On-Demand | BCIA Approved Functional Neuroanatomy Course

Finding balance:
the smart way to handle stress

Don’t just survive your week—reclaim it. The Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) program is a research-backed, 8-week group journey designed to help you take back control. By combining mind-body principles with practical self-care interventions, this program enables you to reduce mental fatigue, burnout, and body tension while significantly enhancing your quality of life.

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8-week program

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Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA

$500

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Key features

Modality: Live on Zoom (Join from anywhere!)

Duration: 8 total sessions.

What people say about the SMART Program

Carlos Quezada

Guadalajara, Mexico

Highly recommended! Thanks to this course, I learned to naturally develop a habit of managing stress. I found ways to respond more positively, control my temper, be more efficient, sleep better, and develop many other valuable skills. Our mind needs exercise, and our body needs quality of life. I am deeply grateful to Dr. Diana Martínez and Neocemod for everything I have learned through SMART.

ohbalance_terapia

It helped me a lot in difficult times, but especially in my daily life—it makes all the difference. What I loved the most is that the techniques are incredibly simple and always within reach.

Course Overview

Presented by experts in neuroscience, this program offers a neuroscientific emphasis to the what, why, and how of understanding your brain and body. By linking the content with easy-to-implement practices, you will be able to easily integrate these practices into your daily life to improve your mental and physical health.

Course Description

Master Your Mind and Body. Chronic stress lives in the nervous system. SMART provides a practical toolkit to help you:

  • Calm your physiology with advanced relaxation and somatic awareness techniques.
  • Build healthier habits for restorative sleep, targeted nutrition, and movement.
  • Break free from negative thought patterns and emotional reactivity.
  • Strengthen resilience to find renewed energy for the things that matter most.
  • Integrate wellness by building on other therapeutic techniques, such as neurofeedback and psychotherapy.

    The 8-Week Journey:

    • Weeks 1-2: Awareness. Identify your personal stress triggers and understand the “fight-or-flight” response.
    • Weeks 3-4: Regulation. Master relaxation response techniques to calm your body on command.
    • Weeks 5-6: Mindset. Shift your perspective to strengthen emotional balance and cognitive resiliency.
    • Weeks 7-8: Sustaining Balance. Create a long-term plan for well-being and preventing future burnout.

    What Will You Learn in the SMART Program?

    • Relaxation and mindfulness techniques to activate the physiological relaxation response.
    • How to change thought patterns and emotional perspectives.
    • Techniques to improve diet, sleep and physical activity.
    • Ability to recognize your personal stress response.

    Learning self-regulation techniques, understanding the mind-body interactions, and finding balance in life are vital components to reducing stess. Through the strategies for self-regulation and techniques in balancing the autonomic nervous system taught in this course, we hope to make everyday life more manageable and daily stress easier to handle.

    Meet your instructor

    DIANA MARTINEZ
    MD, PHD, LMCH, BCN
    she/her

    Specialty:
    Cognitive rehabilitation, neurophysiology and holistic brain health

    Teaching Style:
    Person-centered, clinical, and integrative

    Our Teaching Style Is Defined by Four Core Principles

    Rooted in Science

    Evidence-based approaches grounded in the latest neuroscience research and clinical findings.

    Shaped by Practice

    Real-world application with hands-on experience using professional-grade equipment.

    Guided by Compassion

    Person-centered approach that honors each individual’s unique learning journey and needs.

    Community Centered

    Fostering connections and collaborative learning within a supportive professional network.

    Who should take this course?

    By the end of the course, you’ll have a toolkit of strategies you can use anytime to navigate work challenges, academic pressure, caregiving responsibilities, or big life transitions.

    This course is ideal for:

    Professionals battling burnout.

    Students and educators.

    Caregivers and healthcare workers.

    Individuals managing major life changes or chronic stress.

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    Finding balance:
    the smart way to handle stress

    USD $500

    Payment Plan:

    4 equal installments
    8 total sessions → USD $50 per session

    What am I getting?

    Modality: Live on Zoom (Join from anywhere!)

    Duration: 8 total sessions.

    By the end of the course, you’ll leave with a toolkit of strategies to prevent burnout, reduce stress, and support your overall well-being—no matter life’s challenges.

