobiology and Yoga, it has been a natural movement towards awakening the heart. The heart has 40,000 sensory neurons and communicates upward to the brain, thus the heart is designed to guide us. We must learn the language of our heart, and strategies to apply heart wisdom. Ellen’s teachings will build resilience and increase your window of receptivity — the ability to cope with life’s inevitable stressors.
Abby Bange, MS, RD, MHCA
MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR & REGISTERED DIETICIAN
Abby is a registered dietitian and mental health counselor working in the field for over 15 years. Abby understands our relationship with food and ourselves is interlinked, and teaches from this holistic viewpoint. One of our first ways of feeling loved and nourished is through a caregiver comforting and feeding us. This can grow throughout the lifespan, how we nourish ourselves is an act of love.
Abby has dedicated herself to integrating mental health and nutrition, and consequently has discovered the power of the Gut Brain. She offers both education and a deeper understanding of how we can listen and learn from our gut, which impacts our lives more than any of us realize (science is still discovering!) Further, with her skills as a dietician, Abby can offer tools to nourish our gut, and thus our whole life.
Abby brings joy and laughter to her classes. She has spoken at universities, hospital clinics, community events and had a local radio show on rural nutrition. Abby has a private practice in Winthrop, WA learn more about her HERE.
Words from Students
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Heal from anxiety, shame, stress, and more through the Compassion Cultivation Cycle, an evidence based cycle of change.
All are welcome, also includes CE’s for providers & healers.
