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Speakers,
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Resiliency
in Action Training
The
Resiliency Training Program™Training of Trainers
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Nan
Henderson, M.S.W.
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days (12 C.E.U.s) |
8:30
a.m.. - 4:30 p.m. daily
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April
3 & 4,
2006 TOT
May 7, 2004
POST TRAINING
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PRESENTATIONS
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| Motivating
Positive Behavioral Change
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| Motivation
research shows motivating a change is less likely
when confrontive techniques are used--and more
likely with the non-confrontive approach that
will be introduced in this class. You will learn:
1) new ways of thinking about motivation and
change; 2) new methods of increasing motivation
for change; 3) skills that minimize resistance
to change; and 4) ways to apply this information
to individuals and groups. |
| Integrating
the Resiliency-Building Power of Movement, Drama,
& the Performing Arts Into What You Already
Do!
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| Half
Day (3 C.E.U.s) |
9
a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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Date:
May 7, 2004
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| Your
trainers, Amanda and Kaefan Shaw, are the founders
of Feet in the Circle: Pathways to Community.
They have worked together for 15 years, using
interaction, role play, movement, music, and
rhythm. Their workshops use creative, listening
and team-building skills from the arts, and
apply them in an educational context, to develop
creativity, community, and cooperation. Amanda
holds a degree in Cultural Studies, and has
appeared on stage and screen. Kaefan's career
includes theater, TV, Muppets, and musical performances.
He has degrees in Philosophy and Education,
and uses drama and cooperative games in schools
and groups to build student resiliency. |
Motivational
Interviewing with An Emphasis on
Treating Substance Abuse
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| 2
days (14 C.E.U.s) |
8:30
a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
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Dates:
TBA
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| Motivational
interviewing is a non-confrontive method of
decreasing client resistance and encouraging
motivation for changing problematic behavior.
Originally proven effective with substance abusers,
it is being adapted for use with mental health
issues. It is a therapeutic style that
can be blended with other approaches and used
in brief contacts, or in more long-term work.
The development, theory, and research of this
approach will be covered; much of the class
will be interactive coached practice of motivational
techniques. |
Healing
the Resilient Soul:
Spirituality & the Psychology
of Human Resilience |
| Why
do some people, when faced with problems and
distress, bounce back and do well while others
seem to flounder? Is there a way to facilitate
a greater ability to overcome life's adversity
as well as use it as a stepping stone to greater
awareness and self-realization?
This
presentation will focus on the growing body
of social science research that suggests that
each person does have an "innate self-righting
tendency"--a capacity for resilience--and
how this capacity is connected to one's true
spiritual nature, as perceived across several
spiritual traditions and thinkers. Experiential
activities that nurture resilience by meeting
the needs of the soul will be an integral
part of our time together, including creativity,
music, storytelling, laughter, deep human
sharing, and building cohesive community.
Please bring a selection of music that inspires
(on CD/ cassette); stories that motivate (fables,
myths), and whatever makes you laugh when
"the going gets tough" (jokes, cartoons) to
contribute to our interactive evening sessions.
Located
at Far Horizons, a retreat center in
Sierras. For INFORMATION and REGISTRATION
please visit www.farhorizons.org
or call (1)559-565-3692
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| Four
Steps to Resiliency: Bouncing Back From Life's
Problems "With More Power and More Smarts"
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Dates:
TBA
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This
keynote, workshop, or full-day training is
a motivational boost for anyone struggling
with crisis, grief, trauma, and/or stress–or
for those who help others to overcome these
problems. It emphasizes the well-documented
human capacity to overcome and transcend adversity,
offering practical suggestions from the psychological
research on how people do this. Participants
will be able to identify their personal "resiliency
builders" and learn how to make them
grow; they will take The Resiliency Quiz and
discover how to strengthen their ability to
overcome whatever adversity they are facing;
and they will understand their unique personal
strengths and why, ultimately, "what
is right with them is more powerful than anything
that is wrong."
This
presentation is appropriate for both adult
and youth audiences.
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| Resiliency
In Schools: Making It Happen for Students and
Educators |
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Dates:
TBA
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This
one or two-day presentation covers the emerging
concept of moving "children and youth
from risk to resiliency," with an emphasis
on what educators can do. The training also
includes information and activities designed
to increase educator resiliency. The research
basis of this new view of helping children,
youth, families, and schools, how it connects
with other approaches to positive youth development,
how to apply the recommendations of the resiliency
research in real-world settings, and the four
most important steps to fostering resiliency
will all be covered. Many practical, hands-on
classroom strategies for building resiliency
will be included.