    Additional discounts are available for returning BND clients and group enrollments.

    Got questions? Contact us at hello@bostonneurodynamics.com

    Discounts

    20% off for Students
    20% off for Groups of 3 or more
    20% off for Non-profit employees

    Scholarships: We offer 2 scholarships each year. Contact us if you are interested in applying.

    What people say about the SMART Program

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    Taking SMART during a pandemic and while facing so many changes in my plans was definitely one of the best decisions I could have made. Dr. Diana is an excellent teacher, and it’s clear that she is passionate about what she does. Without a doubt, I would recommend this course to anyone.

    Paulina Macías – Aguascalientes, Mexico
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    For me, the course changed the way I see many things. It’s incredible to realize that feeling calmer is in my hands and can be achieved so easily. I love having super simple techniques at my disposal to relax. This course truly taught me to enjoy things more.

    Cecilia González – Mexico City, Mexico
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    The Stress Management and Resilience Training was a wonderful gift at this moment in my life. I have gone through very difficult situations, and I could say this has been the hardest one. My husband passed away 11 months ago in a tragic way, and I needed all the possible tools to adapt to my new life under these particular conditions. I have experienced high levels of anxiety with somatic symptoms, especially digestive ones.

    The eight weeks of this course were crucial for my process because, in the midst of my current life circumstances, I became part of an incredible group of people with whom I could share my journey. I learned to put myself first, focusing on self-care—recognizing that I am important, that I need to make time for myself, to enjoy life, to give myself love, to be present, and to connect with my surroundings from a different perspective, appreciating the wonders of nature in detail.

    I also learned to reduce my anxiety levels through various techniques that have yielded excellent results. I can’t say that I have fully processed my grief, but I have managed to connect with every emotion as it arises instead of being overwhelmed by it. I give each emotion its space, acknowledge it, and transform it. I loved recognizing a tool I hadn’t valued before—humor—as a way to face critical situations.

    I consider myself privileged to have had this opportunity and am infinitely grateful to Dr. Diana Martínez for her loving guidance.

    Mónica Muñoz - Colombia

    Course Guide

    Detailed Agenda:

    Week 1:
    Theme: We will explore personal stressors and identify resources to help cope during busy seasons. We will gain perspective on the science behind the stress response, the relaxation response, and how resiliency is developed through 3 essential elements.

    Week 2:
    Theme: We will incorporate the relaxation response into small, everyday “mini” activities that can be easily accessed from anywhere, giving you on the go tools.  We will also explore the relationship between stress and sleep and how we can improve our sleep hygiene to promote resiliency. 

    Week 3:
    Theme: We will introduce the practice of mindfulness and develop awareness of our stress-linked thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and physical experience. We will explore the role of social support and self-care in our daily lives– and how to actually create a routine that lasts!

    Week 4:
    Theme: We focus on the relationship stress has on our mind and body. Our main focus will be the incorporation of yoga as a relaxation response technique. We will explore our negative automatic thoughts and shift our patterns of thinking to create more flexibility in our responses. 

    Week 5:
    Theme: We will explore the adaptive responses intrinsically tied to our creativity and imagination. We will further explore how to shift our negative thoughts into balanced perspectives and how to sort which thoughts deserve our attention. We will look inward to create meaning out of the mundane and appreciate purposeful engagement in our daily activities. 

    Week 6:
    Theme: We will explore the role of optimistic and pessimistic thought patterns in our lives. We will seek to understand how pessimism connects with our underlying fears and feeds our chronic stress. We will find ways to combat these thoughts with more positive shifts in the expression of who we are and understand how tools–like physical activity– can help retrain our mind and connect us with our body’s signals. 

    Week 7:
    Theme: We will explore how powerful the tools of empathy and compassion for others and ourselves are in reducing our reactions to stressful events. We will incorporate creativity as a resource for this process. 

    Week 8:
    Theme: We will focus on the positive impact humor has on our resiliency and ability to mitigate our stress response. We will craft an image we hold of our “idealized selves” with all we have learned. It has been an incredible journey and this session honors the work you have invested in to find balance, strengthen hope, and build resiliency. 

     

    USA (EST): 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm / horario base

    México (CDMX): 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm

    Argentina: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm

    España: 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm