Welcome!
In this program, we will be exploring ways to support students and educators. You’ll learn strategies for use in educational settings that promote trauma-informed, social-emotional support. You’ll learn the neuroscience behind these strategies, as you focus on teaming and working together to support your community.
We are so excited to be on this journey with you!
Let’s get started,
Judy and the SEI Team
Navigating the Learning Platform
Click here to watch a 5-minute video that will walk you through the learning platform and show you where to find everything you need to be successful in this course. While watching this video, and all videos, the images you see below will be in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, to turn on closed-captioning, simply click on the cc icon (it is circled in red below), you will have the option of choosing English auto-generated captions, or customizing the captions.
Please note some key content and information below:
- In person – Student-Centered Self-Regulation: Discover what’s Impeding Students in Accessing Regulation Indepently. August 8, 2025, 9-10m Mountain Time (Denver)
- In person – Module 1: The Nuerobiology of Stress and Burnout: Understanding the Science Behind our Exhaustion. September 19, 2025 8am-12:30pm
- Part 1: Behavior through the lens of the brain
- Part 2: Behavior through the lens of the body
- Part 3: Using neuroscience to understand our daily experiences
- Virtually – Module 2: The Science in Action: Becoming and External Regulator
- October 22, 2025 2:45pm-3:30pm
- November 19, 2025 2:45pm-3:30pm
- In person and Virtually – Module 3: Working from a Teaming Perspectives: How to Work Together During Moments of Intensity.
- In Person – January 5, 2026 9am-12pm
- Virtually – February 18, 2026 2:45pm-3:30pm
Join Zoom Meeting for ALL virtual classes
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84978439148
Meet Your Instructor:
Judith Norman, MA, MS, LPC, RPT-S is Licensed as both a Professional and School Counselor. Judith is the creator of the Developmental Mindsets Paradigm, 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.
Judith has been a School Counselor at Title One schools and two-way bilingual immersion schools, has worked at the district level as a Social Emotional Learning Coach in the United States, and as a School Counselor and Director of Guidance at an international school overseas. Having worked at the intersection of education and mental health for over 20 years, Judith trains and supervises both school-based and clinical mental health professionals. Judith speaks nationally, and consults, and teaches internationally, has developed SEL and trauma-informed programming across various levels of school functioning, and has supported Department of Education state-wide initiatives with district and state-wide training for educators, school-based mental professionals, and educational leaders. Judith led her school district in implementing a Kaiser Permanente “Thriving Schools Grant,” aimed at advancing social-emotional wellness and behavioral health in school districts. Judith co-authored a chapter with Lisa Dion in “Play-Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families.”
To get started and begin accessing the program lessons and materials, you will first need to complete and agree to the Program Agreements.
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