A Morning with Conscious Discipline 

Time: 8:00 a.m. to noon. (doors open at 7:30 a.m.)
Location: Wyatt Park Christian Church Fellowship Hall
2623 North Mitchell Avenue
Presenters: Ashley Furnell and Jill Molli
Cost: $15 per person

Join us for a morning of learning with two highly effective, seasoned trainers. Choose one of two tracks, designed to give you targeted information to help you the most:

Building Healthy Blueprints for Life: Using Conscious Discipline to Build Self-Regulation
The first three years of life are a period of incredible brain growth. As “Brain Builders” working with infants and toddlers, we can help create:

• A healthy sense of self: Do they feel safe and trusting in the world? Do they feel good enough and deserving?
• A mental model of relationships: Do they have confidence that their significant relationships will offer support when they need it? Do they allow themselves to be vulnerable or do they defend against authentic closeness?
• Lasting ways to manage lifelong stress: Do they handle stress and life’s upsets with grace and solutions or do they find themselves stuck in distress?

The way you respond to the needs of the infants and toddlers in your care will help them or inhibit them from forming healthy life patterns. Learn to create calm days of optimal stimulation for both you and the children in your care!

"S/he hit me first": Dealing with personal loss and healing the need to get even
Take daily conflicts with children and between children (hitting, tattling, name calling) and turn these moments into opportunities to teach missing social and emotional skills.  Teachers and caregivers report encountering more and more children with lowered abilities to self-regulate tolerate frustration and interact well with others.  This workshop will explore the relationship between personal loss and aggression/violence/revenge in the classroom and home, and offer proactive solutions for teachers and parents to start implementing immediately.  In this workshop learn how to:

• Use tattling to teach assertiveness, use tantrums to teach self-control, and use aggression to teach helpful communication skills.
• Recognize children’s calls for help and/or love
• Develop new skills to transform opposition into cooperation and create teaching moments
• Create an environment in which children can maintain their dignity
• Practice reframing children’s intentions
• Identify structures to add to the home or classroom to help start the healing process  

The Presenters:

Ashley Furnell has over 10 years of experience in the classroom and has been using Conscious Discipline since 2011. Currently an early childhood special education teacher and mother to two young girls, Ashley knows firsthand the struggles that come from raising and teaching young kids. She credits Conscious Discipline with supporting her in reaching her most challenging students and building a strong School Family. She is passionate about helping others learn Conscious Discipline in fun, creative, and relatable ways.

Jill Molli has a B.A. in Elementary Education and a Masters in Counseling. She possesses the gift of delivering this important message of Dr. Becky Bailey’s Conscious Discipline program with humor which makes for a wonderful learning experience. Jill’s experience includes delivering state and national keynotes, teaching children with behavior disabilities, teaching elementary school and serving as a guidance counselor. Jill is a contagious source of enthusiasm for and knowledge about Conscious Discipline.

Presented by Community Action Partnership Head Start, Mosaic Life Care Community Connect, and United Way Success By 6. Hosted by Wyatt Park Christian Church.

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