Turn intellectual knowledge into embodied understanding

You cannot teach or authoritatively recommend what you have not practiced. The best way to teach PRT to patients is to do the work yourself. Data shows that clinicians who have gone through their own pain experience have more client success than providers with advanced psychology degrees who only learned tools in a classroom. This six-session, live interactive class prioritizes practicing tools so that teaching patients becomes effortless and authentic.

Taught by Brad Fanestil, MD, this 12-hour workshop covers cognitive reframing, mindfulness, self-compassion, guided imagery, metacognition, and self-awareness through didactics, experiential exercises, and Q&A. Learning objectives include:

  • Review studies on the mind-body connection, including mindfulness, epigenetics, and predictive processing.
  • Develop a practical framework for understanding the brain’s role in pain—including how to help patients learn to “talk to their brains.”
  • Deepen your own mind-body awareness through experiential practices, body awareness, somatic exercises, and metacognitive techniques.
  • Practice guided imagery interventions for symptoms such as pain, fatigue, dyspnea, and gastrointestinal issues.
  • Use expressive writing to enhance self-awareness and apply the neuroscience of self-compassion through practices designed to “kindle the neurons” of compassion.
  • Explore the distinction between empathy and compassion, and how to model these approaches with empathic patients.
  • Learn to introduce these concepts in a brief, 20-minute appointment and facilitate experiential exercises in longer (30–45 minute) sessions.

 

APA and ACCME accreditation offer 12 CEs or CMEs to qualifying professionals. Please visit our Continuing Education Credit page for further details. This training awards these practitioners an Advanced status on our Directory.

What People Are Saying

"Dr. Fanestil was a phenomenal instructor. This course was more than what I was expecting because it wasn't solely more training about the basic steps of PRT that we learned in the initial course, but went well beyond that."
"Dr. Fanestil is the single best presenter I've ever seen — his evangelical belief in what he is teaching is inspiring, and this, together with his extensive knowledge and experience, makes his assertions highly credible and persuasive."
"This was so much more than Advanced PRT. The instructor, Dr. Brad Fanestil, was exceptional, so excited about the topic, and so interested in hearing about the experiences of folks in the class and sharing his knowledge. He also shared truly helpful resources and many simple, practical exercises a practitioner could use with clients immediately. Honestly, the course was so interesting and Brad was so engaging, it was hard to see the end and left you wanting more."

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