Positive Neuroplasticity Training: Take in the Good – 2025 Term 1
Tuesdays 6-8:30pm – starts 4 February
Pre-requisite: MBSR Teacher: Megan Layton
This is a 6-week course, meeting once a week for 2.5 hours.
Click on the Event Details tab below to see class dates, or learn more about this program.
Original price was: $715.00.$595.00Current price is: $595.00.
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In this exciting course you will learn how to turn fleeting everyday experiences into lasting inner strengths.
PNT teaches the skills to hardwire peace, contentment and self-compassion into your brain.
You’ll build on the skills which underpin mindfulness and learn to cultivate inner resources and strengths to reduce the influence of the negative bias, reduce emotional reactivity and recover more quickly from setbacks and difficulties.
Each session will include experiential learning, exploration of key concepts and skills and the opportunity to practice and apply new practices. There will be a course book to help guide you through the course and home practices each week.
Simply Mindful Director, Megan Layton will be teaching PNT. She has been endorsed and trained by Dr Rick Hanson. She has been helping people integrate positive neuroplasticity into their lives and their practice for many years.
Megan was part of a small group of teachers who reviewed the course curriculum in 2023 and 2024 with Rick Hanson. The course was updated based on this comprehensive review, and Megan will be teaching the updated version.
Wondering if it’s for you? Previous participants say:
"I've gained a sense of ease, strength and hope and a cultivation of awareness and inner resources"
"The PNT framework is a delightfully simple method to manage very tricky brains. Thank you!"
"I found this program to be empowering. Whereas previously I was feeling somewhat like a victim, learning the techniques has helped me to realise that I can take action to save/ help myself.I learnt new techniques for overcoming burnout and depression."
"I've gained a sense of my own worth and increasing skills in managing the negative bias and inner critic. I feel I have more inner resources to draw on."
"The positive neuroplasticity training is so empowering – it’s amazing to be able to gradually change the way I move through the world by choosing to focus on what is beneficial. The responsive approaches to relationships meditation is revolutionary – an embodied guide towards freer more compassionate relationships with others – and myself! Thanks so much."
We highly recommend you purchase Rick Hanson’s book Hardwiring Happiness as part of the course.
Pre-requisite: It is recommended to have undertaken some training and practice in mindfulness. This is to ensure participants have the necessary foundation of understanding and skills to benefit fully from this program and be able to apply it. MBSR is the recommended program however other reputable in-depth mindfulness programs may be considered.
Event Details
Day 1: 4 February 2025
Day 2: 11 February 2025
Day 3: 18 February 2025
Day 4: 25 February 2025
Day 5: 4 March 2025
Day 6: 11 March 2025
Start time:
18:00 AEST
End time:
20:30 AEST
Venue: The Gathering Place, 4 Bancroft Street, Dickson 2602
Directions: Free parking is available on Bancroft Street. Please check the signs to ensure you are aware of parking restrictions, particularly in front of the school. Please park on Bancroft Street if possible. Please don’t park in the driveway at the Gathering Place unless you need special access or have mobility issues, in which case please let us know beforehand so we can assist you. For those coming by bicycle, there is a bike rack located at the side of the building halfway down the driveway.
Phone: (+61) 0490 354 900
Meet your teacher
Megan Layton
Director, Senior MBSR, PNT, Self-Compassion and Yoga teacher
"She has a sense of calm and a great way of focusing on embodiment of the practices. Lots of time to do and feel, not just discuss."
"Megan is an amazing teacher. She is so warm and genuine and knowledgeable. She is very thoughtful and an excellent listener and leader of discussions." - 2022 participant
"Megan is a very experienced and capable teacher, and a kind and compassionate person. She made some of the more challenging content ok." - 2022 participant
Answers to your questions
What is Positive Neuroplasticity Training?
Positive Neuroplasticity Training is an educational program, backed by evidence, in which you will learn how to hardwire peace of mind, contentment, and self-compassion into your brain. Over 6 interesting and enjoyable weeks understand Rick's simple HEAL framework and most importantly, learn to put it into practice in a supportive environment with a skilled experienced teacher.
Is this therapy?
The Positive Neuroplasticity Training is not therapy, nor is it a substitute for therapy. It isn’t intended to be used as a treatment for any specific physical or mental health condition.
Who is this for?
Anyone can take the course and benefit from the training. Coaches, counsellors, educators, healthcare professionals, human resources trainers and people in related roles may find it especially useful.
Will this course help me with my everyday problems?
In a peer-reviewed study on these methods, people reported statistically significant increases in happiness, resilience, and compassion, and decreases in anxiety and depression.
Participants have told us that they found Positive Neuroplasticity Training to have a beneficial impact on their lives. Our students have said,
"I found this program to be empowering. Whereas previously I was feeling somewhat like a victim, learning the techniques has helped me to realise that I must take action to save/ help myself. I learnt new techniques for overcoming burnout and depression."
"I've gained a sense of my own worth and increasing skills in managing the negative bias and inner critic. I feel I have more inner resources to draw on."
People generally find this training is a useful resource for managing typical range
experiences of anxiety, blue mood, stress, loneliness, and interpersonal conflicts.
If you are already working through some of these challenges with a psychotherapist, it’s a good idea to let them know that you are enrolling in this training.
Can this course help with more serious problems?
People with significant psychological issues or a history of suicidality, complex trauma, psychosis, or other severe mental health issues may find that the Positive Neuroplasticity Training stirs things up too much. The course doesn’t include the kind of individualised support required to safely navigate these experiences.
Instead, we strongly advise that you seek one-on-one professional treatment. If you are in crisis, we urge you to access emergency services without delay.
If you already have excellent individualised support in place to manage your mental health condition, and are keen to begin the training, please chat with us before enrolling.
I want to take the PNT course, but I don't live in Canberra.
We typically offer the PNT course face to face only, so you do need to be able to get to Canberra. 🙂
If this is impossible and you are very keen to take the course with Megan, please contact us as we may consider offering it online if there's enough interest.
Also, Dr Rick Hanson maintains a calendar of upcoming PNT classes around the globe - you can see it here.