Carolyn McManus is a highly skilled clinician, researcher and professional trainer. She is an international leader in the integration of mindfulness into healthcare and the practice of mindfulness to promote provider well-being. Carolyn is President of the American Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Section Pain Management Special Interest Group. She holds Master’s degrees in physical therapy from Duke University and in psychology from Antioch University.
Since 1985 she has integrated mindfulness principles and practices into the care of patients with chronic conditions. In 1998, she joined the Outpatient Rehabilitation Department at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where she established their popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program for people with persistent pain and stress-related illness. She has over 30 years of experience in the practice of mindfulness meditation and has completed an advanced MBSR Teacher Training Program offered at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
In 2009, Carolyn was invited by David Kearney, MD to develop and conduct a pilot study examining the role of a 12-week course in Kindness Meditation for veterans with PTSD at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System in Seattle. She continues to serve on Dr. Kearney’s research team, providing MBSR and Kindness Meditation courses in research exploring the effects of these practices in veterans with a wide range of health concerns, including chronic pain.
Carolyn is a regular presenter at state and national conferences, including APTA’s NEXT and Combined Sections Conferences. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the International Association for the Study of Pain and the Academy of Integrative Pain Management. Learn more about Carolyn at her website: carolynmcmanus.com.
Carolyn's website is carolynmcmanus.com
Courses Instructed by Carolyn McManus, PT, MS, MA:
- Define mindful awareness and describe 4 mindful awareness training activities
- Discuss research examining mindful awareness training in pain treatment
- Describe current pain science concepts
- Discuss the contributing role of stress and trauma to persistent pain
- Discuss the evidence for the cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
- Explain the role of mindfulness training in pain treatment to patients
- Instruct a patient in the basic qualities of mindful attention
- Integrate qualities of mindful attention when instructing patients in body awareness, breathing, exercise and walking
- Identify barriers and facilitators to pain self-management
- Employ mindfulness listening principles to promote your therapeutic alliance with your patients.
- Engage on-the-spot mindful practices to support your well-being and inner calm during a busy workday
- Define mindful awareness and describe 4 mindful awareness training activities
- Discuss research examining mindful awareness training in pain treatment
- Describe current pain science concepts
- Discuss the contributing role of stress and trauma to persistent pain
- Discuss the evidence for the cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
- Explain the role of mindfulness training in pain treatment to patients
- Instruct a patient in the basic qualities of mindful attention
- Integrate qualities of mindful attention when instructing patients in body awareness, breathing, exercise and walking
- Identify barriers and facilitators to pain self-management
- Employ mindfulness listening principles to promote your therapeutic alliance with your patients.
- Engage on-the-spot mindful practices to support your well-being and inner calm during a busy workday
- Define mindful awareness and describe 4 mindful awareness training activities
- Discuss research examining mindful awareness training in pain treatment
- Describe current pain science concepts
- Discuss the contributing role of stress and trauma to persistent pain
- Discuss the evidence for the cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
- Explain the role of mindfulness training in pain treatment to patients
- Instruct a patient in the basic qualities of mindful attention
- Integrate qualities of mindful attention when instructing patients in body awareness, breathing, exercise and walking
- Identify barriers and facilitators to pain self-management
- Employ mindfulness listening principles to promote your therapeutic alliance with your patients.
- Engage on-the-spot mindful practices to support your well-being and inner calm during a busy workday
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- Define mindful awareness and describe 4 mindful awareness training activities
- Discuss research examining mindful awareness training in pain treatment
- Describe current pain science concepts
- Discuss the contributing role of stress and trauma to persistent pain
- Discuss the evidence for the cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
- Explain the role of mindfulness training in pain treatment to patients
- Instruct a patient in the basic qualities of mindful attention
- Integrate qualities of mindful attention when instructing patients in body awareness, breathing, exercise and walking
- Identify barriers and facilitators to pain self-management
- Employ mindfulness listening principles to promote your therapeutic alliance with your patients.
- Engage on-the-spot mindful practices to support your well-being and inner calm during a busy workday
- Define mindful awareness and describe 4 mindful awareness training activities
- Discuss research examining mindful awareness training in pain treatment
- Describe current pain science concepts
- Discuss the contributing role of stress and trauma to persistent pain
- Discuss the evidence for the cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
- Explain the role of mindfulness training in pain treatment to patients
- Instruct a patient in the basic qualities of mindful attention
- Integrate qualities of mindful attention when instructing patients in body awareness, breathing, exercise and walking
- Identify barriers and facilitators to pain self-management
- Employ mindfulness listening principles to promote your therapeutic alliance with your patients.
- Engage on-the-spot mindful practices to support your well-being and inner calm during a busy workday
- Define mindful awareness and describe 4 mindful awareness training activities
- Discuss research examining mindful awareness training in pain treatment
- Describe current pain science concepts
- Discuss the contributing role of stress and trauma to persistent pain
- Discuss the evidence for the cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
- Explain the role of mindfulness training in pain treatment to patients
- Instruct a patient in the basic qualities of mindful attention
- Integrate qualities of mindful attention when instructing patients in body awareness, breathing, exercise and walking
- Identify barriers and facilitators to pain self-management
- Employ mindfulness listening principles to promote your therapeutic alliance with your patients.
- Engage on-the-spot mindful practices to support your well-being and inner calm during a busy workday
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- Define mindful awareness and describe 4 mindful awareness training activities
- Discuss research examining mindful awareness training in pain treatment
- Describe current pain science concepts
- Discuss the contributing role of stress and trauma to persistent pain
- Discuss the evidence for the cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
- Explain the role of mindfulness training in pain treatment to patients
- Instruct a patient in the basic qualities of mindful attention
- Integrate qualities of mindful attention when instructing patients in body awareness, breathing, exercise and walking
- Identify barriers and facilitators to pain self-management
- Employ mindfulness listening principles to promote your therapeutic alliance with your patients.
- Engage on-the-spot mindful practices to support your well-being and inner calm during a busy workday
- Define mindful awareness and describe 4 mindful awareness training activities
- Discuss research examining mindful awareness training in pain treatment
- Describe current pain science concepts
- Discuss the contributing role of stress and trauma to persistent pain
- Discuss the evidence for the cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
- Explain the role of mindfulness training in pain treatment to patients
- Instruct a patient in the basic qualities of mindful attention
- Integrate qualities of mindful attention when instructing patients in body awareness, breathing, exercise and walking
- Identify barriers and facilitators to pain self-management
- Employ mindfulness listening principles to promote your therapeutic alliance with your patients.
- Engage on-the-spot mindful practices to support your well-being and inner calm during a busy workday
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- Define mindful awareness and describe 4 mindful awareness training activities
- Discuss research examining mindful awareness training in pain treatment
- Describe current pain science concepts
- Discuss the contributing role of stress and trauma to persistent pain
- Discuss the evidence for the cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
- Explain the role of mindfulness training in pain treatment to patients
- Instruct a patient in the basic qualities of mindful attention
- Integrate qualities of mindful attention when instructing patients in body awareness, breathing, exercise and walking
- Identify barriers and facilitators to pain self-management
- Employ mindfulness listening principles to promote your therapeutic alliance with your patients.
- Engage on-the-spot mindful practices to support your well-being and inner calm during a busy workday
- Define mindful awareness and describe 4 mindful awareness training activities
- Discuss research examining mindful awareness training in pain treatment
- Describe current pain science concepts
- Discuss the contributing role of stress and trauma to persistent pain
- Discuss the evidence for the cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
- Explain the role of mindfulness training in pain treatment to patients
- Instruct a patient in the basic qualities of mindful attention
- Integrate qualities of mindful attention when instructing patients in body awareness, breathing, exercise and walking
- Identify barriers and facilitators to pain self-management
- Employ mindfulness listening principles to promote your therapeutic alliance with your patients.
- Engage on-the-spot mindful practices to support your well-being and inner calm during a busy workday
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- Define mindful awareness and describe 4 mindful awareness training activities
- Discuss research examining mindful awareness training in pain treatment
- Describe current pain science concepts
- Discuss the contributing role of stress and trauma to persistent pain
- Discuss the evidence for the cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
- Explain the role of mindfulness training in pain treatment to patients
- Instruct a patient in the basic qualities of mindful attention
- Integrate qualities of mindful attention when instructing patients in body awareness, breathing, exercise and walking
- Identify barriers and facilitators to pain self-management
- Employ mindfulness listening principles to promote your therapeutic alliance with your patients.
- Engage on-the-spot mindful practices to support your well-being and inner calm during a busy workday
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Price: $475 (Early Registrant Price $450)
Experience Level: Beginner
Contact Hours: 15
Pain is a perception engaging sensory, cognitive and emotional processes. Beliefs, expectations, fear, catastrophizing, childhood stress and trauma, and learning and memory can all modulate a patient’s pain experience. In addition, structural and functional brain changes have been identified in patients with persistent pain that may play a significant role in driving pain chronicity. This multifaceted nature of pain perception requires an equally multifaceted skill set to effectively address the therapeutic needs of patients experiencing pain.
A growing body of medical literature suggests mindfulness training is a treatment strategy that can help address the complexities of pain. Mindfulness training has been shown to reduce pain intensity and unpleasantness, decrease depression and anxiety and improve function and quality of life in patients with persistent pain. These improvements may occur through such means as improved body awareness, stress and emotional regulation, attention control and changes in perspective. In addition, mindfulness training contributes to neuroplastic brain changes including increases in prefrontal cortex and hippocampal activity and decreases in amygdala activity. Such changes can potentially help mitigate neurotoxic effects of stress in these chronic pain-associated brain regions.
This 2-day course provides you with practical, evidence-based treatment strategies to promote your patients’ abilities to self-regulate the stress reaction and self-manage pain. You will learn the science of mindfulness and pain and gain insight into how cognition, emotion and stress impact pain perception. You will practice mindful meditation, body scan and movement and learn skills to apply mindful awareness to teaching patients breathing, body awareness, exercise and the self-regulation of reactions to stress and pain. Experiential exercises help you personally experience the transformative power of mindful awareness. You will return to your clinic with the ability to explain the benefits of mindful awareness to your patients and teach mindfulness-based skills for pain relief that can help both prevent and treat chronic pain conditions. You will be able to draw on mindful listening skills to enhance your therapeutic alliance with your patients. In addition, you will learn mindful self-care practices to avoid burn-out and promote your own well-being.
