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Rubin Naiman, PhD, FAASM

Healing Our Sleep, Dreams, And Consciousness: An Integrative Approach

July 24th - July 28th, 2023

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15-Hour In-Person Course
Monday - Friday: 9:00a.m. - 12:30p.m. EDT / 30-Minute Break Daily

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Course Description

Sleep and dreams are the very roots of the tree of waking life, profoundly impacting our mental health and physical well-being. Sleep loss, a most prevalent health concern, is strongly linked to anxiety, depression, obesity, and other chronic illnesses. Although mental health professionals routinely encounter insomnia in their practices as well as personal lives, few are adequately prepared to effectively address it. Unfortunately, our fundamental beliefs about sleep and dreams are excessively medicalized and myopic. In the end, we don’t get sleep simply because we don’t get sleep.

Join world-renowned sleep and dream expert Dr. Rubin Naiman for a truly transformative learning experience that enhances both clinical skills and personal consciousness. This program addresses insomnia and sleep health from a comprehensive body, mind, and spirit perspective, integrating complementary and alternative medicine, cognitive-behavioral interventions, and Jungian/archetypal approaches. Through engaging presentations, in-depth discussions, personal exercises, and optional dream circles, participants can expect to gain a rich and practical understanding of sleep and dreams to better help their clientele as well as themselves.

Monday

A novel integrative approach to sleep and dreams

Our purpose: objectives, outline and method
Night fever: we are seriously sleep and dream deprived
Fifty years of sleep medicine and things are getting worse
The ramifications: physical illness, mental illness and life as a zombie

The nature of sleep and dreams

We don't get sleep because we don't get sleep
Medicalization: the brain doesn’t sleep, we do
Negative definitions and the loss of the sleeper
The science and rhythms of sleep, REM sleep and dreaming

Tuesday

The big picture: social and cultural factors shaping our nights

Hyperarousal: industrialization as a psychosocial force
The suppression of night, darkness and melatonin
Living in the waketrix: the subservience of sleep and dreams
Sleep and dreams as fundamental consciousness issues

Understanding and evaluating major sleep disorders

Screening and evaluation of sleep and dreams
The pros and cons of sleep tracking devices
The presentation and etiology of sleeplessness and insomnia
Personal evaluation: investigating our "nightstand"

Wednesday

Healing sleeplessness and insomnia

Sleep self-efficacy: can we trust ourselves?
The Noise Reduction Model: taking and letting go of something to sleep
Sleeping pills and alternatives: botanicals, nutraceuticals, cannabis, and melatonin
Sleeping in the forest: restoring the art and poetics of sleep and dreams

Managing body and bed noise

The body as the unconscious mind
The princess and the pee: what really keeps us up at night?
Stimulus control: getting out of bed to sleep
Our sleep environment: beds, bedding, bedrooms and nature

Thursday

Managing mind noise

Thinking, beliefs and meta-cognitions around sleep (CBT-I)
Going out of our (waking) mind to sleep
A non-violent approach to night, sleep and dreams
Sleeping together: the night side of relationships

Re-writing our bedtime story

Where do you go when you go to sleep?
The art of psychospiritual surrender
Cultivating awareness of sleep
Falling in love with sleep again

Friday

Dreams as the forgotten bridge to sleep

Dream hygiene: interpretation, relation and healing
REM sleep, dreams and psychedelics
Bad dreams, nightmares and shadow work
The waking dream: re-enchanting everyday life

The United States of consciousness: sleep and dream lessons for waking

What is consciousness?
Braid theory and Turiya: toward a unified sense of self
On becoming practically conscious
Laughter, dreams and consciousness

Rubin Naiman, PhD, FAASM, is a psychologist, Fellow in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, clinical assistant professor of medicine, and the sleep and dream specialist at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. He is the leader in the development of integrative medicine approaches to sleep and dream disorders, integrating conventional sleep science with depth psychological and spiritual perspectives. Dr. Naiman is the author of several groundbreaking works on sleep, including Healing Night, Healthy Sleep (with Dr. Weil), The Yoga of Sleep, and Hush: A Book of Bedtime Contemplations. He has also authored pivotal medical book chapters as well as scientific and consumer articles on sleep and dreams. His presentations have been described as "simply outstanding," "brilliant," "truly creative," and "magical."

