Events | A Guide to Alternative Mental Health - Part 6

Reversing Cognitive Decline

Huntington Beach, CA, United States

The Institute for Functional Medicine, in collaboration with Dale Bredesen, MD, and MPI Cognition, presents a two-day CME program, Reversing Cognitive Decline: Advanced Clinical Training in Treating MCI and Early Alzheimer's Disease. March 11-12, 2017, Huntington Beach, CA. Registrations only open to IFM Certified Functional Medicine Practitioners or practitioners who have attended all seven of … Continued

Breath-Body-Mind Workshop for Transformation

Kripalu Yoga Center Lenox, MA, United States

Learn breathing techniques proven to relieve stress and improve mood, mental focus, and heart and lung function. These benefits have been enjoyed by health-care practitioners, yoga teachers, military veterans, and individuals with PTSD, anxiety, depression, ADD, cancer, Lyme disease, and more. Many people who have practiced these techniques say they have been transformed, and that … Continued

Psychosis & Spiritual Awakening Town Hall Meeting (CRAZYWISE, the film)

Online Town Hall

What many would call a spiritual/personal awakening can sometimes express itself as an intense episode filled with delusions, hallucinations and other unusual experiences - something the DSM would label as psychosis. An emerging body of work on "Spiritual Emergence/Emergency" by Emma Bragdon and others examines this experience through a spiritually-informed lens. The latest contribution in this … Continued

Psychotherapy Networker Symposium

Washington DC, United States

Join Us for Psychotherapy’s Most Celebrated Gathering For 40 years, the Networker Symposium has been psychotherapy’s largest and most celebrated annual meeting. With 150 workshops, a faculty of over 100 of the field’s leading contributors, and over 3,500 of its most creative and inquiring practitioners, the Symposium (March 23-26) is the place therapists go year … Continued

Integrative Therapies for Anxiety & Depression.

San Diego, CA, United States

Intensive practitioner workshop showing how to transition to a truly integrative psychiatry practice. By Integrative Medicine for Mental Health (IMMH)

10th Annual Conference of the Society for Humanistic Psychology

Point Park University and Hotels Pittsburgh, PA, United States

"Love, Ethics and Social Justice: Transforming the Self in the Service of Others" . Humanistic psychology is not only set apart by a concern with research methods that are qualitative in addition to quantitative in design, and we share more than existential skepticism regarding metaphysical claims about what it means to be human. Humanistic psychology is … Continued

Compassionate Mental Health – Building Compassionate Communities

Cardiff, United Kingdom

A two day experiential event in a stunning lakeside venue designed to inform, inspire and empower people living and working with mental distress. We’ve gathered influential speakers who are passionate about changing the script around mental health, challenging stigma and raising expectations. Together we’ll explore emerging themes in mental health, including: Compassion, mindfulness and Open Dialogue … Continued