Full Courses- College Credit Available
Healing Discipline: Finding Joy in Working with Challenging Students
Why this course?
Today’s educators have more responsibilities than ever before. Teachers are increasingly accountable for student performance while trying to manage challenging behavior in the classroom. Many good educators are leaving the profession due to hopelessness and helplessness.
Course Description
This two-day seminar, based on more than 50 years of combined experience in the field of education, is not your typical lecture. It’s a dynamic and interactive learning experience that will equip educators with a better understanding of children who have suffered from disruptive attachment, trauma, and entitlement. Participants will learn about establishing healthy boundaries and building healthy relationships with students. As the educator develops skills and confidence in working with challenging students, they’ll feel more joy and success in their role. This leads to a deeper connection between the educator and student, enhancing the student’s emotional and academic growth and bringing hope back into the field of education. Although the seminar is geared toward educators, mental health professionals, and parents will also benefit.
Educational Goals and Learning Objectives
Participants will:
Understand healthy versus unhealthy child development and its impact on behavior.
Gain a better understanding of the underlying causes of severe behavior, including trauma, attachment, temperament, development, and entitlement.
Understand how your personal history impacts interactions with others, the students, and the clients you work with.
Learn how good relationships, healthy boundaries, and effective communication can improve behavior and foster emotional healing in students and clients.
College Credit Available!
Healing Discipline: Part 2 The Joy Continues
Why this course?
The educational setting is becoming more challenging. Children are coming into our schools without the self-regulation to manage their behavior, sit quietly through a lesson, or follow the educator’s directions. Educators are overwhelmed by the enormity of their responsibilities, the constant disruptions and chaos that ruin their best-laid plans, and feeling the pressure to fix it all.
Course Description
In this two-day conference, we will explore personal needs, priorities, emotional triggers, and the roadblocks that get in the way of caring for ourselves and setting appropriate boundaries with our students. Understanding ourselves helps us set reasonable expectations for our students, establish healthy boundaries, and build strong relationships and teams. This self-awareness prevents us from taking student behavior personally, allowing us to connect in ways that support student healing and create a fun, caring school environment. We will review Healing Discipline Strategies and teach additional techniques for managing student behavior. Participants will be able to create Healing Discipline Behavior Plans they can immediately implement in their classrooms.
This class is a continuation of our first course: “Healing Discipline: Finding Joy in Working with Challenging Students.” While it is helpful to have taken our first course before this one, it is not required. We understand that everyone’s schedule is different, so if you want to take our first course, you can see if we have a live class available or register for the class on demand, providing you with the flexibility to learn at your own pace and convenience.
Goals for 2 days:
Build Self-Awareness & Confidence – Strengthen self-acceptance and skills for working with challenging students.
Deepen personal insight by reflecting on experiences and examining belief systems to better understand how they shape your teaching and discipline philosophy.
Clarify Student Expectations – Understand how lowered expectations have affected our students. Set clear, consistent, and age-appropriate behavior expectations.
Strengthen Trauma-Informed, Accountable Practices – Explore how trauma impacts behavior and emotional development while maintaining clear boundaries and accountability. Learn how to lead with empathy without lowering expectations and how to recognize when trauma-informed practices are misapplied as permissiveness.
Review the Healing Environment and Learn More Behavioral Strategies
Collaborate in Teams – Work effectively with colleagues and families to support student growth.
Create Healing Behavior Plans – Design behavior plans that combine structure/accountability, empathy, and relationship building.
Day 1 we will focus on:
Define Self-Care and Understanding the Roadblocks to Self-Care
Understand your belief system when it comes to your own behavior and your students
Define and Identify Toxic Thoughts in yourself and your students – don’t worry this won’t be shared with the group.
Understand how Feelings and Thinking can get in the way of setting boundaries and what can be done about it.
Understand what it means to be vulnerable
Understand what it takes to work through trauma and it isn’t exactly what you think.
Take a look at your priorities and your expectations about yourself and others.
Day 2 we will focus on:
Set Clear Expectations
Understand the importance of maintaining high expectations around student behavior.
Understand Emotional Regulation
Explain how emotional regulation develops in children.
Apply this understanding to support student behavior.
Use Effective Healing Discipline Strategies
Describe and apply healing-discipline techniques.
Learn how to use Paradoxical Techniques, Tea Talk, and Reinforcements appropriately.
Understand the importance of working as a team and how to manage disagreements on the team, including parents.
Create Individualized Healing Discipline Behavior Plans
Design behavior plans that include the student’s developmental stage
Use The Healing Environment (accountability, structure, relationship-building), that focuses on long-term growth and healing.
College Credit Available!
Book Study: Healing Discipline: Hope for Shattered Lives; A Guide for Educators
Why this course?
In the last decade there has been a significant shift in children’s behaviors. In the past teachers had 1 or 2 students every few years that had significant behavior concerns. Now teachers are seeing an increase where they may have a handful of students every year that cause significant disruption to the learning environment. This has had a huge impact in the school setting. Teachers are no longer able to just teach as they are spending a large amount of time trying to manage students’ behaviors. This is occurring at the same time where there has been an increase in accountability for students’ academic performance. This increase in responsibility has been a drain on teachers. Teachers have reported that they often feel like they are in a domestic violence situation with their students. Never knowing when their students are going misbehave or explode.
In this book we will address the dynamics of the behavior, the manipulation and unhealthy control the students are trying to obtain. We have faith and belief the child can change. It is important for the educators to feel support and be heard while implementing strategies where there is an opportunity for authentic behavior change.
This book is about hope—hope that we can establish change in situations that appear hopeless. As we begin to understand our own strengths, weaknesses, histories, and the causes of severe behavior we can then learn how to implement strategies to set up a healing environment for these children. The strategies we recommend are ones that the educator can implement, feel good about and have faith in. This will give our students an opportunity to heal, grow and mature. We want to bring hope to children coming from shattered lives and joy back for the educator and in the school settings!
Educational Goals
- Develop Trauma-Informed Practices
Cultivate an understanding of how trauma and attachment influence child development and equip educators with strategies to support healing and resilience in students. - Enhance Understanding of Developmental Stages
Help educators deepen their knowledge and apply developmental theories, like Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, to guide effective teaching strategies and improve behavior management. - Create Supportive Learning Environments
Foster the ability to design and maintain healing environments tailored to meet the diverse emotional, social, and developmental needs of students. - Strengthen Relationships with Stakeholders
Build skills to engage collaboratively with parents, caregivers, and colleagues to ensure consistent support for students’ growth and success. - Promote Educator Well-being
Empower educators to recognize personal roadblocks to self-care, develop strategies to overcome them, and maintain their emotional resilience in challenging environments.
Learning Objectives
- Understand Trauma and Attachment
Identify the different types of trauma and their impacts on attachment, development, and behavior, and apply trauma-informed strategies to classroom practices. - Apply Developmental Theories
Explore Erik Erikson’s Stages of Development and discuss how understanding these stages can shape effective teaching strategies and enhance student behavior management. - Design Healing Environments
Analyze the characteristics of a healing environment and create actionable plans to address the needs of a specific student identified during the study. - Engage Effectively with Parents and Teams
Learn strategies for handling difficult parent interactions and navigating challenges with colleagues to help develop collaborative relationships that support student success. - Implement Self-Care Practices
Create a self-care plan that addresses personal roadblocks, incorporates strategies for maintaining resilience, and supports ongoing professional effectiveness.
College Credit Available!
If you are interested in attending a seminar, having us speak at a conference, or partnering with us, contact us at Healing Children, LLC.
You can email us at info@healingchildren.com or call 1-888-311-1883.
We look forward to hearing from you.
