You are invited to the following event:
SBCPA Salon
May 13, 2022
5:30pm – 7:15pm
Heart Medicine in Clinical Practice:
How to Heal Longstanding Recurrent Painful Patterns on and off the Couch
with Radhule Weininger, Ph.D.
Presenter:
Radhule Weininger, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Author:
Heartwork: The Path to Self-Compassion
Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom at Last
Monthly Blog: Psychology Today; Tricycle Magazine
Dr. Weininger is a clinical psychologist in private practice, founder of the non-profit Mindful Heart Programs, and teacher of deep mindfulness and compassion practices, and Buddhist psychology. She began her meditation studies in 1980 at Black Rock Monastery in Sri Lanka. For the past 20 years, she has been mentored in her teaching by Jack Kornfield and in her interest in Engaged Buddhism by Joanna Macy. For the last 30 years Radhule has been working to bridge Buddhist and Depth/psychodynamic psychology. Her second book “Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Freedom and Peace-at Last,” with forewords by HH The Dalai Lama and Joanna Macy, was released by Shambala Publications in 2021. Her book "Heartwork: The Path of Self-Compassion," with a foreword by Jack Kornfield was also published by Shambala Publications. Radhule is faculty at Pacifica Graduate School and, together with her husband Michael Kearney, an author and physician, she has been teaching about self-care and resilience to caregivers locally and internationally for over twenty years. Radhule and her husband have six adult children and stepchildren, five grand-children and a dog, Lucy.
Course Outline
Timeline:
5:30-5:45pm Sign in, introduction of speaker, and opening remarks
5:45-6:55pm Presentation of topic
6:55-7:15pm Q&A/evaluations
Topic:
Long-standing, Recurrent, Painful Patterns, or LRPPs, are knots in our psyche that get triggered again and again. Heart Medicine is an approach, grounded in both psychology and in mindfulness practice, that can help us loosen the tightness of those patterns, so we can finally transform them into adaptive behavior and life-giving attitudes. Both, Jungian psychology, trauma theory and Buddhist philosophy describe those Painful Patterns.
LRPPs, re-inflamed old trauma constellations, are experienced as surprisingly strong emotions, body symptoms, painful ruminations, maladaptive behaviors, and disturbances in our way of relating to ourselves and others. Awareness of ourselves, of others, and of our environment, as well as of the way our mind constellates thoughts and feelings, is the first step towards healing. Heart Medicine teaches a methodology to work with these Painful Patterns through 12 steps.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to:
· Describe the dynamics of a LRPP, and how to identify its presence;
· Discuss the role of meta-cognitive awareness, mindfulness, self-compassion in loosening a LRPP;
· Describe the role forgiveness of oneself and others in healing a LRPP;
· List the 12 steps necessary to work through a LRPP;
· Connect how psychological and spiritual understanding and experience can complement each other in healing a LRPP;
· Demonstrate several small practices that help loosen a LRPP.
