Breath-Centered Mind-Body Treatment/Prevention for Provider Self-Care, War, and Other Disasters
Breath-Body-Mind Fundamentals Course Online
Sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association Caucuses on Integrative Psychiatry and Global Mental Health
Speakers: Richard P. Brown, MD and Patricia L. Gerbarg, MD
Nov 1st 6:30-9:30 pm, Nov 2nd 11:00 am-4:30 pm, and Nov 3rd 11:00 am – 3:00 pm ET
Plus 6 weekly 1 - hour practice sessions
12 CME Credits
Fees: $20 - $200
Breath-Body-Mind (BBM) Fundamentals provides didactic and experiential training in Stress Reduction for Healthcare Providers: voluntarily regulated breathing practices (VRBPs) with movement, awareness/mindfulness, and attention focus, derived from yoga, qigong, martial arts, and meditation, honed with modern neuropsychiatry. These evidence-based cross-cultural techniques that help relieve stress, anxiety, depression, and PTSD can be modified for office, hospital, family and group therapy, schools, military bases, or mass disaster settings.
Dr. Patricia Gerbarg updates evidence that VRBPs and related practices relieve stress, trauma, depression, exhaustion, and pain in healthcare workers and disasters survivors. Breath-Body-Mind programs have been effective for treating survivors of the 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks, military service, genocides in Rwanda and Myanmar, COVID pandemic, Ukraine war, earthquake in Turkey, and more. Risks, benefits, and adaptations for physical and psychological conditions are discussed.
Dr. Richard Brown leads Experiential Training with gentle movement, VRBPs, and Open Awareness (meditation on space). Awareness/mindfulness of breath, interoceptions, and psychophysiological state are cultivated. Group processes with Q&A enhance learning of practical mind-body methods for self-care and stress reduction.
All participants attend sessions with Dr. Gerbarg and Dr. Brown as well as smaller group meetings in breakout rooms where senior BBM teachers provide individual observation and feedback to optimize breath techniques. Participants are required to keep cameras on to enable faculty to observe how they respond and perform each technique. Group processes enhance awareness of psycho-neurophysiological states and relatedness.
In 6 weekly 1-hour follow-up sessions, participants consolidate skills for their personal stress resilience and emotion regulation. For those interested in integrating these methods into clinical practice, this course fulfills the prerequisite for BBM Teacher Training Level-1. We strongly advise participants to develop their personal practice and to complete BBM Teacher Training before trying to teach these methods to patients..
Spaces are limited. Register early.
Continuing Education Credits: In support of improving patient care, the American Psychiatric Association is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. The APA designates this live webinar activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
For more information, contact: Linda Lentini.