How Restorative Practices of Wellbeing can Improve Outcomes for System Involved Youth

Gabriel Kram

Training Description

Our team has spent the past 15 years working with 60 mentors and advisors in 25 disciplines of wellbeing from 23 cultures to develop the Restorative Practices neuro-developmental model, which unites neurophysiology, data science, and awareness practice into a framework that can significantly help system involved youth and families overcome the internal challenges they face. In this training we will talk about the origins and implications of the model, and what it means for the creation of wellbeing. The model has broad applications in improving wellness outcomes for foster/system involved youth with trauma histories, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and high Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) scores.

Learning Objective

· Participants will be able to Identify at least 2 core components of the restorative practices neuro-developmental model in the research of Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. Vincent Felitti, Dr. Darcia Narvaez.

· Participants will be able to explain the Polvyagal Theory as a living framework for evaluation of the present moment autonomic state of a system involved youth’s nervous system.

· Participants will be able to identify at least 2 strategies (restorative practices) that can support system involved youth based on their autonomic state.

Agenda

9:30-9:45am  Introductions

9:45-10:30am  Background on the model: focus on the work of Dr. Felitti (Co-Principal Investigator of the ACES study) and Dr. Narvaez (Professor Emerita of Psychology, University of Notre Dame)

10:30-11:00  Introduction to Polyvagal Theory

11:00-11:15  Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

11:15-12:00  Strategies through the lens of Polyvagal Theory

12:00-12:30  Restorative Practices of Wellbeing

Meet Our Trainer

Natureza Gabriel Kram is Founder and CEO of Hearth Science, Convener of the Restorative Practices Alliance, and Co-Founder of the Academy of Applied Social Medicine. He is principal architect of the Restorative Practices neuro-developmental model, which he synthesized with input from 60 advisors in more than 25 disciplines of wellbeing from more than 23 cultures, and crowdsourced with 5,000 wellness professionals. Over his 25 year career he has delivered 1,700 trainings to participants in 45 countries. He is the author of Restorative Practices of Wellbeing.

This course meets the qualifications for (2.75) BBS CE hours for LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.