Presenter: Dr. David Burns

Dr. Burns will show people how to break out of bad moods quickly, and will feature seven brief video clips of a dramatic and inspiring treatment session with a woman who felt like she was a failure as a mother.

Presenter: Dr. Jill Levitt

In this presentation you will learn strategies to identify and change your negative and anxious thoughts so that you can feel better. It turns out that it is not the events of our lives that directly impact our mood, it is what we tell ourselves that lead us to feel anxious or depressed. Do you ever tell yourself, “I should be better than I am” or “If I mess this up, everyone will look down on me,” or “I wasn’t invited to that party, it’s because no one likes me?” I will teach you how to identify your negative or anxious thinking patterns and I will show you some fun and effective tools to change your thinking so you can feel better.

Presenter: Mike Christensen

IIn this session we will explore four strategies you can employ to break free from feeling down in life, feeling anxious around others, or feeling stuck in your procrastination. Building on Dr. Burns groundbreaking motivation and cognitive work, I will be sharing some of my personal journey and the powerful techniques you can use to can bring energy, joy and productivity in your life.

Presenter: Dr. Danielle Cottonham

The overall purpose of this session is to broaden the understanding of systemic racism and the role each of us play in addressing it. The session is designed for participants to leave with 1) increased awareness of the various ways racism manifests in society and in our inter and intrapersonal relationships, 2) concrete ways to actively engage in healing and allyship, and 3) resources to deepen learning on the theories and concepts introduced during the session. The only requirements are curiosity and a willingness to learn.

Presenter: Dr. Tejal Jakatdar

Do you dream of having a better social life but don’t think you’re capable? Do you worry too much about what other people will think of you? Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has tools that can help you work through social anxiety and shyness. CBT is empirically supported and is highly effective. Join me to learn how your unhelpful thoughts and behaviors may be keeping you stuck and most importantly, how to get unstuck. You will learn hands-on tools to think differently and engage in social situations in ways you couldn’t before. These tools will help you have more meaningful interpersonal relationships, help you with dating and interviews, and you will learn to be appropriately assertive. Finally, these tools will be in your toolkit for the rest of your lives!

The “C” in the CBT – I will teach you to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and techniques for challenging them. This will help you change the lenses through which you view the world.

The “B” in the CBT – I will help you make a list of social situations that you would like to work on. Then, I’ll walk you through how to navigate them while setting very measurable and concrete goals.

Presenter: Dr. Christiane Wolf

Life is stressful. Not always, but more often than we’d prefer. But we are often not aware how we make life a lot harder and more stressful by rehashing the past and anticipating the future. Practices of present moment awareness and self-kindness help to reduce this extra baggage for more ease, joy and resilience.

Presenter: Dr. Daniel Jin Blum

Are you or someone you know struggling with sleep? Come learn about the science of sleep with Dr. Daniel Jin Blum. He will be sharing the amazing benefits of healthy sleep, common sleep myths, and how to improve your health through better sleep.

Presenter: Dr. Steven Hayes

Our cultural conversation confuses values with wants, goals, desires, virtues, or preferences. The guidance needed to own your own values is largely absent. In this talk it will show that you cannot be clear about values choices without also knowing how to relate to your own emotions, thoughts, and sense of self in a flexible way. I will describe a small set of steps that will empower your ability to embrace the qualities of being and doing that you choose to manifest in your life’s moments, and I will show why this matters to your psychological well being, relationships, and career.

Presenter: Dr. David Burns

Dr. Burns will show people how to break out of bad moods quickly, and will feature seven brief video clips of a dramatic and inspiring treatment session with a woman who felt like she was a failure as a mother.

Presenter: Dr. G. Dawn Lawhon

In job interviews, many of us have said that our greatest weakness was perfectionism. And we were not wrong! Research finds that being extremely perfectionistic is associated with increased self-doubt, higher stress levels, and lower openness to new experience, all of which make it more difficult to achieve excellence. In this session, you will learn mindset and behavioral strategies that you can use to overcome perfectionism so that you can feel more confident and competent at work and beyond.

Presenter: Dr. Yotam Heineberg

In this session, Dr. Heineberg will offer participants skills for coping with these challenging times in the workplace, including some core grounding and emotional regulation techniques that focus on befriending your ‘thinking mind’. Using the Compassionate Mind Training model (based on Compassion Focused Therapy, CFT) The workshop will address the brain’s fears and blocks that can keep us from connecting with others and ways to overcome these difficulties.

Presenter: Dr. Danielle Cottonham

The overall purpose of this session is to broaden the understanding of systemic racism and the role each of us play in addressing it. The session is designed for participants to leave with 1) increased awareness of the various ways racism manifests in society and in our inter and intrapersonal relationships, 2) concrete ways to actively engage in healing and allyship, and 3) resources to deepen learning on the theories and concepts introduced during the session. The only requirements are curiosity and a willingness to learn.

Presenters: Ted DesMaisons and Lisa Rowland

The art of improvisation offers far more than comedy, encouraging an embodied presence that breeds courage, connection, and creativity. We learn to pay acute attention and to delight in the discovery of each moment. We take joyful care of those around us. In short: improv makes life–and us–better.

