course »Understanding How Energy Medicine, Energy Psychology and Verbal First Aid Can De-Escalate Crisis Situations in Child Welfare Services

Date: 4/4/2019, 9:15 am—4:45 pm
County: Solano County
CEUs: 6
Location: Fairfield
Sponsor: A Better Way, Inc.
Phone: 510-601-0203
When we are physically or emotionally threatened or hurt our nervous system goes into a fight or flight/sympathetic dominant state. When we are in this survival state we don’t digest well, think clearly or heal quickly. Learn to regulate stress responses, and to address traumatic and difficult experiences in yourself and your clients. In this course, you will learn self-regulating techniques from the field of Energy Medicine, Energy Psychology and Verbal First Aid. You will also learn how the nervous system responds to stress, and how these techniques create a state of calm. Material will be taught through lecture, demonstrations, and dyadic practice.

**Participants can utilize their new skills and knowledge after the training to reinforce their learning by:
  1. Implementing tools learned in the course to develop strategies to combat stress though energy medicine and psychology in work with system-involved families.
  2. Incorporating newly acquired techniques in work with clients.