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LECTURE/WORKSHOP OPTIONS

• New research based on neurological considerations in approaching special needs youth. (youth with RAD, trauma, ADHD, BI-polar e.g.)
• Understanding A.C.E.S (adverse childhood experiences) and developmental trauma disorder
• Applying new and powerful strategies such as: titration/pendulation, bids and windows, micro-connecting, safety zones, sensory re-integration, transitioning, conscious parenting, bilateral stimulation, time in, containment, affect identification, modulation and expression, primary prevention, de-escalation, neuro-sequential treatment planning, creative pedagogy, energy psychology, re-programming the unconscious, mindfulness awareness practice and more.
• Powerful videos and case reviews with clinical application.
• Learn how to set up healing environments for home, school and residential facilities
• Conscious relationship building and charismatic care-giving
  
• Options on enhancing brain chemistry (without medication) will be presented
• Presents new research on how youth with neurological deficits can “catch up”
• How to healing the brain and change your life: healthy vs. toxic input
• Participants will experience self exploration activities, and develop their own healthy brain program
  

•  Learn resiliency and strength based approaches vs. medical/disease model approaches
• "The Microwave Society” and The “Second Family Phenomenon”
• Self-exploration exercise: Exploring the blueprints of your unconscious
• “Institutionalized Kids” (Historically, how infrastructures have de-moralized them).
• Common characteristics of the millennium youth culture and how we misread them
• Risky vs. charismatic (protective) adults. The Relationship Factor vs. Behavior Blueprints.
• The ten fundamentals of becoming a charismatic (protective) adults
• Video Clip: “Broken Circle” the plight of a young man caught in the foster care/adoption system (award winning documentary) Case Review and clinical application of techniques and strategies
• Self Esteem, Resiliency and NIRW research on the basic growth needs of all children and adolescents and how to meet those needs.
• Group Activity: tuning in and listening to youth. Building our skill sets.
• Additional strategies presented: micro-connecting, bids and windows, flipping scripts, empathy skills, motivational dialogue, encouragement vs. praise, assumption of compliance, positive relationships statements, attribution theory. intrinsic motivation and change. limbic resonating and body/mind feedback loops, ten super strokes to increase self esteem and more.

• Difference between grief and trauma
• What parents and adults need to know to help traumatized children
• Events inducing acute stress or PTSD /Difference between acute stress and PTSD
• PTSD reactions in children and adolescents
• Risk Factors for PTSD/Neurological considerations
• Video: adolescent discussing traumatic events
• Defining Type I and Type II trauma
• Defining Complex PTSD and its implications
• Debriefing after traumatic events
• Traditional treatment approaches: Memory work, CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), Group and Family therapy, Pharmacotherapy (medication), Psychodynamic (talk) Therapy, Expressive therapies (play, art, e.g.)
• The New Modalities: Structured Sensory Intervention (Exposure, Trauma Narrative and Cognitive Re-structuring) and Energy psychology including Psych K, Bi-lateral stimulation and others
• Conducting individual sessions (geared for therapists)
• Video presentation: Sensory Integration with traumatized children and adolescents