Learning
Objectives. As a result of this training,
participants will:
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Understand the research basis of the emerging
resiliency framework, including how it is
unique.
2. Be able to apply the recommendations from
this research to their own lives, as well
as to helping others.
3. Identify the four most important steps
to fostering resiliency.
4. Acquire several activities that can be
used to help others (of all ages) identify
and build their personal resiliency.
5. Understand how schools are integrating
the resiliency framework into their vision,
mission, and practice.
6. Understand how to be a more effective change
agent for resiliency-building in their school
setting.
7. Acquire strategies for getting parents
to "buy in" to the resiliency approach
for helping their students.
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| Better
than "Self-Esteem": The Resiliency
Route to Authentic Self-Worth and Life Success
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TBA
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In
this presentation, participants learn about
the recent research indicating that "feel-good"
self-esteem approaches (based on affirming
one's "specialness", for example)
may be harmful and how "the "resiliency
route to authentic self-esteem and life success"
is a positive alternative based on recognizing
actual accomplishment, identifying and understanding
how individuals have and can use their strengths,
and living a life filled with individuals'
expressions of their unique "talents
and gifts."
Much
of the presentation focuses on the The Gallup
Organization's 30 years of research into maximizing
human potential. Two of the findings are "each
person's talents are enduring and unique,"
and "each person's greatest room for
growth is in the areas of his or her greatest
strength." One of the conclusions of
this research is: "The real tragedy of
life is not that each of us doesn't have enough
strengths, it's that we fail to use the ones
we have."
How
to turn this situation around through following
the four steps of "the resiliency route
to authentic self-worth and life success"
is covered, as well as ways to overcome the
cultural obstacles to using a "strengths-based
approach" in one's work and life.
Learning
Objectives. As a result of this training,
participants will:
1. Examine the controversies within the self-esteem
movement, including recent research about
the potential harmfulness of "feel-good"
self-esteem.
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Define "authentic self-worth" and
understand how to use the research on what
makes people resilient to build it.
3.
Explore the "strengths revolution"
emerging from Gallup's 30 years of how to
maximize human potential.
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| Resiliency
In Action: How Schools, Families, and Communities
Build "Bounce-Back Kids" |
| Nan
Henderson, M.S.W. |
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Dates:
TBA
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this training (which can be condensed into a
keynote or workshop format), participants thoroughly
examine the research base of resiliency that
is emerging from the fields of psychology, psychiatry,
sociology, and education. The emphasis of the
training is practical application of these research
findings in strategies that can be used to move
children and youth "from risk to resiliency."
Examples of practices and programs that are
building resiliency are shared. The training
will include interactive activities to be used
to assist youth to identify and celebrate their
personal resiliency and understand how they
can be more resilient in the future.
AGENDA
Introductions/Overview
The
research foundation of resiliency:
Where has it comes from?
How does resiliency happen?
Shifting the balance from risk to resiliency
Connecting
the research to children you are concerned
about:
Using the "Resiliency Chart"
Identifying and increasing Personal Resiliency
Builders
Creating a resiliency-building environment
Using the "Resiliency Wheel" as
a tool for resiliency building
The
"Four Most Important Steps to Fostering
Resiliency"
BREAK
Video
examples of resiliency-building in action
Interactive
activities for teaching about and celebrating
personal resiliency–
The
power of One Person to foster resiliency
Learning
Objectives. As a result of this training,
participants will:
1.
Understand the research basis of the emerging
resiliency/positive youth development framework.
2. Explain how this research shows that one-to-one
interactions are the most potent
change agents in young people's lives.
3. Identify the four most important steps
to building resiliency.
4. Acquire several activities that can be
used to help others identify and build personal
resiliency.
5. Employ several strategies in work with
children and youth to "build resiliency."
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PRESENTATIONS CAN BE CUSTOMIZED TO FIT YOUR AUDIENCE!
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Nan Henderson's Speaking Schedule
Biography
and List of Presentations for Nan Henderson,
M.S.W., Speaker, Author, and President
of Resiliency In Action
Nan
Henderson, M.S.W.,
is an national and international speaker
and consultant on fostering resiliency,
positive youth development, and effective
personal and organizational change.
