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Level One
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Five-day immersion course designed to prepare staff and leadership to deliver tailored interventions that target emotion and behavior directly at the level of biology.
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Five-day in-person intensive course
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Designed for
• Direct-care staff and leadership who have demonstrated an authentic commitment to improving the child welfare-youth treatment field, including; residential Youth Treatment staff and leadership, program directors, clinicians, youth treatment support staff, intake specialists, regulatory support professionals, detention, Human Services staff and leadership.
This course is designed for professionals who are primarily engaged in ongoing direct work with youth and families who are either system-involved or at-risk of becoming system-involved. The content is intended for direct application with youth and families.
This course is also recommended for individuals in the following roles:
• Diversion staff and leadership, community-based services staff and leadership, Probation or parole staff and leadership, Human Resources, Policy makers, Educators, Psychiatric hospital staff and leadership, community stakeholders.
Individuals who are not appropriate participants for this course:
• Trainers, coaches, and consultants. If you are not primarily engaged in ongoing direct work with youth and families who are either system-involved or at-risk of becoming system-involved this course is not appropriate for you.
Level Two
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A series of salon workshops with guest researchers to help participants establish in-depth working knowledge of the biological mechanisms of emotion and behavior.
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Each session is three days in length and focuses on a select physiological component.
Offered once a year date TBD
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Level two is invitation only, based on meaningful participation and concept integration in the previous level.
Level Three
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Level Three focuses on age-appropriate education and application with youth and advancing participant’s subject matter expertise.
See below for more details
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Five days in-person
Offered once a year date TBD
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Level three is invitation only, based on meaningful participation and concept integration in the previous level.
Level One
Youth and family service work is a whole-body experience. It can feel like a battle. Staff and leadership often dance between agency goals and the panic of common obstacles.
There is profound relief in the realization that rather than fighting against, you can work with, biology; comfort in knowing the most important tools you will ever use are already within your own body and the bodies of those in your care; exhilaration in a working knowledge of the biological mechanisms of emotion and behavior.
The ultimate goal of youth and family service work is to change lives, to receive and guide successfully. Experience the comfort of moving with the flow of biology to affect the change you desire.
Level one is a five-day immersion course designed to prepare staff and leadership to deliver tailored interventions that target emotion and behavior directly at the level of biology. The course focuses on discipline-specific methods informed by leading interdisciplinary science to equip the next generation workforce with integrated expertise to substantively improve efficacy, quality, and safety for the youth and families in our care.
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• Identify key biological mechanisms of emotion and behavior at the core of successful treatment and recognize when those mechanisms are at play during diverse behavioral events in their venue
• Employ group activities, real-time and written assessments, therapeutic games, and dynamic resources that capitalize on organic processes to establish and maintain safety, and therapeutic quality in the milieu
• Apply tailored interventions that target emotion and behavior directly at the level of biology and lay the prerequisite foundation for authentically trauma-informed/responsive programs
• Utilize organic physiological processes to improve safety, outcomes, and staff retention, and reduce coercion, restraint, and vicarious trauma.
• Recognize and match clients’ emotions and behaviors with predictability levels of homeostatic resources (food, safety/shelter, survival partner).
• Classify, track, and measure dynamic homeostatic predictability levels to forecast potential escalations
• Identify opportunities to reduce unpredictability, and intervene prior to biological initiatives toward anxiety and aggression
• Resolve perceived or actual survival-resource omission through shared body-state, or by providing the resource, to intervene in the biological trajectory toward violence.
• Review their agency’s policy and protocol for opportunities to meaningfully address gaps between science and practice in their venue
• Lead substantive conversations challenging traditional norms that lead to poor outcomes and harm in youth and family service settings
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Designed for:
• Direct-care staff and leadership who have demonstrated an authentic commitment to improving the child welfare-youth treatment field, including; residential Youth Treatment staff and leadership, program directors, clinicians, youth treatment support staff, intake specialists, regulatory support professionals, detention, Human Services staff and leadership.
This course is designed for professionals who are primarily engaged in ongoing direct work with youth and families who are either system-involved or at-risk of becoming system-involved. The content is intended for direct application with youth and families.
This course is also recommended for individuals in the following roles:
• Diversion staff and leadership, community-based services staff and leadership, Probation or parole staff and leadership, Human Resources, Policy makers, Educators, Psychiatric hospital staff and leadership, community stakeholders.
Individuals who are not appropriate participants for this course:
• Trainers, coaches, and consultants. If you are not primarily engaged in ongoing direct work with youth and families who are either system-involved or at-risk of becoming system-involved this course is not appropriate for you.
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• An empowering balance of science and application. Refreshingly interactive didactics supported by dynamic experientials that integrate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic components, and engage cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning.
• Youth and family services is whole-body work, effective training is a whole-body experience. Courses are in-person.
• Complete and meaningful participation. If you are unable to attend the full course or meaningfully participate for the duration of the course you will be invited to leave.
• Light snacks and beverages will be available during course hours. Meals are not provided. We will break for lunch each day for one hour. Participants are welcome to remain on site for lunch or eat lunch off-site.
• Not a train-the-trainer program. BBI Trainers will be selected from participants who have successfully and meaningfully completed levels one through three.
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$1000. USD per participant
Level Two
Level two is a series of salon workshops with guest researchers to help participants establish in-depth working knowledge of the biological mechanisms of emotion and behavior. Each session is three days in length and focuses on a select physiological component.
Guest researchers speak about the concept they study and lead a question-and-answer session. Participants apply that science to their population and setting through experientials, practical application role-play, interactive discussion, and group work. Educational goals will vary based on the session and biological mechanism or process featured.
Level Three
Level Three focuses on age-appropriate education and application with youth and advancing participant’s subject matter expertise.
Participants experience leading educational groups that empower youth and families to work with their own biology to establish lasting change in their lives. Applying the cumulative expertise gained in levels one and two, participants will leave with the ability to run physiologically-informed programs in their venue.
