Want to change the trajectory of the lives of children and youth? Then, you need to join us for this two-day professional development event in Anchorage, Alaska on November 11-12, 2022!
Creating Resilient Students: The Power of Webs of Support
Who should attend?
School counselors, teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals. Everyone from your district, school, and community is welcome.
Connection matters!
For students to succeed in school and life, they need a network of caring, connected adults to guide and help them thrive amid life’s challenges.
Based on extensive social-emotional and trauma-responsive research, this professional development event will equip you with innovative tools to amplify each youth’s strengths and help them self-activate their complex system of support. You’ll learn how to help youth build protective factors to mitigate trauma and decrease risk behaviors, such as bullying, drugs, alcohol, suicidal ideation, and more.
Using a strengths-based approach, this event will enable you to recognize, appreciate, and magnify what is right about youth, assuring their chance to flourish.
During this interactive workshop, you will …
Day 1 - 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
✓Learn about the Full-Color Webs of Support™ framework to help students thrive socially, emotionally, and academically.
✓Learn trauma-responsive practices that will encourage positive outcomes and decrease negative behaviors.
✓Explore how the human brain is wired for connection with others, and examine how neuroscience influences who we are and how we communicate and respond to the world around us.
✓Receive tools and practice tangible strategies for connecting with all students, including those with trauma and other challenges, to enable them to positively engage.
Day 2 - 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
✓Dive deep into the framework and practical strategies that can better regulate classroom communities.
✓Understand neuroscience you can use for cultivating regulations, relationships, and reasoning.
✓Balancing our brains: learn brain-based strategies for trauma-responsiveness.
✓Walk away with a playbook of activities and strategies you can use with your students to build regulation, relationships, and overall resilience school and district-wide.
Registration
The registration fee covers hands-on training and materials
$275. This workshop qualifies for APR/ESSER funds.
Bring a team! 20% discount when 3 or more register together.
Location
Sheraton Anchorage Hotel & Spa
401 E 6th Avenue
Anchorage, AK 99501
Discounted lodging rates coming soon!
Discounted airfare to Anchorage on Alaska/Horizon Airlines: Use the code ECME384 to receive a 7% discount when booking your flight.
Expert Facilitators
Derek Peterson - Derek is a youth development leader, writer, teacher, and advocate who works to show and measure the intersections of youth development with issues in education, youth risk behaviors, community, and social change. As the founder of Integrative Youth Development (IYD)™ and the Student Support Card™, his work translates the complexity of youth development into an easy-to-understand framework that inspires adults and youth to thicken the web of support each needs to thrive. Derek currently serves as a Consulting Associate for Brightways Learning’s Kaleidoscope Connect services, an Associate with the International Institute for Children’s Rights and Development in Victoria, B.C., and as the CEO of the Institute for Community and Adolescent Resilience – Unifying Solutions (ICAR-US). His work takes him around the world leading workshops, lectures, and retreats, working in areas as diverse as villages near the Arctic Circle to classrooms in Juarez, Mexico. Derek supports leaders in increasing student achievement, mitigating trauma and adverse childhood experiences, and decreasing youth risk behaviors while increasing ethical development and resilience.
David Pavish’s combined 20 years of experience working with youth in direct care and administration in both the private and public sector has equipped him with a unique lens through which to see youth in Alaska and beyond. He was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and has had the privilege to live in that state’s rural communities, as well as Northern California. Gaining skills from some of the top youth and experiential education professionals in the U.S. and Canada provides him with a solid understanding of what youth need to thrive. As a Resilience Director for Brightways Learning, David brings a fresh perspective on supporting and guiding youth through their career pathways and lifelong journeys.
“(This workshop) had such a profound effect on me and the way I look at student support and how we all need to help them and support them. I always knew this, but you’ve opened my eyes even more. I can’t thank you enough.”