The Neuroscience of Hope

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Continuing Education for Professional Staff | 1 CEU
CERTIFICATES PROVIDED BY CAREBUILDERS AT HOME

Presented by Joel R. Denney, Executive Director/Owner & Mary Norton, MSN, PHN, RN, CareBuilders at Home

While our interest is growing, the gap remains wide between our understanding of the brain and the biology of hope. We will share how optimism as a muscle is proving to be a positive intervention to cultivate hope.

OBJECTIVES

• Discover “Hope Theory” and its goals, pathways, and agency
• Recognize the difference between wishes and hopes
• Review the health benefits of hope
• Get to know the brain and biology of hope
• Discuss optimism as a positive psychology intervention
• Understand helplessness and how to reverse it

A light dinner will be served during the presentation.