7:15 — 8:15am Breakfast

8:30 — 9:30am “Healthy Dependency - Solving Avoidant, Anxious and Dependent Personality Disorders” - Daniel Binus, MD

• Inspect the common causes of avoidant/anxious and dependent personality disorders
• Describe the common symptoms and diagnostic features of avoidant/anxious and dependent personality disorders
• Explain potential complications and outcomes of these disorders if they are not overcome
• Understand how a person with these personality disorders may mitigate symptoms to improve quality of life
• Learn how we can lean on others without losing ourselves—healthy dependency

9:30 — 10:30am “When Love Is a Lie—Why Is It Always About You?” - Amanda Anguish, MS, LMFT

• Learn how today’s culture is leading to developing more narcissists
• Explain how Self Love is Malignant
• Understand How to Disarm a Narcissist
• Inspect the steps of healing a narcissist

10:30 — 10:45am Break

10:45 — 11:45am “Attachments to Social Justice and Threats to Emotional Intelligence” - Phil Mills, MD

• Discuss the rise in societal discord due to perceived social injustice and the threats to freedom of speech and freedom of religion
• Explain the rapid rise in the desire for social justice outcomes in America
• Examine the role of jealousy/envy/manipulation of the masses in the demands for social justice
• Contrast equality in outcomes versus equality under the law
• Understand how attaching to greater priorities than social justice can improve emotional intelligence
• Demonstrate practical examples of demands for social justice result in unwanted consequences

11:45 — 12:45pm “Solutions to Emotional Healing of Real or Perceived Social Injustice” - Christina Cecotto, LCSW

• Recognize statements of perceived social injustice
• Illustrate the increasing prevalence of perceived social injustice
• Learn how to distinguish perceived social injustice from actual social injustice
• Know how to introduce the victim of perceived social injustice to recognize mind reading and mental filters and to help them look for evidence to support a different way of thinking
• Understand similarities and differences in the therapeutic approach of perceived versus actual social injustice

12:45 — 2:00pm Lunch

2:00 — 3:00pm “Why Baroque Music Has Been Shown to be so Healthy for the Brain: If It’s Baroque, Don’t Fix It!” - Erwin Nanasi

• Identify the effects of musical factors on perceived emotional expression
• Understand the relationship between musical structure and perceived expression
• Learn the effects and emotional benefits of Baroque Music
• Explore the mathematics of musical composition in the Baroque period

3:15 — 4:15pm — BREAKOUT SESSION OPTIONS

1. “The Personality Disorder Trap” - Dana Philossaint, PhD, NCSP, LCSW

• Learn the history of diagnosing personality disorders (DSM)
• Explain the statistics and trends of personality disorders
• Understand what can be the devastating reality of those living with such diagnoses
• Recognize and address the root cause of personality disorders based on the true knowledge of the condition
• Examine God’s approach to addressing true underlying personality conditions (glory in the cross)
• Apply the acronym THIS MIND that can help knowledge work transformation in personality challenges

2. “How to Raise a Family in Today’s World AND Prevent Personality Disorders from Developing in Your Children” - Amanda Anguish, MS, LMFT

• Explain how we are wired for healthy family bonds and attachments
• Understand why attachment and personality disorders are increasing in society
• Describe a comprehensive family approach to avoid the development of personality and/or attachment disorders in our children
• Know when love is not enough and how to apply loving accountability

3. “Spiritual & Religious Resources for the Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” - Don Mackintosh, BSN, MDiv

• Define obsessive compulsive disorder
• Know some effective methods that have been devised for the treatment of O.C.D.
• Examine the religious/spiritual methods that have documented success in treating O.C.D.

4:30 — 5:30pm — BREAKOUT SESSION OPTIONS

1. “Walking on Eggshells—Solving Borderline Personality Disorder” - Christina Cecotto, LCSW

• Describe the diagnostic and other characteristics of borderline personality disorder
• Know the personal and family complications of borderline personality disorder
• Explain the causes of manipulation, attempts at controlling others, and intense irrational and possibly violent rages that occur in borderline personality disorder
• Learn how a comprehensive approach, utilizing diet, lifestyle and cognitive behavioral therapy can help or alleviate unwanted symptoms of BPD
• Discuss how family members can diffuse arguments, and conflicts, and stand up for and protect themselves without excluding the BPD family member

2. “Raising Emotionally Successful and Healthfully Attached Children and Grandchildren” - Phil Mills, MD

• Explain the complimentary roles of father and mother in assisting babies/children/teens in secure attachments to their parents
• Discuss how healthy parenting can continue after your children achieve adulthood
• Demonstrate through practical application in handling difficult situations that threaten healthy attachments in children/grandchildren
• Differentiate the difference in establishing emotional healthy attachments in children v grandchildren

3. “Managing Performance Anxiety” - Erwin Nanasi

• Identify the psychological (emotional), physical and cognitive symptoms of stage fright
• Learn the Cognitive Principles related to how one performs and self-esteem
• Learn how the cognitions and your reaction to your performance effects self-worth and how an individual performs

