What are your greatest challenges bringing trauma-informed, inclusive, social-emotional learning practices to your site? Below you will find a variety of different resources that you can access for addressing these challenges. Staff or parent resistance Students not using the skills we’re teaching Not enough time, support [...]
By Judith Norman, MS, LSC, LPC, RPT-S AKA – How to keep your cool as you're learning about the newest school initiative! What are the first things that pop into your head when you reflect upon the question, “What stresses me out?” If you're being honest, one [...]
By Judith Norman, MS, LSC, LPC, RPT-S I sat down to write this many times and found myself getting stuck and feeling stressed out. There are so many important voices out there, what do I have to offer to a discussion? Then it hit me, that’s the [...]
Join Lisa Dion and Judy Norman, Certified SPT therapist/supervisor and SPT co-teacher as they share the launch of this Institute,! The Synergetic Education™ Institute has been years in the making as they've both seen the profound impact of bringing Synergetic Play Therapy® tenets into schools to [...]
By Judith Norman, MS, LSC, LPC, RPT-S Have you tried working with a client’s school and found it challenging? If so, you are not alone; this is often the case. While everyone may want to work together for a child, it’s easy to begin to feel that [...]
“When children are disengaged from learning, there is a disconnect between what they are being asked to learn and their interest level, style/way of learning.” Lisa Dion As we all know, not all children are thriving with online learning. Many children are really struggling as their [...]
In this Aware on the Air Podcast Erin Tanner Jospe interviews Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S, about Synergetic Play Therapy® and new ways of thinking about a child’s moods based on perception and biology. Dion discusses how parents (and educators) can help a child manage his moods by [...]
"All symptoms and behaviors a child displays are attempts at regulation." - Lisa Dion When life and situations become unpredictable, children have to orient to the unfamiliar just like adults do. The difference is that their brains are a little further behind in their capacity to [...]
By Erin Bennetts, LCSW, RPT Recently I was meeting with a new client’s parents for the first time. We were discussing their desired outcome for their child’s engagement in play therapy. “We just want him to find ways to manage his intense feelings," “It would be great [...]
By Kelly Miller, LCSW, RPT Everybody has emotions and feelings, but not everybody feels or expresses their emotions. For many years, I thought that emotions and feelings were synonyms, but they are in fact different. Feelings are defined as a physical state or reaction, according to the Webster [...]
