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Create, and Innovate like…
Think Like Leonardo da Vinci…
Aa Workshop to Enhance Creativity

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most brilliant innovators, artists, and thinkers of all time. His glorious paintings such as the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper and his work on proportion and symmetry have inspired generations. His architectural designs and innovations were centuries ahead of their time. Da Vinci was the quintessential thinker and Renaissance Man.
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Overweight?
A workshop to lose weight without a diet…

Overeating is a response to stress rather than to hunger. In this workshop we will learn and practice new psychological strategies including clinical hypnosis to un-learn the pattern of using food as a way to relieve stress. The usual diet and exercise approaches are not part of this program.

Presenter: Peter Berndt, M.D.
Time: Tuesdays 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Place: Goodstein Room #4 at 4500 East 9th Ave, Denver
Cost: $35 per session for a minimum of five sessions. Seating is limited (12 participants only).
(Any patient not satisfied with the program will be refunded a prorated portion of the fee).

For more information or to register please call Dr. Berndt at 303) 645-4300, email berndt2003@comcast.net and also visit www.psychiatryandcounselingassociates.com

This is one of a series of educational workshops on Health Risk Factors produced and presented by Psychiatry and Counseling Associates at 4500 East 9th Avenue, Suite 660-S, Denver, Co, 80220. 303) 645-4300

Making the shift from left to right brain thinking, a whole brain approach to problem solving.

Overview:
The ability to gain access to right brain functioning is an essential skill in problem solving and creative thinking. Developing and gaining practice with this skill is valuable to anyone engaged in a broad range of creative activity, such as writing, the visual arts, advertising, but especially in new process and product development. Creative blocks are common and occur when creative activity remains a matter of conscious effort (left brain activity) and the shift from left to right brain fails.

Course objectives:
At the end of the presentation the participant
- will have a clear understanding of some of the psychophysiological mechanisms involved,
-will have had the opportunity to have established the fact that he or she is able to execute the shift,
-through several repetitions of the basic training process will, depending on individual differences in speed of learning, acquire at least the rudiments of this skill,
-will identify the usual obstacles to making the L-R shift happen and ways to avoid them.

Presenter: Peter Berndt, M.D.

Format: Didactic and experiential

Course Outline:
1. General theoretical considerations of right and left brain functioning and its psychophysiology.
2. Historical examples of spontaneous L-R brain shifts (e.g. Kekule’s discovery of the benzene ring and others).
3. The role of left brain chatter and distracting input from within and outside the body in the L-R brain shift and strategies to focus and still conscious thought processes.
4. Brief exposition on the negative role of conscious effort.
5. Experiential part of the presentation with focus on teaching and training in the requisite psychological skills.