INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW

• Lay the foundation for deep insight about the impact of a child’s history on their long-term development.
• Create a framework for practical intervention and application.
• Enhance understanding about how to interpret behavior and to respond
  appropriately.

Empowering principles

• Learn what secure attachment looks like between children and caregivers.
• Learn helpful ways to help build a connection with children who come
  from “hard places” and did not have secure attachment.
• Understand the impact that attachment history can have on children’s
  behavior.
• Gain insight and awareness about how our attachment history
  influences the way we care for children.
• Learn appropriate proactive strategies to empower children with
  behavioral tools

CONNECTING PRINCIPLES

• Enhance understanding about the physiological/internal roots of children’s behavior.
• Learn appropriate strategies for meeting children’s sensory needs.
• Provide tools for making the environment feel safe and predictable for
  children.
• Create a bridge between theory and application for the ease of use of the
  principles taught.
  

CORRECTING principles

• Understand how to balance structure and
  nurture during interactions with children.
• Enhance understanding of the TBRI IDEAL Response and Levels of
  Response.
• Communicate that, after behavioral episodes, children should:
  • Be Content
  • Feel Connected to their caregiver
  • Have Changed behavior