Emotional Poverty 2

Has teaching ever felt more stressful?

External pressures, environmental factors, previous experiences, fear, anger—all these and more create stress and tension in the classroom. Emotional distress interrupts and can harm—even destroy—effective teaching, learning, and emotional wellness in teachers and students.

But how do these emotions develop in you and your students? The fact is many of us suffer from some form of emotional poverty. Think of it as an absence of emotional resilience or resources. Written for educators, not psychologists, Emotional Poverty, Volume 2 helps you understand and overcome emotional poverty so you can build more effective classrooms and safer schools.

Emotional Poverty 1

This workshop is for individuals who work with children and adolescents and need a vocabulary and strategies for addressing emotional issues. The workshops on emotional poverty translate clinical research into understandings. Ruby's hope is that this workshop will give educators and other care providers the basic language for naming the emotional issues and provide strategies to address the behaviors.

The workshop objectives:

1. Provide educators tools to read the emotional body language of students.
2. Provide strategies for regulation of behavior from the prefrontal cortex.
3. Identify key issues in the brain development of adolescents.
4. Understand the hippocampus and its creation of stories that guide behavior and identity.
5. Learn strategies to reduce adult stress and compassion fatigue.
6. Use a brain-based approach to the emotional realities of parents and parenting.

You will gain:

• Practical strategies for creating a more emotionally healthy classroom
• Deeper understandings of adolescent brain development
• Cues to recognize emotional stress in yourself and students
• Techniques to develop a student’s prefrontal cortex and build emotional resilience
• Tools to overcome your stress, compassion fatigue, or secondary traumatic stress
• Solutions for dealing with angry, emotional parents and other adults

Teachers

Administrators

Paraprofessionals

Social Workers

Psychologists

OTs

PTs

SLPs

Any staff that work directly with students

👇 Register At The Link Below 👇

👇 Register At The Link Below 👇

Lapeer County ISD Education & Technology Center

690 N Lake Pleasant Rd, Attica, MI 48412

Each participant will receive Ruby Payne's book.

Disclosures: The planners and speakers have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

For Questions, Please Contact the presenter: Alisha Wolfsen, LMSW (awolfsen@lapeerisd.org)

Kay Balcer, TCHP Director

Karolyn McEntee, TCHP Program Specialist

Melissa Deming, TCHP Program Specialist

Thumb Community Partnership sponsored the books with funding from the Thumb Opioid Response Consortium through a Rural Communities Opioid Response Program grant- HRSA, DHHS!

For Questions, Please Contact the presenters: Alisha Wolfsen, LMSW (awolfsen@lapeerisd.org)