Transforming Clinical Practice: Integrating Meditation Techniques to Reduce Stress, Foster Self-Compassion, Increase Resilience and Enhance Wellbeing

With Susan Kaiser Greenland, Bonnie Goldstein, LCSW, Ed.M., Ph.D., and Stefanie Goldstein, Ph.D.

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, January 31, 2025

Description:

Through discussion, explanation, and experiential practice, this workshop introduces activity-based mindfulness, a dynamic and accessible approach to mindfulness and meditation that enhances wellbeing across the lifespan—from childhood through adulthood. In this interactive session, Susan will share evidence-informed themes and practical techniques that bring mindfulness into daily life. By integrating playfulness, focused attention, emotional balance, and compassion, participants will explore ways to strengthen and support the way they speak, act, and relate to one another in both personal and professional settings. This session emphasizes real-world applications, providing participants with tools to reduce stress, foster self-compassion, and increase resilience in clinical practice, classrooms, or private practice environments.

This program is designed to deliver targeted, practical learning in a short timeframe, leaving participants with a clear understanding of key mindfulness concepts and simple, adaptable tools to begin applying immediately in their professional and personal lives. This webinar offers 2 hours of Continuing Education Credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, & LEPs and is appropriate for all mental health professionals.

Cost & Details:

Tuition: Early bird rate: $39.00; $49.00 after January 17.

Non-credit Fee: $10

You also have an opportunity to include a tax-deductable donation to The Maple Couseling Center.

Excluding the cost of the webinar, all amounts donated are tax deductible. The Maple Counseling Center is a tax exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; EIN 95-2753118. Please consult with your tax advisor with any questions.

Class Schedule: Friday, January 31, 2025

Start: 10:00 AM

Break: 10:55 AM

Second Half: 11:05 AM

Objectives:

In this interactive program, participants will learn how to:

• Discuss and determine ways participants can integrate mindfulness into their clinical practice and/or routines in agencies, classrooms, or private practices.

• Discuss and explain mindful awareness and its applications with children and adults in both classroom and clinical settings.

• Identify and practice mindfulness-based life skills to promote self-care, prevent burnout, and enhance emotional resilience in personal and professional life.

Presenter Bios:

Susan Kaiser Greenland, JD

Susan is a mindfulness educator and bestselling author, specializing in distilling global wisdom traditions and scientific research into straightforward everyday practices. In the early 2000s, she helped pioneer the introduction of secular mindfulness into classrooms through her Inner Kids model. After decades of working with children and adults and writing two widely translated books, Susan’s latest work has culminated in a new book called REAL-WORLD ENLIGHTENMENT. With 50 short, powerful tools, it shares the lessons she’s learned as a mindfulness innovator, educator, and leader as well as insights from psychology to Buddhism and everything in between. www.susankaisergreenland.com

Bonnie Goldstein, LCSW, Ed.M., Ph.D.

Bonnie Goldstein, LCSW, Ed.M., Ph.D., aims to synthesize the pearls of traditional psychotherapy with a progressive integration of somatic psychotherapy & mindfulness to foster and heal relationships.

She oversees a team of associates and offers training opportunities for emerging clinicians at the Lifespan Psychological Center in West Los Angeles. For over three decades she has been at the forefront of integrating curriculum and training for therapists and educators, working to bring people together so that they may motivate and inspire one another in far-reaching ways. Dr. Goldstein has published numerous professional articles, co-edited three professional books and has co-developed with Dr. Pat Ogden the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute’s Child, Adolescent & Family series of post-graduate professional workshops for mental health professionals. www.drbonniegoldstein.com

Stefanie Goldstein, Ph.D.

Stefanie Goldstein, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist whose passion is working with adolescents, adults, couples, and families struggling with daily life, helping to support them on their path towards healing and growth. She believes therapy involves all aspects of the self, including the emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual. She specializes in integrating mindfulness when working with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction and trauma. She utilizes an integrative approach by drawing from traditional psychodynamic psychotherapy, mindfulness, cognitive therapy, and somatic psychology. Most importantly, she believes the therapeutic relationship is paramount in the healing and change process.Dr. Goldstein is a trauma specialist and has worked with traumatized teens and their families. She completed her training as an Addiction Medicine Specialist during her post-doctoral fellowship at Kaiser Permanente’s Chemical Dependency Recovery Program (CDRP) in San Francisco as well as a 3-year training program in Psychosynthesis, an integrative form of psychology that focuses on the synthesis, healing, and growth of the self. She has also been trained in Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), and is a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher.She provided training and clinical supervision to pre-doctoral interns in Saint John’s Child and Family Development Center’s (CFDC) highly-respected APA training program. She has spoken and/or given trainings at USC, UCLA, Kansas University, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, University of Washington, Family Service of Santa Monica and Saint John’s Child and Family Development Center. She published an article in a peer reviewed journal based on her research entitled The Exploration of Spirituality and Identity Status in Adolescence and is the co-author of the popular Audio CD Mindful Solutions for Addiction and Relapse Prevention. www.stefaniegoldsteinphd.com

Continuing Education Credit:

The Lifespan Learning Institute and Maple Counseling are cosponsors of this Continuing Education program.

Lifespan Learning Institute (Provider # 050085) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, & LEPs.

Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Science.

Course Completion Certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for verified attendance and a completed evaluation form. (Or successful completion of an online test and a completed evaluation form)

Access & Details:

Access: Online via Zoom OR In-Person. For Zoom, the link will be provided to you. Be sure to register using the email address that you use to log in to Zoom as the link will only work with the specific address you register with.

Attire: Dress comfortably.

Tech Requirements: You will need a stable internet connection and the most recent version of Zoom Client for Meetings (available free here).

Tech Courtesy: We want your experience to be positive, so please:

- Log in to the session a few minutes early.

- Submit questions via the chat feature.

- Limit chat submissions to workshop topics only.

This webinar offers 2 hours of Continuing Education Credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, & LEPs and is appropriate for all mental health professionals.