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- Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine
- Cancer
- Hospice / End of Life Care
- Aging
- Stress
- Relationships / Family
- Women's Health
- Change
- Personal Change
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Buddha in the Waiting Room: Simple Truths About Health, Illness, and HealingThrough humor, stories, and the wisdom he's discovered in simplicity, Dr. Brenner re-defines health in this moving presentation. In “Buddha in the Waiting Room,” Dr. Brenner transcends the traditional boundaries of modern medicine by taking some of the divinity out of the profession and empowering the person on the other side of the stethoscope. Drawing on his perspective of more than 40 years in the medication profession, he delivers a poignant and timely redefinition of health as a living process. This is as humorous and touching account of a logic-driven realist who is reluctantly transformed by the wisdom he finds in an unexpected place: the hearts and minds of those he has been entrusted to heal.
Seeing Your Life Through New Eyes: Transcending Unwarranted ConflictIn this presentation, Dr. Brenner assists individuals in understanding the unconscious patterns that affect their relationships, work, and health. By using “The Brenner Triangle Process” and answering three questions, Dr. Brenner teaches how to uncover unconscious patterns that define how we love, what we value, and what unique gifts each of us have in life. By revealing those obstacles that too often interfere with relationships and creative expression, Dr. Brenner shares a roadmap to help us unravel the personal myths that define our behavioral patterns that affect our individual personal exploration and growth.
Redefining Health: Lessons from the DyingRecent studies on the development of the mind clearly demonstrate that emotions are no more than molecular chemistry. These emotions are now being found to be often the progenitors of illness. In such a context, health, illness and healing must be redefined.
Einstein once said, “There are things we don’t see that move what we do see”. Although this statement referred to subatomic physics, it is also relevant to understanding illness. Historically as health professionals we tend to treat what we see and often never touch what leads to the disease we are treating. The psychology of the human spirit must be looked at in order to redefine health and illness. Dr. Brenner’s search through the healing arts of what makes people sick and what makes people well led him to study many forms of healing with healers throughout the world. The answers are presented in this program based on what he learned from individuals who had chronic and terminal illness. These individuals taught him the true meaning of health and illness. In facing death, they understood the ingredients of what it truly means to be healthy.
As both a physician and psychologist, Dr. Brenner has devoted his life to what makes people sick and what makes people well. Recent studies have shown that chronic caregivers are at greater risk for organic illness as compared to the general population. This not only applies to family members of the terminally or chronically ill, but also to health professionals in general. There is specific childhood patterning that leads an individual to serve in the healing arts. This pattern of caring, giving, nurturing, being there for others, although noble, too often comes with the risk of loss of self. Loss of self and loneliness have been implicated as progenitors of illness. It therefore behooves caregivers and individuals in the healing arts to heal themselves in order to serve more effectively without illness or burnout. In this program, Dr. Brenner explains how unconscious emotional patterns can potentially lead to organic illness, how perception creates reality, and how unconscious patterning leads to dysfunctional behavior, addiction, and illness. Audiences learn the skill necessary to create lasting change and restructure their lives towards health.
Beyond Motivation: Creating Change That LastsDr. Brenner believes that, in order to create lasting change, it is essential to identify the origin of what needs to be changed. Since the mind is a composite of inborn temperament and the family of origin, lasting change demands that each leader and team member identify with those emotional patterns that repeatedly create obstacles to their success. Recent studies in neuroeconomics tell us that decision-making is based more on emotions than reason. The emotional mind interferes with decision-making in all aspects of life. Through The Triangle Process, an individual leans to make the unconscious conscious. In this program, Dr. Brenner shares with audiences a roadmap to “see your life with new eyes.” Detailing the unique skills necessary for effective decision-making, audiences learn conscious skill to manage change and uncertainly in their own lives.