This active and contemplative workshop explores the wisdom of improvisation from the inside out. We’ll create an experiential learning lab that sharpens self-awareness and revitalizes relationship with the wider world. You’ll probably laugh a lot. And you’ll almost certainly return to your world with new eyes and a refreshed sense of possibility and vitality.

Presenter: Dr. Pauline Clance

The Impostor Phenomenon (IP), popularly known as the impostor syndrome, has been nationally and internationally researched for decades. In this session, Dr. Pauline Clance sits down for a (virtual) interview with Dr. Ross Nelson to discuss her own journey through impostor phenomenon as well as practical techniques individuals can begin to use to improve negative thoughts and feelings associated with this unique challenge.

Presenter: Dr. Jacinta Jimenez

It is no secret that burnout has become a widespread epidemic. In fact, a recent Deloitte survey found that 77% of respondents have experienced burnout in their current job, and in May 2019, the World Health Organization recognized burnout as an occupational phenomenon.

With the onset of COVID-19, the blurry boundary between work and life has become non-existent overnight, leaving many even more susceptible to burnout. Accordingly, it is more important than ever to learn how to identify burnout and especially, how to buffer against it. Drawing from her deep knowledge of human behavior, Stanford University-trained psychologist and Board Certified Leadership Coach, Dr. Jacinta M. Jiménez, will deliver a presentation to reveal 3 key science-backed steps to address burnout in uncertain times:

Recognize: What exactly is burnout and how to monitor for it.

Respond: Strategies and tips for recovery from burnout.

Reduce: How to build out a resilience practice plan to buffer against burnout.

Presenter: Dr. Steven Hayes

Our cultural conversation confuses values with wants, goals, desires, virtues, or preferences. The guidance needed to own your own values is largely absent. In this talk it will show that you cannot be clear about values choices without also knowing how to relate to your own emotions, thoughts, and sense of self in a flexible way. I will describe a small set of steps that will empower your ability to embrace the qualities of being and doing that you choose to manifest in your life’s moments, and I will show why this matters to your psychological well being, relationships, and career.

Presenter: Dr. David Burns

Dr. Burns will show people how to break out of bad moods quickly, and will feature seven brief video clips of a dramatic and inspiring treatment session with a woman who felt like she was a failure as a mother.

Presenter: Dr. Charles Nelson

Some people will go to any length to “fix” loved ones, but won’t do the same for themselves. This is just one sign of co-dependency? Let’s “look under the hood” of co-dependency and discover how it blinds people from seeing their condition…even when such thoughts and behaviors devastate their relationships. When people finally experience the buckling weight of their co-dependency, they often discover that this “condition” had also been crushing their well-being. Let’s learn tools for recognizing and breaking the patterns that bind us to co-dependence. Let’s learn healthy boundaries to “reset” the thinking patterns behind such co-dependent behavior.

Presenter: Dr. Nicole Brown

Social skills are the skills we use daily to communicate and interact with people. Through interactions with others children learn to develop relationships, handle conflict, and develop self-awareness skills. In this workshop participants will learn ways they can help enhance their child’s social development at different ages.

Presenter: Dr. Danielle Cottonham

The overall purpose of this session is to broaden the understanding of systemic racism and the role each of us play in addressing it. The session is designed for participants to leave with 1) increased awareness of the various ways racism manifests in society and in our inter and intrapersonal relationships, 2) concrete ways to actively engage in healing and allyship, and 3) resources to deepen learning on the theories and concepts introduced during the session. The only requirements are curiosity and a willingness to learn.

Presenter: Sinead Smyth, LMFT

In 2020, our most important relationships are being challenged and stressed as never before. What makes some relationships stay on track, and others, drive off a cliff? We have learned from Dr. John Gottman’s 40+ years of research what works and doesn’t work in relationships. The key findings boil down to the following: treating your partner like a good friend, handling conflicts in gentle and positive ways, and being able to repair conflicts and negative interactions. How to do that when we have too much togetherness, tempers are short and we are bored, worried, and anxious? Join me for some practical research-based ways you can prevent relationship meltdown and continue to have a thriving and satisfying connection with your partner.

Presenter: Isharna Walsh

Join Coral’s founder for a deep dive into how the pandemic is affecting our sex lives and what we can do about it. Hint: for most of us, it’s no aphrodisiac! She’ll cover what the research is showing, and will share clear and actionable tips for turning this stressful time into a sexier time.

Presenter: Garni Thomas, MA

Visible to us or not, we can be sure that everyone is facing sweeping, significant and difficult change. Many struggles are rooted in “taboo topics” like finances, politics, race, gender, health and more. It can be daunting to approach these topics. In this session, we’ll deepen concepts introduced by Sinead Smyth in her presentation and share tips for effectively moving through challenging and emotionally charged conversations. With a goal of creating commonality and connection, you will learn to use Gottman Method tools based in over 40 years of research by Dr. John Gottman.

Presenter: Dr. Steven Hayes

Our cultural conversation confuses values with wants, goals, desires, virtues, or preferences. The guidance needed to own your own values is largely absent. In this talk it will show that you cannot be clear about values choices without also knowing how to relate to your own emotions, thoughts, and sense of self in a flexible way. I will describe a small set of steps that will empower your ability to embrace the qualities of being and doing that you choose to manifest in your life’s moments, and I will show why this matters to your psychological well being, relationships, and career.