LENS Conference 2010

History of Neurofeedback and Stories of Healing with LENS.

Training Schedule

 

Web Video Training Series

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Intermediate Web Video Training & Consultation: 5 Session Series, March 2010 – May 2010 – AM

Intermediate Web Video Training & Consultation: 5 Session Series

Mornings from 8:30am-10:00 am Pacific Time

Dates for Training:

  • March 27, 2010
  • April 3, 2010
  • April 10, 2010
  • April 24, 2010
  • May 1, 2010

$250

Please call OchsLabs, Inc. at 707-823-6225 to register.

The series of Web Video Conference meetings will take place from 8:30am to 10:00am Pacific Time, allowing up to 12 participants work with Glenn Marks, Ph.D. Please note the agenda for content of each of the sessions.

 

Agenda

Session 1:

Discussion of participant’s experiences, questions and comments

Review of basics

  • Review of set-up screen options
  • Training screen-explanation of each box
  • Reviewing and editing session data
  • Viewing maps

Review of Sensitivity, Hardiness and Suppression questionnaires

  • Comments, questions and experiences of participants
  • Symptom checklists

Review of protocols:

  • What each protocol “does”
  • When to consider use of each protocol
  • When to consider changing protocols
  • Consideration of modifying existing protocols

Session 2:

Discussion and questions

Who is my potential market?

How to market

  • How to present LENS to potential clients

Input from participants

Ethical Considerations:

  • Informed consent
    • Potential benefits, limitations and alternatives
    • How many sessions should clients expect?
  • Practicing within the scope of our licenses
    • What are we telling potential clients we are treating?

Interactions of LENS treatments and medications

Record keeping

  • Measuring and tracking outcomes

Side Effects-progress or obstacles?

  • Ways to conceptualize and discuss “side effects” with ourselves and clients
  • managing our discomfort
  • ethical considerations

Session 3:

Discussion and questions

Case presentations

Review of maps

Review of rationale for using different protocols

What to do in the other 59 minutes of the session

  • Assisting clients in adjusting to changes
  • Adjuncts to the LENS

The LENS community

  • Resources available via the web
  • Collaborating/communicating with others
    • Utilizing the list serv
      • Accessing previous topics
    • LENS conference
    • Misc

Session 4:

Discussion and questions

Basic neuroscience and how this pertains to treatment considerations with LENS

  • Brief review of cell firing and transmission
    • The duty cycle
    • How this relates to the raw eeg-what is being measured
  • Brief overview of nueroanatomical principles
    • White matter and gray matter (location vs networks)
  • Principles of brain functioning
    • Parsimony
    • Equilibrium
    • Conservation of energy

How these principles are effected by disease, trauma and pathology

  • Instability
  • Suppression
  • Neuroplasticity

Theories regarding how the LENS system may affect this and differences between LENS and traditional neurofeedback


Session 5:

Questions, experiences and comments

Case Presentations

Tackling more complex cases

What’s next in development of your LENS practice

  • Advanced training
  • Working with a mentor
  • Other

 

Advanced Web Video Training & Consultation: 6 Session Series, January 2010 – June 2010 – AM

Web Video Training & Consultation: 6 Session Series

Mornings from 9:00am – 10:30am Pacific Time

Dates for Training:

  • January 14, 2010
  • February 11, 2010
  • March 11, 2010
  • April 8, 2010
  • May 28, 1020
  • June 17, 2010

$300

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The series of Web Video Conference meetings will take place from 9:00am to 10:30am Pacific Time, allowing up to 10 participants to visually share and discuss maps with Len Ochs, Ph.D.

 

Advanced Web Video Training & Consultation: 6 Session Series, January 2010 – June 2010 – PM

Web Video Training & Consultation: 6 Session Series

Afternoons from 4:00pm – 5:30pm Pacific Time

Dates for Training:

  • January 14, 2010
  • February 11, 2010
  • March 11, 2010
  • April 8, 2010
  • May 28, 1020
  • June 17, 2010

$300

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The series of Web Video Conference meetings will take place from 4:00pm to 5:30pm Pacific Time, allowing up to 10 participants to visually share and discuss maps with Len Ochs, Ph.D.

