1-Hour Spotlight: Supporting Young Children to Cope, Build Resilience and Heal from Trauma through Play (A73)

For children who experience trauma, play is a powerful tool that provides them with a context to transform the experiences that are overwhelming, frightening, and unimaginable into manageable and predictable events that they have control over. In this training, we go deeper in understanding the intersection of trauma and play and how to support children to have a voice and pathways to heal.

After this course, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the four parts of the brain and how each part is impacted by trauma and stress and how play supports healing
2. Identify 1-2 trauma-responsive strategies to support a child during expressions of trauma during their play
3. Name 1-2 trauma-responsive attunement strategies to help trauma-impacted children during play

*1-Hour Professional Development Certificate will be issued upon completion