Hosted by the Resilience Project 

The Resilience Project is funded by Ohio DODD and OhioMHAS

and administered by Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

   

Healing the Fear That Hides, Looking for Dopamine in all the Wrong Places, Interventions for Biological Based Fear Responses

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FEE: FREE

CEUs: 3.0

Neuroscience is demonstrating that some of the most challenging behaviors connected with toxic stress and trauma 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.” In this interactive presentation and discussion, we will examine how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and compounding adverse toxic stressors (CATS) create repeated fear responses and disrupt the feeling of safety in our bodies needed for the attachment and regulation centers of the brain to work properly.  This makes embodied safety, the ability to feel safe as well as be safe, as important to those of us who work with families experiencing toxic stress as it is for those we serve. Setting power struggles aside, we will explore everyday, brain-based interventions to help all of us replace challenging, fear-based interactions with embodied safety, growth and hope.

Objectives:  Participants will be able to: 

1. Identify ACEs and CATS impact on the brain and the body resulting in fear-based dysregulation traditionally seen as chronic, challenging behaviors.
2. Identify and use resilience-based approaches to fear-based dysregulation behaviors like aggression, self-harm, risk taking, oppositional-defiance.   
3. Identify and demonstrate techniques for helping themselves and others experience felt safety
4. Identify and practice non-adversarial, collaborative and calming approaches to addressing fear-based dysregulation.

Presenter: Mary Vicario is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Supervisor (LPCC-S) and a Certified Trauma Specialist who holds a Certificate in Traumatic Studies from Bessel van der Kolk’s Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute.  In 2007, she founded Finding Hope Consulting to address the gap in training available to communities by translating cutting edge relational neuroscience into everyday activities that anyone can use to promote healing, resilience and hope. Through interactive and entertaining presentations, Finding Hope brings the neurobiology of hope to life with a focus on supporting underserved populations and creating trauma-responsive communities.  Ms. Vicario’s 35 years experience includes being an educator, counselor, People to People American Counseling Association delegate to China and Mongolia; guest lecturing and participating in a conference on human trafficking in Germany, co-authoring the Foster Parents' Survival Guide, a journal article on Relational-Cultural Play Therapy, trauma responsive curricula for individuals with Intellectual and Development Disabilities (IDD) and a textbook chapter in S. Smith-Adcock and C. Tucker Eds. (2016), Counseling Children and Adolescents:  Connecting Theory, Development and Diversity for Sage Publishing.  Each day, Mary’s father asked her, “What did you do today, to make the world a better place?”  She hopes her audiences leave knowing one more way they can do just that.       

Continuing Education                                                                                                                                            Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists: The Child Focus, Inc. Training Center is approved through the Ohio Counselor and Social Worker Board. This program is offered for 3.0 clock hours of continuing education for counselors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists. Social Work Provider#: RSX129410 Counselor Provider#: RCX029503 Marriage and Family Therapist Provider#: RTX091001                                                                                                                                               Psychologists: The Child Focus, Inc. Training Center is approved by the Ohio Psychological Association MCE program to offer continuing education for Ohio psychologists. This program is offered for 3.0 clock hours of continuing education for psychologists. Child Focus, Inc., 00PD-3109-52668, maintains responsibility for the program.                                                                                                                                    Department of Development Disabilities-3.0 clock hours pending approval.                                                                                                                   

Please note:  Because we are not able to control the room temperature to fit everyone’s needs, we encourage you to dress in layers to better accommodate your personal comfort level.

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