Audience:
This course addresses the topic of mindfulness and pain for all specialties (and the generalist!) dealing with pain and is not limited to the pelvic rehab therapist.
Prerequisites:
None
What to bring:
Yoga mat, beach towel, or blanket
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
Day One:
8:00 Introductions, course overview
8:15Experiential Exercise Introduction to Mindfulness
8:30 Introduction to mindfulness
9:00 Experiential Practice: Sitting breath awareness
9:30 Proposed mechanisms for how mindfulness works
10:00 Break
10:15 Mindful body scan
10:35 Pain science concepts
11:20 Stress and pain
11:40 Trauma, PTSD and pain
12:10 Cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindfulness and pain research
2:00 Mindful movement research
2:15 Experiential Practice: Mindful Movement
3:00 Break
3:15 Mindfulness and the Self-regulation of Reactions to Pain Movement and Stress
3:30 Experiential Practice: Integrate mindfulness into breath, body awareness and exercise instruction
4:00 Walking Meditation
4:30 Case studies
5:00 Experiential practice: Practice reflection exercise
5:15 Q&A
5:30 Adjourn
Day Two:
8:00 Questions, answers, discussion from yesterday
8:15 Experiential practice: Mindful movement, body scan, sitting meditation
9:00 The mindful healthcare provider lecture/experiential exercise
10:00 Break
10:15 Applying mindfulness to pleasant and unpleasant situations
10:40 Pain and positive emotional states research
10:50 Mindfulness and opioid use research
11:05 Mindfulness and sleep, anxiety and depression research
11:20 Mindfulness and special topics research: fibromyalgia, pelvic floor pain, LBP, headache, TBI, cancer
11:45 Kindness meditation and pain research
11:55 Experiential practice: Kindness meditation
12:15 Q & A
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindful communication: Lecture
1:40 Experiential practice: Mindful communication
2:10 Self-management barriers and facilitators
2:20 Putting it all together: Treatment protocol, documentation, billing
2:45 Break
3:00 Case Studies
3:30 Questions and Answers
3:45 Evaluations and wrap-up
4:00 Adjourn
Carolyn McManus, PT, MS, MA
Carolyn McManus is a highly skilled clinician, researcher and professional trainer. She is an international leader in the integration of mindfulness into healthcare and the practice of mindfulness to promote provider well-being. Carolyn is President of the American Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Section Pain Management Special Interest Group. She holds Master’s degrees in physical therapy from Duke University and in psychology from Antioch University.
Since 1985 she has integrated mindfulness principles and practices into the care of patients with chronic conditions. In 1998, she joined the Outpatient Rehabilitation Department at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where she established their popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program for people with persistent pain and stress-related illness. She has over 30 years of experience in the practice of mindfulness meditation and has completed an advanced MBSR Teacher Training Program offered at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
In 2009, Carolyn was invited by David Kearney, MD to develop and conduct a pilot study examining the role of a 12-week course in Kindness Meditation for veterans with PTSD at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System in Seattle. She continues to serve on Dr. Kearney’s research team, providing MBSR and Kindness Meditation courses in research exploring the effects of these practices in veterans with a wide range of health concerns, including chronic pain.
Carolyn is a regular presenter at state and national conferences, including APTA’s NEXT and Combined Sections Conferences. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the International Association for the Study of Pain and the Academy of Integrative Pain Management. Learn more about Carolyn at her website: carolynmcmanus.com.
Carolyn's website is carolynmcmanus.com
Name Street Address (Links to Map)
Course Location
1701 N George Mason Dr
Arlington, VA 22205
Recommended Lodging
Hilton Arlington
(703) 528-6000
950 N Stafford St
Arlington, VA 22203
Nearest Airport
Washington Dulles International Airport
Airport Code: IAD
1 Saarinen Cir
Dulles, VA 20166
Directions from Recommended Lodging to Course Location: (click here if no map appears below)
Attention: We are unable to offer "retro-active" discounts (i.e. applying a discount to a transaction after the transaction takes place), so if you are interested in exploring discount options and you are unsure if your transactions is eligible for a discount, please contact us to inquire.
Multi-Course Discount
This 10% discount is available for a single registrant who wishes to enroll in 3 or more courses, and pay in one transaction. Registrants wishing to enroll in 5 or more courses should contact us for a customized quote. We can also apply this discount if 2 therapists from a single clinic/hospital enroll in 3 or more courses (ie Registrant A enrolls in Course X and Course Y, Registrant B enrolls in Course X, and Registrants A and B both work at Clinic Z). This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts. Registration and payment must be received at the same time in one credit card payment, one check or one envelop with multiple checks. This type of registration cannot be completed online, if you are wishing to receive the Multi-Course discount please call or email us directly for assistance.
Course discounts for the Pelvic Floor Series are capped at 10% no matter the group size or number of registrations
Group Discount
This discount is available for a group of three or more registrants, who all work at the same clinic/hospital, enroll in a single course, and pay in a single transaction or mail in multiple checks in a single envelope. This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts.
Groups of 3-5 receive a 10% discount off the combined price of their group's registrations.
Course discounts for the PF series are being capped at 10% no matter on group size or number of registrations - but will be staying the same for specialty courses.
Student Discount
This 10% discount is available to current students who have yet to earn a license to practice at the time of course registration. Students are welcome to attend satellite and remote courses with H&W once they have reached their third year and/or completed a hands-on clinical in their second year. You may register while in your 2nd year for a course that is taking place by the time you have become a third-year student. However, students are not allowed to register or attend a self-hosted course.
To get this discount when checking out online, use the code STUDENT2023 for courses scheduled for 2023. (Note, this code is only valid for non-licensed students. The H&W admin team will verify that registrants signed up with this code are, indeed, current students prior to their attendance of the course).
Referral Credit/Discount
Any therapist who has already taken a Herman & Wallace course will earn a $50.00 "referral credit" if:
1. A therapist who has never taken a Herman & Wallace course successfully registers for his or her first course(s); AND
2. In the registration process, the first-time registrant gives the name and clinic/hospital of the therapist who referred them to Herman & Wallace.
A therapist who has earned a $50.00 "referral credit" may use this credit toward any course that is eligible for a "referral discount".
Guest Blogger Credit/Discount
Any therapist who completes a qualifying guest blog post on the Herman & Wallace blog will earn a $50.00 "guest blogger credit". This credit may be applied toward any course.
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Price: $475 (Early Registrant Price $450)
Experience Level: Beginner
Contact Hours: 15
Pain is a perception engaging sensory, cognitive and emotional processes. Beliefs, expectations, fear, catastrophizing, childhood stress and trauma, and learning and memory can all modulate a patient’s pain experience. In addition, structural and functional brain changes have been identified in patients with persistent pain that may play a significant role in driving pain chronicity. This multifaceted nature of pain perception requires an equally multifaceted skill set to effectively address the therapeutic needs of patients experiencing pain.
A growing body of medical literature suggests mindfulness training is a treatment strategy that can help address the complexities of pain. Mindfulness training has been shown to reduce pain intensity and unpleasantness, decrease depression and anxiety and improve function and quality of life in patients with persistent pain. These improvements may occur through such means as improved body awareness, stress and emotional regulation, attention control and changes in perspective. In addition, mindfulness training contributes to neuroplastic brain changes including increases in prefrontal cortex and hippocampal activity and decreases in amygdala activity. Such changes can potentially help mitigate neurotoxic effects of stress in these chronic pain-associated brain regions.
This 2-day course provides you with practical, evidence-based treatment strategies to promote your patients’ abilities to self-regulate the stress reaction and self-manage pain. You will learn the science of mindfulness and pain and gain insight into how cognition, emotion and stress impact pain perception. You will practice mindful meditation, body scan and movement and learn skills to apply mindful awareness to teaching patients breathing, body awareness, exercise and the self-regulation of reactions to stress and pain. Experiential exercises help you personally experience the transformative power of mindful awareness. You will return to your clinic with the ability to explain the benefits of mindful awareness to your patients and teach mindfulness-based skills for pain relief that can help both prevent and treat chronic pain conditions. You will be able to draw on mindful listening skills to enhance your therapeutic alliance with your patients. In addition, you will learn mindful self-care practices to avoid burn-out and promote your own well-being.
Audience:
This course addresses the topic of mindfulness and pain for all specialties (and the generalist!) dealing with pain and is not limited to the pelvic rehab therapist.
Prerequisites:
None
What to bring:
Yoga mat, beach towel, or blanket
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
Day One:
8:00 Introductions, course overview
8:15Experiential Exercise Introduction to Mindfulness
8:30 Introduction to mindfulness
9:00 Experiential Practice: Sitting breath awareness
9:30 Proposed mechanisms for how mindfulness works
10:00 Break
10:15 Mindful body scan
10:35 Pain science concepts
11:20 Stress and pain
11:40 Trauma, PTSD and pain
12:10 Cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindfulness and pain research
2:00 Mindful movement research
2:15 Experiential Practice: Mindful Movement
3:00 Break
3:15 Mindfulness and the Self-regulation of Reactions to Pain Movement and Stress
3:30 Experiential Practice: Integrate mindfulness into breath, body awareness and exercise instruction
4:00 Walking Meditation
4:30 Case studies
5:00 Experiential practice: Practice reflection exercise
5:15 Q&A
5:30 Adjourn
Day Two:
8:00 Questions, answers, discussion from yesterday
8:15 Experiential practice: Mindful movement, body scan, sitting meditation
9:00 The mindful healthcare provider lecture/experiential exercise
10:00 Break
10:15 Applying mindfulness to pleasant and unpleasant situations
10:40 Pain and positive emotional states research
10:50 Mindfulness and opioid use research
11:05 Mindfulness and sleep, anxiety and depression research
11:20 Mindfulness and special topics research: fibromyalgia, pelvic floor pain, LBP, headache, TBI, cancer
11:45 Kindness meditation and pain research
11:55 Experiential practice: Kindness meditation
12:15 Q & A
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindful communication: Lecture
1:40 Experiential practice: Mindful communication
2:10 Self-management barriers and facilitators
2:20 Putting it all together: Treatment protocol, documentation, billing
2:45 Break
3:00 Case Studies
3:30 Questions and Answers
3:45 Evaluations and wrap-up
4:00 Adjourn
Carolyn McManus, PT, MS, MA
Carolyn McManus is a highly skilled clinician, researcher and professional trainer. She is an international leader in the integration of mindfulness into healthcare and the practice of mindfulness to promote provider well-being. Carolyn is President of the American Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Section Pain Management Special Interest Group. She holds Master’s degrees in physical therapy from Duke University and in psychology from Antioch University.
