Training & Consulting

I Offer the Following Workshops For Educators, Parents and Organizations:


Trauma Prevention and Resolution: Body Mind Tools to Restore Balance

Trauma Prevention and Resolution explores how trauma is imprinted on the body, brain, and spirit, and how trauma affects the physical, emotional, social, and academic performance of people. Workshop topics include:

  1. Interpreting behavior: what fight, flight and freeze responses look like

  2. Understanding how trauma impacts the brain, emotions and behavior

  3. Tools to settle: what we can do to regulate our own physical and emotional responses

  4. Providing Mind-Body resources to help build resilience, to improve relational skills and to teach self-regulation

  5. Learning about Psychological First Aid for people who have experienced trauma

  6. Learn “on the go” tools and practices to manage stress

 

Self-Care for Parents and Educators:  Mindfulness and Positive Psychology for Well-Being and Success

As educators, parents and service providers, we spend a lot of time thinking and worrying about our students and kids, planning interventions and programs, or thinking about how the education system could be changed to better serve the school community. 

These thoughts can become a source of stress and worry that takes a toll on our body, mind, emotional and spiritual life. We are often left feeling depleted, unfulfilled exhausted, anxious and burnt out. Unfortunately, many of us begin to cope with stress in unhealthy ways.

In this workshop you will:

  1. Learn practices to regulate your nervous system and develop healthy coping skills to manage stress

  2. Understand the relationship between your well-being and the effectiveness of your work with youth and families and your own children

  3. Learn mindfulness practices to manage stress and deepen your relationships

  4. Discover the benefits of Positive Psychology–the study of happiness– exercises to promote self-awareness, resiliency and productivity.

The practices will shift your attention away from seemingly hopeless states of body and mind into a productive, joyful, peaceful way of being in the world.

 

Journey to Wholeness: Helping Girls Heal from Trauma and Self-Objectification

Girls experience physical, sexual, and emotional abuse at disproportionate rates.

The media presents female bodies in unrealistic ways that in effect leads girls to believe that those bodies are the norm as they strive to achieve an unattainable standard of “perfection.”. These unrealistic images and the socialization/sexualization of girls causes low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, poor relationship skills and self-care, substance abuse, and eating disorders. They begin to self-objectify and learn their value comes from their body and appeal, leaving out their thoughts, feelings and characteristics as a human being. This mind-body disconnect puts them at-risk for many forms of abuse.

Repeated exposure to trauma can increase the chance of violation and developing an issue with substance abuse in an effort to drown the feelings associated with the event. Teens often feel shame, guilt, sense of unsafety and a loss of control. Without help and support, they may act out in reaction to their trauma versus making healthy decisions that honor themselves.

Parents and service providers play a crucial role in changing girls’ trajectory of poor self-esteem, body image and violation. As each girl reclaims her body, voice and sexuality, she takes part in ending the pervasive cycle of violence within her mind and heart and ultimately in the world.

Learn how to support girls on this Journey to Wholeness. Through discussion, short videos and experiential exercises, participants will learn the following:

  1. The impact of trauma and sexualization on the physical, emotional, cognitive, social and spiritual functioning of our girls

  2. The impact of the media on girls body image and the detrimental effects of “self-objectification”

  3. Trauma resolution practices

  4. Stress management and self-esteem boosting practices/ tools to implement with teen girls

  5. The power of mindfulness in the resolution of trauma and toxic shame

  6. How self-care as educators and parents plays a crucial role in the resolution of chronic stress and trauma in our youth

*Lara is also available to facilitate workshops and groups for girls and teens.

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