The Neuroscience Training Summit 2017
Over the last few decades, powerful discoveries in the field of neuroscience have transformed such diverse fields as psychotherapy and medical care, education, parenting, intimate relationships, business and leadership, and even spiritual development. In many instances, neuroscience has provided the “missing key” that has helped us unlock greater understanding, intimacy, health, and well-being.
For many non-scientists, however, getting to the core of this newly discovered wisdom is no easy task. It is difficult to know where to even start. Sounds True would like to help.
"Neurons that fire together wire together. Mental states become neural traits. Day after day, your mind is building your brain."
We are excited to announce the launch of The Neuroscience Training Summit 2017, with a whole new array of presenters, teachers, authors, and experts in the field, who are committed to helping you to apply these revolutionary discoveries in your life, whether you have a scientific background or not. Not only will you learn the latest theory and research, but it will be presented in a way that is designed for practical application, where you can use these discoveries to make changes in how you live, love, and learn.
I was amazed last year—as part our of 2016 summit—to receive so many letters from participants around the world who shared how they had benefitted from the series, and how immensely practical they found the teachings to be. Whether you are looking transform a stuck relationship, have more energy and clarity to accomplish your goals, break an old habit, begin to heal old trauma, or open to greater spiritual awareness, this all-new series has been designed with you in mind.
To go even deeper with this wealth of information, we’re offering a special upgrade package that gives you lifetime access to the teaching sessions of each presenter and much more.
Thank you for signing up. I hope you find immediate value and lasting inspiration as you join us for The Neuroscience Training Summit 2017.
Neuroscience brings together the scientific study of the brain and nervous system with meditation, mindfulness, psychotherapy, and spirituality. In doing so, it is revolutionizing our understanding of personal growth and self-actualization. The insights you’ll discover during this summit will empower you to:
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Get Healthy
Use your brain to strengthen your immune system, boost willpower, and enhance performance.
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Create New Habits
Reshape your neural pathways with positive intentions to create healthy habits that last.
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Cultivate Joy
Teach your brain to become more flexible, creative, and joyful.
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Develop Resilience
Build neural shock absorbers for more a more stable sense of inner peace in tumultuous times.
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Grow Compassion
Transform criticism into compassion as you deepen your understanding of human nature.
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Change Your Brain
Explore new research that proves it’s never too late to change your brain—and your life.
The Neuroscience Training Summit 2017 package
- Digital Session Recordings: Over 20 hours of neuroscience trainings, interviews, and Q&A sessions
- Transcripts of All the Talks
- Downloadable Presentation Materials and Additional Resources
- Bonus #1: Kelly McGonigal's complete online course, Choose to Change: Six Weeks to Take Charge of Your Habits, Goals, and Emotional Patterns. Six hours of video sessions
- Bonus #2: Gifts from all 20 presenters, including even more teachings, articles, and practical information
When you attend, you'll also have the option to earn 30 CE credits for an additional cost.
Today $397
Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.
Rick Hanson, PhD: The "Green Zone" Brain
March 20, 2017 at 10am MT
Topics include:
- Identifying our fundamental needs for safety, satisfaction, and connection, as well as our stress reactions when these needs go unmet—the “red zone”
- How we can meet challenges with an underlying sense of fullness and balance—and cultivate more “green zone” experiences
- How to skillfully change the brain and deepen our personal sense of peace, contentment, and love
Two audio teachings: “Three Guided Practices for Dealing with an Upset” and “Practice of Relaxation”
Lisa Wimberger, MED: Using Neuroscience to Find Healing and Happiness
March 20, 2017 at 5pm MT
Topics include:
- Understanding our brain patterns—how they are created as survival mechanisms and how they orchestrate our physiological responses
- How we can cultivate more happiness and joy by learning to create new patterns in our brains
- The brain’s secret language of health and healing, with exercises to improve our well-being through self-directed neuroplasticity
- The Neurosculpting® Annual Journal (complete PDF journal issue)
- Two audio teachings: “Three Guided Practices for Dealing with an Upset” and “Practice of Relaxation”
Kelly McGonigal, PhD: The Neuroscience of Change
March 21, 2017 at 10am MT
Topics include:
- What keeps us stuck? Why change requires acceptance and self-compassion
- An exploration on the latest neuroscientific findings on behavior change
- Advice on the best ways to approach important goals
- Strategies for using setbacks and adversity as catalysts for positive growth
