Taking in the Good

3 Day Seminar - Positive Neuroplasticity

Positive neuroplasticity focuses on cultivating favorable states of mind and learning how to transform simple, everyday experiences into inner strengths. These strengths include resilience, trust, inner security, compassion, agency, and gratitude. Mindfully internalizing such psychological resources can help in dealing with fear, suffering, depression, anger, frustration, loss, and loneliness, and it supports well-being, self-esteem, fulfilling relationships, emotional healing, and spiritual practice.

The training is for people who:

  • want to build up inner strengths and resources

  • want to convert positive mental states into permanent (neuronal) properties

  • want to alleviate or heal recurring sorrowful experiences through beneficial experiences

  • want to meet growing challenges in their lives with composure and competence

  • Want to deepen mindfulness and self-compassion

  • want to increase their resilience

Course schedule:

  • Class 1: The essence of Positive
    Neuroplasticity

    Working with the mind

    From knowledge to experience

    Obstacles to recording the good

  • Class 2: Having, enriching, and
    absorbing beneficial experiences

    Seeing the good in yourself

  • Class 3: Linking positive and
    negative material

    Three needs and two ways to bring them together

    Experiences that serve as key resources

    The fourth step of HEAL: Connect

  • Class 4: Growing strengths for
    feeling safer

    Being at peace

    self-compassion

    Unnecessary or excessive fear

    The reactive and adaptive modes

  • Class 5: Growing strengths for
    feeling more satisfied

    Be satisfied

    Liking and wanting

    Strengthen motivation

    The richness of this moment

  • Class 6: Growing strengths for
    feeling more connected

    Be love

    The tip of the root

    self-esteem

    Already feeling connected

Date: October 31 / November 1 / November 29, 2026

Day 1: 9 :30a .m. - 12:30 p.m. & 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Day 2: 9 :30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. & 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Day 3: 9 :30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. & 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Location: Room for Yoga | Bremgartnerstrasse 18, 8003 Zurich

Course language: German

Course price: Early bird until 15.8. CHF 550 | from 16.8. CHF 650

Discounts for students, AHV recipients and low-income earners on request.

General terms and conditions

Instructor

George is a teacher, speaker, author and coach for mental health, resilience and mindfulness. He advises and trains organizations on topics related to mental well-being and psychological safety as well as cultural change and conflict situations.

George is a multi-certified coach (PCC, CPCC, LCP) and is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He is certified as an MBCT teacher by the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation and has developed his own mindfulness-based training program and model - The Being-Doing Balance. George holds an M.A. in Philosophy and Economics from Humboldt University Berlin. George is personally accredited by Rick Hanson as a teacher of Positive Neuroplasticity.

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Dr. Rick Hanson is a psychologist, senior fellow at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and bestselling author. His books, including Neurodharma and Hardwiring Happiness, have been published in 29 languages. His newsletter reaches 200,000 subscribers, and his online programs are accessible to the financially disadvantaged. He has lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford and Harvard and taught at meditation centers worldwide. An expert on Positive Neuroplasticity, his work has been featured on BBC, CBS and NPR. He has been meditating since 1974, founded the Wellspring Institute and lives with his wife in Northern California.

  • Positive neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to reshape and strengthen itself through targeted exercises and positive experiences. Through regular training, you can replace negative thought patterns with positive ones, increase resilience, and lead a more fulfilling life.

  • You will learn to consciously focus your mind and brain on positive experiences, to perceive and activate them, and then to internalize them. You will learn to transform specific positive experiences into lasting psychological strengths so that you can better face individual challenges with mental and neural resilience.

  • No prior knowledge is required for the training in Positive Neuroplasticity. If you have already read the book "Thinking like a Buddha" (original title: Hardwiring Happiness) by Rick Hanson in advance, you may already have a theoretical understanding of some of the topics. However, if you wish, you can also read the book after the training to deepen your understanding.

  • During the training, you will repeatedly engage in experiential learning to make positive experiences as tangible as possible. This will take place in exercises led by the course instructor, but also through exercises and discussions with other course participants. The neural process of learning will be explained in an understandable way using clear examples and simple models.

  • Positive neuroplasticity training is based on mindfulness. Knowledge or training in mindfulness is helpful, but not a prerequisite for successful training. Mindfulness teaches you to be present with your current experience as it is, without changing it. In PNT training, you consciously focus on positive experiences and help them to grow.

  • This course is not recommended for people who suffer from severe depression, have a history of psychotic experience or are flooded with traumatic memories when tuning into their inner experience. If you have any concerns, please speak to the trainer in advance.

  • Do you have other plans for all or part of a day? Just ask us. For example, we offer the option of making up the third day on one of the next training dates.

FAQ

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