Why your brain creates trauma

The Road Less Travelled

M. Scott Peck's 'The Road Less Travelled,' stands as a timeless classic that blends psychology, spirituality, and self-help to provide a comprehensive guide to personal growth. The book's central theme revolves around the inevitability of life's challenges and the need to confront and overcome them for true maturity and fulfillment.

Peck introduces the concept of delayed gratification, asserting that mature individuals can defer immediate pleasures for long-term goals, particularly relevant in addressing anxiety. The book also explores discipline, responsibility, and love as crucial elements in personal development. Peck, drawing on his psychiatric background, intertwines psychology and spirituality, making the book valuable for a holistic approach to self-discovery.

The Road Less Travelled contains one of the foundational ideas behind our professional training course - Anxiety Coach.

Anxiety Coach for Child & Family Specialists equips professionals with the tools they need to assist caregivers in helping their children manage and reduce anxiety. CLICK HERE to learn more.

Why your brain creates trauma | Lisa Feldman Barrett

Leading neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges the popular notion that trauma resides solely in the body. She asserts that trauma is rooted in the brain’s predictions and the construction of our experiences. When an adverse experience becomes traumatic, the brain heavily weighs and anticipates that experience in its future predictions. This ongoing prediction and re-experiencing of the traumatic event strengthens the neural connections associated with it, making the predictions more likely to occur in the future.

Anxiety Coach™

The course is based on three underlying perspectives: first, by having an understanding of how anxiety develops, community and family support workers can assist parents to counter its progress in children. Second, community and family support workers can assist parents to take a preventative role in the development of anxiety problems in 4 -12 year-olds. Third, there are practical steps parents can take to develop resilience thinking skills in 4 -12 year-olds. Previously called No Scaredy Cats. 

Live webinar | Feb 23 | Register via link below

1-2-3 Magic® & Emotion Coaching

1-2-3 Magic® & Emotion Coaching is based on two underlying perspectives on parenting: first, that children can be taught to respond more flexibly when they are frustrated or upset and second, that parents and carers can be taught easy-to-use skills they can use at particular parenting moments. The professional training includes role-play, group discussion, worksheets and videos. 

Live webinar | Mar 15 | Register via link below

Tough Conversations™ for Frontline Staff

 A practical workshop for those at the frontline of a school, council or service organisation to manage difficult, emotional encounters with members of the public.

This workshop provides the practical elements and skills for effectively dealing with offensive behaviour as it arises and what to say to defuse strong emotions. 

Attendees will see video examples of both poorly conducted conversations and, by contrast, more effective conversations. 

Live webinar | Mar 22 | Register via link below

Engaging Adolescents™

Participants will walk away with a renewed sense of confidence about the role they can play in their teenagers’ lives and how they can assist parents to manage teenagers without conversations morphing into arguments.

The professional training includes role-play, group discussion, worksheets, and videos. This one-day course equips professionals with skills to use in their work with teenagers and their parents as well as the knowledge to teach parents the program over three sessions and/or how to teach the tenets of the program in a few one-to-one clinical sessions should you wish to certify to become an Engaging Adolescents™ parent educator.

Live webinar | Apr 10 | Register via link below

Tough Conversations™ in Child Protection

Tough Conversations in Child Protection is a one-day course for child protection professionals and family workers to help them to hold the often-challenging conversations with parents in child protection.

The origin of these child protection workshops arose from a similar series of workshops already being held nationally for school principals. The workshop helps busy professionals to quickly assess and prepare for tough conversations in situations where clarity of message can make all the difference for vulnerable families.

Live webinar | Apr 12 | Register via link below