COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Working in schools these days means addressing dysregulation, regardless of your job description. Kids are struggling, teachers are struggling, and strategies that got results in the past are no longer working. Fortunately, the latest research in the relational neurosciences gives us new information, effective strategies, and hope for the future. This course will identify the neurobiological foundations of self-regulation and teach you evidenced based strategies for increasing regulatory capacity in your students, staff, and yourself.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Identify neurobiological connections between felt safety and regulation.
- Relate the implications of affective coding and state dependent functioning to self-regulation.
- Implement research-based strategies for increasing regulatory capacity of students and staff.
- Apply foundational concepts to improve self-regulation in both students and therapists.
AUDIENCE:
School-Based Therapists
COURSE OUTLINE:
- Self-regulation
- Felt safety
- Safety tipping point mechanism
- Affective coding
- State dependent functioning
- In the somatosensory system
- In the affective/emotional system
- The neuroscience of connection
- Tools for Regulation:
- Connection
- Body Sensing
- Body battery
- Sensorimotor tools
- Direction of attention training
- Self-Compassion
- How can we apply these tools effectively?
AMY LEWIS OTR/L pediatric OT in Charleston, SC. Amy has a particular interest in psychology, sensory integration, auditory interventions, relational neuroscience, and light touch body work. She recently completed a 2-year mentorship in Tensegrity Medicine, an approach that treats the whole person from an integrated mind and body perspective, focused on the fascial system. Her OT career began in the birth to three population, affording the opportunity to hone her focus on foundational skills like postural control and regulation. Certifications include SIPT, Therapeutic Listening, Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention, iLs, and Safe and Sound Protocol. When transitioning to work with older children and adults, Amy maintained a focus on foundational skills and how they support regulatory capacity, while also bringing in her studies of mindfulness, and the practice of self-compassion. Amy currently works at Powerfully You, teaching and supporting therapists, and lectures as Affiliate Faculty at The Medical University of South Carolina. Powerfully You is a culmination of 20 years working as an OT, combined with life experiences and learnings and a passion for being with others on their journey in a way that comes alongside and offers information and tools.
Once you purchase an online course you will have access to the course materials. If you have purchased this course, please ensure you have logged in to your account in order to take the exam.
Once you purhcase an online course, you will have the opportunity to take an exam to test your retention of the material. If you have purchased this course, please ensure you have logged in to your account in order to take the exam. The exam must be completed with a pass rate of 80% or more in order to receive your certificate of attendance.
