Harmonizing Connections: Mastering Interpersonal Biofeedback
Inna Khazan, PhD, BCB, BCB-HRV
Santiago Brand, BCN, BCB, QEEGDL
1-day workshop
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Language: English
Workshop Title
Harmonizing Connections: Mastering Interpersonal Biofeedback
Workshop Description
Attunement refers to a deep, empathetic connection where individuals are highly sensitive to each other’s emotions, needs, and signals. This mutual understanding fosters a strong, supportive relationship characterized by effective communication, emotional resonance, and a sense of being deeply understood and valued. It involves not just recognizing but also responding to each other’s inner experiences, leading to a harmonious, and nurturing interaction.
Attunement is one of the precursors to compassion, a deep awareness for the suffering of others and desire to alleviate it. Compassion demonstrates strong physiological underpinnings and plays a critical role in healthy relationships as well as in the health of an individual.
Attunement and compassion helps us understand how human beings heal through relationships to themselves and others. The purpose of the workshop is to provide the participants with the skills to observe and measure, as well as foster healing via attunement and compassion with the use of state-of-the-art technology.
EEG, qEEG and biofeedback amplifiers as well as portable devices will be utilized to facilitate this learning experience. Through live demonstrations and practical exercises participants will gain insights on how to apply attunement in their own practice and guide clients in using attunement with those around them, including friends, family, colleagues, and teammates.
Two participants will interact live (under various conditions such as stress, competition and cooperation) while workshop leaders simultaneously record live their EEG, HRV, respiration, skin conductance and temperature activity. The results from these demos will serve as the basis for the development of attunement and compassion-based interventions combined with biofeedback and neurofeedback.
Learning Objectives
1) Demonstrate, practice, and discuss how to conduct HRV biofeedback training sessions that involve the clinician and the client or two clients.
2) Observe, practice and discuss interpersonal and relational HRV biofeedback training together with attunement and compassion skills.
3) Observe, practice and discuss use of temperature and skin conductance biofeedback for training attunement skills.
4) Describe how to combine biofeedback training with attunement and compassion to enhance the healing relationship and obtain longer lasting results.
About Inna Khazan
Inna Khazan, Ph.D., BCB is a clinical psychologist, and faculty at Harvard Medical School. She maintains a private practice in Boston, working with clients on optimizing their health and performance. Dr. Khazan is recognized as a pioneer in the area of mindfulness and acceptance based biofeedback, and is the author of Clinical Handbook of Biofeedback: A Step-by-Step Guide to Training and Practice with Mindfulness.
About Santiago Brand
Santiago Brand, BCN, BCB, QEEGDL is the founder and director of MindLab Neuroscience Consulting in Singapore. Santiago is a clinical and sport psychologist board certified in qEEG brain mapping, biofeedback and neurofeedback. He is an educational instructor for InMindOut centers in the United States and faculty member at the “Learn From The Best ” program of the Biofeedback Federation of Europe (BFE). Santiago is a scientific advisor for iMediSync in South Korea, NEUROWYZR in Singapore and 180 Sanctuary in Thailand. Santiago has 15 years of experience working with sports and peak performance and he has lectured in 20 countries. Santiago has been interviewed in multiple media outlets including CNN as well as being a frequent guest host in the NueroNoodle Podcast and the How To Live Podcast.
