How to Foster Connection in Times of Stress 

How to Foster Connection in Times of Stresss

Instructors: Jenny Barrett and Dr. Anne Townsend

Description:

Stress impacts your child in so many ways. When adults and children experience high levels of stress, it manifests in behaviors that impact a child’s ability to learn and your ability to help. In these three video lessons, you will learn about the role of stress on the brain and how common responses can either exacerbate or alleviate stress. You will also discover the power of your parent-child relationship and one skill to start reducing stress right away. By recognizing the signs of stress in children and yourself, and by adopting a different approach, you can begin to make changes right away.

What you will learn:

• The role of stress in thinking and learning
•  The impact of stress on the brain
•  What can inadvertently flare the stress response
•  What children need when stress is high
•  The role of the adult-child relationship
•  One key communication strategy to reduce stress right away 

This course includes:

Three emails over 3 days, each containing:

• A brief message introducing the video along with some tips
• A short video lesson

Video lessons include:

• Understanding How Stress Disconnects Us
•  Harness The Power Of Feeling Understood 
•  A Key, No-Fail Strategy To Strengthen Connection

“Hugely helpful in understanding how stress affects behavior and how not to escalate stress.”