Putting Personality Into Practice With Dr. Dan Siegel

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Daniel J. Siegel, MD Related seminars and products

Mindsight Institute

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Daniel J. Siegel, MD

Dr. Dan Siegel is the founder and Director of Education of the Mindsight Institute and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, where he was also Co-Principal Investigator of the Center for Culture, Brain and Development and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine.

An award-winning educator, Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and over fifteen other books which have been translated into over forty languages. As the founding editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology (“IPNB”), Dan has overseen the publication of over one hundred books in the transdisciplinary IPNB framework which focuses on the mind and mental health.

A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dan completed his postgraduate training at UCLA specializing in pediatrics, and adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry. He was trained in attachment research and narrative analysis through a National Institute of Mental Health research training fellowship focusing on how relationships shape our autobiographical ways of making sense of our lives and influence our development across the lifespan.

Learn more about Dr. Siegel at www.drdansiegel.com | www.mindsightinstitute.com

Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Dr. Dan Siegel serves as the Medical Director at the Lifespan Learning Institute and is the Co-Founder and Director of Education at the Mindsight Institute. He is also the founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dr. Siegel receives royalties as a published author and serves as a scientific advisor for the Inner Development Goals initiative and as an advisor for the Center for Child Well-Being. Additionally, he receives honoraria and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Siegel has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Dan Siegel is an honorary member of the Austrian Federal Association for Mindfulness. He also serves on the Board of the Garrison Institute and as an advisory board member for both Gloo and Convergence.

Objectives

1. Describe the interplay of temperament and attachment in the development of personality and human flourishing.    
2. Identify nine Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDPs) that help illuminate distinct growth-edges for lifelong development.   
3. Explain how an individual’s insights into their own PDP and those of others can give powerful avenues for understanding life journeys and personal relationships illuminating the many ways we can be at risk of burnout and stress.  
4. Outline nine patterns of personality and how these emerge from early temperament and are intensified by non-secure attachment experience.    
5. Discuss how the neuroplasticity of the brain enables clinicians to support clients in reshaping maladaptive personality patterns through targeted interventions at PDP specific growth-edges.  
6. Apply the Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDP) framework to identify client-specific strategies for fostering emotional regulation and resilience.  
7. Evaluate the influence of interpersonal neurobiology on therapeutic approaches to treating trauma-related constrictions in personality development.  
8. Integrate the understanding of early temperament and attachment stances into the development of personalized treatment plans for diverse populations.  
9.  Demonstrate methods to facilitate client awareness of their own developmental patterns and utilize this insight for therapeutic breakthroughs.  
10. Explore strategies for maintaining clinician well-being by recognizing how PDPs and attachment patterns affect therapist-client dynamics and countertransference.  
11. Differentiate between adaptive and maladaptive expressions of each Developmental Pathway pattern across the lifespan and articulate how contextual and cultural factors shape these expressions.  
12. Be able to understand how developmentally informed interventions that leverage PDP-informed insights to enhance relational capacity, vocational alignment, and overall well-being can support positive client outcomes.

Outline

Why Focus on Personality in Psychotherapy   

• Expand your learning beyond traditional “Personality Disorders”   
• Explore personality patterns emerging from temperament   
• Attachment and how it can lead to a low or high level of each personality pattern  
• Personality patterns, research on temperament, attachment and the Enneagram system   

The Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDP) Model   

• Neurobiologically informed framework of personality    
• Lifespan model of personality  
• Importance of seeking a sense of “wholeness”  
• How temperament shapes the adaptive strategies underlying personality  
• Role of trauma and attachment relationships   

Integrate Interpersonal Neurobiology Approach  

• Explore the integration of neuroscience into clinical practice to transform personality patterns  
• Apply insights from interpersonal neurobiology to help clients cultivate a sense of well-being and connection  
• Develop strategies to integrate the PDP framework into an interpersonal neurobiology model for effective treatment  

Integrating the PDP Framework into Clinical Practice   

• Outline the nine patterns of personality   
• Assess how these patterns emerge from early temperament and are intensified by nonsecure attachment experiences  
• Utilize PDP to illuminate a client’s distinct growth-edges to move from low to high levels of functioning   
• Help clients use their own PDP as a powerful tool to understand their risk for burnout and stress 

Target Audience

• Psychotherapists
• Counsellors
• IAPT Practitioners
• Psychologists
• Psychiatrists
• Social Workers
• other mental health professionals

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