Description

Navigating our child’s big feelings can be exhausting. This workshop empowers you with the latest research and tools to not only help your child manage these feelings- but to use these moments to bring you and your child, or the child you are working with, even closer. Children need an adult who can be their anchor through a storm – by the end of this workshop you will know exactly how to do that.

In this workshop, we explore 7 principles that foster emotion regulation and each principle has a toolbox which helps parents, teachers, and caregivers to implement concrete tools and strategies into their home immediately. At the Institute, we are not interested in short term changes, this workshop provides a holistic overview that will equip your child with emotion Against it regulation skills that will empower them as they move through the different chapters of their life.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Your relationship with your child is your superpower– learn how to foster secure attachment so a child is receptive to your interventions
• Gain a better understanding of a child’s brain development and strategies that work with it rather than against it
• You can’t fill from an empty cup: you will learn about how adult self-care relates to emotion regulation in children
• Children don’t communicate in the same way adults do; learn how to speak their language
• Gain an entire toolkit of techniques to guide your child when they are struggling
• Identify strategies to enhance a child’s emotional literacy
• Gain a better understanding of how a child’s physical environment can lead to emotion dysregulation and what changes can be made to foster calm in the child

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

• TOOLBOX: Learn over 20+ strategies to help a child emotionally regulate and ground.
• CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION with 3.0 instructional hours endorsed by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association.
• RESOURCES: Workbook to complete and access to several mental health and parenting resources
• SUPPORT:​Access to the instructors who teach each course should any questions arise.
• HELP ON DEMAND:Access to the instructor via email at any time.
• SELF PACED STUDY:No timeline for completion of the course.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR:
This presentation is appropriate for parents, educators, child care professionals, caregivers, and mental health professionals.

DISCLAIMER:
All courses offered by ICP are for individual use only. Using them for corporate/group training, or shared purposes are a violation of copyright law. Furthermore, all products/services provided by the Institute of Child Psychology, along with all workshop materials, are strictly for educational purposes only and cannot be categorized as psychological or mental health services.

UNABLE TO AFFORD REGISTRATION?
We offer subsidized tickets to those who have limited income!
Please contact our administration team for further assistance at support@instituteofchildpsychology.com.

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

Tania Johnson, M.C., R.Psych, RPT

Tania is a Registered Psychologist and a Registered Play Therapist. She completed her undergraduate studies in South-Africa before engaging in a one year, full time internship in Chicago at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. In 2012, she received my Masters of Counselling from City University of Seattle. During her Master’s degree, she worked both on the front lines and as a counsellor with foster and adoptive families who faced a range of emotional, behavioural, and cognitive challenges.

Since completing her degree, she has worked in a private practice setting with children, teens, adults and families.  She works primarily from an attachment based perspective. This means that she works with clients to explore how early relationships affect how we come to understand our self, other people and the world.

Tania endeavours to always approach her clients and professional work with respect, honesty, integrity and warmth.