See www.DrNaiman.com

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Rubin Naiman has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations. He receives a speaking honorarium from MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute.

Non-financial: Rubin Naiman has no relevant non-financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

1. Summarize the basic themes of an integrative approach to sleep, dreams and consciousness.

2. Explain the night fever model – the role of chronic inflammation in sleep and dream loss.

3. Describe the medical and mental health ramifications of sleep and REM sleep loss.

4. Define the wake centrism and its impact on our consciousness and view of sleep and dreams.

5. List the key features of hyperarousal and its effects on sleep and dreams.

6. Explain the limitations of the conventional medical model view of sleep and dreams.

7. Describe the role of circadian rhythms in sleep, dreams, health and consciousness.

8. Discuss essential tools and techniques for screening and evaluating sleep disorders.

9. Summarize the presentation, impact and treatment of snoring and sleep apnea.

10. Discuss the presentation and etiology of sleeplessness and insomnia.

11. Recognize the importance of an experiential “artistic” approach of sleep and dreams.

12. Describe examples of and approaches to managing body, mind and bed “noise”.

13. Explain stimulus control and sleep constriction and their respective indications.

14. Summarize the basics, benefits and limitations of CBT-I.

15. Identify the utility and limitations of commonly used sleep medications.

16. Describe the role of the sleep environment and related interventions for insomnia.

17. Discuss dreaming as the essential bridge between waking and sleep states.

18. Explain REM sleep loss, dream rebound and methods of restoring healthy dreaming.

19. List the essential components of dream hygiene.

20. Discuss the intersection of dreamwork, the waking dream, psychedelics and psychotherapy.

Creative Arts Therapists:

New York: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. # CAT-0090.

Educators:

For eligibility information contact your State certifying authority.

Massachusetts: Educators in Massachusetts are eligible for 15 Professional Development Points (PDPs) for each program attended. MAK Continuing Education, LLC is a registered Professional Development Provider (PD number: U20190001) with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).

Marriage and Family Therapists:

Massachusetts: This activity has been certified by NEAFAST on behalf of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions, for LMFT professional continuing education. Certification # PC- 041369.

Physicians & Nursing Professionals:

A.C.C.M.E. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., and MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

A.M.A. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., designates this live activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Professional Counselors:

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Psychologists:

California: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the CPA OPD to sponsor continuing professional education for psychologists. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CPA OPD Provider Code: MAK001.

Canada: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for the program.

Connecticut: CE credit is available. This course consists of 15 continuing education credit hours for Connecticut Psychologists. CT Gen Stat Sec. 20-191c Continuing Education (b)(3) confirms acceptance of continuing education programs relevant to psychology from a nationally recognized provider of continuing education seminars. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is a nationally recognized provider of continuing education seminars with multiple national CE approvals.

New York: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists # PSY-0102.

North Carolina: CE credit is available. This course is designed to meet the Category B Requirements of the North Carolina Psychology Board, provided it is within your scope of practice of psychology. Please retain all documents to provide to your board should this be requested of you. NC psychologists can report up to 9 Category B credit hours per renewal period.

Pennsylvania: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists. Provider # PSY000226. MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute maintains responsibility for the program. This live program qualifies for 15 continuing education hours.

Ohio: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is a OPA-MCE Approved Provider. Approved Provider: #854261519.

All other Psychologists: The following state psychologist boards recognize activities sponsored through the joint providership of The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., an approved ACCME Provider, and MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wisconsin.

Social Workers:

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ASWB ACE Individual Course Approval (NJ Social Workers):

Healing our Sleep, Dreams and Consciousness: An Integrative Approach Course #4117, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute as an individual course. Individual courses, not providers, are approved at the course level. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 04/26/2022 - 04/26/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 15 General Social Work Practice continuing education credits.

New York: MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers # SW-0649.

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Course Content Level: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. This course is open, and content is suitable for all clinicians and learning levels, beginning, intermediate and advanced.

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“Rubin Naiman is a presenter who has the knowledge and skills to be completely absorbing and informative.” - 2019 Participant

“I have left with a greater comfort and understanding of the sleep and dreaming process. This course has and will continue to benefit me, which will benefit my clients, staff, and supervision.” - 2019 Participant

“Dr. Naiman is a wonderful person as well as a (wonderful) presenter.” - 2019 Participant

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