Treating Traumatic Stress in Kids: Sensory, Yoga & Mindfulness Techniques to Rewire the Young Brain

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Victoria Grinman, PhD, LCSW, is the founder of Permission Slip Parenting™, a groundbreaking approach to guiding parents in connecting to a more fulfilled parenthood journey that supports their joy, confidence and sustained connection and growth with themselves and their child throughout their lifetime. She is an expert in the experience of posttraumatic growth, the parenthood experience, autism and relationships.

Dr. Grinman earned her PhD at Adelphi University and Master of Social Work at Columbia University. She served as a contributing lecturer at Columbia University, Boston College and Adelphi University, and speaks nationally to professionals dedicated to the healthcare arena. Victoria is a trauma-informed and trained yoga and mindfulness instructor, a certified aromatherapist and a dedicated long-time clinician volunteer for Experience Camps, a free one-week grief camp experience for children who have lost a significant person in their life. She nurtures Growing Kind Minds LLC, a private therapy and coaching practice and lives with her sassy yorkie, Vanna Goh Goh, named after Vincent van Gogh. She resides in New York City.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Victoria Grinman maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Hudson Valley Professional Development and New York Therapy Placement Services. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Victoria Grinman is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work.

Objectives

1. Analyze trauma from a developmental and psychological perspective.
2. Demonstrate how sleep, eating and learning patterns are related to overall better function through accurate assessment of and understanding of treatment for various challenges in these domains of functioning. 
3. Evaluate how yoga and mindfulness exercises can be used to rewire the brain to become more connected through engagement in exercises that promote interoception and self-evaluation that can be applied with clients
4. Integrate mindfulness techniques to promote more focus, attention and awareness.
5. Demonstrate how soothing the nervous system will promote engagement.
6. Construct effective plans to respond to resistance when sharing yoga and mindfulness with children.

Outline

Unpacking Traumatic Stress for Kids

• Hijackers of executive functioning and emotional balance: Anxiety, panic, fear, toxic stress, worry
• A Whole Look: Developmental, psychological and neuro-biological lens
• Triune Brain: Integrate and engage the three levels
• Key functions compromised by stress and trauma
• Co-regulation and the power of relationship
• Modelling: Mirror neurons and empathy

Prepare Kids Minds and Bodies for Learning & Play

• Special guidelines for a trauma-informed integrative yoga and mindfulness practitioner
• Effective exercises for neuroplasticity: Rewiring the young brain
• Neurointegration to balance the separate regions of the brain

Yoga, Mindfulness & Sensory Techniques: Putting It Into Practice

• Master application of the 7 senses to any technique for increased self-awareness and connection
• Experience 50+ dynamic ready-to-use techniques to address areas of functioning most compromised by traumatic stress in the body:
• Breath
  • Making best use of our anchor
  • Pair breathe with movement
  • Increase motivation through challenge while decreasing resistance
• Embodiment
  • Support kids in using their internal resources to be strong, grounded and balanced
  • Movement with intention and purpose
  • Facilitate self-awareness and insight
• Interoception and Tuning IN
  • First step to self-advocacy: Help kids notice when their bodies are sending a message
  • Listen to the “I” within the body
• Focusing
  • Gain mastery of maintaining and shifting attention
  • Prioritizing stimuli and information
• Relaxation
  • Initiate a relaxation response: Soothe the autonomic nervous system
• Kindness & Gratitude
  • Nurturing compassion for self and others

Integrate Skills Into Daily Life

• Master 15+ seated modifications, partner poses and group games
• Build a take-home tool-bag
• Recipes for handmade tools and props
• Overview of aromatherapy
• Tips for working with different strengths, needs, and abilities: Including Autism, ADHD, deaf community, and many more

Challenges As Opportunities: Responding to Resistance

• The Plan versus The Child
• Expectations and outcomes

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Educators Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapist Assistants
• Physical Therapists
• Physical Therapist Assistants
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Physicians Marriage and Family Therapists
• School Psychologists (NASP)
• Other Helping Professional who work with Children