Workshop Description:

This in-house two-day workshop with Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario integrates the theory and practice of the interplay between attachment, self-regulation, developmental trauma, sensory issues and postural control. Participants will develop an understanding of the use of relational attunement as a regulatory influence that supports and stabilizes arousal and the sensory processing systems. Backed with multi-disciplinary research and over 35 years’ experience, the focus will be on practical trauma interventions, compassionate dialoguing skills, sensory strategies, postural control, and movement techniques that are coupled with attachment theory and relational process work. Learning will be facilitated through lecture, story-telling, group problem-solving from case examples, role plays and active reflection. Strategies will be emphasized that are appropriate in a wide variety of contexts with a diverse pediatric mental health population. 

Workshop Objectives and Schedule::

Participants will be able to: 

• Explain how attachment strategies are functionally adaptive in relation to developmental trauma.

• Discuss how the use of relational attunement skills and therapeutic use of self can stabilize arousal and support sensory processing issues.

• Develop a repertoire of sensory processing strategies for the treatment of trauma

• Understand how trauma impacts postural control.

• Learn to provide treatment intervention to the postural and movement system to affect change in the emotional responses to trauma (treating trauma through the body).

• Problem solve use of interventions with diverse populations and in various contexts.

Day One:

8:30 - 10:15 Attachment strategies as functional adaptation to danger.

10:30 – 12:00   The art of regulation through relationship: lecture and video.

1:00 - 4:30        The interconnection between trauma, arousal and sensory processing.

Day Two:

8:30 - 10:15      Sensory processing as treatment of trauma.

10:30 - 12:00    How is trauma exhibited in the postural system?

1:00 - 2:30        Treating trauma through movement and postures

2:45 - 4:30        Problem solving in varied contexts with diverse pediatric mental health populations.

Participants:

In-house participants only at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.

Accreditation: 13.25 MOC Section 1 Credits

Registration:

Participants are to register by email to Johanne Ricard (jricard@cheo.on.ca) by September 30th, 2020. Please note there's limited capacity of 100 registrants!! 

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