Lunch & Learn Series | Finding Hope Consulting

Upcoming Dates & Topics

• Hardwired for Connection | Tuesday, March 3rd

  • ​Summary

    • Connection is our greatest need and disconnection is our greatest fear. This training explores this statement all the way down to a cellular level looking at the power of relationships to shape our brains, bodies, and behavior. It also celebrates the ability of the brain to continue to heal and grow over the lifespan and explores ways to explain and promote that healing and growth in a healthcare setting

  • Objectives

    • Understand the centrality of relationships in human growth and development, how the quality of relationships affects brain development and the healing power of empathic connection.

• When Connection Goes Awry: Exploring our Fear Cascade and How to Engage it for Healing and Growth | Tuesday, April 7th

  • ​Summary

    • Felt safety is the cornerstone of our ability to connect and regulate. Yet, at times we may be safe, but not feel safe. This can be an all too common occurrence in a medical setting. Our outward response to loss of felt safety may vary, but neurobiologically there is a pattern, which can help us, and those we are supporting, find the way back to felt safety. The “Fight or Flight” response tells part of the story of
      how we respond to stress (loss of felt safety). We will dive into our full stress response cycle and explore tools to help us end the battle to stop “behavior” and shift to helping ourselves and others create the resilience, belonging and courage to work cooperatively.

  • Objectives

    • Use the Fear Cascade and Cliffs of Safety to identify the survival skills learned in both safe and unsafe relationships.

    • Engage Lift Off, Landing, and Cooling Your Jets to identify the connections between safety and comfort.

• Resilience and You: Building Resilience in Ourselves and Those We Serve and Support | Tuesday, May 5th

  • Summary​

    • ​Learn the top five resilience factors found in those who have experienced trauma and moved beyond it.Explore your role, even during a one-time interaction, in helping those you serve develop resilience, as well as how to use the same skills to support yourself in this important and difficult work.

  • Objective

    • ​Understand the five resilience factors found in people who overcome and do not recreate their traumatic experiences.​

• Trauma and Resilience on a Cellular Level | Thursday, May 28th

  • Summary

    • ​Jean Baker Miller noted, long before we could see inside that brain, that all growth occurs in connection and all connection is embedded in culture. Relational neuroscience is providing evidence that supports that statement. The many cultures in which our relationships are embedded is explored from family, work, school, community, and broader societal cultural. The nuance of differing culture can impact our work with patients and their compliance with care in subtle ways. We will identify some basic trauma and culturally responsive interventions, so you leave understanding, not only what hurts, but also how to help.

  • Objective

    • ​Know the Impact of Social Physical Pain Overlap Theory (SPOT), The Mirror NeuronSystem, and Neurotransmitters We Know and Love in a healthcare setting.

• Not All Abuse is Created Equal | Tuesday, June 23rd

  • Summary

    • Trauma and toxic levels of stress, like the individuals who experience it, are not all the same. We will explore different types of trauma and toxic stress to see the impact it has on those experiencing it and how we can help in a variety of healthcare settings.

  • Objective​

    • Upon completion of this training participants will be able to distinguish between Mood Syntonic vs. Mood Dystonic Abuse; PTSD vs. Complex PTSD to have an expanded context for intervention.

• The Power of Context | Tuesday, July 28th

  • Summary​

    • When we switch the question from, “What’s wrong with you?” (uniformed) to “What’s happened to you?” (Trauma Informed) and then to “What did you do to survive?” (trauma responsive), we can more clearly see trauma’s effect on the brain, body, and behavior. Since trauma is processed and stored in nonverbal parts of the brain, expressive and interactional interventions for a healthcare setting will be identified to benefit people of all ages and ability levels and including those with preverbal trauma.

  • Objective

    • Biologically Based Fear Responses: What are they, how do they develop,and how can we help?

• Lying, Manipulating and Stealing, Oh My! Biologically Based Fear Responses | Tuesday, August 25th​​

  • Summary

    • Neuroscience is demonstrating that some of the most challenging behaviors found in people seeking help 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.”

  • Objective

    • Explore traditional and emerging neuroscience-based understandings of chronic, challenging behaviors like aggression, self-harm, suicidality, risk taking, oppositional-defiance.

• Noncompliance, Defiance, and Aggression: More Biologically Based Fear Responses | Tuesday, September 22nd

  • Summary​

    • Setting power struggles aside, we will explore how the brain heals itself and identify every day, brain-based interventions to help individuals of all ages and ability levels work with healthcare providers to increase compliance and replacement behaviors to decrease challenging behaviors.

  • Objective

    • Exploring and practicing collaborative, non-adversarial approaches to addressing non-compliance and chronic, challenging behaviors.

• The Healing Power of Connection: Building Felt Safety, Healing, Resilience, and Hope | Tuesday, October 6th

  • Summary

    • Since trauma memories are not checked at the door and needed healthcare interventions can often setoff trauma triggers, responses, and survival skills, this training coordinates trauma informed care into a framework that can be used by anyone working with trauma survivors. It includes the three stages of positive trauma resolution, the five resilience factors found in people who move beyond their traumatic experiences, and how to engage them to build felt safety, increase cooperation, and compliance in a healthcare setting.

  • Objective

    • The three stages of positive trauma resolution and how to address them with survivors.

• Self-Care: Who Has Time for That?! | Tuesday, November 3rd

  • Summary​

    • Care for the Caregiver is an expression we often hear, but what does it mean really? Together let’s explore types of self-care, barriers to self-care, and things we can do for ourselves in small sustainable ways.

  • Objective

    • Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:

      • Identify the domains of self-care.

      • Identify and address barriers to self-care.

      • Identify and engage in Micro and Macro self-care.