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2007 Conference

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Allan Schore, Thom Hartmann, Gary Schwartz, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Lobsang Rapgay, Les Fehmi, Anna Wise, Beverly Rubik, Sue Wilson,

Karl Pribram, Joel & Judith Lubar, Sue & Sig Othmer, Lynda and Michael Thompson, Naras Bhat, Val Brown, Swami Beyondananda, Carol Schneider, Rae Tattenbaum, Jay Gunkelman, Craig Webb, Steve Barnes

Dr. Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. He is author of Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, now in its 9th printing, and the recently published Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self. He is on the editorial staff or reviewer of 17 journals including the Journal of Neuroscience, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Update, Neuropsychoanalysis, the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, the Infant Mental Health Journal, and Attachment and Human Development. He has written the Foreword to the reissue of John Bowlby’s classic volume Attachment.

 In the last few months Dr. Schore has offered presentations to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC; the UCLA Attachment Conference; the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association; the American Psychiatric Association; the Boston University School of Medicine Conference, "Psychological Trauma: Maturational Processes and Therapeutic Interventions"; and the Major Teachers of Psychotherapy Program at MacLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the Commission on Children at Risk for the Report on Children and Civil Society, "Hardwired to Connect" sponsored by Dartmouth Medical School, the YMCA of the USA, and the Institute of American Values.

Keynote Plenary:  Attachment, the right brain, and the origin of self-regulation

Workshop: "The enduring impact of attachment trauma on the developing right brain: Disorders of self-regulation."

Thom Hartmann

Bio: Thom Hartmann is an award-winning, best-selling author of 13 books (seven books on attention deficit disorder) and an international lecturer, teacher, and psychotherapist. He's been written about in Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal for his ideas about consciousness and human survival; he has appeared on several radio and television networks and programs, including CNN, the BBC, and NPR's All Things Considered. He is also a former international relief worker and executive director of a residential treatment facility for abused children.

Workshop: NLP writing Tools for Success

Plenary Talk: Recent Advances in Biofield Science and Energy Medicine

Plenary Talk: The Afterlife Experiments; New Research on Survival of Consciousness After Death

Plenary Talk: Science of story; Eight Realities: Expanding the Stories We Conceive The World With

Plenary: Reassessing Consciousness"

 workshop "Brain and Mathematics" which takes David Bohm's ideas on the quantum potential and active information a step forward.

Anna Wise

2 Day workshop on Awakening the High Performance Mind

Anna Wise has taught and researched meditation and brainwaves for over thirty years. She leads workshops, seminars and corporate-training programs worldwide. She is the author of 'The High-Performance Mind: Mastering Brainwaves for Insight, Healing and Creativity' and 'Awakening the Mind: A Guide to Mastering the Power of Your Brain Waves'. She currently works and lives in California.

Click this link for extensive article.

Plenary: The Field of Awakened Mind Training -- Definining an Emergent Specialty; Using dynamic EEG, Meditation, and the Interrelationship of the State and the Content of Consciousness to Train Personal mastery

Plenary: Current Status of Neurofeedback: Where We Have Been, Where We Are and Where We Need to Go

WS:Use of Multiple Databases, New EEG Artifacting Techniques and LORETA analysis for Neurofeedback Interventions

Joe Kamiya

Plenary: The Future of the Profession and the Field of Biofeedback, followed by panel discussion of the same topic.

 

Naras Bhat, M.D.

Plenary Early Morning short Course: Meditation Prescribed by the Doctor

Plenary: Laughter Yoga: Therapeutic laughter for no other reason 

Workshop: Authentic Happiness: Seligman Model Made Easy

Natural Treatments For Disorders of Mind, Mood, and Behavior

A psychiatrist practicing integrative medicine, Hyla Cass will explain how conditions such as anxiety, depression, ADD, and addiction are often related to imbalances in brain chemistry that can be corrected with appropriate use of well-researched supplements -- vitamins, minerals, amino acids (tyrosine, GABA, DLPA) and botanicals (e.g. St John's wort, ginkgo, ginseng). Their use can enhance the results of neurofeedback, as well.

