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WORKSHOPS
Lively. Supportive. Relatable. Enlightening.
...Just a few words used to describe Kim's events.
In-Person & Virtual Training
Parenting and educating children with significant trauma histories often feels overwhelming and impossible at times. Kim connects beautifully virtually or in-person in a way that will energize and empower you! Prepare to be engaged, heard, and validated!
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1. How to Love An Alien
This presentation is based off Kim's new book How to Love An Alien and designed to support adoptive/foster parents and educators who are experiencing severe behaviors including lying, gorging, defiance, stealing, self-mutilation, sexual acting out, aggression, and transition issues at home or in the classroom. These behaviors can often lead to disrupted adoptions, numerous foster placements, and chaotic classrooms.
Children with these trying behaviors are often diagnosed with severe mental health disorders such as Reactive Attachment Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Bi-Polar Disorder, and Intermittent Explosive Disorder. As a clinician for over 29 years, Kim believes that there are true situations that support these diagnoses and medication, many of these behaviors/diagnoses can be a symptom of the true issue: not having a safe, secure and true attachment with a healthy adult and/or a broken attachment with a current or primary caregiver.
Parents, caregivers, educators, and professionals will learn how to build their relationship with their child, specifically focusing on the child as a whole rather than his/her behavior. Participants will leave knowing how to build emotional connection, trust and ultimately forming a healthy, loving and secure attachment that is experienced by the child.
2. Become Your Alien’s EXPERT!
This program focuses on empowering foster/kinship/adoptive parents and educators to recognize that they can and do serve as their child’s expert! Participants will learn that they have insights and experiences unique to their children’s experience, that could never be captured in a counseling session once a week! Parents and Educator’s are led through a training to help build their confidence and voice so that they may represent, educate and share with other’s on how best to care for their child(ren)/students.
Attendees will also learn how to link with their extended family, work colleagues and others who are a daily or weekly part of their child’s life experience. They will learn how to create a supportive team that can understand and give voice to an attachment-challenged child’s needs and the best ways to support them in their healing process.
