No Hocus Pocus, Just Focus: Strategies for Optimizing Focus and Concentration

Course overview

This presentation aims to introduce attendees to several science-backed cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness-based strategies to optimize clients mental performance by improving their abilities to initiate focus and sustain concentration. Strategies covered will help attendees assist clients in developing a mental warm-up to transition into focus, maintaining concentration and regaining focus during mental tasks and mentally recovering after intense periods of focus. Attendees will learn strategies for optimizing focus in high stress situations plus be introduced to neurofeedback and mindfulness based practices that can provide long-term benefits for focus and concentration. Additionally this presentation will highlight the impacts of diet, exercise, stress, and alcohol and cannabis on focus and concentration.