Today’s fast-paced, high-tech, high-stress world and economic uncertainties create chronic stress in 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 a greater personal resilience, to be the best person and parent you can be, while modeling to your children how to manage stress, by co-regulating with them, which builds their resilience, too.
Learning Objectives
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, which is central to HeartMath.
Develop personal goals for integrating regulation practices into your daily life and respond to your children as your best self.
MIECE; Graduate Certificate ITMH; OPEC Parenting Educator 4
Nina Petrovich guides children, youth, and parents in nurturing their inner voice and building resilience through equity-centered, trauma-informed practices. She holds a Master’s in Inclusive Early Childhood Education and a Graduate Certificate in Infant Toddler Mental Health from Portland State University. With over five years directing and teaching in inclusive preschool programs and three years supporting parents with the Oregon Parenting Success Network, she specializes in social-emotional learning and family coaching. She recently launched Arts & Family Wellbeing LLC, using art, somatic strategies, and polyvagal-informed practices to help families regulate the nervous system and develop stress tolerance.
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