The power and the perils of prescribing mindfulness for traumatic brain injury (September 13, 2022)

Mindfulness is a powerful tool to help survivors learn to self-regulate their nervous system arousal. Since traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors are so easily dysregulated, being asked to pay intimate, prolonged attention to their bodies/symptoms can be overwhelming. Without modifications, survivors may give up on mindfulness, since many TBI survivors are also trauma survivors, in worst case scenarios it can lead to retraumatization.
 
This webinar will explore the efficacy of mindfulness for TBI survivors. Relatively easy to teach/learn modifications will be shared in order to leave survivors with a sense of agency and an understanding that fear of (and reaction to) symptoms is often worse than the symptoms themselves.

After taking part in this webinar, participants will be able to: 

1. Understand the efficacy of prescribing mindfulness for traumatic brain injury (TBI) care.
2. Understand the importance of modifying mindfulness for TBI care.
3. Offer clients concrete tips to help them take advantage of the power of mindfulness without falling prey to the perils of mindfulness for TBI care and to, as one student put it, to ‘no longer be a slave to my symptoms.’

Level 
Beginner (0-2 years of experience in this specific practice area)