Description
This virtual conference will be a live stream of a live in-person conference being held in Calgary, AB. If you would like to attend live in-person please register here: http://www.jackhirose.com/workshop/the-alberta-conference/
This conference will be live streaming from Calgary, Alberta to online participants on December 4 – 6, 2023 from 8:30am – 4:00pm MDT
This course is streaming live out of Calgary, AB beginning at 8:30am MDT (Calgary, AB). Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until January 6, 2023. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 1 – 3 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
Registration will close on December 3, 2023.
Pricing
Attend More and Save! 1 Day enrollment $269.00, 2 day enrollment $469.00, 3 day enrollement $669.00 + tax
Fees are per person, seat sharing is not allowed. Please respect this policy, failure to comply will result in termination of access without a refund. For group rates please contact webinars@jackhirose.com
Day Two (December 5, 2023) Workshop Choices:
Day Two Morning 8:30am – 11:45am:
Workshop #4: Creating Trauma Resilient Classrooms | PRESENTED BY MaryAnn Brittingham, MS
Research has since established resilience as essential for human thriving, and an ability necessary for the development of healthy, adaptable young people. It’s what enables students to emerge from challenging or traumatic experiences with a positive sense of themselves and their futures. Students who develop resilience are better able to face disappointment, learn from failure, cope with loss, and adapt to change. We recognize resilience in students when we observe their determination, and perseverance to tackle problems and cope with the emotional challenges of school and life. Resilience is not a genetic trait. It is derived from the ways that students learn to think and act when faced with obstacles large and small.
In this session, we will explore how to help students build the resilience they need to succeed in school and in life. We will review how trauma impacts students and their school experience and will provide concrete actions on the “how” to create support for all students and the school professionals who serve them
Workshop #5: I’m Exhausted – Stress, Burnout & Solutions that Work! | PRESENTED BY Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D
Everyone experiences some form of burnout during their life and career. Most ignore the warning signs until it’s too late, mistakes are made, and decisions becomes calamities you wish you’d avoided. Many of us are now managing a dual life, online and in “real life”, with obligations and tasks being formable in both. Due to this, we are highly susceptible to experiencing Zoom fatigue, depression, anxiety, and many other symptoms and issues. Common early warning signs of burnout include feeling perpetually exhausted, tired of or annoyed with other peoples’ “complaints”, beginning your day late and unable to end it early, getting sleepy or “spacing out” during important times, taking ethical shortcuts, and many others.
Our society preaches self-care, but are we taking our own advice? It’s time we did. In this workshop, Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., will examine the signs, symptoms, and sources of burnout and explain how understanding your Emotional Intelligence can renew your personal and professional perspective and excitement while helping you eliminate key stressors in your life.
This program will examine the benefits of restorative, emotionally intelligent relationships in your life to improve outcomes and your personal support network. By understanding the potential of Emotional Intelligence and keeping a wise mind on your mental and physical health you can explore who you are within your relationships, enhance your growth as a professional, and apply these powerful tools to benefit you and others in your life.
Workshop #6: Strengthen Executive Function, Attention, Memory, Response Inhibition & Self-Regulation in Children & Adolescents | PRESENTED BY Lynne Kenney, Psy.D.
Did You Know?
- For many students, Executive Function is a better predictor of academic outcomes than intelligence quotient (IQ) and socioeconomic status (SES), (Blair & Raver, 2015; Cortés Pascual et al. 2019; Micalizzi et al., 2019).
- Executive Function skills predict math and reading in higher grade levels (Ribner et al., 2018; Magalhães et al., 2020).
- Self-Regulation skills predict academic, behavioral, and social achievement across a lifetime (Robson et al., 2020).
The Key Is To:
BOX: Empower children and adolescents with the skills to think, plan, attend, inhibit, and self-regulate. “When students develop their ability to think things through, pay attention, manage their emotions, resist their impulses, and plan the sequence of their actions they are better able to successfully learn, connect, and behave.”
This Is Achieved By:
Strengthening Executive Function and Self-Regulation Skills.
