Grounding the Heart, Mind and Body: Help dysregulated clients ground themselves and regain a sense of self-control and self-efficacy

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"Go behind the grounding tools/techniques to understand which approaches would best help each individual client" ~ Michel Jones, MSW., RSW., RP.

Grounding the Heart, Mind and Body: Help dysregulated clients ground themselves and regain a sense of self-control and self-efficacy
July 15, 2019
Facilitator: Michel Jones, MSW., RSW., RP.
This training is suitable for: Mental health professionals, social workers, medical professionals, direct service workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers, first responders.

Description: Using recent neurological research and proven stress reduction methods, this workshop will provide practical tools that front-line workers can use to help dysregulated clients ground themselves and regain a sense of self-control and self-efficacy. Participants will learn how the brainstem, the limbic system and the pre-frontal cortex system work together and impact each other, how these three systems differentially affect "fight or flight", emotional response and cognitive distortions. Participants will gain different grounding techniques that work with each of the three systems, to bring clients back into their "window of tolerance" and bring traumatized clients out of the "there and then" to the "here and now” to allow for treatment.

Full Workshop Overview: Clients often enter our offices unable to relieve unbearable tension and stress of a specific situation or of their daily lives, and despite our best efforts, some clients do not respond to our attempts to help them calm. Sometimes grounding tools that have worked in the past do not seem to make any difference.  We have to look behind the tools to understand which approaches would best help.

Understanding the different defense mechanisms in the conscious, emotional, and physical parts of the brain and body can make the difference.Using recent neurological research and proven stress reduction methods, this workshop will provide practical tools that front-line workers can use to help dysregulated clients ground themselves and regain a sense of self-control and self-efficacy.

Whether the client is a first time user of a service (drop in center, shelter) or a frequent consumer (severe and persistent mental health, residential program) this workshop will offer clear, straightforward strategies to help clients feel physically, emotionally and mentally stable.

Learning Objectives:

• How the brainstem, the limbic system and the pre-frontal cortex system work together and impact each other.
• How these three systems differentially affect "fight or flight", emotional response and cognitive distortions
• Different grounding techniques that work with each of the three systems
• How to bring a client back into their "window of tolerance"
• How to help traumatized clients out of the "there and then" and bringing them back to the "here and now"

For more information on registration details and fees please visit our event website. http://www.cvent.com/d/v6qh0q

 Michel Jones, MSW, RSW

Michel Jones is a registered psychotherapist in Ontario specializing in the repercussions of psychological trauma in people's lives. Her clinical background at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health includes work with the elderly, with the indigenous population, and with addictions issues.

She has developed and presented workshops throughout Ontario including workshops on grounding and on specific treatment modalities such as cognitive behavioural therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy, and mental health education for government employees who come into contact with troubled individuals.