Since 1985 she has integrated mindfulness principles and practices into the care of patients with chronic conditions. In 1998, she joined the Outpatient Rehabilitation Department at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where she established their popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program for people with persistent pain and stress-related illness. She has over 30 years of experience in the practice of mindfulness meditation and has completed an advanced MBSR Teacher Training Program offered at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
In 2009, Carolyn was invited by David Kearney, MD to develop and conduct a pilot study examining the role of a 12-week course in Kindness Meditation for veterans with PTSD at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System in Seattle. She continues to serve on Dr. Kearney’s research team, providing MBSR and Kindness Meditation courses in research exploring the effects of these practices in veterans with a wide range of health concerns, including chronic pain.
Carolyn is a regular presenter at state and national conferences, including APTA’s NEXT and Combined Sections Conferences. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the International Association for the Study of Pain and the Academy of Integrative Pain Management. Learn more about Carolyn at her website: carolynmcmanus.com.
Carolyn's website is carolynmcmanus.com
Name Street Address (Links to Map)
Course Location
450 Broadway St
Redwood City, CA 94063
Recommended Lodging
Holiday Inn Express Redwood City-Central
(650) 299-0909
1836 El Camino Real
Redwood City, CA 94063
Nearest Airport
San Francisco International Airport
Airport Code: SFO
San Francisco, CA 94128
Directions from Recommended Lodging to Course Location: (click here if no map appears below)
Attention: We are unable to offer "retro-active" discounts (i.e. applying a discount to a transaction after the transaction takes place), so if you are interested in exploring discount options and you are unsure if your transactions is eligible for a discount, please contact us to inquire.
Multi-Course Discount
This 10% discount is available for a single registrant who wishes to enroll in 3 or more courses, and pay in one transaction. Registrants wishing to enroll in 5 or more courses should contact us for a customized quote. We can also apply this discount if 2 therapists from a single clinic/hospital enroll in 3 or more courses (ie Registrant A enrolls in Course X and Course Y, Registrant B enrolls in Course X, and Registrants A and B both work at Clinic Z). This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts. Registration and payment must be received at the same time in one credit card payment, one check or one envelop with multiple checks. This type of registration cannot be completed online, if you are wishing to receive the Multi-Course discount please call or email us directly for assistance.
Course discounts for the Pelvic Floor Series are capped at 10% no matter the group size or number of registrations
Group Discount
This discount is available for a group of three or more registrants, who all work at the same clinic/hospital, enroll in a single course, and pay in a single transaction or mail in multiple checks in a single envelope. This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts.
Groups of 3-5 receive a 10% discount off the combined price of their group's registrations.
Course discounts for the PF series are being capped at 10% no matter on group size or number of registrations - but will be staying the same for specialty courses.
Student Discount
This 10% discount is available to current students who have yet to earn a license to practice at the time of course registration. Students are welcome to attend satellite and remote courses with H&W once they have reached their third year and/or completed a hands-on clinical in their second year. You may register while in your 2nd year for a course that is taking place by the time you have become a third-year student. However, students are not allowed to register or attend a self-hosted course.
To get this discount when checking out online, use the code STUDENT2023 for courses scheduled for 2023. (Note, this code is only valid for non-licensed students. The H&W admin team will verify that registrants signed up with this code are, indeed, current students prior to their attendance of the course).
Referral Credit/Discount
Any therapist who has already taken a Herman & Wallace course will earn a $50.00 "referral credit" if:
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Pain is a perception engaging sensory, cognitive and emotional processes. Beliefs, expectations, fear, catastrophizing, childhood stress and trauma, and learning and memory can all modulate a patient’s pain experience. In addition, structural and functional brain changes have been identified in patients with persistent pain that may play a significant role in driving pain chronicity. This multifaceted nature of pain perception requires an equally multifaceted skill set to effectively address the therapeutic needs of patients experiencing pain.
A growing body of medical literature suggests mindfulness training is a treatment strategy that can help address the complexities of pain. Mindfulness training has been shown to reduce pain intensity and unpleasantness, decrease depression and anxiety and improve function and quality of life in patients with persistent pain. These improvements may occur through such means as improved body awareness, stress and emotional regulation, attention control and changes in perspective. In addition, mindfulness training contributes to neuroplastic brain changes including increases in prefrontal cortex and hippocampal activity and decreases in amygdala activity. Such changes can potentially help mitigate neurotoxic effects of stress in these chronic pain-associated brain regions.
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This course addresses the topic of mindfulness and pain for all specialties (and the generalist!) dealing with pain and is not limited to the pelvic rehab therapist.
Prerequisites:
None
What to bring:
Yoga mat, beach towel, or blanket
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
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8:00 Introductions, course overview
8:15Experiential Exercise Introduction to Mindfulness
8:30 Introduction to mindfulness
9:00 Experiential Practice: Sitting breath awareness
9:30 Proposed mechanisms for how mindfulness works
10:00 Break
10:15 Mindful body scan
10:35 Pain science concepts
11:20 Stress and pain
11:40 Trauma, PTSD and pain
12:10 Cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindfulness and pain research
2:00 Mindful movement research
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3:00 Break
3:15 Mindfulness and the Self-regulation of Reactions to Pain Movement and Stress
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4:30 Case studies
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10:40 Pain and positive emotional states research
10:50 Mindfulness and opioid use research
11:05 Mindfulness and sleep, anxiety and depression research
11:20 Mindfulness and special topics research: fibromyalgia, pelvic floor pain, LBP, headache, TBI, cancer
11:45 Kindness meditation and pain research
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12:15 Q & A
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1:30 Mindful communication: Lecture
1:40 Experiential practice: Mindful communication
2:10 Self-management barriers and facilitators
2:20 Putting it all together: Treatment protocol, documentation, billing
2:45 Break
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3:30 Questions and Answers
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Carolyn McManus, PT, MS, MA
Carolyn McManus is a highly skilled clinician, researcher and professional trainer. She is an international leader in the integration of mindfulness into healthcare and the practice of mindfulness to promote provider well-being. Carolyn is President of the American Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Section Pain Management Special Interest Group. She holds Master’s degrees in physical therapy from Duke University and in psychology from Antioch University.
Since 1985 she has integrated mindfulness principles and practices into the care of patients with chronic conditions. In 1998, she joined the Outpatient Rehabilitation Department at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where she established their popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program for people with persistent pain and stress-related illness. She has over 30 years of experience in the practice of mindfulness meditation and has completed an advanced MBSR Teacher Training Program offered at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
In 2009, Carolyn was invited by David Kearney, MD to develop and conduct a pilot study examining the role of a 12-week course in Kindness Meditation for veterans with PTSD at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System in Seattle. She continues to serve on Dr. Kearney’s research team, providing MBSR and Kindness Meditation courses in research exploring the effects of these practices in veterans with a wide range of health concerns, including chronic pain.
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Course Location
310 Baker Ave
Concord, MA 01742
Recommended Lodging
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(978) 341-0003
320 Baker Avenue
Concord, MA 01742
Nearest Airport
Logan International Airport
Airport Code: BOS
1 Harborside Dr
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Attention: We are unable to offer "retro-active" discounts (i.e. applying a discount to a transaction after the transaction takes place), so if you are interested in exploring discount options and you are unsure if your transactions is eligible for a discount, please contact us to inquire.
Multi-Course Discount
This 10% discount is available for a single registrant who wishes to enroll in 3 or more courses, and pay in one transaction. Registrants wishing to enroll in 5 or more courses should contact us for a customized quote. We can also apply this discount if 2 therapists from a single clinic/hospital enroll in 3 or more courses (ie Registrant A enrolls in Course X and Course Y, Registrant B enrolls in Course X, and Registrants A and B both work at Clinic Z). This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts. Registration and payment must be received at the same time in one credit card payment, one check or one envelop with multiple checks. This type of registration cannot be completed online, if you are wishing to receive the Multi-Course discount please call or email us directly for assistance.
Course discounts for the Pelvic Floor Series are capped at 10% no matter the group size or number of registrations
Group Discount
This discount is available for a group of three or more registrants, who all work at the same clinic/hospital, enroll in a single course, and pay in a single transaction or mail in multiple checks in a single envelope. This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts.
Groups of 3-5 receive a 10% discount off the combined price of their group's registrations.
Course discounts for the PF series are being capped at 10% no matter on group size or number of registrations - but will be staying the same for specialty courses.
Student Discount
This 10% discount is available to current students who have yet to earn a license to practice at the time of course registration. Students are welcome to attend satellite and remote courses with H&W once they have reached their third year and/or completed a hands-on clinical in their second year. You may register while in your 2nd year for a course that is taking place by the time you have become a third-year student. However, students are not allowed to register or attend a self-hosted course.
To get this discount when checking out online, use the code STUDENT2023 for courses scheduled for 2023. (Note, this code is only valid for non-licensed students. The H&W admin team will verify that registrants signed up with this code are, indeed, current students prior to their attendance of the course).
Referral Credit/Discount
Any therapist who has already taken a Herman & Wallace course will earn a $50.00 "referral credit" if:
1. A therapist who has never taken a Herman & Wallace course successfully registers for his or her first course(s); AND
2. In the registration process, the first-time registrant gives the name and clinic/hospital of the therapist who referred them to Herman & Wallace.
A therapist who has earned a $50.00 "referral credit" may use this credit toward any course that is eligible for a "referral discount".
Guest Blogger Credit/Discount
Any therapist who completes a qualifying guest blog post on the Herman & Wallace blog will earn a $50.00 "guest blogger credit". This credit may be applied toward any course.
