You’ve most likely heard the term mindfulness, but are you familiar with how it applies to and impacts parenting?
This approach to interactions with children serves a twofold purpose: bringing awareness to the emotions of all involved and promoting and preserving connection and understanding within the relationship. It’s about responding to situations, rather than reacting, in order to create a positive and safe learning environment.
Take this training to better your understanding of mindfulness, the benefits and potential that it has for both you and your child/ren, and how to incorporate this moment-to-moment awareness into your parenting style in a practical and sustainable way.
In this training, you will learn about:
The three key elements of mindfulness and how to implement a basic mindfulness meditation practice
Mindful parenting and the benefits it has for child/parent/family
Tips to integrate mindful parenting into daily life
Confidence and self-esteem are traits that ready us for life experiences!
They improve the beliefs we have about our own abilities, boost communication skills, strengthen relationships, maintain our mental-health and even determine later in life success. These are certainly the sorts of traits we want to nurture and support in the children we parent, care for and teach.
Join us as we explore the potential of these traits, practical ways to boost both your own self-assurance, and ways to encourage the development of confidence and self-esteem in children.
In this training, you will learn about:
The benefits of building confidence and self-esteem.
How confidence and self-esteem relate to mental health.
Various skills and techniques to support children in boosting their confidence and self-esteem.
Resilience: the ability to “bounce back” from setbacks, to adapt and overcome adversity, to cope with challenges by making use of internal resources and social supports.
Difficult experiences are an inevitable part of life, and so by supporting resilient practices from childhood, we aim to strengthen a child’s ability to overcome both current and later in life stressors. Research has shown that, even though it may have a genetic component, resilience is a skill that you can build.
Take this training to learn more about the protective buffer that resilience offers against stress as well as strategies to help promote and strengthen this trait in the lives of the children you engage with.
In this training, you will learn about:
The importance of resilience in children
Factors that contribute to resilience in children
Various strategies to promote resilience in children
Play is how children explore and make sense of the world. Play is children’s language and toys are children’s words.
When we explore the benefits, especially related to cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development, it’s clear how significant and powerful play really is to a child’s overall growth and wellbeing. Often, we don’t regard play as having an impact on a child’s ability to learn, when in fact it is crucial to supporting things like connecting with others, mastering skills, experimenting and problem-solving and fostering resilience behaviors.
Take this training to learn about the science behind play, the ways in which it impacts a multitude of developmental factors and easy-to-implement tips to creating the ideal play environment within the home or school setting.
In this training, you will learn about:
The benefits of play for children.
The importance of structuring the environment to promote social-emotional development and academic skills through play.
Activities to use with children including everyday items to reinforce the skills learned throughout the presentation.
Empathy is a complex skill that develops over the lifespan and is shaped by genetics, observation, learning, and life experiences.
It creates the foundation for our ability to connect with others and plays a significant role in creating and maintaining meaningful relationships throughout our lives. Modeling, practicing, and reinforcing this skill from a young age helps children achieve different empathy milestones and foster ways of being that serve them as they navigate the world and relationships around them.
Join us as we explore ways in which to nurture and support the development of this important life skill as we parent, care for or teach children on a daily basis.
In this training, you will learn about:
Difference between empathy and sympathy and the three main components of empathy.
Separation anxiety can be a difficult and emotional experience for both a child and his/her parents.
However, depending on the child’s age and developmental milestones, this may be a very natural and healthy response as he/she learns and becomes familiar with the concept of object permanence. Understanding the developmental stages, signs and triggers will help parents, caregivers and teachers navigate whether the child’s experience is to be expected or whether he/she needs additional help and support to overcome the anxiety.
Join us as we explore the concept of separation anxiety and how that may present itself in a child’s emotions and behaviors. We will also introduce techniques that can be incorporated into daily routines, at home and school, to ease anxiety and assist the child in those difficult moments.
In this training, you will learn about:
Signs and triggers of separation anxiety.
Ways to ease children’s separation anxiety.
How to prepare children to start preschool/childcare center.
The role of a teacher is one filled with daily demands and expectations.