 

 

Webinars

"PLAYBACK ONLY" Version from March 18, 2010 Webinar

Seizure Symptoms and the LENS

"PLAYBACK ONLY" Version from March 18, 2010 Webinar

$25

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Agenda:

In this webinar will be described:

  1. A range of seizure and seizure-like phenomena, in a range of pathophysiologies and presentations.
  2. What makes treatment of those within this range complex to work with, including scope of practice issues, safety concerns, what tends to frighten psychotherapists without medical background, and how to talk to clients about what lies both ahead of them and what they are going through,
  3. What the stages of treatment are like,
  4. What applications to use, not to use, why, and when.

 

"PLAYBACK ONLY" Version from April 1, 2010 Webinar

Seizure Symptoms and the LENS

"PLAYBACK ONLY" Version from April 1, 2010 Webinar

$25

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Agenda:

In this webinar will be described:

  1. A range of seizure and seizure-like phenomena, in a range of pathophysiologies and presentations.
  2. What makes treatment of those within this range complex to work with, including scope of practice issues, safety concerns, what tends to frighten psychotherapists without medical background, and how to talk to clients about what lies both ahead of them and what they are going through,
  3. What the stages of treatment are like,
  4. What applications to use, not to use, why, and when.

 

 

In-Person Training Schedule

Refunds for cancellations are available up to 14 days or more prior to the training date, minus a $50 administration fee. Cancellations made less than 14 days prior to the training date will be given credit toward a future LENS Training.

Click on any of the panel headings to view trainings of interest.

2010 Foundations Trainings

September 10-12, 2010 by Cathy Wills R.N.,M.S.N., C.N.S. in Rockville, MD. Cancelled

Location

4615 Holly Road
Rockville, MD 20853
Cancelled

 

September 27-29, 2010 by Cathy Wills R.N., M.S.N., C.N.S. ISNR Pre-conf. training in Denver, CO.

Location

Omni Interlocken Resort
500 Interlocken Blvd
Broomfield, Colorado 80021
Registration through www.ISNR.org

 

October 22-24, 2010 by Cathy Wills R.N.,M.S.N., C.N.S. and Len Ochs, Ph.D. in Sebastopol, CA.

Location

OchsLabs, Inc.
6683 Sebastopol Avenue
Sebastopol, CA 95472
Registration on this site at 3 Day LENS Foundations Training or at 707-823-6225.

 

November 6-8, 2010 by Stephen Larsen, PhD. in New Paltz, NY. Cancelled

Location

Stone Mountain Counseling Center
310 River Road Ext.
New Paltz, NY 12561
Cancelled

 

2010 Advanced Trainings

September 10-12, 2010 by Len Ochs, Ph.D. in Rockville, MD. Cancelled

Location

4615 Holly Road
Rockville, MD 20853
Cancelled

 

September 27-29, 2010 by Len Ochs, PhD. ISNR Pre-conference training in Denver, CO.

Location

Omni Interlocken Resort
500 Interlocken Blvd
Broomfield, Colorado 80021
Registration through www.ISNR.org.

 

November 12-14, 2010 by Len Ochs, Ph.D. in Sebastopol, CA. Interviews by Len Ochs

Location

OchsLabs, Inc.
6683 Sebastopol Avenue
Sebastopol, CA 95472
Registration on this site at 3 Day LENS Advanced Training or at 707-823-6225.

 

December 3-5, 2010 by Len Ochs, Ph.D. in New Paltz, NY. Cancelled

Location

Stone Mountain Counseling Center
310 River Road
New Paltz, NY 12561
Cancelled

 

For an agenda of Foundations Workshops, please view/download the information sheet.

Advanced training revolves around three issues:

  1. Review of new concepts and procedures,
  2. Demonstrations with complex patients who consent to come and be worked with, and
  3. Review of mapping and offset evaluation records that participants bring to review.

View the detailed Advanced Training Agenda.

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