The Brains Behind Safety: Neuroscience Insights for Schools

Join us for this 2-hour course as we explore how Safety and Belonging Start with the Brain!

A felt sense of safety and belonging isn’t just nice to have—it’s essential for learning. While educators pour energy into creating welcoming spaces, students’ brains don’t always interpret experiences in those environments as safe. Fear-based behaviors can emerge even in classrooms that look warm and inviting.

As school-based or clinical mental health professionals, we have a unique opportunity to bridge that gap. By helping educators understand how the brain perceives safety and threat, we can shift their approach and profoundly impact students’ sense of security and connection.

This course offers practical insights grounded in brain science to support student mental health and help every learner feel seen, safe, and ready to engage.

What You’ll Learn:

✔️How to create emotionally safe brain-aligned spaces that help
students move through dysregulation and back to connection.
✔️Strategies to build trust and belonging within classrooms and across
school communities, creating a foundation for thriving relationships.
✔️Tools to shift mindsets – empowering students and educators to
approach challenges with curiosity instead of fear, promoting resilience and growth.

Who Should Attend?

This training is designed for school-based and clinical mental health
professionals who support educators and students. Whether you work directly in
schools or in private practice, you’ll leave with insights and tools you can
use immediately to help educators bridge the gap between creating welcoming
environments and cultivating felt safety and a sense of belonging.

💡 Join us and learn how to foster felt safety and belonging for
both students and educators.

Description

What: We all recognize that a safe and welcoming environment is essential to students’ social-emotional, psychological, and cognitive well-being. Yet for school-based and clinical mental health professionals, it can often feel like we have limited influence over the environments where students spend most of their time.

Here’s the encouraging truth: we still have powerful tools at our disposal to foster felt safety and a sense of belonging.

This course lays the foundation for understanding behavior through a brain-body lens, helping educators deepen their insight into both their own responses and those of their students. You’ll learn how to translate this knowledge into meaningful strategies that empower students and fellow educators to navigate challenges with greater confidence and resilience—ultimately preparing the brain for learning and promoting overall well-being.

Where: Recorded course – learn from anywhere you are!

When: You will have access for one year from the time of purchase. 

Learning Objectives:

    1. Participants will learn how the brain processes information.
    2. Participants will identify how perceived threats to the brain show up in educational settings.
    3. Participants will explore approaches for supporting students’ mental health by shifting perceptions so students can begin to believe they can manage challenging experiences.

Cost: $25 USD 

Presenter: Judith Norman, MA, MS, LPC, RPT-S

Judith, the creator of the Developmental Mindsets Paradigm™ is licensed as both a Professional and School Counselor. Judith is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and is also Certified as a Synergetic Play Therapy Teacher and Supervisor, and in EMDR therapy, along with being trained in Mindfulness in Education. She has been utilizing the tenets of Synergetic Play Therapy in educational settings for the past 10 years, leading to the development of social-emotional, trauma-informed programming to support students and educators.

Refund Policy: This course is non-refundable. Should an extenuating circumstance impact completion of the course, please contact the Synergetic Education Institute to discuss your options: info@synergeticeducation.com.

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