Coquitlam, BC

Simon Fraser Society for Community Living

September 19, 2013

Richmond, BC

Boys and Girls Club

September 13, 2013

Vancouver, BC

Westcoast Childcare Resource Centre

August 24, 2013

Richmond, BC

Richmond Christian School

June 13, 2013

Abbotsford, BC

Homeschool Convention

June 8, 2013

Surrey, BC

Child Care Resource and Referral

May 2, 2013

Coquitlam, BC

Tri City Champions

May 23, 2013

Kelowna, BC

UBC Okanagan Campus

Topic: TBA

May 11, 2013

To register for this workshop please visit the UBC Okanagan’s website

Understanding Developmental Trauma in the Young Child: Early childhood is a time of immense growth and development. The child that experiences trauma during this period is made substantially more developmentally vulnerable because of the way early trauma impacts brain development. However, for the same reasons that the young child is exceptionally vulnerable to the impact of trauma, the young child is also incredibly equipped to be resilient against trauma. This resilience is something that must be fostered in the child by understanding adults who are able to see the world through the child’s eyes. This workshop will focus on cultivating that understanding by exploring trauma neurologically and experientially from the child’s perspective. We will discuss how overarching diagnoses of developmental exceptionalities (such as FASD) and “attachment disorders” can exacerbate the impact of developmental trauma as well as the role of the “big people” in creating for the child an environment conducive to the championing of resilience.

Surrey, BC

Wind and Tide Preschool

Topic: When Goodbye is Too Hard

May 6, 2013