Transforming Tears and Tantrums Webinar-- tools to guide children age 0-12 through the emotional storms of growing up
Live Training
Thursday 8/22 11am-2pm PST
Register Here
Training Description
This training will teach those who support system involved youth a framework to understand the neurobiological basis for difficult behavior in children and 3 specific strategies to use with their youth to teach their caregivers in order to support the psychological and emotional wellbeing of system involved youth who have a history of trauma and attachment injuries.
Learning Objectives
· Participants will acquire a framework to understand how difficult behavior in children is driven by the brain’s limbic system, and why this is particularly relevant to system involved youth who live in out of home care.
· Participants will identify 3 specific strategies for the provision of attachment-based and trauma-informed support to system involved youth.
· Participants will be able to explain the ways the emotional brain works and identify at least 2 ways that impacts system involved youth behavior and at least one game caregivers can play to help children heal.
Agenda
11:00-11:10am Welcome and Introductions
11:10-11:15am Introduction to the Hand in Hand Parenting 5 tools & 3 we will focus on today
11:15-11:30am The Neuroscience of the Tantrum and Recovery Process
11:30-11:45am How Loving Limits help the Process
11:45am-12:05pm Parenting Styles Discussion and Outcomes
12:05-12:30pm Parenting by Connection and Limbic Release as Authoritative Parenting
12:30-1:00pm Lunch Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)
1:00-1:15pm The Hand in Hand Parenting Tool Staylistening
1:15-1:30pm The Hand in Hand Parenting Tool Listening Partnerships
1:30-1:45pm The Hand in Hand Parenting Tool Playlistening
1:45-2:00pm Questions & Answers and Wrap-up
Meet Our Trainer
Karen Wolfe, MA is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Hand in Hand Parenting Instructor, and the founder of SF Bay Play Therapy Family Counseling Center serving families in San Francisco, Oakland, and through telehealth throughout California. She has been supporting children and families since 2002 and her specialty is working with families of children with sensory, social, or learning differences as well as an emerging passion for working with LGBTQ+ youth. She is passionate about empowering children to feel whole and heard in this world made for adults, and helping parents find their authentic voice as a parent in a way that heals their own wounds from childhood and adds more laughter and ease into family life. She has served as the president of the San Francisco chapter of the Association for Play Therapy and leads trainings and workshops for parents, schools, counselors, and couples. She and the other clinicians at SF Bay Play Therapy offer child and family play therapy, parent coaching, social skills groups, and emotionally focused couples therapy. They have been on the forefront of creating trainings for the new method of tele play therapy. You can find more information and past trainings at www.SFBayPlayTherapy.com.
This course meets the qualifications for (2.5) BBS CE hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.
Thursday 8/22 11am-2pm PST
Register Here
Training Description
This training will teach those who support system involved youth a framework to understand the neurobiological basis for difficult behavior in children and 3 specific strategies to use with their youth to teach their caregivers in order to support the psychological and emotional wellbeing of system involved youth who have a history of trauma and attachment injuries.
Learning Objectives
· Participants will acquire a framework to understand how difficult behavior in children is driven by the brain’s limbic system, and why this is particularly relevant to system involved youth who live in out of home care.
· Participants will identify 3 specific strategies for the provision of attachment-based and trauma-informed support to system involved youth.
· Participants will be able to explain the ways the emotional brain works and identify at least 2 ways that impacts system involved youth behavior and at least one game caregivers can play to help children heal.
Agenda
11:00-11:10am Welcome and Introductions
11:10-11:15am Introduction to the Hand in Hand Parenting 5 tools & 3 we will focus on today
11:15-11:30am The Neuroscience of the Tantrum and Recovery Process
11:30-11:45am How Loving Limits help the Process
11:45am-12:05pm Parenting Styles Discussion and Outcomes
12:05-12:30pm Parenting by Connection and Limbic Release as Authoritative Parenting
12:30-1:00pm Lunch Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)
1:00-1:15pm The Hand in Hand Parenting Tool Staylistening
1:15-1:30pm The Hand in Hand Parenting Tool Listening Partnerships
1:30-1:45pm The Hand in Hand Parenting Tool Playlistening
1:45-2:00pm Questions & Answers and Wrap-up
Meet Our Trainer
Karen Wolfe, MA is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Hand in Hand Parenting Instructor, and the founder of SF Bay Play Therapy Family Counseling Center serving families in San Francisco, Oakland, and through telehealth throughout California. She has been supporting children and families since 2002 and her specialty is working with families of children with sensory, social, or learning differences as well as an emerging passion for working with LGBTQ+ youth. She is passionate about empowering children to feel whole and heard in this world made for adults, and helping parents find their authentic voice as a parent in a way that heals their own wounds from childhood and adds more laughter and ease into family life. She has served as the president of the San Francisco chapter of the Association for Play Therapy and leads trainings and workshops for parents, schools, counselors, and couples. She and the other clinicians at SF Bay Play Therapy offer child and family play therapy, parent coaching, social skills groups, and emotionally focused couples therapy. They have been on the forefront of creating trainings for the new method of tele play therapy. You can find more information and past trainings at www.SFBayPlayTherapy.com.
This course meets the qualifications for (2.5) BBS CE hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.
Recorded Webinar Version
Transforming Tears and Tantrums Webinar-- tools to guide children through the emotional storms of growing upLearn how to transform tears, fears, and tantrums in this 1-hour webinar by child and family therapist, Karen Wolfe.
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What if you had the tools to help turn emotional outbursts into healing moments for you and your child?
This talk explains what goes on the brain and mind of a child who is stuck in their emotions and what you can do to help. This incredibly simple yet profound tool called "Staylistening" is one of the five Tools used by millions of parents who have learned Hand in Hand Parenting. Let it transform the power struggles in everything from school refusal to morning routine woes, difficulty getting off devices, hearing no, and even ease bedtime fears. Experienced child and family therapist, Karen Wolfe, MFT will guide you through what happens when kids behavior and feelings challenge us the most and a new way to help us all get through the other side calmer and more connected. www.SFBayPlayTherapy.com |