What is Healing? Helping System Involved Youth Reconnect to the Body, Mind, & Spirit with Simple Daily Practices

Vickie Xiao Rong Chang, PhD

Training Description

This training will offer simple practices from qigong, mindfulness meditation, and psychology which can be utilized to support wellbeing for system involved youth and those that support them. Using these techniques regularly can increase our day-to-day resiliency, as well as enhance capacity to cope. These strategies can be useful for providers to prevent negative impacts of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma and can also be easily taught to foster or system involved youth and/or their caregivers.

Learning Objectives

· Identify three research studies supporting somatic and psychological practices for well-being

· Identify three indicators of nervous tension in the body