Day Two Afternoon 12:45pm – 4:00pm:
Workshop #8: Creating Trauma Resilient Classrooms (REPEAT SESSION) | PRESENTED BY MaryAnn Brittingham, MS
Research has since established resilience as essential for human thriving, and an ability necessary for the development of healthy, adaptable young people. It’s what enables students to emerge from challenging or traumatic experiences with a positive sense of themselves and their futures. Students who develop resilience are better able to face disappointment, learn from failure, cope with loss, and adapt to change. We recognize resilience in students when we observe their determination, and perseverance to tackle problems and cope with the emotional challenges of school and life. Resilience is not a genetic trait. It is derived from the ways that students learn to think and act when faced with obstacles large and small.
In this session, we will explore how to help students build the resilience they need to succeed in school and in life. We will review how trauma impacts students and their school experience and will provide concrete actions on the “how” to create support for all students and the school professionals who serve them
Workshop #9: I’m Exhausted – Stress, Burnout & Solutions that Work! (REPEAT SESSION) | PRESENTED BY Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D
Everyone experiences some form of burnout during their life and career. Most ignore the warning signs until it’s too late, mistakes are made, and decisions becomes calamities you wish you’d avoided. Many of us are now managing a dual life, online and in “real life”, with obligations and tasks being formable in both. Due to this, we are highly susceptible to experiencing Zoom fatigue, depression, anxiety, and many other symptoms and issues. Common early warning signs of burnout include feeling perpetually exhausted, tired of or annoyed with other peoples’ “complaints”, beginning your day late and unable to end it early, getting sleepy or “spacing out” during important times, taking ethical shortcuts, and many others.
Our society preaches self-care, but are we taking our own advice? It’s time we did. In this workshop, Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., will examine the signs, symptoms, and sources of burnout and explain how understanding your Emotional Intelligence can renew your personal and professional perspective and excitement while helping you eliminate key stressors in your life.
This program will examine the benefits of restorative, emotionally intelligent relationships in your life to improve outcomes and your personal support network. By understanding the potential of Emotional Intelligence and keeping a wise mind on your mental and physical health you can explore who you are within your relationships, enhance your growth as a professional, and apply these powerful tools to benefit you and others in your life.
Workshop #10: 20 Empirically-Based Art, Music, Movement & Thinking Skill Activities to Improve Behaviour & Learning in Children & Adolescents | PRESENTED BY Lynne Kenney, Psy.D.
Music, art, and movement have been recognized as important elements in children’s cognitive development (Dumont et al., 2017; Americans for the Arts, 2023). Music, art, and movement provide various benefits that enhance cognitive abilities, including attention, language skills, spatial awareness, problem-solving, creativity, and social interaction.
Musical training has been linked to improved cognitive skills, such as enhanced verbal memory, mathematical abilities, and spatial-temporal skills (Forgeard et al., 2008; Miendlarzewska & Trost, 2018; Schellenberg, 2004).
Learning to play an instrument has shown positive effects on executive functions, including attention, self-regulation, and working memory (Moreno et al., 2011). Children who undergo musical training have better verbal memory, second language pronunciation accuracy, reading ability and executive functions (Miendlarzewska & Trost, 2018).
Music engages multiple brain regions, stimulating neural connections and promoting neuroplasticity, which is crucial for cognitive development (Zatorre et al., 2007; Lippolis et al., 2023).
Dance and rhythmic movements have been shown to improve executive functions and cognitive skills, such as attention, working memory, and inhibitory control (Kattenstroth et al., 2013; Buderath et al., 2008).
Day Two Morning
Workshop #4: Creating Trauma Resilient Classrooms | PRESENTED BY MaryAnn Brittingham, MS
- Understand the impact of trauma and chronic stress on learning
- Understand how to use the “Upside Down Triangle” to help students self-regulate
- Learn the four S’s to building resilience
- Identify triggers and alternative ways to respond
- Learn how to create resilient mindsets by noticing and reframing your self-talk and stories
- Review how to foster compassion to support ourselves and our students.
Workshop #5: I’m Exhausted – Stress, Burnout & Solutions that Work! | PRESENTED BY Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D
- Identify burnout symptoms to manage them effectively
- Use Emotional Intelligence to avoid burnout
- Develop an emotionally intelligent support network to build stress resiliency
- Manage relationships more efficiently and learn how to strengthen them
- Apply new skills to increase your resilience in the workplace and at home to prevent burnout
- Learn how to avoid the ethical pitfalls and challenges associated with burnout and compassion fatigue
Workshop #6: Strengthen Executive Function, Attention, Memory, Response Inhibition & Self-Regulation in Children & Adolescents | PRESENTED BY Lynne Kenney, Psy.D.
