Workshops

Training Workshops

All of our workshops are 2-hours in length except for Parenting with Trauma in Mind which can be delivered as either a 3-hour or 6-hour workshop.

The Art of Repair

We all make mistakes and say and do things that hurt our relationships with others. This could be a spouse, coworkers, friends, or a child. How we handle these relationship “ruptures” is crucial to sustaining healthy and supportive relationships. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always come easy. Our kids see us make mistakes and we are modeling how to handle things when we mess up. Although we wish it never happened, times like these can be very valuable teachable moments and can ultimately even make the relationship stronger.

This workshop will explore how to get relationships back on track after adversity, discuss what tends to gets in our way, and review steps to an effective apology. Repairing ruptures in a relationship is a key skill in helping our children navigate challenges and is also vital to keeping things from escalating into something more serious. Additionally, this skill will determine how our kids handle ruptures with others when they are adults.

Better Together

Parenting vulnerable children can often bring relationship problems to the surface. We can blame those issues on our kids, or we can recognize that we need to work through our histories while growing in relationship with our spouse.

In this workshop, we will look at the covenant of marriage that God designed, what we bring to the relationship, and why we might be struggling to stay connected spiritually, emotionally, and physically to our spouse. We will discuss how we can collaborate in our parenting, communicate with each other effectively, and address conflict as we parent kids with a trauma history.

When Two Worlds Collide

The greatest times of conflict in relationships often arise when one person’s history intersects with another person’s history. Parenting is no different. Some of the toughest moments in parenting occur when my child’s history and beliefs collide with my history, motivations, and expectations.

This workshop will help participants to understand the impacts of hard places on our children and how compassion and empathy should be the appropriate responses to expressed needs. At the same time, we will walk attendees through how their own histories and experiences inform how they respond to their children.

Lying and Other Challenging Behaviors

In working with parents for many years, we often come across parents who are simply exhausted by challenging behaviors. They understand that their child has experienced trauma, but have lost compassion and don’t have a plan of attack for these behaviors and end up resorting to yelling, threats, and other disconnected parenting strategies.

In this workshop we will touch on lying, stealing, and disrespect, big behaviors that can be a huge trigger for parents. We will remind caregivers of how trauma impacts the brain, how to look for the need behind the behavior, and will give parents and caregivers a practical problem-solving checklist to work through challenging behaviors in a way that builds connection and trust.

Nurturing Care

This workshop is intended to give caregivers very practical first steps to connecting with their kids. Often time caregivers are told that they need to connect more, but they don’t know where to start. Nurture groups are one of the first things we teach parents who are struggling with kids’ behaviors at home. The structure of a nurture group is easy to follow and gives parents a road map to connection.

This workshop will show parents and caregivers how to incorporate fun activities such as feeding, role play, games, and feelings. We will spend time talking through the key components of a nurture group: connecting in relationship, giving and receiving nurture, and teaching life skills.

Trauma and The Brain

The primary casualty of trauma is the brain. Every other negative outcome is because our brains have been impacted by abuse (physical, emotional, sexual), neglect (physical, emotional), and other adverse experiences. These experiences cause the brain to get mis-wired and it is only through nurturing care, patience, and the presence of a caring, available and present caregiver that we can change the wiring of the brain and profound levels of healing can occur.

This workshop will help parents understand the impacts of their children’s’ histories and help them understand the role fear plays in their own lives. Understanding the brain is key to healing the brain.

Parenting with Trauma in Mind

Parenting kids who have experienced trauma requires a unique set of parenting tools. Often parents read a lot of books, but find it hard to know how to put these strategies into practice. As parents who have walked this journey we will give insights from our own parenting journey that will help parents who have lost compassion for the kids living in their home get back on track.

This workshop teaches and reinforces the fact that we are made, by a loving God, to connect in relationship with others. We will learn about trauma and how it impacts our kids. We will learn what creates healthy attachment in children and empower parents with tools and strategies to effectively meet the needs of their children in order to build trust.

Parents will leave with a holistic understanding of the impacts of trauma, as well as an understanding of the physical and emotional needs of children. The role of nutrition, hydration, sleep, and sensory play in their children’s lives. They will also leave with a plan to begin implementing these at home.

Workshop Interest Form

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