The Rocket Model of the Brain: Helping Youth to Regulate Emotions

It helps to have an easy model to help youth think about how their brain works.   This workshop will introduce a  model for helping kids understand the different areas of their brain in very simplistic terms, think how their coping skills help them to negotiate to higher levels of thinking, and see what happens when the negative coping skills get deployed.  An important principal of this workshop is that we need to have all areas of the brain firing to get to our highest level of functioning.   We often focus more on making sure that the prefrontal cortex is working while minimizing  the value of the other parts.    The workshop will cover the basic structure and science of the brain and allow participants to practice using their own  simply drawn rocket model.   This is a simple tool, once learned that can easily be used with youth, and even adults to help them think through their reactions and coping skills to keep them emotionally regulated. 
 
Learning Objectives

1.  Participants will understand the basic structure of the brain in terms that are easy to explain to children
2. Participants will see how coping skills and connections release hormones that help the brain to function effectively
3. Participants will have an easy tool to use with kids that can be used whenever you have paper and pencil available
4. Participants will be able to practice the use of the the tool

The fee for this training is $40, which includes 2 continuing education hours.