GROW - Working With Kids

Empowering child and family counsellors, schools, educators and parents with this relational, systemic, trauma informed approach. 

Restoring Resilience (RR) developed the ‘GROW Working with Kids’ workshop, adapting Polyvagal Theory and making it accessible for kids to learn as young as 3-12yr. This workshop attends to the need for a trauma informed, systemic approach for practitioners and parents working with emotionally dysregulated children and families. The program introduces the RR ‘GROW – Emotion Regulation Toolkit’ which is a resource that brings the ‘GROW - working with kids’ workshop knowledge, skills, and its integration to life. It provides practitioners and parents of 3-12 yr old children with an accessible, easy to use, effective, at home or in class, tool kit to help them when addressing stress responses in children.

This workshop will support practitioners working with kids to learn how to read physiological states underpinning challenging and difficult child behaviours via a nervous system lens.

Help children regulate their emotions via using a neuroscientific framework, incorporating trauma informed somatic experiencing, the polyvagal theory and gestalt therapy interventions.

• Learn how to integrate a menu of interventions that de-escalate challenging and difficult behaviors
• Regulate and soothe children, ultimately supporting better connection, health and happiness
• Helping reduce the impact of adversity, toxic stress, overwhelm and trauma in children
• Improve children’s capacity to focus, learn and regulate
• To collaborate with schools and roll out the three pillars of trauma informed care in early childhood educational settings
• To implement a multi – prong approach where practitioners working with kids, kids and families are addressing and responding to challenging childhood behaviours via a shared trauma informed lens
• Introducing the Grow Emotion Regulation Tool Kit for practitioners working with kids , practitioners, therapists and counsellors.

Presenters:

Phyllis Traficante Master of Counselling
Latrobe University
Gestalt therapist
Embodied play practices for healing attachment trauma in adults and children combining Somatic Experience and IAFT- US based training
Somatic Experience Practitioner/Global training assistant

Anna Skolarikis
Somatic Experience Practitioner 
Gestalt Therapy Australia
Australia College of Applied Psychology
Eye of the Needle Training (1) – Peter Levine United States

This course counts towards 3 hours of category A CPD.

Click here to register https://restoringresilience.com.au/product/working-with-kids/