15-Minute Focus: Regulation and Co-Regulation Workbook: Accessible Neuroscience and Connection Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond - Paperback

by Ginger Healy (Author)

Looking for tools to expand emotional stability through balanced regulation and co-regulation?

Continue the journey into co-regulation in the classroom and beyond with this powerhouse resource. Filled with content, prompts, activities, strategies, and reflections, the tools in this workbook will help you dive deeper into healing students' nervous systems and rewiring their neural pathways for optimum performance in the classroom and throughout their lives!

In this workbook, you'll discover:

• Strategies to Nurture Neurodiversity
• The Why, Who, When, What, and How of Teaching Students Basic Neuroscience
• Co-Regulation Strategies, Including Mindfulness and Grounding
• Brain Energizers and Brain Calmers
• Restorative Practices
• Ways to Widen Our Window of Tolerance
• Activities to Soothe and Strengthen the Adult Brain
• Crossover Strategies for the Home
• Community Care Planning...and More!

Explore regulation and co-regulation through the lenses of up-to-date research, sound strategies for implementation, vivid illustrations of each concept, and hands-on activities designed to reinforce the lessons in ways that will stay with the learners long after they leave the classroom.

Author Biography

Ginger Healy MSW, LCSW is a clinical social worker with almost 30 years of experience in the field of social work. Ginger has worked as a child abuse investigator, hospital social worker, and school therapist. She spent 15 years as the social service supervisor at an international adoption agency and was able to travel to provide support for orphanages all over the world. This job taught her so much about attachment and trauma needs in children. She currently works as the program director for the Attachment and Trauma Network where she co-anchors the podcast "Regulated & Relational" and speaks across the nation on trauma-informed schools, therapeutic parenting, and community engagement. She is married with four children who have been her greatest teachers about developmental trauma and special needs. She loves to travel and read.