Well-being and the Personal Narrative

Friday, April 20, 2018
The Crestview Country Club 
Agawam, MA
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
6 CE Contact Hours

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Paula Butterfield, PhD

What attendees had to say about Dr. Butterfield following her 2015 workshop,
 "How to Work and Live with High-Conflict People": 

  • I will be able to use these techniques in a variety of settings both personally and professionally. I really enjoyed the video clips.
  • Please have her back.
  • Great combination of humor and content! I loved the exercises!
  • Paula was engaging, humorous and very knowledgeable. I would definitely recommend this conference.
  • Loved the use of film clips to illustrate concepts.
  • Wonderful, insightful, knowledgeable and informative. I learned many tips and tactics
  • Dr. Butterfield was great. If she speaks on other topics, please bring her back!

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The difference between those who seem to rise above life’s endless demands and challenges to lead purposeful lives and those who get caught in self-defeating cycles often lies in their personal narratives. In this workshop, participants will explore thought-mood connection through current psychological and neuroscience research. Dr. Butterfield will provide ample evidence that clients can nurture well-being in multiple ways, while she delivers strategies and evidence-based practices for helping clients to feel better through re-writing their stories and redirecting their energy.

Learning Objectives  - As a result of attending this program, participants will be able to:

  1.      Describe how thoughts and belief systems regulate emotions.
  2.      List at least two components of what research scientists have discovered about the state of well-being.
  3.      Define meta-cognition and how it can be used to cultivate increased conscious awareness and well-being
  4.      List the steps that invite clients to retrieve and process their maladaptive personal narratives
  5.      Apply the use of at least two behavioral practices that can transform maladaptive narratives and help clients regulate emotion.
  6.      List three skills that help clients use neural messaging loops to make positive personal change. 

Paula Butterfield, PhD, PCC, former counseling psychologist and clinical professor of medicine at Ohio State University, has travelled throughout the United States for more than 20 years delivering continuing education seminars, coaching executives, and consulting with leadership teams in all sectors of the economy. She is author of the book In Our Right Mind: The Transforming Power of Women in Healthcare (2010).  


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Schedule and Course Outline  
 
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration and Coffee 
   
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
We can’t do things differently until we see things differently
  • A meta-mindset influencing everything downstream
  • Core beliefs vs automatic thoughts
  • Attachment patterns, maladaptive habits of thought
  • Explanatory style, anxiety, and depression
   
10:15 AM -10:30 PM
Break & Refreshments
   
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
A bird’s eye view of some familiar terrain
  • Lessons from crows
  • Transforming strategy #1: questions to transform feelings
  • A developmental frame 
   
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch at the Crestview,  included with your registration
   
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Well-being is an inside job
  • Structure determines results: choosing a life stance
  • Cultivating 4 key constituents of well-being
  • Transforming strategy #2: shifting energy
   
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Break and Refreshments
   
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
The presents in presence
  • The power of meta-cognition: meditation, mindfulness
  • Scrap weaknesses; build on strengths
  • The wonderful science of wonder
  • Strategies for staying the course for long-term change    
   
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
 Questions and Answers