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The Mind-Body Connection: Food, Mood – and Sleep new
Join Dr Andrew Morrice for a deep dive into what the latest mind-body research tells us about the impact of sleep, the microbiome, nutrition, culinary practices and more on our mental and physical health, and recovery …
Course Factfile
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Accredited CPD: 6 hours
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Length: 1 day (9.15am - 4.00pm BST)
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Tutor: Dr Andrew Morrice
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Suitable for: See below
- Price: £145 per person
Includes course slides PDF and access to a recording of the event
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Andrew is a most inspiring teacher who is passionate about his subject. Furthermore, his experience as a doctor was invaluable...
Psychotherapist / Counsellor
LIVE ONLINE TRAINING
Join Dr Andrew Morrice on Wed 25th November – this invaluable day can be either a stand-alone learning experience or form part of a 2-day exploration along with its sister workshop: ‘Emotions, Movement and Calm’. Between them the two days cover all the key areas for maintaining overall health and are suitable for anyone interested in mental and/or physical health. Simply book your place, and we will email you details of how to join the Zoom workshop the day before the event. What you will learn >
BONUS RECORDING – you’ll be able to ask Andrew questions on the day, and will get a recording for 2 weeks afterwards to revisit the training.
Can’t make this date? Book on to receive the recording, or register your interest below and we’ll let you know when another is available.
SAVE 10% – when you book both days together – enter the code ‘MIND10’ at the checkout
Why take this course
Sleep and sound nutrition are widely recognised to be essential to mental health – this day gives you an opportunity to learn about these two areas in depth, including the role of the Microbiome.
A greater understanding of these two areas can be vital in freeing ourselves from the ‘mind-only mindset’ to help us quickly and effectively resolve many of our difficulties in life.
Sleep has always been integral to the human givens approach and this course is a chance to catch up on recent advances in understanding and evidence as to which approaches best help with poor sleep. We will explore how sleep allows for the physical recuperation, learning and emotional regulation that are key to improving many mental health problems.
The role of food and the microbiome in mental health is seldom part of managing the immediate challenges we face, yet is so important in preventing difficulties, or maintaining recovery, that it is an area in which we can benefit from feeling greater confidence when guiding and advising our clients (or ourselves!).
Throughout the day, tutor and GP Andrew Morrice draws on the latest research and his decades of experience managing the complex combination of mental and physical health problems in General Practice (20 of those years, using the Human Givens model), to take us on a deep dive into two of the key interfaces between mind and body: sleep and food, and their effects on our health.
Very balanced presentation of nutrition topics – included the nuances, controversy and diversity within this field. Brilliant visual diagrams for the ‘depression’ model
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What will you learn
- The structure of sleep – and the functions of the different stages of sleep, including Non-REM and Slow Wave/Deep sleep
- The fundamental conditions required to promote healthy sleep
- The challenges of assessing sleep properly both for ourselves and others
- The complex relationships between sleep disturbances and depression, anxiety, pain syndromes and fatigue states, plus
- Simple organising ideas for navigating all this complexity
- What we can do to help resolve sleep difficulties so that we can wake feeling refreshed and emotionally prepared for the next day
- The fundamental science of the Microbiome – and its links to inflammation, mental health and physical health
- The eating patterns that worsen or help in mental and emotional health
- How and why processed foods undermine and confuse our innate guidance systems
- An understanding of the many other factors impinging on our ability to ‘forage’ well in the modern ‘food environment’
- The basis on which foods or eating can become addictive, and how this can point to ways to address these difficulties
- Why we should consider the implications of the fasting state for our work
- How Human Givens tools can help clarify many of the confusions around food
- How to spot diet cults, tribes, and misleading claims
- Eating patterns we can confidently recommend to support health and wellbeing
- A review of how depression can be seen as a mind-body state rather than a ‘mental health disorder’
- You will also have time to ask our expert tutor questions and benefit from group discussions
- And more…
Course Programme
The ‘The Mind-Body Connection in depth: Food, Mood and Sleep’ live online course starts at 9.15am and runs until 4.00pm. (BST).
Who is this course suitable for?
- The Mind-Body Connection In Depth series is open to anyone interested in deepening their understanding of mental and physical health.
