Applications in Resilience: The Anger Volcano Monday, November 11, 2024
Mon, Nov 11
|Cincinnati
Time & Location
Nov 11, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Cincinnati, 4633 Aicholtz Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45244, USA
About the Event
Neuroscience is demonstrating that some of the most challenging behaviors connected with toxic stress and trauma are actually biologically based fear responses more related to fear-based dysregulation than intractable behavior. As Maureen Walker reminds, “Strategies for disconnection are an intense yearning for connection in an atmosphere of fear.” In this interactive presentation, we will examine how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and compounding adverse toxic stressors (CATS) create repeated fear responses and disrupt the feeling of safety in our bodies needed for the parts of our brains that allow us to connect, work cooperatively with others and learn to work. This makes embodied safety, the ability to feel safe as well as be safe, as important to those of us who work with families experiencing toxic stress as it is for the youth and families we serve. Setting power struggles aside, we will explore every day, brain-based interventions to help all of…