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None
What to bring:
Yoga mat, beach towel, or blanket
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
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9:30 Proposed mechanisms for how mindfulness works
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12:10 Cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
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10:50 Mindfulness and opioid use research
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12:15 Q & A
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3:30 Questions and Answers
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Street Address (Links to Map)
Course Location
1102 Bates Ave
Houston, TX 77030
Recommended Lodging
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(713) 313-4000
6633 Travis St
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Nearest Airports
George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Airport Code: IAH
William P. Hobby Airport
Airport Code: HOU
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7800 Airport Blvd
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Carolyn McManus is a highly skilled clinician, researcher and professional trainer. She is an international leader in the integration of mindfulness into healthcare and the practice of mindfulness to promote provider well-being. Carolyn is President of the American Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Section Pain Management Special Interest Group. She holds Master’s degrees in physical therapy from Duke University and in psychology from Antioch University.
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In 2009, Carolyn was invited by David Kearney, MD to develop and conduct a pilot study examining the role of a 12-week course in Kindness Meditation for veterans with PTSD at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System in Seattle. She continues to serve on Dr. Kearney’s research team, providing MBSR and Kindness Meditation courses in research exploring the effects of these practices in veterans with a wide range of health concerns, including chronic pain.
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Attention: We are unable to offer "retro-active" discounts (i.e. applying a discount to a transaction after the transaction takes place), so if you are interested in exploring discount options and you are unsure if your transactions is eligible for a discount, please contact us to inquire.
Multi-Course Discount
This 10% discount is available for a single registrant who wishes to enroll in 3 or more courses, and pay in one transaction. Registrants wishing to enroll in 5 or more courses should contact us for a customized quote. We can also apply this discount if 2 therapists from a single clinic/hospital enroll in 3 or more courses (ie Registrant A enrolls in Course X and Course Y, Registrant B enrolls in Course X, and Registrants A and B both work at Clinic Z). This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts. Registration and payment must be received at the same time in one credit card payment, one check or one envelop with multiple checks. This type of registration cannot be completed online, if you are wishing to receive the Multi-Course discount please call or email us directly for assistance.
Course discounts for the Pelvic Floor Series are capped at 10% no matter the group size or number of registrations
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This discount is available for a group of three or more registrants, who all work at the same clinic/hospital, enroll in a single course, and pay in a single transaction or mail in multiple checks in a single envelope. This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts.
Groups of 3-5 receive a 10% discount off the combined price of their group's registrations.
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To get this discount when checking out online, use the code STUDENT2023 for courses scheduled for 2023. (Note, this code is only valid for non-licensed students. The H&W admin team will verify that registrants signed up with this code are, indeed, current students prior to their attendance of the course).
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1. A therapist who has never taken a Herman & Wallace course successfully registers for his or her first course(s); AND
2. In the registration process, the first-time registrant gives the name and clinic/hospital of the therapist who referred them to Herman & Wallace.
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What to bring:
Yoga mat, beach towel, or blanket
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
Day One:
8:00 Introductions, course overview
8:15Experiential Exercise Introduction to Mindfulness
8:30 Introduction to mindfulness
9:00 Experiential Practice: Sitting breath awareness
9:30 Proposed mechanisms for how mindfulness works
10:00 Break
10:15 Mindful body scan
10:35 Pain science concepts
11:20 Stress and pain
11:40 Trauma, PTSD and pain
12:10 Cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindfulness and pain research
2:00 Mindful movement research
2:15 Experiential Practice: Mindful Movement
3:00 Break
3:15 Mindfulness and the Self-regulation of Reactions to Pain Movement and Stress
3:30 Experiential Practice: Integrate mindfulness into breath, body awareness and exercise instruction
4:00 Walking Meditation
4:30 Case studies
5:00 Experiential practice: Practice reflection exercise
5:15 Q&A
5:30 Adjourn
Day Two:
8:00 Questions, answers, discussion from yesterday
8:15 Experiential practice: Mindful movement, body scan, sitting meditation
9:00 The mindful healthcare provider lecture/experiential exercise
10:00 Break
10:15 Applying mindfulness to pleasant and unpleasant situations
10:40 Pain and positive emotional states research
10:50 Mindfulness and opioid use research
11:05 Mindfulness and sleep, anxiety and depression research
11:20 Mindfulness and special topics research: fibromyalgia, pelvic floor pain, LBP, headache, TBI, cancer
11:45 Kindness meditation and pain research
11:55 Experiential practice: Kindness meditation
12:15 Q & A
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindful communication: Lecture
1:40 Experiential practice: Mindful communication
2:10 Self-management barriers and facilitators
2:20 Putting it all together: Treatment protocol, documentation, billing
2:45 Break
3:00 Case Studies
3:30 Questions and Answers
3:45 Evaluations and wrap-up
4:00 Adjourn
Carolyn McManus, PT, MS, MA
Carolyn McManus is a highly skilled clinician, researcher and professional trainer. She is an international leader in the integration of mindfulness into healthcare and the practice of mindfulness to promote provider well-being. Carolyn is President of the American Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Section Pain Management Special Interest Group. She holds Master’s degrees in physical therapy from Duke University and in psychology from Antioch University.
Since 1985 she has integrated mindfulness principles and practices into the care of patients with chronic conditions. In 1998, she joined the Outpatient Rehabilitation Department at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where she established their popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program for people with persistent pain and stress-related illness. She has over 30 years of experience in the practice of mindfulness meditation and has completed an advanced MBSR Teacher Training Program offered at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
In 2009, Carolyn was invited by David Kearney, MD to develop and conduct a pilot study examining the role of a 12-week course in Kindness Meditation for veterans with PTSD at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System in Seattle. She continues to serve on Dr. Kearney’s research team, providing MBSR and Kindness Meditation courses in research exploring the effects of these practices in veterans with a wide range of health concerns, including chronic pain.
Carolyn is a regular presenter at state and national conferences, including APTA’s NEXT and Combined Sections Conferences. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the International Association for the Study of Pain and the Academy of Integrative Pain Management. Learn more about Carolyn at her website: carolynmcmanus.com.
Carolyn's website is carolynmcmanus.com
Name Street Address (Links to Map)
Course Location
2160 S 1st Ave
Maywood, IL 60625
Recommended Lodging
Residence Inn Oakbrook
(630)568-2342
790 Jorie Boulevard
Oak Brook, IL 60523
Nearest Airport
Chicago Midway International Airport
Airport Code: MCO
5700 S Cicero Ave
Chicago, IL 60638
Directions from Recommended Lodging to Course Location: Click here if map is not shown below.
Attention: We are unable to offer "retro-active" discounts (i.e. applying a discount to a transaction after the transaction takes place), so if you are interested in exploring discount options and you are unsure if your transactions is eligible for a discount, please contact us to inquire.
Multi-Course Discount
This 10% discount is available for a single registrant who wishes to enroll in 3 or more courses, and pay in one transaction. Registrants wishing to enroll in 5 or more courses should contact us for a customized quote. We can also apply this discount if 2 therapists from a single clinic/hospital enroll in 3 or more courses (ie Registrant A enrolls in Course X and Course Y, Registrant B enrolls in Course X, and Registrants A and B both work at Clinic Z). This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts. Registration and payment must be received at the same time in one credit card payment, one check or one envelop with multiple checks. This type of registration cannot be completed online, if you are wishing to receive the Multi-Course discount please call or email us directly for assistance.
Course discounts for the Pelvic Floor Series are capped at 10% no matter the group size or number of registrations
Group Discount
This discount is available for a group of three or more registrants, who all work at the same clinic/hospital, enroll in a single course, and pay in a single transaction or mail in multiple checks in a single envelope. This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts.
Groups of 3-5 receive a 10% discount off the combined price of their group's registrations.
Course discounts for the PF series are being capped at 10% no matter on group size or number of registrations - but will be staying the same for specialty courses.
Student Discount
This 10% discount is available to current students who have yet to earn a license to practice at the time of course registration. Students are welcome to attend satellite and remote courses with H&W once they have reached their third year and/or completed a hands-on clinical in their second year. You may register while in your 2nd year for a course that is taking place by the time you have become a third-year student. However, students are not allowed to register or attend a self-hosted course.
To get this discount when checking out online, use the code STUDENT2023 for courses scheduled for 2023. (Note, this code is only valid for non-licensed students. The H&W admin team will verify that registrants signed up with this code are, indeed, current students prior to their attendance of the course).
Referral Credit/Discount
Any therapist who has already taken a Herman & Wallace course will earn a $50.00 "referral credit" if:
1. A therapist who has never taken a Herman & Wallace course successfully registers for his or her first course(s); AND
2. In the registration process, the first-time registrant gives the name and clinic/hospital of the therapist who referred them to Herman & Wallace.
A therapist who has earned a $50.00 "referral credit" may use this credit toward any course that is eligible for a "referral discount".
Guest Blogger Credit/Discount
Any therapist who completes a qualifying guest blog post on the Herman & Wallace blog will earn a $50.00 "guest blogger credit". This credit may be applied toward any course.
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Pain is a perception engaging sensory, cognitive and emotional processes. Beliefs, expectations, fear, catastrophizing, childhood stress and trauma, and learning and memory can all modulate a patient’s pain experience. In addition, structural and functional brain changes have been identified in patients with persistent pain that may play a significant role in driving pain chronicity. This multifaceted nature of pain perception requires an equally multifaceted skill set to effectively address the therapeutic needs of patients experiencing pain.
A growing body of medical literature suggests mindfulness training is a treatment strategy that can help address the complexities of pain. Mindfulness training has been shown to reduce pain intensity and unpleasantness, decrease depression and anxiety and improve function and quality of life in patients with persistent pain. These improvements may occur through such means as improved body awareness, stress and emotional regulation, attention control and changes in perspective. In addition, mindfulness training contributes to neuroplastic brain changes including increases in prefrontal cortex and hippocampal activity and decreases in amygdala activity. Such changes can potentially help mitigate neurotoxic effects of stress in these chronic pain-associated brain regions.
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Audience:
This course addresses the topic of mindfulness and pain for all specialties (and the generalist!) dealing with pain and is not limited to the pelvic rehab therapist.
