Parenting is challenging, particularly when you are parenting a child from a hard place. Children from hard places include children who experienced distress in the womb or during delivery, were hospitalized early in life, were abused or neglected, or experience trauma, whether natural or man-made. Trust-Based Relational Intervention® Introduction & Overview will focus on understanding the meaning of child behaviors, the brain chemistry of a child from a hard place, and how to help children and families heal and connect. This multi-disciplinary training is designed to give caregivers, volunteers, and professionals who serve children and families the knowledge and practical skills they need to bring hope and healing.
Module 1: Understanding Trauma
Learning objectives:
1. Understanding TBRI®: TBRI® is an evidenced based, trauma informed, wholistic intervention
2. Understanding Risk Factors: The risks factors and how they alter the developmental trajectory
3. How to get back on track: The three principles (Connecting, Empowering, Correcting) that work together to bring healing to children
Module 2: Connecting & Empowering Principles
Connecting Learning objectives:
1. Understanding mindfulness strategies: what I bring to the table matters when building connection/trust with children
2. Understanding engagement strategies: how I can work with a child to build trust in a way that they will respond to
3. Understanding the Attachment Cycle: how it works, what it lays the foundation for, what happens when the cycle is disrupted
Empowering Learning objectives:
Be a detective by:
1. Understanding physiological strategies: (Internal) meeting hydration, blood sugar, and sensory needs
2. Understanding ecological strategies: (External) what’s going on around children affects their behavior- transitions
Module 3: Correcting Principles: Proactive & Responsive
Proactive Learning objectives:
1. Understanding that Proactive strategies let children know that they have a voice, that their voice matters, and that safe adults will acknowledge their voice.
2. Understanding Choices: what they are, why they work, how to do them
3. Understanding compromises: what they are, why they work, how to do them
4. Understanding life value terms: what they are, why they work, how to do them
Responsive Learning objectives:
1. Understanding how the IDEAL Response helps a caregiver respond in a way that will promote healing, not further damage with trust
2. Understanding how the Levels of Response help caregivers know the path of least resistance and how to get back to connection
Module 4: Putting it all Together
Synopsis: Seeing how connecting, empowering, and correcting principles work together harmoniously
– Watching TBRI put into practice
– Case studies to recognize where TBRI strategies could be implemented