5:30 — 6:30pm Supper

7:00 — 8:00pm “I can’t Believe What Has Happened to You!” The Process of Transformation: How the Brain Can Dramatically Change for the Better” - Neil Nedley, MD

• Understand how the brain can change itself, for better or for worse
• Describe the special opportunities in which the brain can change dramatically for the better
• Know the signs that the brain is not ready for change
• Examine the process of positive change and the dramatic positive consequences that follow

7:15 — 8:15am Breakfast

8:30 — 9:30am “The New Personality” - Dana Philossaint, PhD, NCSP, LCSW

• Examine the personality of Christ through a close look at the documentation at Calvary
• Understand how scripture presents a testimony of God
• Learn how to examine your own personality, and assist others in self- examination based on Christ’s personality standards
• Explain the need for true humility in transforming personality

9:30 — 10:30am “Treating Shame and Childhood Trauma Through Spirituality and Hope” - Don Mackintosh, BSN, MDiv

• Define shame
• Learn how shame impacts the mind and body
• Examine how religion / spirituality provides help & hope for those who have experienced shame & trauma

10:30 — 10:45am Break

10:45 — 11:30am Finding Your Voice: Singing and Emotional Intelligence - Erwin Nanasi

• Learn the effects and benefits of singing individually and in a group
• Demonstrate the cognitive and emotional benefits of participating in hymn music
• Analyze changes of the structure and function of the singing voice during the life-cycle
• Discuss the significance of voice as inter and intra-personal communication, especially as it related to hymn singing and spirituality

11:30 — 12:30pm “All You Need is Love -The Role of Precious Love In Healthy Attachments/Personality and Emotional Intelligence” - Neil Nedley, MD

• Learn the process of emotional attachment
• Distinguish between pitying love and precious love, utilizing Jesus and John v Judas
• Understand the role of spirituality in deep abiding love utilizing the apostle John as an example
• Illustrate pitying love and precious love as voluntary from biblical case reports and principles
• Know the crucial role of spirituality in fostering the development and growth of healthy love and attachment

12:45 — 2:00pm Lunch

3:30 — 4:30pm “Treating Unhealthy Attachments Through the Instillation of Hope” - Don Mackintosh, BSN, MDiv

• Describe the elements of an unhealthy attachment
• Understand how unhealthy attachments can these lead to hopelessness
• Learn how healthy attachment is fostered, including the frontal lobe/spiritual perspective
• Examine the role of hope and religion/spirituality in the process of establishing healthy attachments

4:30 — 5:30pm “Case Reports in Transformed Lives: Illustrated Principles in Transformation” - Neil Nedley, MD

• Understand how the brain gets primed for positive change
• Demonstrate, through several live case reports the ingredients bringing about dramatic positive change that occurred
• Illustrate the role of spirituality and frontal lobe enhancement in positively changing the brain

5:30 — 6:30pm Supper

7:00 — 8:00pm “Internal Clocks, Circadian Rhythm and Mental Health” - Eddie Ramirez, MD

• Articulate the concept of internal clocks
• Explain the relationship between lifestyle and internal clocks
• Describe how circadian rhythm synchronization affects physical and mental health
• List three key dietary strategies that can help synchronize the internal clocks
• Enumerate three mental health advantages that proper synchronization can give

7:15 — 8:15am Breakfast

8:30 — 9:30am “Building the Bonds of Attachment and Security - Solutions to Attachment Disorders” - Daniel Binus, MD

• Inspect how we are neurologically set up for attachment at birth
• Learn how we can build the bonds of attachment and security as parents to our children
• Understand how attachments can go awry after birth and during the early years of life
• Describe the common attachment disorders and their common complications
• Know how two attachment disorders can be overcome and how complications can be mitigated

9:30 —10:30am “Emotional Attachments to Organizations/Institutions/Programs” - Melissa Garcia, PhD

• Explore the psychology and neuroscience linked to organizational emotional attachment and the mediating role of emotional intelligence
• Learn how Positive Emotional Attachment is crucial to affective organizational commitment
• Understand how happy workers can result in a fruitful mission
• Demonstrate, through practical application, how positive emotional attachment can be accomplished organizationally

10:30 — 11:30am “Healing Inflammation to Improve Brain Function” - Eddie Ramirez, MD

• Explain how the body responds to injury by triggering the inflammatory response
• Articulate the difference between acute and chronic inflammation
• Describe the difference between the omega 6 and omega 3 pathway and their effect on inflammation
• Enumerate unhealthy lifestyle factors that activate NF-Kb and feed chronic inflammation
• Understand the effect of inflammation on EQ and mental health

11:30 — 12:30pm Panel Discussion / Q & A

POST SUMMIT — 1:30 — 5:30pm Optimize Your Brain™ Training (must be registered)