Prerequisites:
None
What to bring:
Yoga mat, beach towel, or blanket
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
Day One:
8:00 Introductions, course overview
8:15Experiential Exercise Introduction to Mindfulness
8:30 Introduction to mindfulness
9:00 Experiential Practice: Sitting breath awareness
9:30 Proposed mechanisms for how mindfulness works
10:00 Break
10:15 Mindful body scan
10:35 Pain science concepts
11:20 Stress and pain
11:40 Trauma, PTSD and pain
12:10 Cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindfulness and pain research
2:00 Mindful movement research
2:15 Experiential Practice: Mindful Movement
3:00 Break
3:15 Mindfulness and the Self-regulation of Reactions to Pain Movement and Stress
3:30 Experiential Practice: Integrate mindfulness into breath, body awareness and exercise instruction
4:00 Walking Meditation
4:30 Case studies
5:00 Experiential practice: Practice reflection exercise
5:15 Q&A
5:30 Adjourn
Day Two:
8:00 Questions, answers, discussion from yesterday
8:15 Experiential practice: Mindful movement, body scan, sitting meditation
9:00 The mindful healthcare provider lecture/experiential exercise
10:00 Break
10:15 Applying mindfulness to pleasant and unpleasant situations
10:40 Pain and positive emotional states research
10:50 Mindfulness and opioid use research
11:05 Mindfulness and sleep, anxiety and depression research
11:20 Mindfulness and special topics research: fibromyalgia, pelvic floor pain, LBP, headache, TBI, cancer
11:45 Kindness meditation and pain research
11:55 Experiential practice: Kindness meditation
12:15 Q & A
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindful communication: Lecture
1:40 Experiential practice: Mindful communication
2:10 Self-management barriers and facilitators
2:20 Putting it all together: Treatment protocol, documentation, billing
2:45 Break
3:00 Case Studies
3:30 Questions and Answers
3:45 Evaluations and wrap-up
4:00 Adjourn
Carolyn McManus, PT, MS, MA
Carolyn McManus is a highly skilled clinician, researcher and professional trainer. She is an international leader in the integration of mindfulness into healthcare and the practice of mindfulness to promote provider well-being. Carolyn is President of the American Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Section Pain Management Special Interest Group. She holds Master’s degrees in physical therapy from Duke University and in psychology from Antioch University.
Since 1985 she has integrated mindfulness principles and practices into the care of patients with chronic conditions. In 1998, she joined the Outpatient Rehabilitation Department at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where she established their popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program for people with persistent pain and stress-related illness. She has over 30 years of experience in the practice of mindfulness meditation and has completed an advanced MBSR Teacher Training Program offered at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
In 2009, Carolyn was invited by David Kearney, MD to develop and conduct a pilot study examining the role of a 12-week course in Kindness Meditation for veterans with PTSD at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System in Seattle. She continues to serve on Dr. Kearney’s research team, providing MBSR and Kindness Meditation courses in research exploring the effects of these practices in veterans with a wide range of health concerns, including chronic pain.
Carolyn is a regular presenter at state and national conferences, including APTA’s NEXT and Combined Sections Conferences. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the International Association for the Study of Pain and the Academy of Integrative Pain Management. Learn more about Carolyn at her website: carolynmcmanus.com.
Carolyn's website is carolynmcmanus.com
Name Street Address (Links to Map)
Course Location
400 Hawthorne Ave
Oakland, CA 94609
Recommended Lodging
Oakland Marriott City Center Hotel
(510)451-4000
1001 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607
Nearest Airport
Oakland International Airport
Airport Code: OAK
1 Airport Drive
Oakland, CA 94621
Directions from Recommended Lodging to Course Location: (click here if no map appears below)
Attention: We are unable to offer "retro-active" discounts (i.e. applying a discount to a transaction after the transaction takes place), so if you are interested in exploring discount options and you are unsure if your transactions is eligible for a discount, please contact us to inquire.
Multi-Course Discount
This 10% discount is available for a single registrant who wishes to enroll in 3 or more courses, and pay in one transaction. Registrants wishing to enroll in 5 or more courses should contact us for a customized quote. We can also apply this discount if 2 therapists from a single clinic/hospital enroll in 3 or more courses (ie Registrant A enrolls in Course X and Course Y, Registrant B enrolls in Course X, and Registrants A and B both work at Clinic Z). This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts. Registration and payment must be received at the same time in one credit card payment, one check or one envelop with multiple checks. This type of registration cannot be completed online, if you are wishing to receive the Multi-Course discount please call or email us directly for assistance.
Course discounts for the Pelvic Floor Series are capped at 10% no matter the group size or number of registrations
Group Discount
This discount is available for a group of three or more registrants, who all work at the same clinic/hospital, enroll in a single course, and pay in a single transaction or mail in multiple checks in a single envelope. This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts.
Groups of 3-5 receive a 10% discount off the combined price of their group's registrations.
Course discounts for the PF series are being capped at 10% no matter on group size or number of registrations - but will be staying the same for specialty courses.
Student Discount
This 10% discount is available to current students who have yet to earn a license to practice at the time of course registration. Students are welcome to attend satellite and remote courses with H&W once they have reached their third year and/or completed a hands-on clinical in their second year. You may register while in your 2nd year for a course that is taking place by the time you have become a third-year student. However, students are not allowed to register or attend a self-hosted course.
To get this discount when checking out online, use the code STUDENT2023 for courses scheduled for 2023. (Note, this code is only valid for non-licensed students. The H&W admin team will verify that registrants signed up with this code are, indeed, current students prior to their attendance of the course).
Referral Credit/Discount
Any therapist who has already taken a Herman & Wallace course will earn a $50.00 "referral credit" if:
1. A therapist who has never taken a Herman & Wallace course successfully registers for his or her first course(s); AND
2. In the registration process, the first-time registrant gives the name and clinic/hospital of the therapist who referred them to Herman & Wallace.
A therapist who has earned a $50.00 "referral credit" may use this credit toward any course that is eligible for a "referral discount".
Guest Blogger Credit/Discount
Any therapist who completes a qualifying guest blog post on the Herman & Wallace blog will earn a $50.00 "guest blogger credit". This credit may be applied toward any course.
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Pain is a perception engaging sensory, cognitive and emotional processes. Beliefs, expectations, fear, catastrophizing, childhood stress and trauma, and learning and memory can all modulate a patient’s pain experience. In addition, structural and functional brain changes have been identified in patients with persistent pain that may play a significant role in driving pain chronicity. This multifaceted nature of pain perception requires an equally multifaceted skill set to effectively address the therapeutic needs of patients experiencing pain.
A growing body of medical literature suggests mindfulness training is a treatment strategy that can help address the complexities of pain. Mindfulness training has been shown to reduce pain intensity and unpleasantness, decrease depression and anxiety and improve function and quality of life in patients with persistent pain. These improvements may occur through such means as improved body awareness, stress and emotional regulation, attention control and changes in perspective. In addition, mindfulness training contributes to neuroplastic brain changes including increases in prefrontal cortex and hippocampal activity and decreases in amygdala activity. Such changes can potentially help mitigate neurotoxic effects of stress in these chronic pain-associated brain regions.
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Audience:
This course addresses the topic of mindfulness and pain for all specialties (and the generalist!) dealing with pain and is not limited to the pelvic rehab therapist.
Prerequisites:
None
What to bring:
Yoga mat, beach towel, or blanket
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
Day One:
8:00 Introductions, course overview
8:15Experiential Exercise Introduction to Mindfulness
8:30 Introduction to mindfulness
9:00 Experiential Practice: Sitting breath awareness
9:30 Proposed mechanisms for how mindfulness works
10:00 Break
10:15 Mindful body scan
10:35 Pain science concepts
11:20 Stress and pain
11:40 Trauma, PTSD and pain
12:10 Cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindfulness and pain research
2:00 Mindful movement research
2:15 Experiential Practice: Mindful Movement
3:00 Break
3:15 Mindfulness and the Self-regulation of Reactions to Pain Movement and Stress
3:30 Experiential Practice: Integrate mindfulness into breath, body awareness and exercise instruction
4:00 Walking Meditation
4:30 Case studies
5:00 Experiential practice: Practice reflection exercise
5:15 Q&A
5:30 Adjourn
Day Two:
8:00 Questions, answers, discussion from yesterday
8:15 Experiential practice: Mindful movement, body scan, sitting meditation
9:00 The mindful healthcare provider lecture/experiential exercise
10:00 Break
10:15 Applying mindfulness to pleasant and unpleasant situations
10:40 Pain and positive emotional states research
10:50 Mindfulness and opioid use research
11:05 Mindfulness and sleep, anxiety and depression research
11:20 Mindfulness and special topics research: fibromyalgia, pelvic floor pain, LBP, headache, TBI, cancer
11:45 Kindness meditation and pain research
11:55 Experiential practice: Kindness meditation
12:15 Q & A
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindful communication: Lecture
1:40 Experiential practice: Mindful communication
2:10 Self-management barriers and facilitators
2:20 Putting it all together: Treatment protocol, documentation, billing
2:45 Break
3:00 Case Studies
3:30 Questions and Answers
3:45 Evaluations and wrap-up
4:00 Adjourn
Name Street Address (Links to Map)
Course Location
4805 NE Glisan Street
Portland OR, 97213
Recommended Lodging
Marriot Courtyard Lloyd Center
(503)-234-3200
435 NE Wasco
Portland, OR 97232
Nearest Airport
Portland International Airport
Airport Code:PDX
7000 NE Airport Way,
Portland, OR 97218
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Carolyn McManus, PT, MS, MA
Carolyn McManus is a highly skilled clinician, researcher and professional trainer. She is an international leader in the integration of mindfulness into healthcare and the practice of mindfulness to promote provider well-being. Carolyn is President of the American Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Section Pain Management Special Interest Group. She holds Master’s degrees in physical therapy from Duke University and in psychology from Antioch University.
Since 1985 she has integrated mindfulness principles and practices into the care of patients with chronic conditions. In 1998, she joined the Outpatient Rehabilitation Department at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where she established their popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program for people with persistent pain and stress-related illness. She has over 30 years of experience in the practice of mindfulness meditation and has completed an advanced MBSR Teacher Training Program offered at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
In 2009, Carolyn was invited by David Kearney, MD to develop and conduct a pilot study examining the role of a 12-week course in Kindness Meditation for veterans with PTSD at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System in Seattle. She continues to serve on Dr. Kearney’s research team, providing MBSR and Kindness Meditation courses in research exploring the effects of these practices in veterans with a wide range of health concerns, including chronic pain.
Carolyn is a regular presenter at state and national conferences, including APTA’s NEXT and Combined Sections Conferences. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the International Association for the Study of Pain and the Academy of Integrative Pain Management. Learn more about Carolyn at her website: carolynmcmanus.com.