- If you previously attended Andrew Morrice’s Mind-Body Connection course, and would like to spend more time on practical applications, the microbiome, the interface between diet and mental health and to thoroughly review the topic of sleep – this course is for you.
- Please note: you don’t need to have attended the previous Mind-Body Connection course to come on this one, or its sister course ‘Emotions, Movement and Calm’.
- This event was previously run as an in person workshop.
LIMITED NUMBERS – book early to ensure your place
The perfect way to update your knowledge – join Dr Andrew Morrice for this invaluable live online CPD day, delivered via Zoom.
RECORDING – to maximise your learning, you will also have access to a recording for a limited time afterwards.
Can’t make this date? Book on to receive the recording or register your interest below to hear about future ones.
This course has been independently accredited by the internationally recognised CPD Standards Office for 6 hours of CPD training.
On completion of this training you’ll receive CPD certificates from the College and the CPD Standards Office.
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I really enjoyed this course! Dr Morris is a fountain of knowledge! His presentation was very educational, very interesting with lots of surprising facts and also thought provoking.
This was a brilliant course. Set in 2 distinct topics which came together at the end. The sleep session was most helpful for me as it gave a slightly different approach that I already use and it was useful seeing the sale diagrams with distinct phases of sleep we go to. I have already started to talk about sleep slightly differently with my clients. Thank you for a thoroughly enjoyable day, so much packed in and it flew by!
I found the sections on the microbiome, sleep, depression, and the short section on inflammation particularly interesting
Presenter was knowledgeable and enthusiastic, supplying attendees with a nuanced overview of what we currently understand about the western diet and its historical development, various factors that could drive health concerns and how eating habits overlap with sleep. Sleep giving further exploration, along with its relevance, health impacts and discoveries shedding new light on conditions such as CFS and Alzheimer’s. I’d recommend anyone with a passing interest in these two cornerstones of health consider attending this course.
A deep dive into the connection between food, mood and sleep and how all three components are interlinked. It uncovered some myths and shared evidence-based practical tips in helping clients to be able to meet their physical and emotional needs in a healthy way.
A must-attend for therapists, with updated information about microbiome, inflammation and proper foods to eat. And the importance of a good night sleep, and how that influences depression and inflammation. You’ll get a lot of evidence-based information and tips to help your clients.
A really useful set of ideas as to how nutrition and sleep affect the brain, particularly depression. I particularly liked the expanded depression model and the detail behind much of the sleep and nutrition theory.
Very Good
Very Good. Engaging presenter, great content well explained. Took one star off for the problems reading the slides, it would have been helpful if these could have been sent out beforehand. Human Givens always provides a great learning experience.
Such a fascinating and interesting day in the mind body connection on food, mood and sleep. Andrew is a warm and engaging teacher with a wealth of experience as a practising GP and HG therapist. A lot of material is covered in a day but the connections and cross links to Human Givens therapy and its organising ideas are evident and well explained. I can recommend this course to anyone interested in helping the whole person!
Excellent. Would have preferred this to have been F2F.
It built on the previous course and was informative around food (the science and also our attitudes towards it) and also sleep and its importance to a well-lived life.
Very Good. A course packed with a depth of information pulling together strands from evolutionary physiology and psychology, modern medicine as well as current scientific research and thinking. This is all framed within the Human Givens approach to human health and wellbeing. Andrew approaches the subject in an engaging way and with a sense of humour, encouraging questions and curiosity throughout. In answering people’s questions, Andrew also offers a wealth of additional knowledge and first hand experience that adds even more value on top of the planned course content.
I found the course very interesting and helpful. It gave me extensive in depth and valuable current information, which allows for a deeper understanding in the wider context within the HG framework.
Human Givens has lots of valuable insights into the human condition: why we act like we do. Andrew takes the Human Givens jigsaw pieces and puts them together in new, fascinating and informative ways, all underpinned by sound medical research. Great and refreshing insights!
Very balanced presentation of nutrition topics – included the nuances, controversy and diversity within this field. Brilliant visual diagrams for the ‘depression’ model.
A fascinating bringing together of HG and biological science, busting myths about food and diet promoted by the food industry. In depth scientific explanation of sleep – normal and disturbed.
Some completely new learning on food – fascinating. Great that all very up to date
Full of highly useful information, unpacked with skill and humour.
Fascinating information on the relationship between food and emotions, mental and physical health.