Wheel of Awareness Practice: Reduce Stress, Improve Functioning, Slow the Aging Process, and More – Dan Siegels

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In this workshop recording, interpersonal neurobiology expert Daniel Siegel will explore how advances across a range of disciplines—including brain science, psychiatry, attachment theory, quantum physics, and spirituality, to name just a few—have expanded our conception of consciousness, and what this means for the practice of psychotherapy.

Then he’ll guide you through his revolutionary Wheel of Awareness exercise. The Wheel can be used to reduce stress, improve cardiovascular and immune system functioning, and slow the aging process. It incorporates the three pillars of mental training: focused attention, open awareness, and kind intention. This session will demonstrate how to incorporate it into therapy to cultivate more meaning and connection in clients’ lives.

1. Explore how advances across a range of disciplines—including brain science, psychiatry, attachment theory, quantum physics, and spirituality, to name just a few—have expanded our conception of consciousness, and what this means for the practice of psychotherapy.
2. Discover the role of “conscious awareness” in the process of psychotherapy and how therapists can guide that experience to help clients feel connected to others.
3. Explain the results of a systematic study of the Wheel of Awareness involving thousands of individuals and how what it can tell us about how to help clients bring more awareness into the process of change. 
4. Describe the four parts of the Wheel and how to use them in therapy to improve clinical outcomes. 
5. Recognize the systemic principles of chaos and rigidity and how they can help us better grasp our clients’ issues and guide them toward learning to savor the experience of life in a more balanced and fulfilling way. 
6. Apply the Wheel in sessions to reduce clients’ stress and improve cardiovascular and immune system functioning. 
7. Understand the role attachment play in affect regulation and how therapy can correct dysregulation.

Consciousness and Connection in Psychotherapy

The present state of humans on earth

• Less than collaborative

Transformation of the path of humanity

• The role of mental health in important world issues.

One framework in science

• Consilience
• Ways to get involved in world change

Social fields

• Changing social systems.

Mindfulness

• Health benefits

The triangle of human experience

• What is energy?

How change occurs
Understanding the interconnection of all people

The Wheel of Awareness

• Mind as an emergent aspect of embodied and relational energy flow ?
• Integration as the optimization of the self-organizing aspect of the mind
• Integrating Consciousness with the Wheel of Awareness

Discussion and Reflection

• Reflecting on the Wheel as a first-person immersion, and the Ten-Thousand Person Study
• Linking Subjectivity, Science, and Spirituality ?
• Learning, Living, and Loving from the Plane of Possibility ?
• Synthesis, Discussion, and Integration?