Brain-Based Approaches to Managing Overwhelming Stress
Professional Learning Opportunities
from the Southwest Center and KSC Educator Preparation Programs
Brain-Based Approaches to Managing Overwhelming Stress
Webinar Series with
Dr. Cassie Yackley
We are pleased to offer a three-part webinar series this winter, Brain-Based Approaches to Managing Overwhelming Stress, with Dr. Cassie Yackley. Each webinar is $25 and includes CEUs and access to a recording of the webinar for two weeks after the live date for each one.
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Note: KSC faculty, staff and students may attend this webinar at no cost - please email Betsy Streetfor a discount code to use during checkout.
Regulation refers to our capacity to manage stress and to remain calm, allowing us to avoid being overwhelmed by our emotions and to continue to process cognitive information. A regulated arousal state also allows us to connect with others and to benefit from co-regulation processes. Strategies for regulation involve meeting the needs of our lower brain through repetition and sensory rewards that replicate early life experiences. This webinar explores sensorimotor interventions for regulating the nervous system for ourselves and our students.
Relationship-Building & Belonging: Capitalizing on the “Flock” Response
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
4:00-5:00 pm, $25
Explore the fundamental role that relationships play in the management of stress. Unfortunately, many people have had negative, or even neglectful or abusive, childhood relational experiences that can rob them of a sense of worthiness and safety with others. The behavioral manifestation of this personal experience can be challenging — interactions can feel negative, disengaged, disrespectful, and aggressive. Participants will learn strategies for attunement and relationship-building in these circumstances, including those that can be done through a virtual connection.
Transcending Crisis & Trauma: How Meaning-Making Facilitates Healing
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
4:00-5:00 pm, $25
Stress and adversity are part of the human condition and thus cannot be avoided. However, the sense we make of these experiences is critical to growth and healing. We will look at the “trauma-responsive framework” (TRF) as a powerful method for making meaning of traumatizing events such as the current pandemic. Using a pandemic example, we will present a three-part process of 1) describing someone’s experiences as they are related to what we observe in their behavior, 2) normalizing the stress response or trauma impacts in the behavior we are observing, and 3) conveying a sense of safety, connection, and hope for their future.
About the presenter: Cassie Yackley, Psy.D. has spent more than 25 years committed to understanding and effectively addressing the impact of traumatic/adverse experiences on children, caregivers/families, and systems. She brings together recent discoveries from developmental neuroscience, attachment, implementation science, and reflective practice to help audiences develop skills of relationship and self-awareness. She was a keynote speaker at KSC's 2019 Summer Educator's Institute. www.cassieyackleypsyd.com/
