{Workshop} Reframing Resistance: Connecting with Parents through the Lens of Relational Neuroscience

Sponsoring Organization: MI Association for Infant Mental Health

Date: May 21st, 2024

Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm eastern

Location: Kalamazoo, MI

Description: Working with ‘resistant’ and ‘uncooperative’ parents is stressful, which increases compassion fatigue and risk of burn-out. Some infant mental health specialists even leave the field due to the stress of working with parents and caregivers.  We can rediscover confidence and contentedness, and even joy in our work by applying the theory of the autonomic nervous system to parents and caregivers, seeing their ‘resistant’ and ‘uncooperative’ behaviors as signs of stress.  Workshop participants will learn a step-by-step process for connecting with — and setting boundaries with — even the most challenging parent or caregiver.  

Registration Information: Conference is open to the public! Check the link below for updated conference and registration information