Restorative Practices of Wellbeing for Working with System-Involved Youth

Gabriel Kram

Training Description

The Restorative Practices NeuroDevelopmental Model of Wellbeing was crowdsourced with 5,000 wellness professionals, and 40 mentors and advisors in 20 disciplines of wellbeing across 18 cultures. It focuses on supporting the embodied experience of a felt sense of safety, and turning on the Connection System: the physiological system responsible for connection and wellbeing. In this training we’ll discuss the origins of the model, its proprietary assessment tools including the Connection assessment, some of its underlying neurodevelopmental framework, and explore a variety of neural exercises that are foundational to the model. As a strengths-based model, the model works to support children in out of home care accessing a felt sense of safety and connection, which is a foundational source of resilience.

Learning Objective

• Introduce participants to a connection phenomenology framework that demonstrates how a felt sense of safety gives rise to the possibility of experiencing connection: the…