- A guided meditation on self-compassion (audio)
Ron Siegel, PsyD: The Neurobiology of Mindfulness: Practical Applications of the New Science
March 21, 2017 at 5pm MT
Topics include:
- How understanding the neurobiology of mindfulness can help our practice
- The ways in which mindfulness can make us happier, more energized, and more enthusiastic
- The neurobiology of empathy and getting beyond self-preoccupation
- Using mindfulness to overcome fear and work with emotional and physical pain
- “Separating the Two Arrows: Working with Pain” (an audio meditation practice)
- “Bringing Mindfulness into Psychotherapy” (PDF book chapter)
Stephen Porges, PhD: Connectedness as a Biological Imperative
March 22, 2017 at 10am MT
Topics include:
- The Polyvagal Theory—how it demystifies several features related to psychiatric disorders
- What the Social Engagement System is, how to reset it, and how the brain-face-heart connection evolved
- Our brain’s evaluation of environmental risk, and why we turn to either social interactions or defensive behaviors as a result
- “Vagal Pathways: Portal to Compassion” (PDF excerpt from the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science)
- “Making the World Safe for Our Children: Down-Regulating Defense and Up-Regulating Social Engagement to ‘Optimize’ the Human Experience” (PDF journal article)
Peter Levine, PhD: Trauma and Memory, Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past
March 22, 2017 at 5pm MT
Topics include:
- Memory systems—understand different types of memories and the brain systems involved with each
- Why memory so often fails us and the nature of false memories
- Exploring body-based memories—particularly in work with trauma—as well as generational and inherited memory
- Two audio teachings: “Sensations, Images, Thoughts, and Emotions” and “Shifting the Posture of Helplessness and Collapse”
Dan Siegel, MD: Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
March 23, 2017 at 10am MT
Topics include:
- Defining the mind and exploring the essence of being human
- Learning to view health and wellness from a social, neurobiological perspective
- The connections between the embodied brain, relationships, subjective experience, and the mind
- How integration is a foundation of well-being
- The epilogue of Dr. Siegel’s The Developing Mind (PDF book excerpt)
Alexandra Katehakis, MFT: Sex Addiction as Affect Dysregulation: A Neurobiologically Informed Holistic Treatment
March 23, 2017 at 5pm MT
Topics include:
- History of sex addiction
- Sex addiction as a problem of affect dysregulation
- Neurobiological underpinnings of compulsive seeking of sex
- How “healthy” sex differs from compulsive sex
- Components necessary for optimal eroticism
- Physiological arousal states, neural integration and orgasm
- “Affective Neuroscience and the Treatment of Sex Addiction” (PDF)
- “The Impact of Trauma on the Neuropsychobiology of Sexual Addicts: Guidelines for Treatment” (PDF)
Two published journal articles:
Elisha Goldstein, PhD: Uncovering Happiness: The Psychology and Neuroscience of Personal Transformation
March 24, 2017 at 10am MT
Topics include:
- How mindfulness, self-compassion, and a few other key mindsets can release natural antidepressants in the brain
- How to build emotional resilience and create more meaning, purpose, and well-being in your everyday life
- The key elements that fuel stress, anxiety, and depression, along with the importance of self-compassion, play, and mindfulness
- SAFE—a simple but powerful technique for raising consciousness and breaking the old patterns and habits that keep us stuck
- A 20-minute meditation on learning how to relax and retune your nervous system (audio download)
- “11 Ways to Ease Your Anxious Mind” (PDF article)
James Doty, MD: The Power of Compassion to Change Lives
March 24, 2017 at 5pm MT
Topics include:
- Understanding the evolution of our nurturing pathways and the anatomy of the vagus nerve
- How the brain processes threat and the effect of modern society on our sympathetic nervous system
- The neuroscience of compassion—how mental training techniques influence compassion and can have a profound effect on your life and the lives of those around you
Two gifts from Dr. Doty's New York Times bestseller, Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart:
- A guided meditation (audio download)
- "Alphabet of the Heart" (book excerpt)
Catherine Pittman, PhD: Rewire Your Anxious Brain: Strategies for Resisting Anxiety in the Brain
March 25, 2017 at 10am MT
Topics include:
- Understanding the areas of the brain that contribute to anxiety
- Specific suggestions and techniques for making these areas of the brain less likely to produce anxiety
- Evidence-based strategies for creating lasting change in the anxious brain
- “Medications in the Anxious Brain,” an article explaining the common medications used for anxiety, how they work, and their risks and benefits (PDF)
- "Don't Trust Your Cortex" a presentation on common ways the cortex ignites anxiety in the brain and how to resist them (PowerPoint)
Louann Brizendine, MD: What We Know About the Female and the Male Brain
March 25, 2017 at 5pm MT
Topics include:
- Navigating our lives through a new understanding of the unique structure of female and male brains
- The latest insights from neuroscience into gender differences—in our brains, behaviors, and hormones
- How understanding these differences can help us in our lives, our work, and especially our relationships
