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ISPS-US 23rd Annual Conference | November 1-3, 2024 | University of Pittsburgh & Duquesne University | Pittsburgh, PA & Hybrid Online | Preliminary Schedule
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Exploring Intrasubjective Landscapes (Virtual Only)
Saturday November 2, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Virtual only (Zoom)
While there is new neuroscience research that validates an approach to helping individuals manage extreme states by incorporating awareness of the embodied experience with meditation and mindfulness techniques I would like to propose combining this awareness with a curriculum that also includes engaging in creative flow experiences either in the production of visual art or movement of the body. These approaches have been on the margins of the alternative psychiatry movement for years. Sculpt.Your.Mind™ —future 501(c)(3)—has designed a way to provide alternative therapeutic interventions for those experiencing extreme states and for those wanting to learn their own mind. The value of this approach is coming into the light given neuroscience and interests psychedelics. This needs only one's own mind. The founder of Sculpt.Your.Mind™ -Samantha Dorian- lead an experiential workshop at the annual conference of NSGP at Lesley University. She aims at integrating the embodied experiences of sense perception with the awareness of the here & now, i.e. bridging the meditative technique of concentration with group psychodynamics. There is a third component to this unique curriculum and that is the embodied experience of the visual components with action and production by the participant. Therefore, three aspects of engagement are: group psychodynamic, pro-social priming, meditative concentration on the felt sense of being, and finally the creative production in a state of flow. These organically ignite the prefrontal cortex while engaging the amygdala in a pro-social group experience. Potentially allowing participants to create psychic space and learn their observe their inner landscape rather than be caught by it. This freedom of expression allows for an experience of agency as well as awareness of one’s uniqueness. Stimulating neuropathic reconstructions through imagination & visual representations is nothing new, but this specific curriculum adapts these for extreme states in order to allow the brain to bloom new possibilities for positive sublimation & integration. Neural plasticity ranges from functional to structural and the possibilities for better care for this population are endless with the tools from Sculpt.Your.Mind™
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avatar for Samantha Dorian, MDiv, PsyD Candidate

Samantha Dorian, MDiv, PsyD Candidate

Boston Granduate School of Psychoanalysis
Samantha is pursuing her clinical doctorate in psychoanalysis in order to help individuals suffering from extreme states such as psychosis and "schizophrenia".  She is a meditation practitioner in the Vipassana tradition as well and a meditation instructor. Her interests in alternative... Read More →
Saturday November 2, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Virtual only (Zoom)
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