Family-Based Neuro-Behavioral and
Psychological Treatment and Training
"Building Brains and Bettering Bonds"
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Workshops
Read what others say about our workshops New NOTE: Gas reimbursement may be necessary for pro-bono workshops. Topics: Equipping Caregivers to Equip Their Children Certain children need more than love and a good home to repair brains and bonds broken by neglect and abuse. Parents have to become their teachers, turning their homes into residential treatment programs, without burning out from the stress of parenting hurting children who didn't come with directions for healing. Click here to read the Terms of Agreement and schedule this workshop. Click here for this workshop's handout. Building Better Brains through Neuro-Behavioral Therapy Certain therapeutic movements through HANDLE® can significantly help re-pattern brains traumatized by neglect and abuse and help remove the neurodevelopmental barriers to bonding. Understand “why” these movements along with dietary considerations make such a difference with those whose attachment relationships are compromised or who have behavioral challenges. This program is equally beneficial for individuals with brain injury, fetal alcohol/drug effects, autism, bipolar disorder, ADD/ADHD, PTSD and OCD, etc. The success of this no-tech-at-all, simple, cost and time-effective brain repatterning program has been published! See the December/January 2006 issue of Adoption Today or the January/February issue of Fostering Families Today for the article titled, Behavior Change Proved. What many parents and providers already knew about this program now has been proven in the residential setting. For more information about the HANDLE® Approach, see www.HANDLE.org. Click here to read the Terms of Agreement and schedule this workshop. Click here for this workshop's handout.
Fee Per Hour Workshops At your office or organization:
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Notes: --Handouts copied by contractor
I. Workshop #1:
Accelerating Attitude Adjustment
II. Workshop #2: Is This Child a Can't, a Won't or a Both? 
Neurologically challenged children can present with difficult oppositional defiant behaviors as can attachment-challenged children. When is the unpleasant behavior an issue of control (won't do it), when is it a result of neurological impairment (can't help it) and when is it a combination of the two? Learn some of the ways to help the brain and the attitude repair itself through this presentation of easy-to-learn, effective, common-sense interventions that caregivers are trained to utilize at home.
Stretch, Breathe and Pray: Well-Being for Caregivers
IV. Workshop #4: Understanding Childhood Psychological Disorders
V. Workshop #5: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: What to Do When Reality Sets In
VI. Workshop #6: The Attachment Intervention Spectrum
VII. Workshop #7: Little Angel on My Shoulder: Helping Traumatized Children See Themselves as God Sees Them
VIII. Workshop #8: Let's Have Fun: Let the Games Begin Remember the days of Red Rover, Red Rover? What about Mother, May I or London Bridge? This interactive, adults gone silly, workshop re-teaches grown-ups the children’s games that have sustained and supported our culture, enabled us to pass on our traditions and values and helped kids develop, neurologically and socially, via movement and cooperative, interdependent interaction. IX. Workshop #9: Creating Kids to be Likable and Fun to be Around
X. Workshop #10 Therapeutic Respite
Ideally, respite should not only allow parents a time for refueling and refilling the well, but should also be designed to help children want to go home to their designated caregivers. Learn the attitude, the interventions and the program to help children be more pleasant and fun to be around, without getting triggered. And remember, children who are likable and fun to be around don't need therapeutic respite. XI. Workshop # 11: Developing Consciences: Creating Givers Instead of Takers 
More that creating kids to be likeable and fun to be around, we want to help kids become loving, empathic and unselfish adults who grow up to help make the world a better place though altruistic, putting-others-first endeavors. Learn in this workshop, the building blocks to true self-esteem and how to create children who "will do unto others the way they would like others to do unto them." XII. Workshop #12: Building Better Brains: Healthy and Fun Foods for Kids Better brains need protein, good fats and water. In this hands-on workshop, learn how to create healthy, fun, easy to prepare foods rich in omega 3 fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and protein and low in sugar, processing, and carbohydrates. The right foods help children’s brains function more optimally. Enjoy making child-friendly favorites such as homemade nut butters, Ants on a Log, and Hobo Supper. Or experiment with making nutritious, delicious smoothies with Stevia, a natural sweetener, for busy mornings. XIII. Workshop #13: Therapeutic Mediation  Tired of children arguing and had all you can take of the "He said, She said?" Had enough of playing the judge and jury? Would you like to find another way to successfully teach a child there really are consequences to hurting others? Want to provide more opportunities for children to learn good morals and values? Wouldn't it be nice to train a passive child out of being everyone's victim? Mediation is a cost-effective and time-efficient home treatment tool to help manage stress, resolve interpersonal conflict, teach cause-effect thinking, communication, and build successful future adults. Learn the basic framework as well as the best situations to utilize family mediation and restitutional (victim-offender) mediation in your home to help create children who are stronger in spirit, more responsible, empathic and altruistic.XIV. Workshop #14: Understanding and Treating Challenging Children in the School Setting
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Beliefs created from past events can influence, if not determine, our experiences in the future. It’s more than believing we’re unlovable so we act unlovable. It’s more like believing we’re unlovable so we only associate with people who agree or we actually only attract those who agree. What we believe, we tend to create, mentally first, then in the physical. The mind is powerful and can be changed, but only by the person whose body it’s in. Actually make prayer maps with your child in this workshop (see handout). A prayer map is powerful way to help identify and change old, outmoded patterns of "stinking thinking..." so life and relationships can flourish.
Need to decrease fear and worry? Train your brain to turn off obsessive thoughts? How about just get off of fight/flight? This experiential class is a workshop form of the Saturday morning class for moms at Child-in-Family Services. On a physical level, regular practice of therapeutic breath with gentle stretches and focused or centering prayer helps regulate the nervous system and improves our immune system. It’s also easier to be in the world but not of it when we feel connected to a power much higher and greater than ourselves.
From a neuro-behavioral
source not symptoms perspective, learn what disorders such as ADHD,
Bipolar Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, etc., really mean.
When is ADHD really PTSD and ADD really sensory integration dysfunction?
Make written psychological evaluations more understandable. Explore
the gamut of psychological disorders for children and some of the recommended
Behavioral Health Approaches. Learn about the cascading effects of stress
and how mental and neuro-behavioral health is affected.
Post-traumatic
Stress Disorder is a psychological state of grief, numbness, fear, anxiety
and depression caused by a life-threatening event. It brings up any
unresolved prior trauma and affects not only those who actually experienced
the event first hand but also affects those who experienced it vicariously,
through others’ suffering. Find out what symptoms to look out
for and how to help and get help. Opportunities will be available at
this workshop for helpers to sign up for further intensive training
and counseling options will be presented for those needing support.
It's hard for traumatized children to internalize the goodness and safety of God, when they may have had too many experiences to the contrary. Caregivers need as many tools as they can get to help kids replace fear-based brain templates with love, safety, and security. This workshop is parent-child attended and children are assisted by their parents in learning and practicing how to identify and defeat the enemy in their minds (the little devil on one shoulder). Through specially designed cognitive restructuring writing and drawing techniques, children identify and squelch the little devil on one shoulder and strengthen the little angel on the other (How God sees them). More resiliency is created as a result so that trauma resolution occurs faster.
Children feel safer when the caregiver is in control and they're not. Parents feel better when their discipline is effective, not guilt-inducing. Specific parenting and behavior management techniques are addressed a la Love and Logic to emphasize self-discipline, responsibility, cause-effect thinking, respect and altruism.