BIO: Hyla Cass is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, and the author of several  best-selling books, the latest being Natural Highs: Supplements, Nutrition, and Mind/Body Techniques to Help You Feel Good All the Time. She is also President of Vitamin Relief USA a foundation that supplies daily multivitamins to over 10,000 at-risk children nationwide.

In her practice as an "integrative psychiatrist" Dr.Cass has combined the best of traditional and alternative medicine. A well-known speaker, consultant, and educator in the field of complementary medicine, topics include health, stress reduction, and the clinical use of herbs and supplements, especially in relation to psychiatry. She is also a frequent commentator in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, and contributor to numerous books and journals.

Dr. Cass graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine, interned at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, and completed a psychiatric residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA. For more information, see her website: www.cassmd.com.

Grant Bright

workshop “A Viable Business Model for Professional NeuroFeedback”

Plenary: Pathways Through the Brain”  

Panel “To Q or not to Q”

WS: “Functions, Pathologies and Frequencies at Each of the International 10-20 System Placements Within a Fully Integrated Neurofeedback System (BMANS)”.

plenary (longer) The 7 Hz Resonances of NF Training: A Central Role For the Thalamic Pacemaker

plenary-(short) Cutting Edge Visualization Techniques As An Assist in NF Training: Cross Correlation of the AutoCorrelation of Joint Time-Frequency Analysis

NCP User Group (as before 1 or 2 times)

Alfred Collins

Plenary: Enlightenment and Individuation: Integrating Eastern and Western Technologies

“The Big Bang: Enlightenment and the Brain” Many have experienced moments of blinding light, when mind and body dissolved and a flood of joy welled up and erupted in laughter.

Panel: Neurotechnologies of the Spirit; Emergent Properties as Spirituality Evolves on the Wheel of Science

Thomas F. Collura, Ph.D., P.E., BCN

Plenary: The Neurophysiology of Free Will

plenary: EEG Patterns Associated With Success in a Psi Task; results of a study involving 5620 trials with a well known Psychic

WS A novel walk-in timesharing approach to supervised clinical neurofeedback (With Tom Boone)

WS Distance Neurofeedback Training.

Technical Foundations of Neurofeedback Feb. 11. This workshop is BCIA approved for CE towards certification. $49 (usual one day rate of $189 is subsidized by Brainmaster and Futurehealth)

Dr. Wolfdieter Diersch

Frank and Mary Deits

plenary: Our Exciting Stroke: Five Years Later

workshop: Dealing with Stroke: A Look at Alternative Approaches.

Les Fehmi, Ph.D., and Susan Shor Fehmi, M.S.W. 

Les Fehmi Director, Princeton Biofeedback Centre, Princeton, New Jersey, 609-924-0782, lesfehmi@ix. netcom. com - http://www. openfocus. com, founding member of the Biofeedback Society of America (now AAPB). For over thirty years he has conducted research and practiced clinically in the area of attention and EEG biofeedback . He developed Open Focus™ training and specializes in multi-channel, phase-synchrony neurofeedback.

Susan Shor Fehmi, M.S.W., Executive Director, Princeton Biofeedback Centre, Princeton, New Jersey, 609-924-0782, lesfehmi@ix.netcom.com - http://www.openfocus. com, has been teaching Open Focus™ and neurofeedback for over twenty years, specializing in multi-channel, phase-synchrony, brain wave training. She has long been interested in the integration of neurofeedback, attention training, and psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Foundations course: COHERENCE TRAINING:  WHY DO IT?

