Presented by Allison Maxon
Life is a story, write well and edit often! A child is developing their own narrative and story about their life. Their early trauma, losses and attachment disruptions can easily assist them in becoming a very negative storyteller. Feelings of abandonment, loss, rejection, shame and identity confusion assist them in having a negative self-narrative and an easily triggered emotional interior.
Professionals will learn skills and tools that are designed to help support parents and their children explore, process, think, feel and express themselves as they are empowered to claim all the parts of their story and identity through a strengths-based process of activities and skill building tools.
Objectives:
1.Understand the key constructs of relational trauma, developmental trauma, and attachment disruptions on the developing brain and mind of the child/teen
2.Identify the Seven Core Issues in Adoption/Permanency for children/teens; learn and utilize activities and tools that assist children/youth in trauma processing and emotional expression and regulation
3.Learn and utilize strengths-based narrative tools to assist children/teens in developing a cohesive internal narrative and positive identity formation. Traumatic losses from foster care, kinship and adoption create identity confusion and ambiguous losses that negatively impact self-esteem and self-identity.
4.Identify and understand the additional developmental tasks for parents who are parenting a child with disrupted attachment, trauma/abuse and missed developmental milestones. Parents will learn to identify their own emotional triggers, a process for staying internally regulated, and a tool to practice co-regulation with their child.
Two Chances to Attend:
> Wed., Dec. 3, 2025, 9am - 11am (2 hrs)
> Thurs., Dec. 11, 2025, 10am - 11am ( 2 hrs)
IMPORTANT- PLEASE READ BEFORE REGISTERING:
This training will be presented in the ZOOM platform (please be sure you have the most up-to-date version).
You MUST attend the entire training. Any early sign-offs will result in no credit for the training. Any late logins or early logouts that result in more than 15 minutes of missed time in relation to the total presentation length will result in no credit given for attending.
Your camera MUST be on the entire time of the training. Please use a computer that has a functioning camera--test out your camera before attending.
DO NOT share your confirmation link with anyone. Each link is unique to the individual registered to attend. Sharing your link will result in either you or the other person not receiving credit for attending.
It is recommended that you sign on a few minutes early to avoid connection difficulties.