Bridging for Life™* Presents:

Certification Course
Skills training in using Bridging and Mind-Body Mapping as a clinical modality

Mind-Body Bridging Course Online
A comprehensive 10 week online interactive course that enables participants to establish a strong personal Mind-Body Bridging practice.

What is Bridging?
Have you ever felt you were living in a paralyzed state of mind? Have you ever had the enjoyment of life spoiled by a lack of awareness? Bridging is an amazing breakthrough that can empower us in achieving a healthier and happier way of life. Bridging is a practice . . . a learned skill that can move us from a cluttered, disconnected mind and body, to a mind and body synchronized to meet the challenges of daily living.

After 40 years of practice as a psychiatrist, Stanley Block, MD, uncovered the existence of the human Identity System and explored how this Identity System disrupts our natural mind-body connection and restricts awareness and healing. Bridging provides the tools that will provide immediate, powerful, progressive, permanent, and positive life transformation. It is instantaneous!

How Does Bridging Help?
The human Identity System holds enormous power over all of us and limits our joy and causes suffering. Learning about our Identity System will alter your life as you allow your own body’s inner wisdom to heal you.

The Identity System works by capturing thoughts and then perpetuating those thoughts into a physical stress response (i.e., anxiety, depression, pain, etc.).
The process of Mind-Body Mapping provides therapists and clients new tools to face life’s challenges, (i.e., anxiety, pain, relationship problems, chronic illness, work stress, depression, substance abuse, etc.)
Bridging practices allow the mind and body to naturally harmonize and sync together to problem solve and melt the suffering and misery.

This approach to therapy is now being used in institutions around Utah including the Huntsman Cancer Institute, Utah Department of Human Services and Salt Lake City Veterans Administration Hospital.

About The Certification Training?
The Mind-Body Bridging™ Certification Course teaches all the skills articulated in the book Come to your Senses: Demystifying the Mind-Body Connection, 2nd Edition by Dr. Block, but at a deeper clinical level. Mind-Body Bridgingis a clinical tool that requires a unique set of skills, but once mastered has the power to provide immediate improvements in the lives both client and Mind-Body Certified Practitioner.

Instructors:
Stanley H. Block, MD, Don Glover, PhD, LCSW, Rich Landward, MSW, LCSW, Theresa McCormick, APRN, Harold Price, MS, MSW, LCSW and Kevin Webb, LCSW

Place: Each session will take place on a Saturday of each month for 6 consecutive sessions starting October 17, 2009 and ending March 7, 2010, and will be held from 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. at Recovery Bridge, 7679 South Main, Midvale, UT 84047.

CEUs: 48 hours approved by Utah Chapter of NASW.

*Bridging is a process developed by Stanley Block, MD and Carolyn Bryant Block and presented in the award winning book "Come to Your Senses: Demystifying the Mind-body Connection" (2005 Best Book of the Year in Mental Health and Psychology, by USA Book News). Dr. Block is an adjunct professor of Psychiatry at the University of Utah, School of Medicine. He is certified in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis.

Who Should Attend: Social Workers, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, Psychologists, Physicians, Drug and Alcohol Counselors, students of mental health and health care, and other mental health care staff.

November 2009 Certification Course
Skill training in using Mind-Body Bridging™ and Mapping as a clinical modality

Presented by: Stanley H. Block, M.D.,
Don Glover, PhD, LCSW, Rich Landward, MSW, LCSW,
Theresa McCormick, APRN, Harold Price, MS, MSW, LCSW
Kevin Webb, LCSW

November 7, 2009: Session 1: Introduction to Skills Training in using Bridging and Mind-Body Mapping
December 5, 2009 : Session II: Skills Training in conducting the first Bridging Session
January 9, 2009:  Session III: Skills Training in theory and utilization of Mind-Body Mapping and conducting Bridging sessions
February 6, 2010:   Session IV: Skills Training in intermediate Mapping and conducting sessions
March 6, 2010: Session V: Skills Training in advanced Mapping and conducting sessions
To be Decided, 2010*    Session VI: Skills Training in Bridging the collective Identity System and managing special situations, i.e.: children, elderly, handicapped, cancer patients, PTSD, etc. and the utilization with athletes and organizations. *The time that this session will held is to be decided upon by the participants.