Plenary:  Synchrony Versus Asynchrony, There Lies The Rub

WS The Potential of the Synchronous Brain; Synchrony Training for Individual and Adults

Sebern Fisher Sebern Fisher is a psychodynamic psychotherapist with a primary interest in the importance of secure attachment throughout the life span. She incorporated neurofeedback into her clinical practice in 1997. The effects of brain training that she has both experienced and witnessed have had significant impact on the way she now conceptualizes personality, self, psychopathology and even free will.

 Experience with neurofeedback has reinforced her view that attachment is hardwired and secured through affect regulation. She believes that the single most important contribution of neurofeedback is regulation of affect.  She has fully integrated neurofeedback into her practice of psychotherapy, rarely, now, providing one without the other. She has used this technology to great benefit with people suffering from conditions as apparently varied as Asperger’s, PTSD, dyslexia, dissociative disorders and attachment disorder.

Sebern was the Clinical Director of a residential treatment center for severely disturbed adolescents for ten years and now maintains a private practice in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is an owner of EEG Spectrum International, and speaks nationally and internationally on neurofeedback, neurofeedback and psychodynamic practice and theory, and on attachment and neurofeedback. She discovered the FPO2 site as a meaningful placement for training related to fear and fear based disorders.

Plenary 1. The FPO2 Baby: A case presentation of the neurofeedback training of a 32 year-old multi-parous woman with PTSD and the apparent effects of FPO2 on the affect regulation of mother and the child, in utero and postnatally.

PLenary 2. Which is the Adjunctive Treatment? Psychotherapy and Neurofeedback: Ten important reasons to provide neurofeedback within the therapeutic relationship.

Workshop: attachment disorder and the neurofeedback and therapeutic approaches to its treatment, in adults and children.

Uwe Gerlach

Plenary: Further studies according to our „period 2“ model (SMR/Beta and light-sound training): chaos-theoretical guidelines to explain the healing process

WS: __“If one type of treatment leads to stagnation, try another one”. Adaption of different neuro-techniques to the individual needs of the client

Richard W. Glade M.A.,L.C.S.W.

Emotions and Meditation: 'Four Great Catalysts of Being'

EEG Changes and Conscious States Associated with Energy Healing   Frank Gordon Tom Collura

Ray Gottlieb, O.D., Ph.D.

What is Behavioral Optometry and How Can it Help You or Your Clients

 

WS: Tension, Attention and Intention-- Stress Point Attention and memory Training.

Jay Gunkelman

Past SNR President

Plenary Talk "The EEG and the mind/brain problem"

workshop "The Anatomy and Pathophysiology of ADD/ADHD, Tourette's, OCD/ODD", with qEEG patterns shown for all these disorder groupings with their co-morbidities explained.

Robert Gurnee

WS How to read QEEGs

WS Operating the C2 for EEG, HRV, RSA and peripheral biofeedback training.

WS What the brain does during neurofeedback (with Victoria Ibric)

Neurofeedback training in chronic pain syndromes

qEEG Dynamics During Neurofeedback with Bill Hudspeth

WS What the brain does during neurofeedback (with BIll Hudspeth)

WS Treating Chronic Pain With Neurofeedback

An EEG Correlate of Consciousness that Makes Sense: Introduction to Rogue Site Analysis (RSA)

Workshop: Leveraging the Principles of Operant Conditioning to Maximize Neurofeedback: SKIL Games

Rob Kall Winter Brain meeting organizer, StoryCon Organizer. Co-editor of Biofeedback Theory and Practice vol.s 2, 3. Biofeedback Director of the Center for Optimal Living. Rob has been listed in Who's Who in America for several years. 

Mythic aspects of healing and growth processes.

The Politicoeconomics of Mind Body Health, Drugs, Education and Consciousness

Can Neurofeedback and Biofeedback Get it Together as a Profession And as a Field?

Dr. Martha Lappin holds a doctorate in psychology from Michigan State University.
Following 15 years as a research psychologist for the U.S. Army Research Institute, Dr. Lappin entered the field of alternative medicine serving as a research consultant and research director for Energy Medicine Developments (North America) Inc. of Vancouver, BC.   She is also president of Alternative Health Care Research, Inc., in Burke, VA, a company that specializes in grant proposals and research on alternative therapies. 

