A two-day experiential workshop for helpers & healers

BRAIN SCIENCE + {SAFETY & CONNECTION} = Transformation

The most important tool

you bring to your clients isn’t found in your clinical applications tool box. 

The most important tool you bring to your clients is YOU. 

Our clients, patients and students arrive with one goal:

To feel better.

Something is causing enough stress in their lives that they are calling uncle,

throwing up the white flag,

and saying ‘please help me.’ 

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You have a lot of great tools.

Tools that really help people!

Having a toolbox full of tools to draw from when working with suffering people is really helpful.

But ultimately our clients don’t feel better when you give them the perfect tool.

Clients feel better when they feel felt.

We’ve known for a long time

that the relationship

is the most important predictor of positive client change.

Being with clients is the most powerful tool that amplifies all the other tools you already have. 

But very rarely does anyone actually define relationship.

How can we be deliberate and intentional about cultivating resonance, relationship, and presence if we aren’t sure what those things are?

Or what they feel like?

Relational Resonance

The mutual influence of interacting systems on each other that allows two or more entities to become a part of one functional whole.

~Dan Siegel, MD

Joining with another without losing oneself in the other (merging) or remaining too separate (not touching)

~Robyn Gobbel

 To bring our authentic & regulated selves into our work we need these 3 things

An Understanding of the Neurobiology of Being Human

both ourselves and our clients

A toolbox full of tools

that emerge from the resonant in-between space

A deep connection to ourselves

& strong energetic boundaries

This two-day event

will excite your geeky brain science loving parts, deep diving into things like

polyvagal theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and memory reconsolidation theory.

But even better than that

throughout our two days together you’ll experience 

the same felt sense of safety & connection that you want to offer your clients.

Your brain will learn lots, but your body will learn more.

Here’s what you can expect!

We’ll move in out and of

  • full group lecture & discussion
  • small group connection
  • individual experiences of self-exploration through non-dominant hand drawings and journaling

 We’ll prioritize felt safety by

  • slowing down
  • consistently reassessing consent
  • welcoming all parts of you

…well unless it’s a part that’s negatively impactinging someone else’s experience, like throwing spit balls

Hey there! I’m Robyn!

I’m a therapist, educator, trainer, consultant, and now- author!

I’m a little obsessed with studying the relational brain and then teaching everyone who will listen alllllllll about it.

Understanding what’s underneath behavior has changed everything- at work and at home.

I started studying relational neuroscience in 2011, including:

  • Mindsight Institute with Dan Siegel, MD
  • IPNB Immersion with Bonnie Badenoch, PhD
  • Continued in-depth consultation with Bonnie Badenoch since 2015
  • …and many, many more CEs and training programs

In 2019, I taught the Science of IPNB in the Foundations of IPNB Post-Grad Certificate program at Portland Community College.

In 2019 & 2020, I served on the Global Association for IPNB (GAINS) Board of Directors.

Relational Neuroscience is at the heart of everything I do.

  • Being With- a year-long immersion program for professionals who work with parents
  • The Club- a virtual community for parents of kids with big, baffling behaviors
  • Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work- my first book will be pubished April 2023 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers

ALL THE DETAILS YOU NEED

When: Thursday & Friday, June 1 & 2, 2023; 9-4:30PM

Where:

Monroe Convention Center

302 S. College Ave., Bloomington, IN

 47403

Schedule:

Thursday

8:30 – Registration begins

9- Training Begins

12pm- Lunch on your own

1:30- Training Resumes

4:30- Day Concludes

Friday

9- Training Begins

12pm- Lunch on your own

1:30- Training Resumes

4:30- Training Concludes

Fee:

Earliest Bird: $400 (EXTENDED thru January 2, 2023)

Early Bird: $425 (registration between 01/03/2023 & 04/30/2023)

$450 (registration after 05/01/2023)

CEs:

11 CEs will be awarded to attendees who participate in the entire 11 hours of training and pay the CE fee ($10).

Mental Health America of Monroe County is licensed as a CE granting institution by the Indiana Behavioral Health Licensing Board for LSW, LCSW, LMHC, LMHCA, LMFT, LMFTA.

Attendees are responsible for checking their own state and licensing board to determine reciprocity.  

There is a $10 processing fee for CEs, payable at the time of the event.

Cancellation Policy: 

Registration is refundable (minus a $25 cancellation fee) prior to 4/30/2023.

Between 05/01 and 05/25/2023, cancelled registration is eligible for a 50% refund.

Registration is non-refundable (no refund given) after 05/26/2023.

Lodging:

Lodging and other travel expenses are the responsibility of each attendee.

The Monroe Convention Center is connected to a Courtyard by Marriott.  A group rate is available.  Please email Robyn for details.

Sponsor: 

To learn more about Mental Health America of Monroe County, CLICK HERE.

FAQs

Definitely not!

If you poke around my website you’ll see the the focus of my work right now is parents of kids with vulnerable nervous systems and big, baffling behaviors.

Having the very narrow and unique area of specialization is possible only because of the depth and breadth of my experience with all humans, in and out of the therapy room.

The foundation of my work, the work that allows me to support hundreds of intensely vulnerable children and their families at a time, is The Neurobiology of Being With.

After over a decade of studying the neurobiology and embodying the neurobiology of being with, I am offering this two-day experiential workshop to anyone who works with any human.

Please do!!!!

I believe very strongly that the mental health community is clinging a little bit too tightly to ways of being that can be developed and implemented by professionals in other fields.

A mentor once said to me that “being a good therapist is really just about being a really good human.”

Let’s come together and practice being good humans.

***If you do not work with people professionally and are interested taking this workshop as a parent, please email Robyn before registering***

Ooooh, great question.

The boring stuff is that I earned an MSW degree and then became a licensed therapist. I saw clients individually for over 15 years in Austin, TX. I started working almost exclusively with kids and families, and eventually transitioned to seeing adults half the time and kids and families half the time. Usually I saw folks who had histories of complex developmental trauma.

I started studying Interpersonal Neurobiology and then Relational Neuroscience in 2011.

I dove deep into the science, first, then found a mentor would invited me into a space where I could both offer, and receive, being with myself and others in a way that invites coherence and integration.

WHAT?!?! does that mean?!?! Well, compassionate presence is the neurobiology of change for ourselves and our clients, regardless of the kind of work we do.

What I’ve noticed along the way is that we all believe that relationships are how people change- but no one seems to quite know what that means.

I’ve studied indepth with Bonnie Badenoch and Juliane Taylor Shore, while studying the theories of Dan Siegel, Stephen Porges, Lou Cozolino, Bruce Perry, and so many more.

In 2019, I taught the Science of Interpersonal Neurobiology in a post-graduate certificate program in Interpersonal Neurobiology offered by Portland Community College.

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