Current Webinars
“Our Journey Through the Developing Nervous System as We Rewire Our Perceptions of Discipline”
Speaker: Lori L. Desautels (PhD)
Dr. Lori Desautels, has been an Assistant Professor at Butler University since 2016 where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Education. Lori was also an Assistant Professor at Marian University in Indianapolis for 8 years where she founded the Educational Neuroscience Symposium that has now reached thousands of educators and is in its 16th year. Lori’s passion is engaging her students through the social and relational neurosciences as it applies to education. She does this by integrating the tier one trauma accommodating Applied Educational Neuroscience framework, and its learning principles and practices into her coursework at Butler. The Applied Educational Neuroscience Certification, created by Lori in 2016, is specifically designed to meet the needs of educators, counselors, clinicians and administrators who work beside children and adolescents who have, and are, experiencing adversity and trauma. The certification is now global and has reached hundreds of educators. Lori’s articles are published in Edutopia, Brain Bulletin, and Mind Body Spirit international magazine. She was also published in the Brain Research Journal for her work in the fifth-grade classrooms during a course release position with Washington Township Schools. ori continues her work co-teaching in the K-12 schools integrating her applied research into classroom procedures and transitions preparing the nervous system for learning and felt safety. Lori is the author of 4 books with more to come. Her most recent books are: Intentional Neuroplasticity, Our Educational Journey Towards Post Traumatic Growth, Connections over Compliance: Rewiring our Perceptions of Discipline. Her newest book will be a manual coming out in 2024 titled, “Body and Brain Brilliance: A manual to cultivate Awareness and Practices for our Nervous System” Lori has met with well over 200 school districts across the country, in Canada, Costa Rica, Australia, Scotland, England and Dubai equating to more than 150,000 educators with much more work to be done!
Webinar description
In this presentation, we will explore how our nervous systems are impacted by adversity, trauma, and experiences of resiliency through deepened connections and sensory regulation. Behaviours are only signals or indicators that the brain and body are struggling in survival states of functioning
“Occupational Therapy in the analysis of Contextual factors”
Speaker: Nuria Menendez
Nuria Menéndez Álvarez. Doctor in disability psychology. Occupational therapist. Teacher in the Occupational Therapy degree at the Padre Ossó Faculty (University of Oviedo). Field experience working in refugee camps.
Webinar description
Occupational therapy is defined as a profession that addresses people’s well-being through occupation. Although the occupation occupies the tasks of our daily lives, it will be influenced by the context in which it is carried out, so the occupational therapist must be able to analyze the occupation taking into account the culture and context of the person. In addition, it must be taken into account that any limitation in occupation will have an impact on the person’s health. In this sense, occupational therapists must be prepared to analyze and understand any situation of workplace injustice, including those that escape our daily reality. In this way, occupational therapy is positioned as a powerful element with which to empower those populations that find themselves in situations of occupational restriction. Occupational therapy has great value in the face of the global crises we are currently experiencing