Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Sensory issues, trauma of loss of birth family, issues of abandonment, and search for identity are often present for teens as they navigate through adolescence. Using strategies from mindfulness, yoga, somatic activities, and communication participants of the workshop will learn how to and teach self resiliency skills to clients with evidence based short interventions using sensory, breathing, movement, and trauma-informed somatic skills. This interactive workshop will provide concrete practices that can be immediately applied to individual therapy sessions, and groups. Trauma informed somatic strategies, mindfulness, and yoga can help children and adolescents manage social emotional, loss, executive function, and identity issues that often surface for children in adopted, foster care or guardianship families during adolescence. This session will teach participants how to apply breathing techniques to reduce anxiety; practice somatic and movement based interventions for releasing emotion Identify hidden or silent deficits that mask themselves; understand how the brain develops from the bottom up and how to use that as intervention; build self-resiliency with somatic and mindfulness; self compassion interventions; manage triggers and learn proactive strategies for anger; and develop self-regulation activities for home and classrooms.