Transforming Regret: How to Forgive Oneself to Improve the Future

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Jelena Kecmanovic, PhD Related seminars and products

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Jelena Kecmanovic, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, the founding director of the Arlington/DC Behavior Therapy Institute, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. She's a frequent contributor to The Washington Post and other popular outlets.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Jelena Kecmanovic is the founding director and a clinical psychologist at the Arlington/DC Behavior Therapy Institute (ABTI). She is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and she receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Kecmanovic receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Jelena Kecmanovic has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Determine when regret becomes problematic leading to mental distress.
2. Use meditation, guided imagery, somatic techniques, and expressive writing to engender self-compassion.
3. Practice expanding emotional vocabulary, differentiating emotions, locating them in the body, and enacting them to improve emotional awareness and reduce rumination.
4. Determine 4 practical interventions for working with both feelings and reality, and identify common thinking traps involved in regret to boost flexibility.
5. Demonstrate interventions designed to leverage the experience of regret to clarify client values improve future actions.

Outline

• Identify when regret becomes preservative and counterproductive
• Engender self-compassion by using meditation, guided imagery, somatic techniques, and expressive writing
• Improve emotional awareness and reduce rumination by expanding emotional vocabulary, differentiating emotions, locating them in the body, and enacting them
• Stimulate radical acceptance of both feelings and reality, and identify common thinking traps involved in regret to boost flexibility
• Leverage regret to clarify what’s important in life, make amends, and improve future actions

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals

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