Family Business: Is Every Day "Groundhog Day?"Early in life, interpersonal relationships are the primary source of how genes express themselves within the brain. Therefore, family relationships are a major contributor to the marked differences seen between individuals and their ability to regulate emotions, manage stress and make creative decisions. Since past childhood relationships are held within the mind, they shape the adults’ anticipation and perception of the present. The adult instantaneously reconfigures the present to be identical to his/her childhood's’ past, since familiarity offers the illusion of safety. Life becomes “Groundhog Day” - a life of repetitive, unconscious yet predictable patterns, a “play it again Sam” reality. Childhood patterns become magnified when individuals work together in a family business. However, when family businesses are able to unravel the psychodynamics, which keep each member of the family in their historical past, they have the potential to excel beyond other work environments. Through inherent synergy, family businesses have a unique opportunity to heal its members, their past misunderstandings and to collectively maximize their economical potential. The Brenner Family Triangle Process pinpoints the origin of those nonproductive individual and collective patterns that limit family businesses and provides skills for creative change. Through this unique process, in-depth psychology is presented as a simple, visual model. This gives each family member an opportunity to see their life, and the lives of their family, through new eyes. The end result is success obtained through understanding, awareness, compassion and love.
Speaker Information
Widely recognized in both the medical community and self-help field, Dr. Paul Brenner is an obstetrician/gynecologist and psychologist who left his successful clinical and academic practice of obstetrics, gynecology, and female cancer surgery in 1976 to counsel individuals with life-threatening illnesses.
For the past forty years, Dr. Brenner's journey has taken him beyond his own traditional medical practice and led to his study of other healing arts with healers throughout the world. From this exploration, which included holistic medicine, hypnosis, acupuncture, meditation, and energy medicine, he has redefined for himself what health is: no more and no less than the acceptance and appreciation of life. Further, health is not simply the absence of illness, and the key to health and well-being resides in the psycho-dynamics of personal relationships. As Dr. Brenner came to realize that we all have an innate wisdom of what's right for our bodies, he crystallizes the discontent with the medical profession and the hope that there is a better alternative to our definition of heath.
When, in 1976, Dr. Brenner left his traditional medical practice and began counseling individuals with life-threatening illnesses, he began to realize that, contrary to his medical training, he did not have all the answers. He finds, in the individuals he treats, a "Buddha in the waiting room"—and that there is wisdom inherent in each one of them—which he shares in his book, Buddha in the Waiting Room: Simple Truths About Health, Illness, and Healing. The book is written from the often humorous perspective of a logic-driven realist who is reluctantly transformed by the wisdom of alternative therapies, by his acceptance of his own intuition, and by the lessons on health and illness he learns from his patients—patients, who, it turns out, were healing him. It is a tribute to patients everywhere who want their own wisdom and self-knowledge to be used by their practitioners in a partnership of life and health.
Dr. Brenner continues to counsel the chronically ill, maintains an appointment in the Behavioral Studies department at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and is a corporate consultant. He is the Director of the SafeReach Institute in Idyllwild, California, for the understanding of human relationships and how they affect health and illness. He also holds a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology and is the creator of Family Triangles process.
At the forefront of the alternative medicine movement, Dr. Brenner organized The Mandala Conference in 1974, which featured presentations by the top proponents of the day, including Dr. Bernie Siegel, Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Carl Simonton, and Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. The first conference on holistic health, The Mandala Conference led to the formation of the Holistic Medical Association.
Lecturing extensively throughout the United States and Europe, Dr. Brenner has also reached national audiences as moderator of the PBS Series "Healing Through Communication." In addition to his book, Buddha in the Waiting Room, he is the author of Life is a Shared Creation, which was a Rollo May Book of the Year selection, and Seeing Your Life Through New Eyes: InSights to Freedom from Your Past. With audiences across the country and around the world, Dr. Brenner shares his wisdom regarding how addictive behavior takes us out of the experience of life, the creative process of change, and good health.
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"Tremendous work! This material greatly adds to every health professional's personal journey-an eye opener, a must!"
- Cortext Mind Matters Educational Seminars
"An outstanding and profound presentation. Confirms many of my notions of what is most important for health practitioners to learn."
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“Invaluable! I never learned so much in such a short period of time. I learned more about myself a 3-hour program than I learned in 5 years of psychotherapy.”
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