Our session will highlight and discuss how both a mental health clinician and district social worker have been able to partner with school sites to increase school attendance and navigate school refusal/truancy. Anticipated take-away will be an understanding of the intersection between mental health and it's impact on school attendance and concrete strategies for partnering with families, students and school sites.
In this workshop, participants will engage in a social emotional arts and theatre-based approach to explore stress and its effect on the body, identify their own stressors, experience different ways to become aware of their stressors, and practice tools and exercises for regulating the nervous system.
• Utilizes theatre and social emotional arts and learning to give adults experiential learning and opportunities to practice regulating themselves and co-regulating others. • Promotes destigmatizing and understanding stress through theatrical, experiential, and social emotional learning. • Engages participants in regulation activities and practice teaching these activities to co-regulate young people or adults. All regulatory practices are grounded in science. • Explores our individual brains and bodies and how they react to stress to become aware of when self-regulation is needed.
This workshop utilizes group drumming for regulation and to build core strengths such as focusing and listening, team building, leadership, expressing feelings, managing anger/stress, empathy, and gratitude. These practices come from the evidence-based Beat the Odds® program.