Carolyn's website is carolynmcmanus.com
Attention: We are unable to offer "retro-active" discounts (i.e. applying a discount to a transaction after the transaction takes place), so if you are interested in exploring discount options and you are unsure if your transactions is eligible for a discount, please contact us to inquire.
Multi-Course Discount
This 10% discount is available for a single registrant who wishes to enroll in 3 or more courses, and pay in one transaction. Registrants wishing to enroll in 5 or more courses should contact us for a customized quote. We can also apply this discount if 2 therapists from a single clinic/hospital enroll in 3 or more courses (ie Registrant A enrolls in Course X and Course Y, Registrant B enrolls in Course X, and Registrants A and B both work at Clinic Z). This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts. Registration and payment must be received at the same time in one credit card payment, one check or one envelop with multiple checks. This type of registration cannot be completed online, if you are wishing to receive the Multi-Course discount please call or email us directly for assistance.
Course discounts for the Pelvic Floor Series are capped at 10% no matter the group size or number of registrations
Group Discount
This discount is available for a group of three or more registrants, who all work at the same clinic/hospital, enroll in a single course, and pay in a single transaction or mail in multiple checks in a single envelope. This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts.
Groups of 3-5 receive a 10% discount off the combined price of their group's registrations.
Course discounts for the PF series are being capped at 10% no matter on group size or number of registrations - but will be staying the same for specialty courses.
Student Discount
This 10% discount is available to current students who have yet to earn a license to practice at the time of course registration. Students are welcome to attend satellite and remote courses with H&W once they have reached their third year and/or completed a hands-on clinical in their second year. You may register while in your 2nd year for a course that is taking place by the time you have become a third-year student. However, students are not allowed to register or attend a self-hosted course.
To get this discount when checking out online, use the code STUDENT2023 for courses scheduled for 2023. (Note, this code is only valid for non-licensed students. The H&W admin team will verify that registrants signed up with this code are, indeed, current students prior to their attendance of the course).
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This course addresses the topic of mindfulness and pain for all specialties (and the generalist!) dealing with pain and is not limited to the pelvic rehab therapist.
Prerequisites:
None
What to bring:
Yoga mat, beach towel, or blanket
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
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8:00 Introductions, course overview
8:15Experiential Exercise Introduction to Mindfulness
8:30 Introduction to mindfulness
9:00 Experiential Practice: Sitting breath awareness
9:30 Proposed mechanisms for how mindfulness works
10:00 Break
10:15 Mindful body scan
10:35 Pain science concepts
11:20 Stress and pain
11:40 Trauma, PTSD and pain
12:10 Cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindfulness and pain research
2:00 Mindful movement research
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3:00 Break
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4:00 Walking Meditation
4:30 Case studies
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5:15 Q&A
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10:00 Break
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10:40 Pain and positive emotional states research
10:50 Mindfulness and opioid use research
11:05 Mindfulness and sleep, anxiety and depression research
11:20 Mindfulness and special topics research: fibromyalgia, pelvic floor pain, LBP, headache, TBI, cancer
11:45 Kindness meditation and pain research
11:55 Experiential practice: Kindness meditation
12:15 Q & A
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindful communication: Lecture
1:40 Experiential practice: Mindful communication
2:10 Self-management barriers and facilitators
2:20 Putting it all together: Treatment protocol, documentation, billing
2:45 Break
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3:30 Questions and Answers
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Carolyn McManus, PT, MS, MA
Carolyn McManus is a highly skilled clinician, researcher and professional trainer. She is an international leader in the integration of mindfulness into healthcare and the practice of mindfulness to promote provider well-being. Carolyn is President of the American Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Section Pain Management Special Interest Group. She holds Master’s degrees in physical therapy from Duke University and in psychology from Antioch University.
Since 1985 she has integrated mindfulness principles and practices into the care of patients with chronic conditions. In 1998, she joined the Outpatient Rehabilitation Department at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where she established their popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program for people with persistent pain and stress-related illness. She has over 30 years of experience in the practice of mindfulness meditation and has completed an advanced MBSR Teacher Training Program offered at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
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Course Location
291 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA 943053
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(650) 328-2800
625 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Nearest Airport
San Francisco International Airport
Airport Code: SFO
San Francisco, CA 94128
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Attention: We are unable to offer "retro-active" discounts (i.e. applying a discount to a transaction after the transaction takes place), so if you are interested in exploring discount options and you are unsure if your transactions is eligible for a discount, please contact us to inquire.
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This 10% discount is available for a single registrant who wishes to enroll in 3 or more courses, and pay in one transaction. Registrants wishing to enroll in 5 or more courses should contact us for a customized quote. We can also apply this discount if 2 therapists from a single clinic/hospital enroll in 3 or more courses (ie Registrant A enrolls in Course X and Course Y, Registrant B enrolls in Course X, and Registrants A and B both work at Clinic Z). This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts. Registration and payment must be received at the same time in one credit card payment, one check or one envelop with multiple checks. This type of registration cannot be completed online, if you are wishing to receive the Multi-Course discount please call or email us directly for assistance.
Course discounts for the Pelvic Floor Series are capped at 10% no matter the group size or number of registrations
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This discount is available for a group of three or more registrants, who all work at the same clinic/hospital, enroll in a single course, and pay in a single transaction or mail in multiple checks in a single envelope. This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts.
Groups of 3-5 receive a 10% discount off the combined price of their group's registrations.
Course discounts for the PF series are being capped at 10% no matter on group size or number of registrations - but will be staying the same for specialty courses.
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This 10% discount is available to current students who have yet to earn a license to practice at the time of course registration. Students are welcome to attend satellite and remote courses with H&W once they have reached their third year and/or completed a hands-on clinical in their second year. You may register while in your 2nd year for a course that is taking place by the time you have become a third-year student. However, students are not allowed to register or attend a self-hosted course.
To get this discount when checking out online, use the code STUDENT2023 for courses scheduled for 2023. (Note, this code is only valid for non-licensed students. The H&W admin team will verify that registrants signed up with this code are, indeed, current students prior to their attendance of the course).
Referral Credit/Discount
Any therapist who has already taken a Herman & Wallace course will earn a $50.00 "referral credit" if:
1. A therapist who has never taken a Herman & Wallace course successfully registers for his or her first course(s); AND
2. In the registration process, the first-time registrant gives the name and clinic/hospital of the therapist who referred them to Herman & Wallace.
A therapist who has earned a $50.00 "referral credit" may use this credit toward any course that is eligible for a "referral discount".
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None
What to bring:
Yoga mat, beach towel, or blanket
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
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8:00 Introductions, course overview
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9:30 Proposed mechanisms for how mindfulness works
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12:10 Cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
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1:30 Mindfulness and pain research
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10:50 Mindfulness and opioid use research
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12:30 Lunch
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Carolyn McManus is a highly skilled clinician, researcher and professional trainer. She is an international leader in the integration of mindfulness into healthcare and the practice of mindfulness to promote provider well-being. Carolyn is President of the American Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Section Pain Management Special Interest Group. She holds Master’s degrees in physical therapy from Duke University and in psychology from Antioch University.
Since 1985 she has integrated mindfulness principles and practices into the care of patients with chronic conditions. In 1998, she joined the Outpatient Rehabilitation Department at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where she established their popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program for people with persistent pain and stress-related illness. She has over 30 years of experience in the practice of mindfulness meditation and has completed an advanced MBSR Teacher Training Program offered at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
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Name Street Address (Links to Map)
Course Location
1200 12th Ave South
Seattle, WA 98144
Recommended Lodging
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(206) 448-9444
200 Taylor Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
Nearest Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Airport Code: SEA
17801 International Blvd
Seattle, WA 98158
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Attention: We are unable to offer "retro-active" discounts (i.e. applying a discount to a transaction after the transaction takes place), so if you are interested in exploring discount options and you are unsure if your transactions is eligible for a discount, please contact us to inquire.
Multi-Course Discount
This 10% discount is available for a single registrant who wishes to enroll in 3 or more courses, and pay in one transaction. Registrants wishing to enroll in 5 or more courses should contact us for a customized quote. We can also apply this discount if 2 therapists from a single clinic/hospital enroll in 3 or more courses (ie Registrant A enrolls in Course X and Course Y, Registrant B enrolls in Course X, and Registrants A and B both work at Clinic Z). This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts. Registration and payment must be received at the same time in one credit card payment, one check or one envelop with multiple checks. This type of registration cannot be completed online, if you are wishing to receive the Multi-Course discount please call or email us directly for assistance.
Course discounts for the Pelvic Floor Series are capped at 10% no matter the group size or number of registrations
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This discount is available for a group of three or more registrants, who all work at the same clinic/hospital, enroll in a single course, and pay in a single transaction or mail in multiple checks in a single envelope. This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts.
Groups of 3-5 receive a 10% discount off the combined price of their group's registrations.
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Referral Credit/Discount
Any therapist who has already taken a Herman & Wallace course will earn a $50.00 "referral credit" if:
1. A therapist who has never taken a Herman & Wallace course successfully registers for his or her first course(s); AND
2. In the registration process, the first-time registrant gives the name and clinic/hospital of the therapist who referred them to Herman & Wallace.
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A growing body of medical literature suggests mindfulness training is a treatment strategy that can help address the complexities of pain. Mindfulness training has been shown to reduce pain intensity and unpleasantness, decrease depression and anxiety and improve function and quality of life in patients with persistent pain. These improvements may occur through such means as improved body awareness, stress and emotional regulation, attention control and changes in perspective. In addition, mindfulness training contributes to neuroplastic brain changes including increases in prefrontal cortex and hippocampal activity and decreases in amygdala activity. Such changes can potentially help mitigate neurotoxic effects of stress in these chronic pain-associated brain regions.
