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DR. NEUFELD'S LATEST EDITORIAL
Like some 60 million other kids in Canada and the USA, two of my youngest grandsons are about to go back to school. I find myself thinking about their emotional health and well-being. One of the grandsons doesn’t admit to his wounds very easily – physically or emotionally. He tends to withdraw into a sullen mood when hurting (very much like his grandfather). The social normality of going to school camouflages its emotional enormity.
School is stressful for most kids – even if they enjoy it and can’t wait to go. The reason for this is simple: stress is caused by facing separation of one kind or another. Like all mammals, we are dependent upon togetherness to survive, so it follows that facing separation is what threatens us to our very core. Since togetherness can be experienced in many ways – being with, being like, being on the same side, being part of, mattering to, feeling loved by, or even being known and understood – the ways of facing separation are equally varied. And for the most part they remain hidden from view, unless one knows
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UPCOMING WEBINAR
PRESENTED BY DR. GORDON NEUFELD
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
12:00 PM TO 1:30 PM PACIFIC
$25 PER PERSON
We cannot effectively address problems we do not fully understand, and making sense of troubled kids has always been rather daunting. Fresh insights from neuroscience are providing us with a new way of thinking about the underlying dynamics and thus hold much promise for finding a way through. By troubled kids, Dr. Neufeld is referring to those who get into trouble, who are troubled, who make trouble, and who trouble us because we can't make sense of them. And by kids, he is also referring to the kids in us as well.
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Registration closes on Sept 5 at 4 pm Pacific.
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UPCOMING WEBINAR
PRESENTED BY JULE EPP
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2019
10:00 AM TO 11:30 AM PACIFIC
$25 PER PERSON
Adults working with children or adolescents “on the spectrum” often feel very unsure of themselves. The child’s behaviour suggests an aloofness, even an aversion to contact. Many parents and caretakers understandably feel rejected by their child. And so the deeply troubling question arises: Do I really matter to this child? Does my child love me? In this webinar, Jule Epp will explore both perspectives: that of the child diagnosed with ASD and that of the parent or caretaker. The webinar will address how we can understand the desperate move to resist attachment that we see in the child diagnosed with ASD and explore how this rejecting behaviour can make us as adults feel and how we tend to respond to it. And it will explore how we can break through the vicious circle of alienation that can ensue between adult and child when the defensive behaviour of the child is misunderstood.
Jule will also lead the
Making Sense of Hypersensitivity
online class in October - see below.
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Don't miss Jule's
FREE RESOURCE
at the end of the newsletter (be sure to click on "View entire message" in email browser) .
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THINKING ABOUT YOUR WINTER VACATION?
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Consider combining your vacation with our
FOUR-DAY DESTINATION EVENT!
PRESENTED BY DR. GORDON NEUFELD
ACAPULCO, MEXICO | JANUARY 20-23, 2020
Acapulco is one of our favourite venues! Join us for four days as Dr. Neufeld distills the issues of emotional health and well-being to their essence and shares his latest reflections and insights on the subject. He will particularly highlight the role of feelings, relationships, and emotional playgrounds in ways that will have practical implications for both adults and the children they're responsible for.
Previous experience with Neufeld Institute material is not required for this seminar.
$695 CAD Early Rate until October 15/19
$770 CAD Late Rate starting October 16/19
(travel and accommodation expenses not included)
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SPECIAL
all-inclusive rate at Hotel Elcano for
seminar participants!
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A Neufeld Institute Conference

co-sponsored by Jack Hirose & Associates
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Featuring:
Gordon Neufeld, Deborah MacNamara,
Maria LeRose and Neufeld Institute Faculty
EARLY-BIRD RATE IN EFFECT NOW
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All of our scheduled online classes are recorded.
If you can't fit a live class into your day-time schedule, you can keep up by watching the recording later in the week.
Our online courses include
access to
our Virtual Campus and feature online support, discussion forums, study guides, supplementary resources, and much more.
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THE ATTACHMENT PUZZLE
FRIDAYS, STARTING SEPT 20/19
10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM PACIFIC
RUNS FOR 9 WEEKS | $200
The Attachment Puzzle is primarily directed towards helping professionals involved with children: pediatricians, social workers, child psychiatrists, child psychologists, pediatric nurses, as well as others involved in children. The course is open to all who wish to understand the science of relationship as it applies to children.
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Click below to watch a
5-minute preview of the
course material.
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THURSDAYS, STARTING OCT 3/19
10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM PACIFIC
RUNS FOR 22 WEEKS | $600
Once kids are stuck, the usual ways of dealing with behaviour - including sanctions, consequences, and time-outs - actually make things worse. This flagship course provides a grounding in the conceptual foundations of Dr. Neufeld's formulation of the attachment-based developmental approach.
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TUESDAYS, STARTING OCT 8/19
10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM PACIFIC
RUNS FOR 9 WEEKS | $200
Part I of the Power-to-Parent series focuses on the child-adult relationship as the context for raising children. Attachment-safe and developmentally friendly discipline strategies are also introduced.
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Click below to watch a
5-minute preview of the
course material.
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INTENSIVE II: THE SEPARATION COMPLEX
THURSDAYS. STARTING OCT 10/19
11:30 AM TO 12:30 PM PACIFIC
RUNS FOR 17 WEEKS | $750
Building on the foundations of the prerequisite Intensive I, this course sheds light upon the profound impact of separation on a child's personality and behaviour, with special attention given to the problems of aggression, resistance, oppositionality, bullying, distractability, impulsiveness, anxiety, alarm problems, alpha problems, attachment problems, and more. When the developmental antecedents are understood, the path to effective intervention becomes clear.
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WEDNESDAYS, STARTING OCT 16/19
10:00 AM TO 11:30 AM PACIFIC
RUNS FOR 5 WEEKS | $125
This four-session course provides a fresh look at the causes and consequences of sensory overload in the brain and its role in a spectrum of syndromes including autism, and, to a lesser extent, some forms of giftedness as well as attention problems. Uncovering this root neurological condition sets the stage for retreating from a battle against symptoms and creating a context for isolating and minimizing the resulting dysfunction. The implications for intervention are profound.
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WEDNESDAYS, STARTING OCT 23/19
4:00 PM TO 5:00 PM PACIFIC
RUNS FOR 9 WEEKS | $200
Counterwill is the instinctive reaction of resistance to being controlled - so universal at certain stages of development that it has given rise to terms like 'terrible twos' and 'rebellious teens.' This resistance can come out as opposition, negativity, laziness, noncompliance, disrespect, lack of motivation, belligerence, incorrigibility, resistance to learning, and even antisocial attitudes and actions.
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Click below to watch a
5-minute preview of the course material.
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REGISTRATION OPENING SOON FOR WINTER & SPRING 2020 CLASSES
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As an exclusive release to our newsletter subscribers, we're excited to share one part of a three-part webinar series from Jule Epp on the topic of hypersensitivity.
This 90-minute webinar,
The Generous Invitation: Nature's Password for Unlocking the Potential of the Child Diagnosed with Autism
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was first presented online in 2018.
The three-part series will be available soon to purchase as a video download. The other titles include
Playing with the Autistic Child: Nature's Backdoor to Attachment
and
Understanding the World of the 'Asperger's Child'.
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