Each of these sessions will take place on a one Saturday each month for 6 consecutive sessions starting November 7, 2009 and ending March, 2010 (last day to be determined by the participants) and will be held from 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. at Recovery Bridge, 7679 South Main, Midvale, UT 84047. *It is expected that attendees have attended a Mind-Body Bridging Course and practice the principles and techniques of Mind-Body Bridging or in self-study have read Come To Your Senses: Demystifying the Mind-Body Connection 2nd Edition and are practicing the principles and techniques of Mind-Body Bridging prior to attending the course.

You may receive further information, an application form for registration
and the certification class schedule via email.
For questions, information and registration contact:
Carol Ann Kent at 801-641-5201 or email at: cakent1@msn.com

Fee for the entire course $675 (credit cards accepted)
EARLY REGISRATION DISCOUNT $600
(early registration deadline is October 30, 2009)
Students & Organizational discount available
(Please email or call for information on these discounts)

48 Social Work CEU hours have been approved by Utah NASW

Mind-Body Bridging Course Online

Starting in March 2010 we are offering an online course in Mind-Body Bridging. The course will be a two part process. Part I will focus on learning the principles and techniques of Mind-Body Bridging in order to establish a personal practice of MBB. Part II will focus upon learning the skills in teaching Mind-Body Bridging. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be MBB board certified to use MBB in their own practice and/or teach MBB to others.

Part I: Mind-Body Bridging Skills Training Course

This is the basic course in MBB which will enable participants to establish a strong personal MBB practice to be used in every day life.
Part I consists of 10 sessions of 1.5 hours weekly interactive instructions via internet.
Materials for the course are:
Come to Your Senses: Demystifying the Mind-Body Connection 2nd Ed. To be read by participants before starting the course.
Crisis Proof Your Life: A Mind-Body Workbook is a 230 page instruction manual that forms the basis of the course. It will be supplied to you free of charge.

Part II: Mind-Body Bridging Certification Course*

This is a continuation of your education in MBB to become a Board Certified Mind-Body Bridging Practitioner. A prerequisite for the course is the demonstration of successful completion of Part I via a phone/internet interview.
Part II consists of two options:
ο Participants may chose to come to Salt Lake City, Ut and make a 2 hour presentation demonstrating their ability to present MBB to others.

ο Participants may choose to become certified by participating in 5 one hour individual sessions via Skype.

* Please be aware that MBB certification is based upon:

Passing with a 75% score, a multiple choice written examination based solely on the Come To Your Senses book.
Demonstrating profeciency in presenting 10 Key MBB Principles.

Registration:

Please Contact:
Carol Ann Kent, MBB Coordinator at cakent1@msn.com requesting information and the registration form for this course. You will be sent a registration form offering you the choice to register for the basic 10 week MBB Course and the MBB Certification Course.
You may call Carol Ann at 801-641-5201 for more information and to request a registration form or register for the courses via phone.
When you register for the online MBB Course you will be sent the Crisis Proof Your Life: A Mind-Body Workbook.
All information concerning methods of payment and when payment it due will be included with your registration form.

Cost:

Part I = $695.
- Participants will receive 10 sessions of 1.5 hours of instructions via internet
- Participants will receive a free Crisis Proof Your Life: A Mind-Body Workbook with the course

Part II = $495
- Participants have a choice of the following:

3 hours of individual preparation and an opportunity to give a 2 hour presentation for MBB Certification in Salt Lake City, UT
5 one hour sessions of individual work towards MBB Certification via Skype

Disclaimer:

All material provided on this web site is provided for educational purposes only. The ideas, techniques and suggestions are not intended as a substitute for expert medical or mental - health professional diagnosis, advice or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider regarding a medical or mental health condition, and before undertaking any health care program. Dr. Stanley H. Block does not dispense medical or mental health advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical or mental problems without the advice of a physician or mental health professional, either directly or indirectly. In the event you use any of the information of this web site for yourself, neither Dr. Block, nor contributors to this web site accepts responsibility for your actions.