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None
What to bring:
Yoga mat, beach towel, or blanket
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
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8:15Experiential Exercise Introduction to Mindfulness
8:30 Introduction to mindfulness
9:00 Experiential Practice: Sitting breath awareness
9:30 Proposed mechanisms for how mindfulness works
10:00 Break
10:15 Mindful body scan
10:35 Pain science concepts
11:20 Stress and pain
11:40 Trauma, PTSD and pain
12:10 Cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindfulness and pain research
2:00 Mindful movement research
2:15 Experiential Practice: Mindful Movement
3:00 Break
3:15 Mindfulness and the Self-regulation of Reactions to Pain Movement and Stress
3:30 Experiential Practice: Integrate mindfulness into breath, body awareness and exercise instruction
4:00 Walking Meditation
4:30 Case studies
5:00 Experiential practice: Practice reflection exercise
5:15 Q&A
5:30 Adjourn
Day Two:
8:00 Questions, answers, discussion from yesterday
8:15 Experiential practice: Mindful movement, body scan, sitting meditation
9:00 The mindful healthcare provider lecture/experiential exercise
10:00 Break
10:15 Applying mindfulness to pleasant and unpleasant situations
10:40 Pain and positive emotional states research
10:50 Mindfulness and opioid use research
11:05 Mindfulness and sleep, anxiety and depression research
11:20 Mindfulness and special topics research: fibromyalgia, pelvic floor pain, LBP, headache, TBI, cancer
11:45 Kindness meditation and pain research
11:55 Experiential practice: Kindness meditation
12:15 Q & A
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindful communication: Lecture
1:40 Experiential practice: Mindful communication
2:10 Self-management barriers and facilitators
2:20 Putting it all together: Treatment protocol, documentation, billing
2:45 Break
3:00 Case Studies
3:30 Questions and Answers
3:45 Evaluations and wrap-up
4:00 Adjourn
Carolyn McManus, PT, MS, MA
Carolyn McManus is a highly skilled clinician, researcher and professional trainer. She is an international leader in the integration of mindfulness into healthcare and the practice of mindfulness to promote provider well-being. Carolyn is President of the American Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Section Pain Management Special Interest Group. She holds Master’s degrees in physical therapy from Duke University and in psychology from Antioch University.
Since 1985 she has integrated mindfulness principles and practices into the care of patients with chronic conditions. In 1998, she joined the Outpatient Rehabilitation Department at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where she established their popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program for people with persistent pain and stress-related illness. She has over 30 years of experience in the practice of mindfulness meditation and has completed an advanced MBSR Teacher Training Program offered at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
In 2009, Carolyn was invited by David Kearney, MD to develop and conduct a pilot study examining the role of a 12-week course in Kindness Meditation for veterans with PTSD at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System in Seattle. She continues to serve on Dr. Kearney’s research team, providing MBSR and Kindness Meditation courses in research exploring the effects of these practices in veterans with a wide range of health concerns, including chronic pain.
Carolyn is a regular presenter at state and national conferences, including APTA’s NEXT and Combined Sections Conferences. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the International Association for the Study of Pain and the Academy of Integrative Pain Management. Learn more about Carolyn at her website: carolynmcmanus.com.
Carolyn's website is carolynmcmanus.com
Name Street Address (Links to Map)
Course Location
1780 NW Myhre Rd
Silverdale, WA 98383
Recommended Lodging
Oxford Suites Silverdale
(360)698-9550
9550 Silverdale Way NW
Silverdale, WA 98383
Nearest Airport
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
Airport Code: SEA
17801 International Blvd
Seattle, WA 98158
Directions from Recommended Lodging to Course Location: (click here if no map appears below)
Attention: We are unable to offer "retro-active" discounts (i.e. applying a discount to a transaction after the transaction takes place), so if you are interested in exploring discount options and you are unsure if your transactions is eligible for a discount, please contact us to inquire.
Multi-Course Discount
This 10% discount is available for a single registrant who wishes to enroll in 3 or more courses, and pay in one transaction. Registrants wishing to enroll in 5 or more courses should contact us for a customized quote. We can also apply this discount if 2 therapists from a single clinic/hospital enroll in 3 or more courses (ie Registrant A enrolls in Course X and Course Y, Registrant B enrolls in Course X, and Registrants A and B both work at Clinic Z). This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts. Registration and payment must be received at the same time in one credit card payment, one check or one envelop with multiple checks. This type of registration cannot be completed online, if you are wishing to receive the Multi-Course discount please call or email us directly for assistance.
Course discounts for the Pelvic Floor Series are capped at 10% no matter the group size or number of registrations
Group Discount
This discount is available for a group of three or more registrants, who all work at the same clinic/hospital, enroll in a single course, and pay in a single transaction or mail in multiple checks in a single envelope. This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts.
Groups of 3-5 receive a 10% discount off the combined price of their group's registrations.
Course discounts for the PF series are being capped at 10% no matter on group size or number of registrations - but will be staying the same for specialty courses.
Student Discount
This 10% discount is available to current students who have yet to earn a license to practice at the time of course registration. Students are welcome to attend satellite and remote courses with H&W once they have reached their third year and/or completed a hands-on clinical in their second year. You may register while in your 2nd year for a course that is taking place by the time you have become a third-year student. However, students are not allowed to register or attend a self-hosted course.
To get this discount when checking out online, use the code STUDENT2023 for courses scheduled for 2023. (Note, this code is only valid for non-licensed students. The H&W admin team will verify that registrants signed up with this code are, indeed, current students prior to their attendance of the course).
Referral Credit/Discount
Any therapist who has already taken a Herman & Wallace course will earn a $50.00 "referral credit" if:
1. A therapist who has never taken a Herman & Wallace course successfully registers for his or her first course(s); AND
2. In the registration process, the first-time registrant gives the name and clinic/hospital of the therapist who referred them to Herman & Wallace.
A therapist who has earned a $50.00 "referral credit" may use this credit toward any course that is eligible for a "referral discount".
Guest Blogger Credit/Discount
Any therapist who completes a qualifying guest blog post on the Herman & Wallace blog will earn a $50.00 "guest blogger credit". This credit may be applied toward any course.
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Price: $475 (Early Registrant Price $450)
Experience Level: Beginner
Contact Hours: 15
Pain is a perception engaging sensory, cognitive and emotional processes. Beliefs, expectations, fear, catastrophizing, childhood stress and trauma, and learning and memory can all modulate a patient’s pain experience. In addition, structural and functional brain changes have been identified in patients with persistent pain that may play a significant role in driving pain chronicity. This multifaceted nature of pain perception requires an equally multifaceted skill set to effectively address the therapeutic needs of patients experiencing pain.
A growing body of medical literature suggests mindfulness training is a treatment strategy that can help address the complexities of pain. Mindfulness training has been shown to reduce pain intensity and unpleasantness, decrease depression and anxiety and improve function and quality of life in patients with persistent pain. These improvements may occur through such means as improved body awareness, stress and emotional regulation, attention control and changes in perspective. In addition, mindfulness training contributes to neuroplastic brain changes including increases in prefrontal cortex and hippocampal activity and decreases in amygdala activity. Such changes can potentially help mitigate neurotoxic effects of stress in these chronic pain-associated brain regions.
This 2-day course provides you with practical, evidence-based treatment strategies to promote your patients’ abilities to self-regulate the stress reaction and self-manage pain. You will learn the science of mindfulness and pain and gain insight into how cognition, emotion and stress impact pain perception. You will practice mindful meditation, body scan and movement and learn skills to apply mindful awareness to teaching patients breathing, body awareness, exercise and the self-regulation of reactions to stress and pain. Experiential exercises help you personally experience the transformative power of mindful awareness. You will return to your clinic with the ability to explain the benefits of mindful awareness to your patients and teach mindfulness-based skills for pain relief that can help both prevent and treat chronic pain conditions. You will be able to draw on mindful listening skills to enhance your therapeutic alliance with your patients. In addition, you will learn mindful self-care practices to avoid burn-out and promote your own well-being.
Audience:
This course addresses the topic of mindfulness and pain for all specialties (and the generalist!) dealing with pain and is not limited to the pelvic rehab therapist.
Prerequisites:
None
What to bring:
Yoga mat, beach towel, or blanket
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
Day One:
8:00 Introductions, course overview
8:15Experiential Exercise Introduction to Mindfulness
8:30 Introduction to mindfulness
9:00 Experiential Practice: Sitting breath awareness
9:30 Proposed mechanisms for how mindfulness works
10:00 Break
10:15 Mindful body scan
10:35 Pain science concepts
11:20 Stress and pain
11:40 Trauma, PTSD and pain
12:10 Cognitive and emotional modulation of pain
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindfulness and pain research
2:00 Mindful movement research
2:15 Experiential Practice: Mindful Movement
3:00 Break
3:15 Mindfulness and the Self-regulation of Reactions to Pain Movement and Stress
3:30 Experiential Practice: Integrate mindfulness into breath, body awareness and exercise instruction
4:00 Walking Meditation
4:30 Case studies
5:00 Experiential practice: Practice reflection exercise
5:15 Q&A
5:30 Adjourn
Day Two:
8:00 Questions, answers, discussion from yesterday
8:15 Experiential practice: Mindful movement, body scan, sitting meditation
9:00 The mindful healthcare provider lecture/experiential exercise
10:00 Break
10:15 Applying mindfulness to pleasant and unpleasant situations
10:40 Pain and positive emotional states research
10:50 Mindfulness and opioid use research
11:05 Mindfulness and sleep, anxiety and depression research
11:20 Mindfulness and special topics research: fibromyalgia, pelvic floor pain, LBP, headache, TBI, cancer
11:45 Kindness meditation and pain research
11:55 Experiential practice: Kindness meditation
12:15 Q & A
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Mindful communication: Lecture
1:40 Experiential practice: Mindful communication
2:10 Self-management barriers and facilitators
2:20 Putting it all together: Treatment protocol, documentation, billing
2:45 Break
3:00 Case Studies
3:30 Questions and Answers
3:45 Evaluations and wrap-up
4:00 Adjourn
Name
Street Address (Links to Map)
Course Location
20805 W 151st St
Olathe KS 66061
Recommended Lodging
Hilton Garden Inn Olathe
(913)-815-2345
12080 South Strang Line Road
Olathe, Kansas, 66062
Nearest Airport
Kansas City International Airport
Airport Code: MCI
Kansas City International Airport
Kansas City, MO 64153
Directions from Recommended Lodging to Course Location: (click here if no map appears below)
Carolyn McManus, PT, MS, MA
Carolyn McManus is a highly skilled clinician, researcher and professional trainer. She is an international leader in the integration of mindfulness into healthcare and the practice of mindfulness to promote provider well-being. Carolyn is President of the American Physical Therapy Orthopaedic Section Pain Management Special Interest Group. She holds Master’s degrees in physical therapy from Duke University and in psychology from Antioch University.
