Above & Beyond the Frontal Cortex
Sought after occupational therapist and international lecturer, Lorelei Woerner-Eisner OTR/L, C-IAYT, RYT500 shares her 20 plus years of experience, continuing education, and therapeutic techniques, as well as her integrative perspective on wellness. This convenient online course brings fresh integrative research-based and clinically proven techniques to enhance initiation, engagement, attending behavior and memory, as well as processing and self-monitoring.
Explore integrative tools you can use with challenges such as: the kid who scores well on tests but performs poorly in school, who is distracted and impulsive, who lacks motivation or is hindered by anxiety.
- Expand your principles of yoga, mindfulness, breath and the gut in developing: flexible thinking, memory, planning, organization, impulse control, emotional regulation, attending behavior, task initiation and habit building
- Strategies to cultivate motivation, efficacy, carry over and decrease fear, anxiety, and resistance
- Modify sensory input to increase alertness or facilitate calming
Lorelei walks you step-by-step through Executive Function beginning with the foundational elements of brain function, effects of the gut and sensory input, as well as stress and fear. Then she will show you how to apply that into integrative treatments while learning and experiencing specific strategies that will make a real difference in children’s lives.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to explore integrative and cutting-edge techniques that you can use the very next day!
Principles of Executive Function Levels of the Whole Person
- Physical – movement, posture and anatomy
- Breath and physiological systems
- Intellect – cognition, self-expression and sensory
- Personality – preferences, values and behaviors
- Emotional tone and the subjective
- Brain development & autonomic nervous system (ANS)
- Pruning and the use it or lose it principle
- Vagus nerve’s relation to physical and emotional effects
Effects of Stress on EF
- Effect on neural networks
- Cortisol and fight/flight effect on the brain
- Differences between fear and anxiety
- Getting to the basis of anger and frustration
The Gut Brain
- Enteric nervous system: the “second brain”
- Neurotransmitters in the gut that affect mood
- ADHD-gut connection
- Enhance mood and memory through nutrition
Sensory Processing
- 3 developmental levels of regulation
- Swings effect on the Reticular Activating System
- Adjustments in sensory input to create balance
- Calm the sympathetic nervous system thru sensory input
Strategies to Develop Healthy Habits
- Using your mind to change your brain
- Power of thought and visualization
- Routines and steps to build habits
- Enhancing neurogenesis and neuroplasticity
Yoga, Mindfulness and Meditation Principles
- Mind-body-breath connection
- Yoga poses for self-regulation
- Interoception to build deeper self-awareness
- Power of the pause
Breath and Regulation Techniques
- Using breath to affect arousal levels
- Increasing and decreasing heart rate and blood pressure
- Supports movement and posture
- Techniques for focus, delayed gratification and processing in the pause
Sensory Processing Strategies
- Using the sensory systems to promote self-regulation and calm the sympathetic nervous system
- Looking at rhythmicity and touch as factors in enhancing EF
Attention-Memory Connection
- Learning requirements for memory
- Emotion-motivation connection
- Intrinsic motivation to enhance processing
- The driving force of optimism and hope
- How multi-tasking is counter-productive
- Strategies that support focus and recall
Putting the pause on Impulsivity
- Marshmallows: the importance of learning to wait
- Anti-rush therapy to promote waiting
- Do-overs to teach healthy alternatives
Self-Generation and Self-Determination
- Promote delayed gratification, self-monitoring, task initiation, emotional control
- Supporting persistence to stick with dull and challenging activities
- Allowing time for processing, planning and self-correction
Strategies for Healthy Social Connections:
- Using the whole self as a therapeutic tool: emotion, modeling and positioning
- The power of relationship in therapeutic effectiveness
- Cuing and facilitation to promote participation, engagement and increased independence
- Teaching tolerance and awareness
Treatment Strategies for Challenging Emotions
- Decreasing stress to facilitate EF
- Understanding fear, as the basis for many challenging emotions
- Using the teachable-moment “failures”
Lorelei Woerner- Eisner, OTR/L, C-IAYT, RYT500, a registered and licensed Occupational Therapist, Certified Yoga Therapist and a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher has over 20 years of practice in working with infants to seniors from a whole-person perspective. Lorelei is a recognized international lecturer and author. She has spoken across the country on a wide variety of topics related to therapy from a holistic perspective. Throughout her career, she has been driven by a passion to research, discover and create the most highly effective therapy techniques and tools to support lasting change with her broad range of clients’ needs. She has worked in pediatrics/sensory integration, rehabilitation, psychiatrics, acute care, home health, and skilled nursing settings. Lorelei is certified in: the Sensory Integration and Praxis Test, Yoga Therapy, Yoga Ed sm (a school-based yoga program), Hippotherapy, and Myofascial Release. She and her specially trained therapy dog Toma, work in a variety of settings including her private practice, Integrative Wellness Therapy. Born and raised in the Los Angeles area, Lorelei received a B.A. in Occupational Therapy from USC in 1993, a B.A. in Communications from Pepperdine University in 1986 and her 2-year Yoga Therapy certificate from Loyola Marymount University in 2007. Learn more about Lorelei Woerner-Eisner, OTR/L, C-IAYT, RYT500.
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- Proven Interventions for Children, Adolescents and Adults
- Profile your client’s EF strengths and weaknesses to target specific interventions
- Promote EF development – strategies for directing, cueing, prompting
- Transition strategies from being externally prompted to internally regulated
- Tailor interventions that can be used individually or with large groups/classrooms
- Teach your clients to be more independent
George McCloskey, Ph.D., is a professor and director of School Psychology Research in the Psychology Department of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and holds Diplomate status with the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology. He frequently presents at international, national, regional and state meetings on cognitive and neuropsychological assessment and intervention topics. Dr. McCloskey has amassed 35 years of experience in test development, teaching, research and assessment and intervention work with a wide range of clients. Based on the past 20 years of his research and experience working specifically with children, adolescents and adults exhibiting executive function difficulties, Dr. McCloskey has developed a comprehensive model of executive functions that can be used to assess executive function strengths and difficulties and guide efforts to foster growth and intervene with difficulties. He consults with a number of school districts and private schools nationwide on issues related to improving students’ self-regulation capacities in the classroom, behavior management, assessment and intervention for executive functions difficulties related to academic and behavior problems. Learn more about Dr. McCloskey.
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