Dr. Lappin has designed and conducted clinical trials of an experimental pulsed electromagnetic therapy for multiple sclerosis and migraine headaches. The migraine study was funded by the National Institutes for Health (NIH).  Dr. Lappin has writen two book chapters on electromagnetic therapies in addition to several journal articles and grant applications.  Her research interests include neurofeedback and alternative treatments for ADHD, in addition to electromagnetic therapies, and in 1999 and 2000 she co-produced conferences titled "Helping Kids with ADD: Natural Approaches to Optimal Health and Peak Performance". 

Michael Linden plenary: QEEG Subtypes of Autism Spectrum Disorders & ADD

 

workshop: QEEG and Neurofeedback with ADD and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Peter Litchfield

Plenary: Breathing Chemistry and Neurofeedback

WS: THE BRAIN-BREATH CONNECTION: Breathing chemistry and its effects on neurophysiology, emotion, cognition, personality, performance and health

Judith Lubar

PLenary: Combining Neurofeedback with Meditation, Energy Medicine, and Hypnotherapy Techniques

WS Smile Exercises for Physical and Emotional Well-Being

Liana

Human Potential: Engaging Brain Plasticity and Immune Response through Neurofeedback.

Director of the Inner Key Program, which she has developed by integrating neurofeedback, biofeedback, ancient wisdom metaphors and exercises to build awareness and optimal functioning.

Awakening the Inner Revolution through the synergy of multimodal feedback.

Plenary: Breath Training Toward Peak Performance in the Himalayas

workshop: HOW TO TEACH BREATH SELF-REGULATION, WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF HRV, RSA, CO2..and the connection to BRAIN TRAINING

Don Morgan, Psy.D. Director of psychological clinic at Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology

Plenary: Meditative Practice  and Cognitive Therapy; the fit between Buddhist teachings and Western Cognitive approaches.

WS: Yogic breathing and meditative practices; integration with clinical practice

Janet Nester

WS: Introductory training in the Radiant Energy Balance (REB) Protocol:.A FLEXIBLE, COMPREHENSIVE, THERAPEUTIC and TRANSFORMATIVE PROTOCOL

Janet Nester, LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) and a professional educator and practicing as a holistic mental health counselor at the Center for Family Wellness in Winston - Salem, North Carolina (incorporating various complementary and alternative practices) She works primarily with anxiety, depression, ACOA, leaning difficulties, women’s issues, acute and post traumatic stress. For the past three years she has been using REB as a tool to assist personal growth, to relieve anxiety and depression, to assist in physical healing (eg. highly stressed and injured athletes from local universities), to help individuals access their spirituality and as a gentle form of trauma release. Currently she is a volunteer practitioner member of Wake Forest University Medical School Dept of Family and Community Medicine Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Planning Committee, Best Health Community Education sub committee and Bioenergietics Research Committee.

plenary: EEG-Driven Music Composition for Neurotherapy

Panel on Migraine Headache

ws: Seeking a unitary perspective on biofeedback and neurofeedback.

Biofeedback has been called the core discipline in mind/body medicine, yet it is a field driven by differentiating rather than unifying perspectives. Can we discern and then build upon the commonalities in order to present a more coherent, more integrated model of biofeedback to the allied health professions and to the public at large?

EEG Training for the Back Half of Your Head

Workshop: EEG Training for Pain Syndromes: Theory and Practice

plenary: The treatment of INcontinence using Neurofeedback alone and with Haemoencephalography.

