Trauma Informed Self-
and Co-Regulation in School Settings Using Energy Medicine and Energy
Psychology
System-involved youth experience
disproportionate levels of stress compared to their non-system-involved youth.
Under stressful situations the amygdala is activated, making it difficult
to learn or make rational decisions. Highly stressed youth and staff in
learning environments have difficulty learning and teaching. Learning and using
self and co-regulating exercise from the field of Energy Medicine and Energy
Psychology provide resources to downregulate the nervous system, which facilitates
learning and teaching. Using a trauma informed approach, participants will
learn how the nervous system is impacted by stress and trauma, techniques to
calm the nervous system and ways to use these techniques to calm and build
resilience in learning settings such as the community that serves youth and
families.
Class Objectives: (what knowledge,
ideas or skills will participants explore, learn, and practice during the
training)
Participants will be able to:
1.
Articulate
how stress and trauma impacts youth’s ability to learn and function in a
learning environment and staff’s ability to maintain a regulated state under
stressful situations;
2.
Explain
how self and co-regulation can calm the nervous system.
3.
Lead
individuals and groups in three or more regulating exercises.
4.
Develop
a plan to integrate exercises into various setting
How can participants utilize their new
skills and knowledge after the training to reinforce their learning?
