A Trust-Based Approach to Optimizing Growth & Resilience:

Half-Day 2/26/25

Time: 9:00a - 1:00p PST / 10:00a - 2:00p MST / 11:00a - 3:00p CST /12:00p - 4:00p EST

Virtual Platform: Zoom (Email with registration link will be sent at least 3 business days prior to training date from email address: [email protected])

• Advisors, Educators, Administrators, Ed Assistants, Specialists, Other Secondary & Post-Secondary Staff

• Mental Health Providers, Clinicians, Administrators

• Parents, Caregivers & Advocates

What does it mean for secondary and post-secondary staff to not only gain awareness of the concept of trust-based relationships and growth, but to become equipped in all core principles involved in applied relational neuroscience that will lead to skill growth and post-traumatic resilience?

• CORE PRINCIPLES that clearly define what it means for a system or an individual to interact in ways that apply a "trust-based" approacjh in alignment with the neuroscience of post-traumatic healing and growth
• PROCESSES & TOOLS to assess nervus system state and availability for connection in youth & young adults i order to engage in ways that feel safe and supportive to the individual
• ACTIONABLE STEPS & STRATEGIES for engaging youth and young adults in ways that foster skill growth and safely repattern the nervous system for trust & connection
• APPLICATION to take the information learned and immediately use it to optimize growth and resilience in youth & young adults

This workshop-style training is intended for educators - administrators, classroom teachers, school counselors, educational assistants, etc., and those from other human-serving agencies.

Participants will experience a combination of didactic instruction, visuals, and examples, followed by hands-on creation of a plan to take back to their particular setting to implement with students who struggle due to impacts of trauma, neurodivergence, other causes of chronic challenging behavior.

Rick Bowman's qualifications include:

• M.A. in Clinical Psychology
• Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner - Clinical (CTRP-C®)
• Certified HeartMath and "The Resilience Advantage" Trainer
• Certified Trainer in Collaborative Problem Solving®MGH (Think:Kids, Massachusetts General Hospital)
• K-21 licensed school administrator in the state of Oregon

His training and consultation background has included mental health and human service agencies, non-profits, and corporations, as well as speaking/consulting internationally in Russia, Cuba, and Jamaica.

Rick has been employed as a Clinical Psychologist, Community College Professor, Assistant Principal, Alternative School Director, Student Services Director, and non-profit Assistant Executive Director. His recent implementations of CPS have been:

-- With children in a non-profit alternative middle school and high school setting in the David Douglas School District in Southeast Portland where students face significant barriers to their social, emotional and educational progress such as homelessness, severe poverty, drug & gang involvement, and disengagement from school.

-- With teens in a Long Term Care and Treatment school for students in Level 5 residential foster care who have experienced significant trauma.

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Doris Bowman's qualifications include:

• M.S. in Education/Special Education
• Advanced Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner - Clinical (ACTRP-C®)
• Advanced Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner - Education (ACTRP-E®)
• Certified HeartMath and "The Resilience Advantage" Trainer
• Certified "Stress & Well-Being Assessment" Provider, HeartMath
• Certified Trainer in Collaborative Problem Solving®MGH (Think:Kids, Massachusetts General Hospital)
• K-21 licensed special educator and school administrator in the state of Oregon

Doris has co-authored "Going to Bed is Easy Now", and "Going to School is Easy Now", the first two in a series of children's' books designed to support children with challenging behavior. She has a broad background in special education and behavior consultation with over 20 years experience working with and supporting children with challenging behaviors and their families.

Event Venue

Online