It is also, however, one of great responsibility and influence as the potential to shape and impact a young life in a positive way is a significant position. This means ensuring your own health and wellbeing is maintained and supported is crucial. Trauma stories, compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization may be parts of a teacher’s role that aren’t spoken about or addressed very often, but that deserve attention to assist you in understanding, navigating, and overcoming these experiences.
Join us as we explore the effect of hearing traumatic accounts from the children you teach, the impact that it may have on your health and wellbeing, the warning signs to keep in mind, and finally guide you to implementing ways to address and buffer the impact.
In this training, you will learn about:
The risk of secondary trauma and the definition of compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization.
Social-emotional development is a term used to describe important skills that grow and strengthen throughout the lifespan such as emotional awareness, self-regulation, and social interaction.
The foundation of exploring and engaging with the environment as well as building and maintaining positive relationships stems back to the social-emotional development that starts as early as infant attachment to his/her primary caregiver.
Take this brief training if you wish to improve your knowledge of the importance of attachment, the social-emotional stages of development, the benefits of supporting this positive foundation, and effective ways to promote this growth and learning in infants and toddlers.
In this training, you will learn about:
The aspects and importance of social-emotional development of children.
Social-emotional developmental stages for children ages 0-6.
Ways to promote social-emotional development in children
The environment a child spends most time in, aside from his/her home, is school.
It is so important for parents/caregivers, children, and teachers that communication and collaboration are prioritized in order to best support the child’s physical, mental, and emotional learning and growth. Looking for small ways to be involved and to promote a positive parent-teacher relationship, allow the child to feel safe, comfortable, and supported in their schooling space.
Take this brief training to learn helpful techniques to communicate openly with teachers and staff members, address concerns in an effective manner, collaborate on classroom challenges and find sustainable ways to stay involved and in-tune with your child’s school success.
In this training, you will learn about:
The benefits of family involvement in early childhood education.
Ways to communicate with teachers to build positive relationships with them.
How to become more involved in children’s early education.
A Way of Being with Children: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Building Resilience is based on Center for Child Counseling’s manual and reflects over twenty years of experience working with children, combining the science of brain development, child development, and actual practice to enhance positive child-caregiver relationships and resilience.
Whether you’re a parent, a teacher, or a caregiver, this approach is an effective way to interact with the children in your life, providing information and skills to promote positive behaviors and relationships.
If you are a parent, teacher, or professional in Palm Beach County, A Way of Being with Children is FREE for you! Use the promo code: AWOBPBC. Your registration for this 5.5 hour online, on-demand training includes a copy of the 86-page manual!
What is the “A Way of Being with Children” Training?
This training is based on our manual: A Way of Being with Children: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Building Resilience.
Published over sixteen years ago, the manual is based on over twenty years of experience working with children, incorporating the expertise of dozens of mental health and early childhood professionals..
The training contains vital information about childhood development, how children think and grow, and skills to promote positive behaviors and resilience. A Way of Being with Children forms the basis of all our work at Center for Child Counseling. It is a research-based, trauma-informed approach to ‘being’ with children.
What Teachers, Parents, and Caregivers Will Gain From this Training
Whether you’re a parent, a teacher, or other adult caregiver, A Way of Being is an effective approach that will give you essential information, strategies, and skills to enhance your interactions with children.
It’s full of practical advice and it’s an approach that works.
A Way of Being with Children is going to help you build better, deeper connections with the children in your life!
Learning Objectives Include:
Understanding the importance of attitude in relationships,
Understanding the impact of suspending judgement,
Understanding the importance of a positive caregiver-child relationship,
Increased ability to recognize trauma’s impact on development,
Increased knowledge of stages of development,
Increased knowledge in the importance of adult-child relationship and brain development,
The importance of play in children’s development,
The impact of racism and discrimination on children,
Understanding of skills and themes in play therapy,
How to effectively use reflective listening with children,
The difference between encouragement and praise, and
Strategies in managing problematic behaviors in children.
Center for Child Counseling is approved through the Florida Board of Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Mental Health Providers #50-11511.
