The Whole-Brain Child Approach Session 1
Featuring
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D – Bestselling Author of Mindsight
AND
Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.
Revolutionize your assessment and treatment for:
- Anxiety
- Affective Disorder
- Executive Functioning
- Disruptive Behavior Disorder
- Apply the framework of interpersonal neurobiology with children and adolescents
- Put kids in the driver’s seat to become less reactive and more resilient.
Bestselling authors of The Whole Brain Child, Dr. Daniel Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, present the latest scientific research–with a special emphasis on neuroplasticity and the changing brain–in a way that’s clear, interesting, and immediately practical. The focus is on better understanding the role of experience and focused attention on the ever-developing brain.
This workshop will focus on five different types of integration that can lead to health and wholeness. Each section will highlight a type of integration and provide numerous case examples demonstrating practical strategies to treat anxiety, affective disorders, executive function, and disruptive behavior disorders.
Using stories, case studies, practical suggestions and a lot of humor, Siegel and Bryson provide creative strategies of how to use brain science in your practice. Help kids acquire new tools to become resilient and feel hope about achieving lasting change in their lives. At the end of the workshop, you will have a new framework for treating your clients, along with 12 Whole-Brain strategies to help kids move from reactivity to resilience.
OUTLINE
Introduction—Integration as a theoretical framework
Part 1—Two Brains are Better than One: Integrate the Left and the Right
- Whole-Brain Strategy #1–Connect and Redirect:
- Whole-Brain Strategy #2 – Name It to Tame It:
- Telling Stories to Calm Big Emotions and Build Resilience for Difficult Transitions
Part 2—Building the Staircase of the Mind: Integrating the Upstairs and Downstairs
- Whole-Brain Strategy #3–Engage, Don’t Enrage:
- Appealing to the Upstairs Brain
- Reducing flight, fight, and freeze responses and increase thinking responses
- Whole-Brain Strategy #4 – Use It or Lose It:
- Exercising the Upstairs Brain
- Strategies for executive function, anxiety disorders, ADHD, and oppositional defiant disorders
- Whole-Brain Strategy #5 – Move It or Lose It:
- Moving the Body to Avoid Losing the Mind
- Using movement to shift automatic emotional and bodily responses
Part 3—Kill the Butterflies! Integrating Memory for Growth and Healing
- Whole-Brain Strategy #6 – Use the Remote of the Mind:
- Replaying Memories to Resolve Little Traumas and Big Traumas
- Whole-Brain Strategy #7 – Remember to Remember:
- Making Recollection a Part of Daily Life
- Creating new neural connections for self-identity formation
Part 4—The United States of Me: Integrating the Many Parts of Myself
- Whole-Brain Strategy #8 – Let the Clouds of Emotion Roll By:
- Teaching that Feelings Come And Go
- Whole-Brain Strategy #9 – SIFT: Paying Attention to What’s Going On Inside
- Tools for improving self-awareness and insight
- Whole-Brain Strategy #10 – Exercise Mindsight:
- Intervention for anxiety and mood disorders
Part 5—The Me-We Connection: Integrating Self and Other
- Whole-Brain Strategy #11 – Increase the Family Fun Factor:
- Creating new family dynamics
- Whole-Brain Strategy #12 – Connect Through Conflict:
- Teaching Kids to Argue with a “We” in Mind
- Expressing feelings appropriately in ways that improve relationships
OBJECTIVES
- Identify the framework of integration that can lead to health and wholeness
- Explain how to revolutionize your assessment and treatment of anxiety, affective, executive function, and disruptive behavior disorders
- Utilize Specific clinical experiences to shape how their clients’ brains are wired and function
- Apply the framework of interpersonal neurobiology with pediatric and adolescent clients
- Implement twelve Whole-Brain strategies
- Show children how to take implicit memories of painful/traumatic experiences and make them explicit