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Attachment Styles and How to Recognize Them in Children (Part 1)

Do you ever wonder why certain kids (and adults, for that matter) react so differently to relationships? Why one kid might go silent when another one screams? Or why one plays in the corner alone while another one needs constant attention? These are examples of attachment styles in action, and understanding them is essential to raising emotionally healthy kiddos. Part 1 of this series will explore the origin of our attachment system and the four styles of relating that develop. In the second session of this two-part training, we will come to understand why attachment styles are so relevant to adoption, as well as how to tend to the different types in children. Part 1 of 2. (March 2021)

Attachment Styles and How to Recognize Them in Children (Part 2)

Do you ever wonder why certain kids (and adults, for that matter) react so differently to relationships? Why one kid might go silent when another one screams? Or why one plays in the corner alone while another one needs constant attention? These are examples of attachment styles in action, and understanding them is essential to raising emotionally healthy kiddos. Part 1 of this series will explore the origin of our attachment system and the four styles of relating that develop. In the second session of this two-part training, we will come to understand why attachment styles are so relevant to adoption, as well as how to tend to the different types in children. Part 2 of 2. (April 2021)

In this panel, you will hear from adoptees who have “woken up from the adoption fog.” The objective of this panel is to give insight into the process of realizing that adoption is a trauma that impacts adoptees in various aspects of their lives. You will hear about our panelists' journeys through this intense yet extremely healing process. (June 2021)

Are meltdowns, tantrums, and unpredictable outbursts the norm in your home? Do the typical conflicts of family life spin out into total chaos? When your child has challenges with emotional regulation, life feels like a rollercoaster ride. Would you like to bring more enjoyment, peace, and order to your family life? This workshop explores effective strategies for de-escalating your child's reactivity and bringing more enjoyment, peace, and order to your family life. (April 2021)

You have almost certainly heard of Post-Traumatic Stress. In this webinar, we will explore a less well-known but far more hopeful phenomenon: Post-Traumatic Growth. You will learn about the neuroscience of memory and how the body holds trauma — and more importantly, the implications of healing and what this looks like in your child’s body. You will learn practical strategies for how to lend your own nervous system to your child, how to re-member with your littles at home through somatic and rhythmic strategies, and how to quantify healing at home to see that you are making progress with your child. (June 2021)

The human brain is powerful and resilient, but it is also susceptible to developmental delays when the architecture of the brain is compromised by trauma or neglect. As the brain goes from the bottom-up, it's important to understand how this can affect critical periods in child development. Learn brain hacks for encouraging growth, making strong neural connections, and how the right and left hemisphere respond to one another. Discover valuable tools that help the brain heal, mature, and perform better over time. Take away practical skills for increasing your child's confidence, emotional development, and overall brain performance.

This two-hour training takes an in-depth look at the trauma behind behaviors, uncovering the function of these behaviors because there is a function to every behavior. Caregivers will learn to begin the process of responding to youth from a trauma-sensitive perspective. Our experiences and relationships have all laid a foundation for how we react and respond to a variety of situations and experiences. Foster and adopted youth have experienced trauma, and when trauma is woven into experiences and interactions, our parenting behaviors may become inappropriate or maladaptive.

In this presentation, Dr. Dan Siegel explores the nature of the changes in the teenage brain and how they set the stage for changes in adolescent mental, physical, and interpersonal well-being. He also discusses the increased risk-taking and statistically demonstrated heightened chances of harm during this stage. But these negative aspects of adolescence are only one side of the coin of this period of life. Seen from an inside view, adolescence is an essential part of our development and our evolution. This "inside out" approach to the second dozen years of life gives us an exciting new perspective on the essence of adolescence: Emotional intensity, social engagement, novelty-seeking, and creative explorations are not aspects of an "immature" stage of development but actually can be seen as a necessary set of characteristics that are essential for both the individual's development and for the health and adaptation of our species. Further, these features of the teenage brain set the stage for changes that not only shape our life as adolescents, but can surprisingly be seen as essential to thriving in adulthood. How we approach adolescence as a period and adolescents as individuals can make all the difference in how these important years are navigated well. (May 2021)

About the Presenter: Dr. Daniel Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, which educates individuals, families, and communities about insight, empathy, and integration.

Dr. Siegel has published extensively for both professional and lay audiences. He has written five New York Times bestsellers: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence; Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human; Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain; and two books with Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D, entitled The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. His other books include: The Developing Mind; The Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology; Mindsight; The Mindful Brain; and The Mindful Therapist. He has also co-authored The Yes Brain and The Power of Showing Up with Tina Payne Bryson, PhD.

Dr. Siegel also serves as the Founding Editor for the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, which currently contains over seventy textbooks.