SENGinar: Building Resilience and Regulation Skills through Accessible Neuroscience and Connection Strategies

This session will highlight the keys to fostering resilience and bringing emotional stability into the classroom and/or home through co-regulation. This session is rooted in the principle that relationships come first - it only takes one safe, committed adult to help a child grow, heal, and meet their potential. This session will build a foundation of understanding how early adversity and stress can skew the wiring in a child's brain and nervous system, leading

to stress responses and struggles in the classroom and at home.

This session will encourage a paradigm shift when it comes to behaviors the students exhibit in response to pressure and stress. This session will highlight neuroplasticity and how we can re-wire patterns and reactions including a sequence of engagement when a child is dysregulated. This session will dive into the importance

of emotionally safe relationships, creating regulation spaces, the power of mirror neurons and will explain what co-regulation is and isn't. Adult compassion fatigue and burnout will be explored. The concept of blocked care will be explained when bids for connection are rejected. Solutions to for blocked trust and how to heal a child's inner working model through curiosity, acceptance of feelings, and behavior, empathy and play will be highlighted.

Therapeutic dosing will be discussed along with what resilience truly is and how to build it since it is not something we are born with. Finally implementable strategies for conquering stress will be offered.

About the Speaker:

Ginger Healy LCSW started her career as a child abuse investigator, hospital social worker, and school

therapist. She spent 15 years as the social service supervisor at an international adoption agency where

she learned about developmental trauma and attachment needs in children. She is currently a clinical

social worker and the director of programs at the Attachment & Trauma Network. She co-anchors the

podcast “Regulated and Relational”. Ginger is the author of Regulation and Co-Regulation: Accessible Neuroscience that Brings Calm into the Classroom. Ginger is married with four children who have been her

greatest teachers about developmental trauma and neurodivergence.