Learn About:
- The current science supporting the importance of improving executive function skills in your students.
- The developmental precursor skills that shift the trajectory of student learning, behavior and achievement.
- Evidence-based methods for strengthening executive function.
- The relationships between executive function skills, reading and math.
Understand How To:
- Improve your student’s focused attention.
- Teach your students how to be the “Best Coaches” for their own brains.
- Use cognitive skills coaching activities to bolster self-regulation and impulse control in your students.
- Play cognitive-motor activities like CogniTap and Think-Ups, which require self-regulation, attention, memory, and self-control.
Develop Skills To:
- Teach your students become “Cognitive Scientists” more invested in their own learning.
- Help your students achieve self-regulation quickly and effectively.
- Incorporate cognitive-motor movement to help your students achieve an alert state of learning readiness.
- Teach your students how to better monitor and manage their attention, memory and cognitive flexibility.
Be Ready To Implement:
- Cognitive Skill Coaching Activities for better organization, planning, time management, attention, memory, self-regulation, and cognitive flexibility.
- Simple 5-minute Brain Priming activities to prepare your students to actively participate in classroom lessons.
- Social-Cohesion activities to help students practice kindness, respect, and collaboration.
- Rhythmic vestibular, visual-tracking, and proprioceptive activities to support learning and engagement.
Day Two Afternoon
Workshop #8: Creating Trauma Resilient Classrooms (REPEAT SESSION) | PRESENTED BY MaryAnn Brittingham, MS
- Understand the impact of trauma and chronic stress on learning
- Understand how to use the “Upside Down Triangle” to help students self-regulate
- Learn the four S’s to building resilience
- Identify triggers and alternative ways to respond
- Learn how to create resilient mindsets by noticing and reframing your self-talk and stories
- Review how to foster compassion to support ourselves and our students.
Workshop #9: I’m Exhausted – Stress, Burnout & Solutions that Work! (REPEAT SESSION) | PRESENTED BY Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D
- Identify burnout symptoms to manage them effectively
- Use Emotional Intelligence to avoid burnout
- Develop an emotionally intelligent support network to build stress resiliency
- Manage relationships more efficiently and learn how to strengthen them
- Apply new skills to increase your resilience in the workplace and at home to prevent burnout
- Learn how to avoid the ethical pitfalls and challenges associated with burnout and compassion fatigue
Workshop #10: 20 Empirically-Based Art, Music, Movement & Thinking Skill Activities to Improve Behaviour & Learning in Children & Adolescents | PRESENTED BY Lynne Kenney, Psy.D.
Learn about:
- The relationships between art, cognition, learning and academic achievement.
- How art education has been associated with improved academic performance, including higher achievement in reading and math.
- How engaging in visual arts encourages creativity and divergent thinking to foster problem-solving skills and the ability to think outside the box.
- How foundational cognitive skills such as self-regulation, attention and memory support higher-order skills including problem-solving, imagination and creativity.
Understand how to:
- Apply Musical Thinking to engage your students in learning self-regulation, motor pacing, previewing, planning, tempo, timing and rhythm.
- Use proprietary musical activities including “Watermelon, Unicorn and Tiger” to teach children how to transition from one activity to another and experience the “felt-sense” of slowing down.
- Use Procreate to improve your students imagination and creativity skills.
Develop skills to:
- Use art activities that involve fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, which contribute to the development of spatial awareness and cognitive abilities.
- Apply active play and movement activities to stimulate brain development by improving neuroplasticity, neural connectivity, and cognitive flexibility.
- Teach precursor skills to reading, math and spelling including visual-spatial skills, patterning, sequencing, visual-tracking and vestibular strength.
Be ready to implement:
- Dance and rhythmic movements that have been shown to improve executive function and cognitive skills, such as attention, working memory, and inhibitory control.
- Attention, memory and self-regulation songs for students in grades K-4.
- Paradiddles, Cognitap Spots and Rhythmic Movement Phrases to engage cognition and self-regulation in students in grades 5-12.
Movement and cognition
- Physical activity and exercise have been linked to enhanced cognitive functions, including attention, memory, and academic achievement (Hillman et al., 2014; Tomporowski et al., 2011).
