A Brain-Based Approach for Parenting Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviours

About the Workshop:

Parenting or supporting kids who have experienced trauma (or have otherwise vulnerable nervous systems) can be overwhelming and confusing. The baffling behaviours you are facing - meltdowns, lying, stealing, manipulation, being spaced-out and in la-la land - come from a vulnerable nervous system that needs support to make co-regulation, connection, and felt-safety possible.

This day-long workshop will help you put on your ‘x-ray vision goggles’ to look past behaviour and see what’s actually causing it.

Participants will leave the workshop with a toolbox full of tools that really work so you can stop playing behavior whack-a-mole. Participants will learn an easy-to-understand model of addressing baffling behaviors based on Robyn’s owl, watchdog, and possum brain.

About the Presenter:

Robyn Gobbel, MSW, has 20 years of practice as a family and child therapist, specializing in complex trauma, attachment and adoption. Her diverse clinical training includes EMDR (including EMDR adapted for children with attachment trauma), Somatic Experiencing, Theraplay, Trust Based Relational Intervention®, Circle of Security Parent Educator, The Alert Program® and Yogapeutics Aerial Yoga Level 1 Teacher Training. Robyn has integrated these training modalities with a foundation of attachment theory and the relational neurosciences to create an attachment-rich, sensory-sensitive, and relational neurosciences supported healing paradigm for children and families.

Robyn consults, teaches, and trains extensively throughout the US. She previously served as an instructor for the Foundations of Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program at Portland Community College as well as with the Adoptive & Foster Family Therapy Post-Graduate Certificate Program. Robyn has served on the working board of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS).

Robyn is the host of The Baffling Behavior Show podcast and best-selling author of Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work (2023).

Accommodation Information:

Group accommodations available at Quattro Hotel and Conference Centre

Standard King Room $169.00 plus HST and Municipal Accommodation Tax (4%). Includes hot continental breakfast.

Reserve by September 9th, 2024 by phone at 705-942-2500

Discount group name “Open Minds”

Host or Publisher Open Minds Core Services Center