Feb 22-24, 2008 > OH

Price: $495             CE's: 16.0

Instructors: Richard Soutar, Ph.D. and Barbara Soutar, R.N.

Who should attend: Clinicians, students of brain-wave training and meditators.

This workshop takes the basic traditional modes of concentration, visualization, and compassion meditation used for training the mind and the heart and distills them into a modern western scientific method that utilizes brainwave training and other forms of biofeedback.

This is an experiental workshop. Techniques will be explored using neuromonitoring and neurofeedback.  Attendees will be working with neurofeedback equipment as well as other biofeedback equipment.  They will learn and practice assessment techniques using the Brainmaster and the Interactive Self Inventory.  They will learn to design and construct folders for training.  Non-clinicians will receive folders that they can use under the direction of our clinic to train themselves and others.

Attendees will learn various methods of meditation and how they can be monitored through the interpretation of EEG.  They will learn how to use Neurofeedback equipment to train these different states.  There will be some discussion of the research supporting these methods.  In addition, methods of helping individuals who are experiencing difficulty learning meditation or experiencing temporary blocks in their meditation practice will be reviewed.

This workshop is for students of meditation as well as clinicians who want to add this dimension to their practice.

<Lunch is included in your tuition fee for all three days>

Friday
Pre-conference training for clinicians
Friday morning & afternoon (9:00am- 4:30pm)
Lunch (12:30-1:30)
Bill Mrklas provides free training and equipment orientation
for BrainMaster users

BrainWaveMeditation Workshop:
Friday Evening (7:00 pm-9:00 pm)
Program of experiential learning
ISI Discussion & Testing
Preliminary Visualization Exercise

Saturday
Visualization-Meditation I
Saturday morning (9:00 am-12:30 pm)
Meditation I - The Ancient Format
Meditation II - The Neuroscience of Meditation
-Physiological Correlates
-Neurological Correlates
Training Profound Attention: Richard Soutar (Bring Your Brainmaster)
Training Visualization: Barbara Soutar (Bring Your Brainmaster)
Peripheral Biofeedback- The Physical Body: Training The Heart Mind
Neurofeedback- The Brain: Training The Mind Body

Lunch (12:30 pm-1:30 pm)

Saturday afternoon (1:30 pm - 5:30 pm)
Concentration Training (Bring Your Brainmaster)
Visualization Training (Bring Your Brainmaster)
Visualization Exercises

Dinner (5:30 pm-7:00 pm)

Saturday Evening (7:00 pm-9:00 pm)
The Path of Insight
Evening Visualization

Sunday
Visualization-Meditation II
(9:00 am-12:30 pm)

Sunday Morning Visualization
Balancing The Outer Life: Cultivating The Context Of Meditative States
Reviewing Your ISI: Guides To Transformation (Richard Soutar)
Balancing The Physical Life Around The Wheel (Barbara Soutar)

Lunch (12:30 pm-1:30 pm)

Sunday Afternoon (1:30 pm-5:30 pm)
Concentration Exercises (Bring Your Brainmaster)
Visualization Exercises (Bring Your Brainmaster)
Visualization Review & Discussion

Contact :
StressTherapy Solutions
Phone: 800-447-8052
Fax: 440-439-3015
3401 Enterprise Parkway Suite #340
Beachwood,, OH 44122
E Mail stsinc@pantek.com

Richard Soutar, Ph.D. is the Director of Neurofeedback Services for Synapse Neurofeedback Center in Atlanta, Georgia.  Additionally he is the general manager of Neurosystems Consulting, and was an adjunct professor at Arizona State University where he taught psychology and sociology.  Before his move to the Atlanta area he was on the Board of Directors for the Emotional Fitness Center in Phoenix. Dr. Soutar co-authored a book with the neurofeedback pioneer Adam Crane, entitled MindFitness: the Process as well as authoring the first textbook for the field entitled, “Doing Neurofeedback.”  He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Oklahoma State University. His Masters Degree, which focused on Family Systems and Addictions, was from the University of Arkansas as was his Bachelors Degree in Psychology. He received his initial training in alpha-theta neurofeedback at the Arkansas Recovery Group in 1993. Since then he has trained at the Biofeedback Institute of Los Angeles, American Biotech, and attended workshops to learn the theories and protocols of Valdeen Brown, the Othmers, Joel & Judith Lubar, Margret Ayers, Les Femi, Jay Gunkleman, Bill Scott, and many others.
He is BCIA certified and a member of the SNR.  He has served as adjunct faculty for Arizona State University and the Maricopa Community College System.  He was also co-director of neuropsychological and neurofeedback services for Health South Rehabilitation Hospital in Glendale Arizona.

Thomas Collura Ph.D.,

Thomas. Collura has studied the brain and worked in EEG, instrumentation, and computers for over 30 years, and has held senior technical staff positions at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Department of Neurology), and with AT&T Bell Laboratories (computer systems division). He brings his experience and credentials in biomedical engineering and the neurosciences to a comprehensive approach to neurofeedback. He has published over 100 articles including papers in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and abstracts in the engineering and medical literature, and has conducted invasive and noninvasive studies of the brain and EEG in relation to attention, photic stimulation, source localization, epilepsy, and event-related potentials. He has developed several generations of EEG systems including real-time evoked potential systems, 24-hour computerized epilepsy monitors, interactive brain mapping software, and the BrainMaster digital EEG trainer. Based on a firm engineering and scientific foundation, he presents neurofeedback from the level of the neuron, through the computers and equipment, to the “big picture” of understanding and conducting effective training sessions.