Since 1985 she has integrated mindfulness principles and practices into the care of patients with chronic conditions. In 1998, she joined the Outpatient Rehabilitation Department at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where she established their popular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program for people with persistent pain and stress-related illness. She has over 30 years of experience in the practice of mindfulness meditation and has completed an advanced MBSR Teacher Training Program offered at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.
In 2009, Carolyn was invited by David Kearney, MD to develop and conduct a pilot study examining the role of a 12-week course in Kindness Meditation for veterans with PTSD at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System in Seattle. She continues to serve on Dr. Kearney’s research team, providing MBSR and Kindness Meditation courses in research exploring the effects of these practices in veterans with a wide range of health concerns, including chronic pain.
Carolyn is a regular presenter at state and national conferences, including APTA’s NEXT and Combined Sections Conferences. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the International Association for the Study of Pain and the Academy of Integrative Pain Management. Learn more about Carolyn at her website: carolynmcmanus.com.
Carolyn's website is carolynmcmanus.com
Attention: We are unable to offer "retro-active" discounts (i.e. applying a discount to a transaction after the transaction takes place), so if you are interested in exploring discount options and you are unsure if your transactions is eligible for a discount, please contact us to inquire.
Multi-Course Discount
This 10% discount is available for a single registrant who wishes to enroll in 3 or more courses, and pay in one transaction. Registrants wishing to enroll in 5 or more courses should contact us for a customized quote. We can also apply this discount if 2 therapists from a single clinic/hospital enroll in 3 or more courses (ie Registrant A enrolls in Course X and Course Y, Registrant B enrolls in Course X, and Registrants A and B both work at Clinic Z). This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts. Registration and payment must be received at the same time in one credit card payment, one check or one envelop with multiple checks. This type of registration cannot be completed online, if you are wishing to receive the Multi-Course discount please call or email us directly for assistance.
Course discounts for the Pelvic Floor Series are capped at 10% no matter the group size or number of registrations
Group Discount
This discount is available for a group of three or more registrants, who all work at the same clinic/hospital, enroll in a single course, and pay in a single transaction or mail in multiple checks in a single envelope. This discount cannot be used in combination with any other discounts.
Groups of 3-5 receive a 10% discount off the combined price of their group's registrations.
Course discounts for the PF series are being capped at 10% no matter on group size or number of registrations - but will be staying the same for specialty courses.
Student Discount
This 10% discount is available to current students who have yet to earn a license to practice at the time of course registration. Students are welcome to attend satellite and remote courses with H&W once they have reached their third year and/or completed a hands-on clinical in their second year. You may register while in your 2nd year for a course that is taking place by the time you have become a third-year student. However, students are not allowed to register or attend a self-hosted course.
To get this discount when checking out online, use the code STUDENT2023 for courses scheduled for 2023. (Note, this code is only valid for non-licensed students. The H&W admin team will verify that registrants signed up with this code are, indeed, current students prior to their attendance of the course).
Referral Credit/Discount
Any therapist who has already taken a Herman & Wallace course will earn a $50.00 "referral credit" if:
1. A therapist who has never taken a Herman & Wallace course successfully registers for his or her first course(s); AND
2. In the registration process, the first-time registrant gives the name and clinic/hospital of the therapist who referred them to Herman & Wallace.
A therapist who has earned a $50.00 "referral credit" may use this credit toward any course that is eligible for a "referral discount".
Guest Blogger Credit/Discount
Any therapist who completes a qualifying guest blog post on the Herman & Wallace blog will earn a $50.00 "guest blogger credit". This credit may be applied toward any course.
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Mitch Owens MSPT, COMT, instructor of Neck Pain, Headaches, Dizziness, and Vertigo: Integrating Vestibular and Orthopedic Treatment, has been practicing physical therapy in Seattle since 2004. In addition to his masters degree he has two advance therapy certifications, a broad clinical background, and a passion for the practice of physical therapy. In 2007 he completed a competency certification in Vestibular Rehabilitation from Emory University and the American Physical Therapy Association. In 2014 he demonstrated advanced competency in orthopedic manual therapy and earned the credentials Certified Orthopedic Manipulative Therapist (COMT) from the North American Institute of Orthopedic Manual Therapy (NAIOMT) based out of British Columbia.
Mitch’s practice is focused on the treatment of orthopedic pain issues and vestibular dysfunction, but he began his career working with patients with neurological injuries at Evergreen Hospital’s Rehabilitation Unit and outpatient Neuroscience program. Mitch then went onto work with Carrie Hall at Movement Systems PT. Mitch started Union PT in September of 2010.
Mitch believes in balancing an active approach to rehabilitation with techniques that will promote healing and recovery. He strives to ensure that his patients understand their issues and that they have tools in place so they can remain healthy and active independently long after their treatment.
In addition to his practice Mitch teaches continuing education courses for practicing physical therapist on Cervicogenic Dizziness/Headache, as well as Shoulder Dysfunction.
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Reema has been a practicing Physical Therapist in Manhattan since 2011, specializing in orthopedics and vestibular rehabilitation. Reema is currently pursuing further training in order to become a certified Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner.
Cindy Washeck, PT, BA, MSPT, DPT, FAAOMPT, started practicing physical therapy in 2000 in her home state of Delaware but soon moved to Nashville, TN, where she was introduced to manual therapy. In 2003, she started working for one of the original instructors for the Ola Grimsby Institute (OGI) and immersed herself in post-graduate studies. She completed her doctorate of manual therapy in 2004 and became a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists in 2005. She left Nashville to work in Naperville, IL, and then moved to Seattle in 2007 to work for MTI (Manual Therapy International). She then completed a residency in Scientific Therapeutic Exercise Progression (STEP). Giving birth naturally to 2 children sparked Cindy’s interest in pelvic floor rehabilitation, and she has been able to apply the concepts to nearly every post-partum patient as well as lumbar patient, both male and female. She now works part time in a private practice clinic co-owned by her husband in O’Fallon, Missouri. She has put her Bachelor’s degree in English from James Madison University to good use writing practice test questions for the National Physical Therapy Exam, editing online continuing education courses, and writing articles on a variety of physical therapy subjects. Cindy has been a clinical instructor for physical therapy students as well as manual therapy residency and fellowship students, and she is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and the Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists.
Nancy Cullinane, PT, MHS, WCS graduated from the Mayo Clinic’s physical therapy program in 1989 and worked in a variety of settings before discovering that women’s health/urogyn PT was her passion. She earned a MHS in orthopedic PT from the University of Indianapolis and then completed a formal mentorship with Herman & Wallace cofounder Kathe Wallace, PT in 1992. Nancy opened and ran a private practice in Juneau, AK and relocated to Bellingham, WA in 2005. She helped to develop the Women’s Health program at United General Hospital, focusing in bowel/bladder dysfunctions, pelvic pain, spine and osteoporosis. Nancy completed the NAIOMT level II program and obtained a WCS in 2015. Nancy is a long-time SOWH member and a lab assistant & blog contributor with Herman & Wallace. She is currently employed at Northwest Physical Therapy in Burlington, WA.
All Upcoming Continuing Education Courses
Pelvic Function Level 1 - In-Person - Philadelphia PA - January 11 - 12 2025 - SOLD OUT
Jan 11 2025 - Jan 12 2025
Oncology of the Pelvic Floor Level 1 - Remote Course - January 11 - 12 2025
Jan 11 2025 - Jan 12 2025
Pediatrics Level 1 - Treatment of Bowel and Bladder Disorders - Remote Course - January 11 - 12 2025
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Pelvic Function Level 1 - Satellite - Knoxville TN - January 18 - 19 2025 - SOLD OUT
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Pelvic Function Level 1 - Satellite - Bethpage NY - January 18 - 19 2025 (SOLD OUT)
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Pelvic Function Level 1 - Satellite - Fort Lauderdale FL - January 18 - 19 2025
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Pelvic Function Level 2B - Satellite - Bradenton FL - January 18 - 19 2025
Jan 18 2025 - Jan 19 2025
Pelvic Function Level 2B - Satellite - Commerce Township MI - January 18 - 19 2025
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Pelvic Function Level 2C - Satellite - Hilton Head SC - January 25 - 26 2025
Jan 25 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Pelvic Function Level 1 - In-Person - Detroit MI - January 25 - 26 2025 - SOLD OUT
Jan 25 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Pelvic Function Level 2C - Satellite - Waterford CT - January 25 - 26 2025
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Pelvic Function Level 2C - Satellite - Williamsburg VA - January 25 - 26 2025
Jan 25 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Pelvic Function Level 2C - Satellite - Los Angeles CA - January 25 - 26 2025
Jan 25 2025 - Jan 26 2025
Mobilization of Visceral Fascia: Urinary System Satellite Lab Course - Torrance CA - Jan 31 - Feb 2 2025
Jan 31 2025 - Feb 2 2025
Mobilization of Visceral Fascia: The Urinary System Satellite Lab Course - Self-Hosted - January 31 - February 2 2025
Jan 31 2025 - Feb 2 2025
Mobilization of Visceral Fascia: The Urinary System Satellite Lab Course - Wichita KS - January 31 - February 2 2025
Jan 31 2025 - Feb 2 2025
Mobilization of Visceral Fascia: The Urinary System Satellite Lab Course - Medford OR - January 31 - February 2 2025
Jan 31 2025 - Feb 2 2025
Mobilization of Visceral Fascia: The Urinary System Satellite Lab Course - Fort Lauderdale - January 31 - February 2 2025
Jan 31 2025 - Feb 2 2025
Mobilization of Visceral Fascia: The Urinary System Satellite Lab Course - Tampa FL - January 31 - February 2 2025
Jan 31 2025 - Feb 2 2025
Pelvic Function Level 2B - In-Person - Colorado Springs CO - February 1 - 2 2025
Feb 1 2025 - Feb 2 2025
Pelvic Function Level 1 - In-Person - Richmond VA - February 1 - 2 2025 - SOLD OUT
Feb 1 2025 - Feb 2 2025
Menopause Transitions and Pelvic Rehab - Remote Course - February 1 - 2 2025
Feb 1 2025 - Feb 2 2025
Pelvic Function Level 1 - Satellite - San Diego CA - February 1 - 2 2025 (SOLD OUT)
Feb 1 2025 - Feb 2 2025