Loch Kelly, MDiv, LCSW: How to Train Your Brain to Live an Awakened Life
March 26, 2017 at 10am MT
Topics include:
- Your brain on happiness—how to shift out of automatic thinking and into peace of mind
- Balancing your default-mode network and moving from self-centered fear to relating from open-hearted awareness
- Waking up as a natural stage of growing up and how embodied, awareness-based knowing leads to low-level bliss
- A 1.5-hour recording of teachings and practices (audio)
- An extensive transcript of a live talk with additional practices (PDF)
Linda Graham, MFT: The Neuroscience of Post-Traumatic Growth
March 26, 2017 at 5pm MT
Topics include:
- How we can become more resilient and appreciative of our lives because of the trauma, not just in spite of it
- An exploration of eight key stages in post-traumatic growth and how safety, choice, and perseverance play important roles
- Dozens of practical tools to recover resilience and “bounce back” from trauma, including experiential exercises to strengthen the brain's neuroplasticity
- Guided meditations and exercises for healing from trauma (audio download)
- “The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth” (PDF article)
Mona Fishbane, PhD: Loving with the Brain in Mind: Nurturing Intimacy in Long-Term Relationships
March 27, 2017 at 10am MT
Topics include:
- The neurobiology of love, intimacy, and relational empowerment—including emotion regulation, empathy, care, and repair
- The factors that contribute reactivity between partners and how this can undermine relationship satisfaction
- How couples can become more empowered and emotionally intelligent in their relationships
- “Habits for Relationship Success” (video)
- “The Vulnerability Cycle: Working with Impasses in Couple Therapy” (PDF article)
Daniel Amen, MD: The Brain Warrior’s Way
March 27, 2017 at 5pm MT
Topics include:
- The inextricable link between mental health and physical health
- How certain habits can activate or deactivate genes that govern your life expectancy, energy levels, and overall well-being
- How healthy brain habits lead to better focus, improved immune response, and greater flexibility
- Why smarter nutrition leads to a sharper mind
- “Guided Hypnosis for Healing” (audio download)
Janina Fisher, PhD: Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma
March 28, 2017 at 10am MT
Topics include:
- Why trauma leaves a “living legacy” of enduring effects—loss of hope, a chronic sense of danger or dread, self-destructive or addictive behaviors, and more
- How to recognize the cognitive, affective, and somatic effects of trauma
- Differentiating ordinary feelings from trauma-related feeling memories
- How neuroscience provides us with new keys for effectively treating trauma
- Two chapters from Dr. Fisher’s Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors (PDF book excerpt)
Joe Dispenza, DC: Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon
March 28, 2017 at 5pm MT
Topics include:
- Findings that show people healing themselves from chronic illness, having interdimensional experiences, and interacting in other realms
- How to enter into deeper levels of the subconscious mind to change your beliefs and perceptions
- The fundamentals behind doing the uncommon, becoming “supernatural,” and creating the life you want
- The Art of Change: A Practical Approach to Transforming Yourself and Your Life (audio download of a two-CD set)
Eben Alexander, MD & Karen Newell: The Brain's Role in Filtering Conscious Awareness
March 29, 2017 at 10am MT
Topics include:
- The mind-body debate—how our conscious awareness can be harnessed to meet endless goals such as healing, guidance, creativity, and intuition
- The potential of psychedelic substances to allow for expanded awareness outside the materialist model
- Brainwave entrainment—research on sound technology and the different brain levels people achieve when listening to certain sounds
- Research data from HeartMath showing how the heart's interaction with the brain is an integral part of conscious awareness
- “Heart Center,” a 30-minute guided meditation from Sacred Acoustics to invoke heart awareness and connection (audio download)
- "Riding the Wave of Consciousness" by Dr. Alexander (PDF article)
- A 20% discount coupon for Sacred Acoustics
John Arden, PhD: Mind-Brain Gene: The Integration of Psychotherapy
March 29, 2017 at 5pm MT
Topics include:
- How adverse childhood experiences can result in health problems later in life
- The relationships between immune system function, stress, insecure attachment, anxiety, depression, poor nutrition, sleep quality, physical inactivity, and more
- The role of epigenetics in response to early experiences and practical neuroscience approaches for healing
- “Brain-Based Therapy and the ‘Pax Medica’” (PDF professional article)
- Brain2Brain: Using Neuroscience to Facilitate Meaningful Change (downloadable program)
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Tami Simon founded Sounds True at the age of 22 with the mission of disseminating spiritual wisdom. As a pioneer in the conscious business movement, she focuses on bringing authenticity and heart into the workplace while honoring multiple bottom lines. Tami hosts a popular weekly podcast called Insights at the Edge, where she has interviewed many of today's leading teachers, delving deeply into their discoveries and personal experiences on their own journeys. With Sounds True, she has released the audio program Being True: What Matters Most in Work, Life, and Love.