Beverly Rubik, biophysicist (Ph.D., 1979, University of California at Berkeley), is a leading scientist internationally renowned for exploring the frontiers of science and medicine.  A former academic at San Francisco State University (1979-1988) and Temple University (1988-1995), in 1996 Dr. Rubik founded a nonprofit corporation, the Institute for Frontier Science, to conduct research on subtle energies and energy medicine.  She is author of over 50 papers and the book, Life at the Edge of Science, and editor of another book, The Interrelationship Between Mind and Matter. She serves on the editorial board of several scholarly journals of alternative and complementary medicine, including the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.  She was a member of the Advisory Council at the U.S. National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine (1992-1999), and chaired the NIH panel on bioelectromagnetics.  Presently she is Project Director of one of three projects on biofield therapies funded by the NIH at the Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science at Institute for Frontier Science in a consortium with University of Arizona.  She is also a core faculty member at the Graduate College of Union Institute and University in Cincinnati. 

Plenary: The  Biofield Model of Life and Healing

Plenary: Changes in Heart Rate Variability Following Inner Yoga, color therapy, acupuncture, qigong, and massage.

workshop: Heart Rate Variability Workshop:  How does your HRV Measure Up, and How Do Yoga and Qigong Exercises Affect Your Subtle Physiology?

Lobsang Rapgay, Ph.D.

WS. with Bill ScottIntegration of Various Biofeedback Modalities Within a Psychotherapeutic Model

Plenary: Spiritual Experiences of  a Paranormal Sort By Mystics and Saints, Is there a head trauma  connection? ;  Pre-post injury QEEG

Head Trauma; Integrating Energy Therapies, EMDR, QEEG and Neurofeedback

Keith Sedlacek, M.D.

Vasoconstriction Disorders: Biofeedback approaches to Raynauds, Migraine Headaches and Hypertension

Bill Scott

WS Integration of Various Biofeedback Modalities Within a Psychotherapeutic Model

David Siever Since 1985 Dave Siever has studied audio-visual entrainment (AVE) technology , including the effects of AVE in treating ADD, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, SAD, PMS, hypertension, insomnia, depression and anxiety. He developed and designed the DAVID Paradise^TM line of AVE devices. and wrote ARediscovery of Audio-Visual Entrainment Technology@

Plenary  Helping the Heart With Audio-Visual Entrainment

WS The Physiology of Audio-visual Entrainment

Z'eva Singer

plenary: Hypnotherapy & Family Therapy to help children achieve quicker results in Neurofeedback traning

A qEEG Analysis of Single Channel Bipolar Montage Temporal Lobe Training For Cortical Instabilities An innovative form of training has recently emerged in NFB and is being used by many key therapists and instructors.  This protocol appears to be especially useful with cortical instabilities.  Sue & Sigfried Othmer have proposed that cortical instability be considered another primary category of EEG disorder in contrast to hyperarousal and hypoarousal.  Many clinicians have found this category of phenomena difficult to treat, but are finding considerable success with this new approach.  This presentation will briefly review several case studies of pre and post treatment with this protocol and compare it to more conventional qEEG approaches utilizing qEEG and LORETA analysis.

WS: Cycles, Spirals, and Resonances: The Reflection of Human Behavior in Neocortical Dynamics.

Deb Stokes

Outcome of Ten Cases of Migraine Using Neurofeedback with or Without Peripheral Measures"

Ben Strack

WS: Performance Enhancement for Athletes 

presentations: Mini Q,

Energy and Emotional Release treatment Procedures that Facilitate Neurotherapy,

Panel on Mini-Qs.

Panel: Successful Practices

 

The Training of Psychotherapists: real-time regulation of the therapist-caregiver

Rae Tattenbaum

"Send In The Clowns"
Performers continued struggled to stay at their best. Rae Tattenbaum drawing upon her seven years of experience with performers will present the obstacles that continue to face the peak performer ranging from facing an economic downturn or personal problems. How do we continue to provide support and help the client thru what becomes a crisis of their spirit?

