During this three day series, participants will:

• explore how to recognize and respond to three internal states that dictate the ability of adults and children to connect, learn, and problem-solve.
• discover how to recognize and respond to adults and children operating from a Survival State by increasing a felt sense of safety to help them access higher brain states.
• learn how to model the skills of encouragement, choices and empathy to create a connected, compassionate culture for learning where caring, kindness and contribution are the norm.
• apply the skills of positive intent and consequences in ways that encourage healthy self-regulation, yielding the ability to control impulses, solve conflicts and regulate emotions.

Participants will receive a course workbook, a copy of Conscious Discipline: Building Resilient Classrooms, and additional hands-on tools to support implementation. Personalized follow-up modeling and coaching from the SST2 Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant as well as monthly virtual office hours will also be available.

This three day training is designed for early childhood (Preschool - third grade) teams who are interested in enhancing social/emotional skills in both adults and children. Teams MUST include all teachers and paraprofessionals. Building administrators and related service providers are also encouraged to attend with their team. Participants MUST attend all three days.

This training is Ohio Approved. Participants will receive 24 Ohio Approved professional development hours upon completion of all training dates. One team member can register your full group below through the Google Form. Two graduate credit hours are also available through Ashland University. If interested, please enroll using the button below. We wish you well!

• Examine traditional discipline, reflecting on how we’ve disciplined in the past and why we have continued this pattern.

• Discover one value system that integrates the way we feel on the inside with the way we behave on the outside.

• Explore the mindset shift necessary to help remain conscious, even in the most challenging moments • Understand that permanent behavior change requires us to manage our inner states so we can change how we respond to others.

• Explore how to be a co-regulator with children while strengthening our self-regulation skills. • Identify the skills and behaviors of the Survival State, Emotional State and Executive State.

• Utilize the Conscious Discipline Brain State Model to illustrate how to integrate and wire the brain for optimal development.

• Discuss the shift from a factory model of education to a family model, with the goal of creating an optimal school culture.

• Examine how intrinsic motivation to achieve, learn and be of service is more effective than relying on external manipulation.

• Discover the transformative power of the School Family and the Connected Home Family, and how they lay the groundwork for a safe, connected culture where problem-solving is possible.

• Practice using strategies for taking back our power.

• Discover ways to change destructive trigger thoughts into healthy self-talk and active calming. • Explore ways to download calm and answer the question “Am I safe?” using the Skill of Composure.

• Examine the Safe Place as a self-regulation learning center so children and adults can practice the Skill of Composure.

• Utilize the Power of Attention to focus on what we want • Discover how to access and develop an assertive voice.

• Apply the Skill of Assertiveness through visuals to increase compliance.

• Examine the necessary steps to empower children to use their BIG Voice in times of conflict.

• Identify ways to shift from a culture of “us” and “them” to a culture of “we” with unity as its goal.

• Recognize how being of service can function as a powerful replacement for external rewards.

• Practice the language of encouragement to highlight acceptance and unconditional love.

• Explore the School Family and Connected Home Family structures to help children practice the Skill of Encouragement.

• Understand that power comes from choice, not force.

• Learn ways to help children build self-esteem by offering them two positive choices.

• Recognize the Power of Free Will and the fact that the only person we can make change is ourselves.

• Discover ways to help children reframe blame and take responsibility for their actions and choices.

• Explore how managing our inner states is a prerequisite to resolving conflicts.

• Determine how to shift from negating our feelings to accepting and managing them in the moment.

• Discover ways to help children take ownership of their feelings as we guide them through emotional regulation.

• Examine how to handle fits, tantrums and emotional upset in a way that wires the brain for self-control.

• Understand that in order for children to behave differently, we must see them differently.

• Discover how the Skill of Positive Intent can turn resistance into cooperation.

• Practice effective ways to respond to physical and verbal aggression.

• Learn and apply the steps for teaching children to resolve conflicts with others.

• List the five realities of effective consequences.

• Understand there are three types of consequences.

• Discover how the Power of Intention can foster responsibility, reflection and willingness to change.

• Discuss how the Executive Skills are instrumental in problem solving.