- Cognitively engaging physical activity programs have been shown to improve executive functions (Leisman, G. et al., 2016; Schmidt et al., 2016; Diamond & Ling, 2016; Ma, J., et al. 2014; van der Fels et al., 2015; Oberer et al., 2017; Egger et al., 2019; Williams et al., 2020).
- Cognitive-motor activity combines rhythmic physical activity with cognitive-visual and auditory stimuli. This simultaneously activates distinct regions in the brain.
A Conference Tailored for Mental Health and Education Professionals at All Levels & Any Professional that Applies Behavioural Science to Practice
Mental Health Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants and all other mental health professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.
Education Professionals: All education professionals who work with children or youth including, but not limited to K–12 Classroom Teachers, School Counsellors, Learning Assistance/Resource Teachers, School Administrators, School Paraprofessionals including Special Education Assistants, Classroom Assistants and Childcare Workers and all other professionals who support behavioural challenges and complex learning needs.
MaryAnn Brittingham, MS, holds a master’s degree in family and child counselling from Long Island University and a bachelor’s degree in elementary and special education from D’Youville College. She has over 38 years of experience as a special education teacher and child/family counsellor, with experience working in psychiatric settings creating therapeutic options for students who require higher levels of emotional and academic support. MaryAnn is a certified trainer at Life Space Crisis Intervention, which uses interactive therapeutic strategies to transform crisis situations into learning opportunities, and she teaches graduate-level courses in special education and educational psychology at two colleges in New York. Her passion is to help educators gain insights into student behaviours in order to create a safe learning environment where students can discover their talents. MaryAnn is the author of several books, including: Transformative Teaching: Changing Today’s Classroom Culturally, Academically and Emotionally; Respectful Discipline; Dealing with Difficult Parents; and Motivating the Unmotivated. MaryAnn’s course focus on practical solutions for helping students be successful in both the general education and the special education classroom. Her approach to behavioural intervention empowers students and provides realistic solutions for working with challenging behaviours.
Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D is a popular and influential psychologist as well as a multi-award-winning author. He is an internationally acclaimed speaker and the founder and director of Applied Psychological Services, PLLC in Texas.
Dr. Fox has been a licensed, practicing psychologist for nearly two decades, working with both children and adults. He is an expert on personality disorders, especially narcissistic, antisocial, and borderline personality disorders. Dr Fox is also an authority on burnout prevention and professional enhancement.
Esteemed as a writer, Dr. Fox’s books include Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook, which won Gold in the Psychology Category at the 2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards. He is also the author of The Clinician’s Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders, the Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox, which won Silver in the Psychology Category at the 2019 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook, .
Dr. Fox runs a popular YouTube channel with nearly over 80,000 subscribers and climbing.
Lynne Kenney, Psy.D., is the nation’s leading pediatric psychologist in the development of classroom cognitive-physical activity programs for students in grades K-8. Dr. Kenney develops curriculum, programming, and activities to improve children’s cognition through coordinative cognitive-motor movement, executive function skill-building strategies, and social-emotional learning.
Dr. Kenney’s most recent educational program is CogniMoves® a universal Tier I MTSS cognitive-motor movement program, co-developed with Benjamin S. Bunney, MD, Former Chairman Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. CogniMoves® is designed to strengthen executive function skills in K-3 students.
Dr. Kenney is a pediatric psychologist on the Language & Cognition Team at Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia, Scottsdale, Arizona. She has advanced fellowship training in forensic psychology and developmental pediatric psychology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Harbor-UCLA/UCLA Medical School. As an international educator, researcher, and author, Dr. Kenney is dedicated to improving the trajectory of children’s learning, particularly in high-need, under-resourced communities.
Dr. Kenney’s books include Brain Primers, 2020 (Kuczala & Kenney); 70 Play Activities for Better Thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning and Behavior (Kenney & Comizio, 2016); the Social-Emotional Literacy program, Bloom Your Room™; Musical Thinking™; and Bloom: 50 things to say, think and do with anxious, angry and over-the-top-kids (Kenney & Young, 2015). My Attention Engine: An executive function skill activity book for teachers, parents, and children is slated for 2023.
Since 1985, Dr. Kenney has worked as an educator in community service with national organizations including the Neurological Health Foundation, Head Start, Understood.org, HandsOn Phoenix, SparkPE, the First Nations in Canada, and Points of Light (Generation On) Dr. Kenney values working with Title I Schools.
