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Foojan Zeine

International Awareness Integration Institute, USA

Presentation Title:

Awareness integration theory: A psychological and genetic path to self-directed neuroplasticity

Abstract

The self-awareness technique is instrumental in increasing the efficacy of the brain's innate ability to adapt to change via neuroplasticity and self-directing clarity while improving neuro-network paths. The human brain is plastic and capable of modifiability and change, enabling pathway connectivity. The peripheral part of the brain, capable of neuroplasticity, enables the brain to change and adapt itself to new situations and novel ideas. The brain’s neuroplasticity, a capability of the nervous system to change and adapt to external and internal stimuli, can reach a higher efficacy level by applying the awareness integration therapeutical theory. Awareness Integration Theory (AIT) is an evidence-based technique that guides and directs the process of examining thoughts, emotions, behaviors, obstacles, and resistance to plasticity while providing pathways to clarity and self-directed neuroplasticity. By restructuring cognitive/emotional schemas and linking to behavioral pathways, AIT-based therapy expectedly helps create new neural network paths, leading to a renewed functional neural connectivity. As a trauma-releasing approach, AIT revolves around core beliefs, emotions, and bodily attributes to access original memories and moves toward the integration of functional neural networks.

Biography

Foojan Zeine holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and has earned a graduate certificate in Human Behavior from Harvard Extension School (HES).  She is a lecturer at California State University Long Beach, Paris City University, and the Romanian Association of Integrative Psychotherapy. She is the originator of the “Awareness Integration” Psychological and Educational Theory, a multi-modality, evidence-based approach that fosters mental health and well-being in clinical, educational, and self-help settings. She founded the International Awareness Integration Institute. She has authored and co-authored six books and published over 20 peer-reviewed papers on the AIT approach. As the co-founder of Foojan, Inc., She has codeveloped the cost-effective self-help “foojan” app, promoting mental well-being globally through guided journaling and generative artificial intelligence chatbot, making the AIT approach accessible to all.