Webinar: Connections over Compliance with influential author Dr Lori Desautels

Children who carry behavioral challenges are often responded to with reactive and punitive practices that can reactivate developing stress response systems. Discipline isn’t only responsive and it’s definitely not punishment. Discipline is developing proactive practices to help children become connected to themselves and others. The developing brains of children need to "feel" safe in order to function.  

Relational discipline is not something we do to children; it's something we help create within them. It's effective and supportive of all students as they move away from compliance and obedience towards sustainable well-being. This shift begins with the regulated brain and body states of the educators and other professionals who work with these young people.

Lori will discuss differences between traditional coercive regulation ideas and newer co-regulation concepts, exploring discipline practices that allow students and staff to move through challenging moments while attending to emotional, social, and physiological health.

Discussions will include:

• How trauma and adversity affect the brains and bodies of young people through the lens of social and developmental neurosciences. 
• A range of neuroscience informed ideas, practices, and strategies that promote and strengthen regulation through patterned repetitive experiences that can be built into our procedures, routines, and rituals.
• Discipline as a Tier One preventative, nervous system aligned and relational practice at the heart of education.

At the conclusion participants will be able to translate, modify and apply regulatory practices not just to benefit students but also staff and other invested professionals.

Dr. Lori Desautels, Assistant Professor at Butler University Indianapolis, teaches undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Education. She was previously Assistant Professor at Marian University where she founded the Educational Neuroscience Symposium that's reached thousands of educators, and the author of multiple books including “Intentional Neuroplasticity: Moving our Nervous Systems and Educational systems towards Post-Traumatic Growth”