Improving Metacognitive Abilities with Meditation
Digital Self-Paced Course
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5 video lectures, 6 hours total -
12 guided meditations, 3 hours total
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Useful For
- Addiction / Substance Abuse
- Executive Dysfunction
- General Anxiety
- Integration and Parts
- Metacognition
Overview
This Digital Self-Paced Course will be focused on wisdom meditation practice. The second half will be focused on compassion. To that point, we’ll learn about of Mindfulness of Inner States (Vipassana) (weeks one and two), Essence Noting (Vipassana with elements of Mahamudra) (week three), and Compassion meditation (Tong Len) (week four and five).
Moreover, the emphasis will be applying the lessons and meditative practices in our real everyday walking around lives to improve our daily functioning.
The model of metacognition that we’ll use is ‘the six metacognitive capacities’ developed by the Third Center For Cognitive Psychotherapy (The Rome Group) (Semerari, DiMaggio, Liotti, et al.).
- Identification
- Relating Variables
- Differentiation
- Integration
- Decentration
- Mastery
Classes will be divided between theory and practice. The main focus will be on meditation. As such, all participants are asked to make a commitment to meditate 30 minutes per day, as part of the course (social support will be available!).
The lecture content will be on metacognitive skills, emotional regulation skills, and Buddhist meditative practices which help us cultivate these mental qualities.
Much of the psychological material will be drawn from Jeffrey Young (Schema Therapy), Bruce Ecker, Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman’s Mentalization Based Treatment, and the work on metacognition by Semerari, Liotti, DiMaggio, et al.
Who is this For
This program is for those of us who...
- Are looking to improve our psychological health, especially those who have tried other healing modalities with disappointing results.
- Are interested in learning a new way to apply heart and wisdom meditation practices.
- Want support in developing a daily meditation habit.
- Want to deepen our existing Buddhist practice of positive emotion.
- Have problems with exploration and self development, relationships and emotional regulation
- Want to develop mastery in our emotional lives.
Benefits & Outcomes
These are some of the benefits you will have by the end of the program
Theoretical Understanding
- An overview of mentalization and emotional regulation.
- The role mentalization/metacognition plays in interpersonal relationships
Psychological
- Get established in traditional Buddhist wisdom and heart practices.
While there is a strong emphasis on psychological health in this course, it is predominantly Buddhist-inspired. As such, this course will offer an introduction to Buddhist systems of generating positive emotion and working with fixed views (schemas according to schema therapy, or sankharas in the Theravada) - Develop greater access to positive mental states and grow in confidence when working through negative mental states
- Understand better how your mind works; seeing volitions arise in the mind and noticing the gap before they are acted out
- Learn to use the identification function of mentalization (mindfulness) to catch afflictive mind states as they arise, and respond more creatively. Learn to work through these so that you actually benefit in your day-to-day life
- Increased sense of agency
For your relationships
- Greater valuing of relationships, interpersonal connection, and more ease in them
- Enhanced capacity to feel warmth from and towards others
- Clearer understanding of how you show up in relationships
- Acceptance of faults in self and other
Course Contents
Introduction to Metacognition and Vipassana |
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Introduction to Metacognition and VipassanaVideo
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74 mins |
Metacognition meditation in style of symptom-coherenceMeditation
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11 mins |
Metacognition meditation in style of symptom-coherenceMeditation
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23 mins |
Going Deeper with Metacognition and Vipassana |
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Going Deeper with Metacognition and VipassanaVideo
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68 mins |
Guided Didactic Meditation on MetacognitionMeditation
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15 mins |
Guided Didactic Meditation on MetacognitionMeditation
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25 mins |
MetacognitionMeditation
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19 mins |
MetacognitionMeditation
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17 mins |
Essence Noting and Equanimity |
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Essence Noting and EquanimityVideo
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69 mins |
Compassion Meditation and How it Relates to Emotional Regulation and Healthy Relationships |
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Compassion Meditation and How it Relates to Emotional Regulation and Healthy RelationshipsVideo
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64 mins |
Metacognition of Mental-StatesMeditation
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17 mins |
Metacognition of Mental StatesMeditation
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9 mins |
Tong LenMeditation
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14 mins |
Tong LenMeditation
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15 mins |
Going Deeper with Compassion Meditation and Wrap Up |
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Going Deeper with Compassion MeditationVideo
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79 mins |
Metacognition of Mental-StatesMeditation
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13 mins |
Metacognition of Mental-StatesMeditation
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23 mins |
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Description
This program will be focused on wisdom meditation practice. The second half will be focused on compassion. To that point, we’ll learn about of Mindfulness of Inner States (Vipassana) (weeks one and two), Essence Noting (Vipassana with elements of Mahamudra) (week three), and Compassion meditation (Tong Len) (week four and five).
Moreover, the emphasis will be applying the lessons and meditative practices in our real everyday walking around lives to improve our daily functioning.
The model of metacognition that we’ll use is ‘the six metacognitive capacities’ developed by the Third Center For Cognitive Psychotherapy (The Rome Group) (Semerari, DiMaggio, Liotti, et al.).
- Identification
- Relating Variables
- Differentiation
- Integration
- Decentration
- Mastery
Classes will be divided between theory and practice. The main focus will be on meditation. As such, all participants are asked to make a commitment to meditate 30 minutes per day, as part of the course (social support will be available!).
The lecture content will be on metacognitive skills, emotional regulation skills, and Buddhist meditative practices which help us cultivate these mental qualities.
Much of the psychological material will be drawn from Jeffrey Young (Schema Therapy), Bruce Ecker, Peter Fonagy and Anthony Bateman’s Mentalization Based Treatment, and the work on metacognition by Semerari, Liotti, DiMaggio, et al.