Optimizing School Leadership with Polyvagal Theory

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Emily Daniels, MEd, MBA, NCC Related seminars and products

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Emily Read Daniels is the founder of HERE this NOW and the author of The Regulated Classroom: "Bottom-Up" Trauma-Informed Teaching©. She is an internationally-recognized specialist in the trauma-informed schools movement and has worked with over 100 schools, non-profits, state and federal agencies throughout the U.S.

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Emily Daniels is the founder and owner of Here This Now. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Emily Daniels has no relevant non-financial relationships.

 

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Objectives

1. Apply the tenet of the intervening variable in Polyvagal Theory- physiological state - to educator performance challenges.
2. Analyze the primary drivers of high employee engagement and how they relate to cultivating cues of safety in the school community (the essential foundation to school culture of safety).
3. Demonstrate 3 organizational school-based strategies for trauma-informed school-based clinicians.

Outline

• Behavioral manifestation of mobilization and immobilization and how that may be reflected in school personnel performance 
• Conditions for high employee engagement and its relationship to prioritizing a culture of felt safety 
• Current efforts from various schools that address the physical environment and relational context that establishes an association between a felt sense of safety and school leaders 

Target Audience

• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Social Workers
• Other Mental Health Professionals