Restoring Resilience (RR) is excited to partner with therapists, practitioners, counsellors, parents, families, educators and educational settings to provide a trauma prevention and resolution framework to working with children/youth 3-25yr olds.
We at Restoring Resilience believe that for any child/youth to thrive, an ecological perspective is vital as a child/youth cannot be viewed in isolation or separate to its family, culture, school, and community. A child’s/youth’s health and wellbeing are inextricably interdependent on the quality of relationships with therapists, practitioners, counsellors, educators/schools, parents, and families. The program invites all significant adults in a child’s/youth’s life to share in a psychobiological understanding of physiological drivers in child/youth behaviour. It is essential therapists, practitioners, counsellors, educators, parents/ carers learn that a child’s capacity to feel safe, connected, and regulated is developed and cultivated in their relationship.
Restoring Resilience ‘Grow – Working with Children and Youth for Therapists and Practitioners’ can be accessed via subscription. To ensure all significant adults in a child’s/youth’s life have a shared lens on behaviour and responses, we have developed a suite of GROW Working with Children and Youth programs, each specifically designed for Therapists/ Practitioners, Educators, Parents. The programs incorporate Gestalt theory to support relational safety, attachment and connection; Polyvagal theory to demystify drivers of disruptive and challenging behaviours and Somatic interventions to release activation, reset the nervous system, and restore resilience and social engagement systems. The synthesis of these modalities is potent and has been translated so children/youth can start learning the fundamental and necessary skills for nervous system regulation from as young 3yo.
The Program introduces the ‘GROW – Emotion Regulation Tool Kit’ which is a resource adapted from Polyvagal Theory to be used with children/youth (3-25yo). The kit comprises a large colourful visual map to help children/youth identify emotional states and learn the skill of noticing and tracking interoception. The training provides a menu of Somatic interventions to support the child’s/youth’s nervous system to return to a state of safety, connection, and wellbeing when stuck in stressful physiological states of fight, flight, and freeze. The GROW Emotion Regulation Tools Kit can be used in therapeutic settings, in classrooms and in homes, this will ensure the child/youth is attuned and responded to with consistency and predictability.
The ‘GROW – Working with Children’ program is ecological, therefore the health and wellbeing of therapeutic settings must be triaged as a priority. In turn the subscription Self Care modules and Monthly Live Online Consults for therapists and practitioners are an integral part of the training. A therapist’s/ practitioner’s capacity to continue co-regulating and supporting children from a window of health, wellbeing, and sustainability requires a space where their own nervous system, health and wellbeing is prioritised, nurtured and nourished.
