Today’s face-paced, media-centered world and economic realities create chronic stress on our daily lives impacting our relationships with our children, which can negatively impact their development. Our life experiences, including early childhood trauma, create pathways in our brain that trigger our nervous system to respond to stress in unexpected and often unhelpful ways. The good news is that you can re-train your brain and nervous system to become less reactive. Attend this webinar to discover a basic understanding of polyvagal theory and learn strategies for keeping your nervous system regulated during challenging interactions. You will develop greater personal resilience while modelling the true meaning of co-regulation with your children.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
• Understand basic polyvagal theory and how day to day interactions can put your nervous system into fight, flight or freeze.
• Practice strategies to regulate your nervous system, including heart focused breathing central to HeartMathâ.
• Develop personal goals for integrating regulation practices into your daily life and respond to your children as your best self.
Monday, November 17th 2025 12 noon EASTERN (See your time zone.)
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NEXT Month
When life feels overwhelming and everyone seems to need something from you, it’s easy to lose sight of your own needs, hit burnout and doubt your worth. In this empowering webinar, Andrea Amador, CEC—M.N.L.P. Women’s Empowerment Coach and creator of Love Your Way to Wellness—shares practical tools to help parents, foster parents, and caregivers turn self-doubt into self-trust with loving boundaries. You’ll learn how to choose yourself first without guilt, set healthy boundaries with confidence, and transform “failure” into valuable feedback that leads to growth. Through self-love, mindful reflection, and simple grounding practices like mirror work and tapping, you’ll discover how to feel seen, safe, and strong in your own voice.
By the end of this workshop, you will have learned:
Practical self-advocacy & self-love (feeling seen, safe, and empowered)
How to deal with intimidating people & toxic relationships
How to set healthy boundaries when you’ve been conditioned to stay silent or “be good
How to shift inner dialogue from self-criticism to self-compassion
Daily confidence practices (mirror work, mindful eating, grounding) to restore safety in the body
Tuesday, DEC. 2, 2025 12 noon EASTERN (See your time zone.)
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For STAFF who recruit, train, and support Foster-Adoptive Parents
LIMITED NUMBER OF PRE-PAID CEU PASSES
Professionals working with pre-adoptive and/or adoptive families are in the unique position to facilitate their ability to navigate this complex choice. But how can you best support them?
In this one-hour webinar, we will introduce you to theoretical and research-driven strategies for doing so based on our published theoretical framework and mixed-method study with prospective adoptive parents.
We will explore ways to encourage family communication, satisfaction, cohesion, and flexibility as underlying mechanisms supporting decision-making. In addition, we will discuss several themes that emerged from our in-depth interviews with 35 prospective adoptive parents and articulate practical guidance for applying these findings to your work.
The first 60 people to register can attend FREE of charge! Use code "FREE2ADOPT" (without the quotes) in the coupon field of the checkout page.