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Kriste Peoples is an avid student of spirituality and its application in daily life. As a producer at Sounds True, she works with prominent and emerging authors, teachers, and musicians to develop new audio programs. Her abiding interest in the modern seeker's journey is what fuels her desire to explore the beauty of the spiritual path—whether it reveals itself on a backcountry hike, from within the lines of sacred texts or music, when reading and writing about it, or while gathered around a communal table of kindred spirits.
The Neuroscience Training Summit 2017 qualifies for a maximum of 30 Continuing Education credits. In order to receive your credits, you will need to take a quiz based on the content of the summit, which will be available approximately four to six weeks after the conclusion of the summit. Please check out our FAQs for more information.
following bonuses
Bonus #1:
Kelly McGonigal, PhD, is a health psychologist, award-winning lecturer, and most recently the recipient of Stanford University's prestigious Teacher of the Year award. Based on Dr. McGonigal's popular courses at Stanford, this online program teaches you how to create a new and healthy relationship with change.
With Choose to Change, Dr. McGonigal uses a compassionate, mindful approach to change seen throughout the world's wisdom traditions&em;and being verified today in the emerging fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. This course includes six video sessions blending lecture, experiential exercises, guided meditations, real-world assignments, self-reflection activities, and more. An empowering program for reflecting inner change in the outer world and embracing the unfolding process of personal transformation.
You can purchase 6 additional CE credits for Choose to Change separately from the credits for The 2017 Neuroscience Training Summit. If you are interested in earning these credits, you can find out more here.
CE credits are available upon completion (these credits are in addition to the ones you will already be eligible for through The 2017 Neuroscience Training Summit).
Bonus #2:
Each presenter is offering special bonuses that are included with our upgrade package:
- Rick Hanson's audio downloads "Three Guided Practices for Dealing with an Upset" and "Practice of Relaxation"
- Joe Dispenza's The Art of Change: A Practical Approach to Transforming Yourself and Your Life, a two-CD set download
- A one-hour video class on stress management and the most recent Neurosculpting® Annual Journal from Lisa Wimberger
- Dan Siegel's PDF of the epilogue of The Developing Mind (2nd Edition), Norton, 2012
- "Heart Center," a 30-minute guided meditation from Sacred Acoustics
- A 20-minute audio meditation on learning how to relax and retune your nervous system with Dr. Elisha Goldstein
- Guided meditations and exercises for healing trauma from Linda Graham
- Loch Kelly's 1.5-hour audio recording of teachings and practices, as well as an extensive transcript of a live talk with additional practices
- And much more!
TRAINING SUMMIT 2017 TODAY
Professional recordings of 20 powerful presentations
More than 30 special bonuses from leading voices in the field of neuroscience
Downloads of all sessions, transcripts, and bonuses for you to keep
Lifetime access
Continued inspiration for your journey
Professional recordings of 20 powerful presentations
More than 30 special bonuses from leading voices in the field of neuroscience
Downloads of all sessions, transcripts, and bonuses for you to keep
Lifetime access
Continued inspiration for your journeyNOW ONLY $397
We unconditionally guarantee your satisfaction with all Sounds True products for one year when purchased via our website. If you are not 100% satisfied with The Neuroscience Training Summit 2017 for any reason, simply return it with receipt for a full refund.
I was very impressed with the caliber of speakers, the breadth of approaches to the topic of neuroscience, and the speakers’ abilities to distill down such huge topics into a meaningful one-hour conversations.
I could feel the passion from each presenter of the summit as they spoke about their particular topic of expertise. As a viewer who is not a specialist in the field, I learned SO MUCH about neuroscience from this summit. My mind was opened to so many aspects—I feel that I can now relate to others with a greater sense of empathy and curiosity . . . I thank Sounds True for providing the opportunity to experience such a life-altering learning outlet, and each presenter who managed to communicate such potentially complicated elements of the brain in a way that I fully understood.
Do this! I am a layman. I will never see the brain or mind in the same way. I will never feel bad about my negative thoughts again because I know I'm programmed to have them, but I now have new ways to deal with them!
Worthwhile. Gives you a profound understanding of what it is to be human and what is truly at play in our behaviors and responses. By gaining insight and awareness we are able to make positive changes in our own personal development and help initiate positive change in others.
We invite you to get The Neuroscience Training
Summit 2017 upgrade package today.
NOW ONLY $397
We unconditionally guarantee your satisfaction with all Sounds True products for one year when purchased via our website. If you are not 100% satisfied with The Neuroscience Training Summit 2017 for any reason, simply return it with receipt for a full refund.