WS Neuroguide: Clinical Applications of QEEG

Asperger’s & ADD; Differences and Similarities- Preliminary Observations

BCIA Review Workshop

Plenary: Brain oxygenation  proportionally improves Variables of Attention,

 

 Workshop: Clinical Cerebral Blood Flow HEG workshop

David Trudeau, M.D.

Plenary: You can be an Author

Bio: Editor in Chief, Journal of Neurotherapy

Peter Van Deusen

President of The Learning Curve, Inc., he founded and operated a 4-site brain training practice in Atlanta from 1992-2001, performing more than 1000 assessments and working with clients whose problems related to attention, control, mood, physical function and injury. Moving to Miami in 2001, he began providing training to professional and home users. He has taught hundreds of brain trainers across the North and South America and Europe in his unique, small-group, hands-on style.

Plenary: Brain-Based Training Plan without QEEG

plenary: : The OpenEEG project and the ModularEEG device.

Craig Webb, , avant-garde physicist and co-founder/Executive Director of the DREAMS Foundation (www.dreams.ca) since 1995, is a renown dreams and consciousness researcher, trainer, author and spokesman (ABC, CTV, Discovery Channel, AOL, and 100+ others). He has consulted for television, and is Contributing Editor for Magical Blend magazine and a founding member and correspondent for Making Contact (progressive weekly radio show airing on 150+ stations).

Panel; Tapping the Depths of the Unconscious

WS Universal Dream Themes as Key Therapy and Story Elements

 Dr. Nancy White, a licensed psychologist, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Sex Therapist, stands as one of the original clinical practitioners of Neurotherapy.  She is founder and Clinical Director of The Enhancement Institute in Houston, Texas. Dr. White is a Diplomate in Neurotherapy, a Quantitative EEG Diplomate, a Fellow of the International Society for Neuronal Regulation and a consulting editor for the Journal of Neurotherapy. She is author of a number of groundbreaking articles in the field, has contributed chapters to college level texts on Neurotherapy and has presented at conferences and symposia internationally. Dr. White is listed in Who’s Who In Medicine and Healthcare and in Who’s Who In America.

plenary: How Old is Too Old For Neurofeedback

Edutainment

Mind Body Education

Pain and Bleeding control by a Yogic Master While Piercing: Psychophysiological Correlates

Plenary: Treatment without Stigma: Does your hand have equal length fingers ?

Two –Hour Workshop   Tools, Gears, and Paraphernalia in QEEG

QEEG Hands-On        7-hour Workshop   February 10, 2004

K. H. Wong,PhD, BCIAC, BCIA-EEG, ECNS-QEEG  Director, QEEG and Neurotherapy Institute        www.neurotherapy.org

For over 20 years, Dr. Wong has focused his research and clinical interests on neurorehabilitation, behavioral medicine, peripheral and EEG biofeedback, working with TBI, CVA, ADHD/ LD/DD, stress, chronic pain, addictions, seizure clients, including teaching at university/colleges, and presenting at conferences. He is a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania, a BCIA Fellow/Associate Fellow and a Diplomate in EEG biofeedback. He is board-certified by the EEG & Clinical Neuroscience Society in EEG, Quantitative EEG and Neurophysiology. Between 1994-96 he completed fellowship in QEEG/ EEG/ Neurophysiology at Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, under the supervision of Drs. Frank Duffy and Gloria McAnulty, with clinical training in behavioral medicine from Dr. Herbert Benson’s team at the Mind-Body Medical Institute in cardiac wellness/ rehabilitation, chronic pain management, insomnia, and medical symptom reduction.  Besides a visiting fellowship in fMRI and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, he was also trained in electrode placement in a hospital setting by a team of registered EEG and experienced QEEG technologists. Since 1995 he has been monitoring the development of QEEG as legal evidence in the courtroom. As a BCIA approved supervisor, Dr. Wong provides training, supervision/ consultation to neurotherapy practitioners on neurotherapy/QEEG and is preparing a manuscript on this subject. He is the author of an upcoming book Quantitative EEG Atlas.

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