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-efficacy

Live webinar October 19, 2020
Michel Jones, MSW., RSW., RP.

Learn how the brainstem, limbic system and the pre-frontal cortex system impact each other and affect emotional response and cognitive distortions along with specific grounding techniques to bring traumatized clients out of the "there and then" to the "here and now” to allow for treatment.

This training is suitable for: Mental Health Professionals: Psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers. Medical Professionals: Nurses, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors. Direct Service Workers: Drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers. First Responders: Police, firefighters, paramedics

Description: Clients often enter our offices unable to relieve unbearable tension and stress of a specific situation or of their daily lives, 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 webinar 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"

Registration fees: General $250. Student and group rates may be available.

For more information on this webinar and full regsitration details, please visit our event website at https://www.cvent.com/d/47q9pf