Heidy With a Why: Turning Trauma Research Into Practice!

Heidy LaFleur is a vibrant, positive and common-sense leader with an explosive passion for helping people understand trauma and the critical importance of social emotional learning. Heidy will present Understand my Brain to Understand my Behavior: Turning Trauma Research into Practice throughout the morning and The Language Progression to AVOID Power Struggles & BUILD Relationships: 10 Tools to Proactively Guide Kids These Days in the afternoon.  Heidy’s Soaring Balloons & Heavy Shackles book will be provided courtesy of the Area VI SEL Hub!

Understand my Brain to Understand my Behavior: Turning Trauma Research into Practice Objectives:

• Leave with an understanding of how the brain works and strategies we can follow to help kids become available to learn & take care of ourselves at the same time
• Focus on eight letters of the Social Emotional AlphabetTM partnered with brain-research to take away informed strategies & perspectives
• Be able to discuss the needs of our kids and plan for those needs rather than blame things out of our control

The Language Progression to AVOID Power Struggles & BUILD Relationships: 10 Tools to Proactively Guide Kids These Days Objectives:

• Take away 10+ tools to avoid power struggles
• Learn language to build relationships and be able to lead difficult conversations around behavior
• Continue to develop perspective that success looks different for every child