Live Webinar: 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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Grounding the Heart, Mind and Body: Help dysregulated clients ground themselves and regain a sense of self-control and self-efficacyis now available as a live webinar! This on-line learning opportunity can help you stay engaged, stay productive and develop skills that support the valuable work you do during this challenging time.

April 17, 2020
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.

Overview: 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.

Description: 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"

Fees: General $275 | Student $247.50 | 10% discount for groups of 5+

For more information please visit our event website at http://www.cvent.com/d/5nqrx1