We are thrilled to announce the Fall Chat Series on ACEs Connection. Join these experts who will be chatting about ACEs, neurofeedback, self-care and guided imagery.
- Sebern Fisher / Neurofeedback for ACEs
Oct. 10th (10 AM /1 PM EST) - Donna Jackson Nakazawa / Well-Being, Self-Care & ACEs
Nov. 14th (10 AM /1 PM EST) - Belleruth Naparstek / Guided Imagery & ACEs
Dec. 12th (10 AM / 1 PM EST)
- Details about each chat topic and featured guest can be found below.
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- Members of ACEs Connection: Go to "Chats" (top of page) where all upcoming chats are listed.
- If not a member, Join ACEs Connection (for free from the home page). Once your membership is approved, go to "Chats" (top of page) where all upcoming chats are listed.
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- If not a member, Join ACEs Connection (for free from the home page). Once your membership is approved, go to "Chats" (top of page) where all upcoming chats are listed.
Note: We've moved the chat series to our home page (from the Parenting with ACEs Community) to make it easier for our entire community to participate. All are welcome.
Sebern Fisher: Neurofeedback for ACEs
- Oct. 10th (10 AM / 1 PM EST)
Chat topics:
- Introduction to feedback.
- What brain plasticity means for people without a Ph.D.
- Why neurofeedback helps brains developing with ACEs.
- Time for Q&A
"Evidence with neurofeedback suggests that trauma-informed treatment should also be brain-informed treatment- and not just to know that the brain is an issue, but to work with it directly." Sebern Fisher, Neuofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain.
Sebern F. Fisher, MA, is a psychotherapist and neurofeedback practitioner in private practice who specializes in attachment issues. She trains professionals nationally and internationally on neurofeedback, neurofeedback and attachment disorder, and the integration of neurofeedback with psychotherapy. Sebern discovered neurofeedback for her own brain in the spring of 1996. She went into full time private practice in 1997 and began to integrate neurofeedback with psychodynamic psychotherapy. Her book, Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the fear-driven Brain is a direct result of this work. Sebern trains and consults in the implementation of neurofeedback and on the integration of psychotherapy and neurofeedback nationally and internationally. She is the 2013 recipient of ISNR Joel Lubar Award for contribution to the field of neurofeedback. More about Sebern Fisher and her work.
"Now, with brain wave training, we can reach what so deeply afflicts people who have suffered these childhoods; primal terror, shame, and rage. It is hard to imagine what mental illness would look like were everyone able to quiet fear, shame, and rage." Sebern Fisher, Neuofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain
Donna Jackson Nakazawa / Well-Being, Self-Care & ACEs:
Nov. 14th (10 AM / 1 PM EST)
Chat topics:
- Parenting with ACEs. What parents need to know.
- Affordable self-care for stressed and busy parents.
- Healing from ACEs & Family Wellness
- Time for Q&A
- This Chat will be Hosted by @Jane Stevens
"It's really not the survival of the fittest - it's the survival of the nurtured." Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning an award winning researcher, writer and public speaker on health and family issues. She explores the the intersection between neuroscience, immunology, and the deepest inner workings of the human heart. Her most recent book, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal, examines the lifelong consequences ”both emotional and physical, of adverse childhood experiences and offers readers suffering from chronic conditions a window to healing. Donna's other works include The Last Best Cure (Hudson Street Press / Penguin, 2013), which chronicles a year-long journey to test a variety of mind-body therapies in order to unlock the restorative powers of the brain and The Autoimmune Epidemic (Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 2008, 2009), which investigates the causes of a growing environmental health crisis.S he is also the author of Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent's Guide to Raising Multicultural Children (Perseus, 2003). More about Donna Jackson Nakazawa and her work.
"If we are caught in inter-generational trauma, we can't see our kids. They can't be seen or known. They can't be secure. We can't soothe them because we are caught in trying to soothe ourselves. ...the best thing we can do for our own kids is manage our own stuff. Good parents make safe kids." Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Trauma Therapist Podcast
Belleruth Naparstek: Guided Imagery for Parents w/ ACEs
- Dec. 12th (10 AM / 1 PM EST)
Chat Topics:
- Parenting with ACEs & Invisible Heroes
- Isn't Trauma to Tough for Something as Gentle as Guided Imagery?
- Challenges and tools for parents with Parents with PTSD and/or ACEs
- Time for Q&A
"Guided imagery is an especially portable, private, user-friendly, accessible intervention, available 24/7, 2 pm or 2 am? That's the beauty of it for somebody subject to panic attacks or extreme distress at unpredictable times... you put it on your phone or MP3 player, and it travels with you." Belleruth Naparstek
Psychotherapist, author and guided imagery pioneer Belleruth Naparstek is the creator of the popular Health Journeys guided imagery audio series. Her first book, Staying Well with Guided Imagery (Warner) is a widely used primer on imagery and healing. Her second book, Your Sixth Sense (Harper Collins) has been translated into 9 languages and called one of the most thoughtful and sophisticated looks at imagery and intuition. Her latest book on imagery and posttraumatic stress, Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal (Bantam Dell), which Courage to Heal authors, Ellen Bass and Laura Davis call "the most useful book for trauma survivors to be published in the last decade". More about Belleruth Naparstek and her work.
...trauma isn't even stored in the parts of the brain where language can access it. Instead it's been cached as frozen, primitive, pre-language experience - sensation, perception, emotion, images and motor reactivity - in the survival-based structures of the brain. What does help are tools that target the affected parts of the brain. Belleruth Naparstek
Four Threads Run through Effective Approaches to Treating Post-Traumatic Stress:
- They first and foremost find ways to re-regulate the nervous system.
- They destigmatize and normalize the experience by explaining PTS as the somatic and neurophysiologic condition it is.
- They offer simple, self-administer-able tools that empower the end-user and confer a sense of mastery and control.
- The interventions are cast as training in skill sets, not the healing of pathology.
Again, it's easy to attend and all are welcome.
- Go to "Chats" (top of page) where all upcoming chats are listed.
- All chat transcripts will be archived (in chats) and can be reviewed later. If you can't make the live event, but want to leave a question or a comment, that's possible as well.
- Any questions: @Christine Cissy White
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- All chat transcripts will be archived (in chats) and can be reviewed later. If you can't make the live event, but want to leave a question or a comment, that's possible as well.
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