• Use Early Bird Coupon Code "EarlyBird2024" for $50 USD off until June 4th!

    Registration Deadline is September 22, 2024!

    Master the art of cultivating empowering spaces for student learning and growth while supporting your own well-being! Join the Evolution of a Synergetic Educator program, a revolutionary and transformative approach to learning and education. This comprehensive course is grounded in neuroscience and the latest research in nervous system regulation. You will learn practical strategies for managing stress, working with challenging classroom dynamics, fostering resilience, and maintaining a balanced perspective while supporting academic achievement. Don’t let exhaustion be your norm! Gain a profound understanding of what is happening for educators and students during dysregulation to learn to support regulation for educators, students, and classrooms. By developing brain and body state awareness, you can explain effective practices to others and use this knowledge to guide strategies. Integrate explicit teaching with scaffolding bottom-up brain-aligned approaches to help create new options for behavior. Empower yourself by choosing a cohort that aligns with your professional journey. Implement cutting-edge neuroscience and nervous system regulation research using empowerment-focused methods grounded in the application of educational neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology. Drawing from extensive research in learning theory, including cognitive, constructivism, social learning, and experiential learning, this approach supports gradual release so students can integrate, generalize, and apply skills! What makes us different? Synergetic educators understand that the collective power of educators, students, classrooms, and educational systems has a much more significant impact than individual efforts! With this unique approach, you will learn to consider every aspect of learners and the learning environment, incorporating social-emotional, trauma-informed, and inclusive practices to achieve long-lasting change. Enroll now to uncover the secrets to sustainable change and empowerment as you transform education, prioritize your well-being, and take your professional expertise to the next level! ***For the FIRST TIME, we are offering two different cohorts of this program to meet your unique needs. Select to join a “Student-Centered Focus” OR “Dual Focus” program exploring working with both students and other adults! Student-Centered Focus Cohort (20 hours) Focus on students and creating empowering spaces and classroom settings for student growth and well-being. Dive deep into the intricacies of the learning environment, equipped with the latest research in neuroscience and nervous system regulation. A push for educators to keep doing more brings with it feelings of overwhelm and exhaustion. It’s time to learn how to scaffold shifts in student behavior WHILE supporting the well-being of educators. It’s been a zero-sum game for too long; this shouldn’t be an either/or situation; the well-being of both students and educators is essential. Explore how different “myths” in education are getting in the way of modeling healthy behaviors for students and creating burnout for educators! Uncover what is really happening for students during moments of dysregulation and how you can use brain-aligned strategies that support a return to learning. Discover sustainable practices that support both you and your students!
    • Manage daily stress effectively.
    • Understand student dysregulation and learn how to navigate these challenging moments.
    • Recognize and integrate missing elements in universal and social-emotional learning programs.
    • Establish regulatory-focused environments for student empowerment.
    • Utilize brain and body state awareness to guide strategies.
    • Identify critical factors affecting relationships between students and adults, including common causes of escalation that often result in getting stuck in unproductive interaction patterns.
    Dual Focus Cohort – Working with Students and School Staff (25 hours) This program is designed specifically for those who work with students and school staff, including school counselors, psychologists, social workers, SEL specialists, behavior coaches, and administrators. The cohort is tailored to meet your needs, as we understand the unique challenges of supporting students and colleagues. We know that it can feel like you're swimming upstream. Grounded in neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology, we will explore what happens between students and educators in moments of dysregulation while learning how to communicate this to promote collaboration. With a deepened understanding of the dynamics, we will explore the "resistance" and hurdles that arise when working with different perspectives and levels of readiness for this work, and effective ways to navigate them. You'll discover how to manage stress, foster resilience, and maintain a balanced perspective, all while prioritizing your regulatory needs so the demands of your role don't take a toll on your well-being! Includes all aspects of the Student-Centered Focus cohort, PLUS:
    • Assist in creating regulatory-focused environments that foster a sense of safety and belonging for both students and school staff.
    • Support school staff using the revolutionary Developmental Mindsets Paradigm™ to facilitate growth and build capacity at your site.
    • Foster a positive culture and climate by deepening your understanding of the dynamics creating challenges as you work to move through barriers hindering progress.

    Click here to compare the two cohort details!

    Scroll down for program details including cost, learning objectives, and important dates!
  • LEARN A SOLID PLAY THERAPY THEORY THAT COMBINES THE POWER OF PLAY WITH INTERPERSONAL NEUROBIOLOGY!

    **For program dates and details of when this program is offered, please visit the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute website**

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    Have you been searching for ways to create a deeper impact for your clients? Or perhaps you are wanting to improve or learn more about ...
    • Becoming an external regulator to support children with integration and repatterning the activation of their nervous system.
    • Supporting healing at deeper levels through right brain to right brain attuned communication.
    • Teaching children interoceptive (body) awareness (...the key ingredient for self-regulation and co-regulation). 
    • Creating a neuroception of safety for a child when emotional flooding happens.
    • Setting boundaries with the brain in mind to not minimize, shame or shut down the child's play, but keep them engaged in their therapy process.
    • Building collaborative relationships with caregivers to support their child's therapeutic process.
    • Developing goals, tracking a child's therapeutic process, and translating what's happening during the child's therapy session to their caregiver(s) and others in the world.
    • Helping children develop a secure attachment to themselves (...a foundation of resilience).
    • Applying SPT concepts from a cultural lens for a more inclusive and culturally sensitive clinical orientation where a client's unique experiences and needs are honored.
    • How to feel a little more like YOU in the therapy process (...because we know inauthenticity is the fastest way to burnout and compassion fatigue). 
    Learn all of this and so much more! Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy is a comprehensive 32-hour program that explores the foundational skills of SPT. This six-month online program is designed for both beginning and advanced practitioners and will take you on a journey to explore the neuroscience behind what is happening in the play therapy process, how to effectively work with caregivers and what it means to create a neuroception of safety allowing both the child and the caregiver to have a deeper integration, and (....if this wasn't enough), you'll come to understand the magic of aggressive play, sand and art from the perspectives of nervous system regulation, attunement, attachment, mindfulness, and authenticity.

    Come discover what showing up in the playroom truly means and explore what is happening in the play therapy process, how change occurs, and ultimately what it takes to help children heal at profound levels. And the best part is, you get to be you on the journey! 

    Check out what past students had to say about their experiences in the course!

    "SPT is the missing piece in play therapy. I gained an understanding of who I am in the playroom - a humanness that wasn't there before." -Frances Donohue

    Join the growing number of mental health professionals, those in related roles (Child Life Specialists, School Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Coaches, etc.) and parents/caregivers who are learning SPT!

    *For program details and objectives, see below.

  • This is a therapist-designed course that assists teachers, early-childhood educators, and caregivers in learning how to support the nurturing of social-emotional development in a group and classroom setting. Looking for a  fresh explanation on why children feel and act the way they do?  Curious about the relationship between brain development and perception? Want to know how the nervous system lives up to its name? Learn this and more! Scroll down for course details and objectives.

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