She has presented these topics for the
past 10 years at national conferences,
international trainings, and for hundreds
of state and local departments of education,
social service providers, and parent
organizations. In 1997, at the request
of the Colorado Department of Education,
she developed The Resiliency Training
Program, a one-of-a-kind training of
trainers, which has been attended by
educators and other helping professionals
from across the U.S. and other parts
of the world.
Ms.
Henderson has been on the faculty of
six colleges and universities as an
instructor in alcohol and drug studies,
psychology, and counseling. She has
also directed citywide, districtwide,
and statewide prevention and student
assistance programs, and has provided
treatment and counseling services to
youth, adults, and families. She is
the coauthor/editor of five books and
a pamphlet related to fostering resiliency:
Resiliency In Schools: Making It Happen
for Students and Educators (1996); Resiliency
In Action: Practical Ideas for Overcoming
Risks and Building Strengths in Youth,
Families, & Communities (1999);
Schoolwide Approaches for Fostering
Resiliency (2000); Mentoring for Resiliency
(2000) and Four Steps to Resiliency
(2000). She cofounded Resiliency In
Action, Inc., a publishing company,
with Bonnie Benard and Nancy Sharp-Light
to further the goal of shifting the
national emphasis on "risk"
and deficits to the recognition of resiliency.
Nan Henderson's Presentations–Keynotes,
Workshops, and Trainings
•The Resiliency Route to Authentic
Self-Esteem and Life Success
•Four
Steps to Resiliency: How to Help Others
and Yourself Bounce Back from Adversity
•Building
"Bounce-Back Kids": How Families,
Schools, & Communities Foster Resilient
Children
•Resiliency
In Schools: Making It Happen for Students
and Educators
•The
Resiliency Training Program: A Training
of Trainers
•Helping
Kids Identify, Celebrate, & Expand
their Resiliency: A Youth and Adult
Dialogue
Comments about Nan's Presentations
and Training
"It will change
your perspective on life"
-- Arline McGill, M.D.,
Jamaica Ministry of Health
"Chicken
soup for the counselor and teacher soul!
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Margie King, counselor, Plano, TX
"The
best training I have ever attended"
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Christine Fix, AIDS Prevention, NY
"United
professionals in our state in a way
that has never happened before"
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Mary VanderWall, CO Dept. of Education
"Weeks
later, people are still talking about
it"
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Sue Mahoney, VT Dept. of Education
"Brilliant,
in all definitions of the word..."
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Marcia Heinrichs, Intervention Specialist,
San Diego, CA
"One of the most inspiring trainings
I have ever attended...full of practical,
useable techniques"
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Bonnie Sabb, MFT, San Diego, CA
"I came anticipating increasing
my effectiveness as a professional and
came away more effective as a human
being"
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Xenia Becher, Central NY Council on
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
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Nan Henderson's Speaking Schedule
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| Craig
Noonan, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., is a clinical
psychologist and licensed social worker.
For the past 10 years he has researched
and applied effective techniques for motivating
youth, families, and adults to make positive
behavioral change. He has worked as a
clinician for 20 years, and his articles on
a variety of clinical topics have appeared in
national and international journals. Dr.
Noonan has been on the faculty of three colleges/universities,
and is an editor at Resiliency In Action, Inc.
He is also a program coordinator at UCSD and
has a private counseling practice. |
| Amanda
and Kaefan Shaw are the founders
of Feet in the Circle: Pathways to Community.
They have worked together for 15 years, using
interaction, role play, movement, music, and
rhythm. Their workshops use creative, listening
and team-building skills from the arts, and
apply them in an educational context, to develop
creativity, community, and cooperation. Amanda
holds a degree in Cultural Studies, and has
appeared on stage and screen. Kaefan's career
includes theater, TV, Muppets, and musical performances.
He has degrees in Philosophy and Education,
and uses drama and cooperative games in schools
and groups to build student resiliency. |
| Tony
Lysy, PhD. is
Dean of Studies at the Olcott Institute in Wheaton,
IL where he teaches contemporary depth psychology,
philosophy, and classic theosophy. He represented
the Theosophical
Society on the committee
that designed the program for the 1993 Parliament
of the World's Religions. |
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