Play Ball - The Playbook for Attachment and Discipline  

 

BEING A PARENT IS HARD!!! Teaching parents how to be good parents is sometimes harder.  But what if there was a very simple way to teach and practice kind of parenting that will ensure lifelong resilience and personal strength in children? Play Ball - The Playbook for Attachment and Discipline teaches any parent a simple to understand and easy to master way of coaching and nurturing children to be resilient mentally and emotionally.

Attachment is a major buzzword and is so often missunderstood.  All of us form attachments.  We become attached to people and things to give perpose and meaning to life.  They way that we interact with our children will have serious impact on their ability and desire to make attachment s to us. Not only to us but to others in their life.  The types and qualities of relationships our children maintain in life is nurtured in those early interactions we have with them. 

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Play Ball takes the parent through the troubling moments of decision when a child steps out into their world and ventures to make their own decisions and choices.  The world is a challenge.  Numerous obstacles face a child in their exploration.  What we say to the child as they leave our safety and protection is carried with them to the batters box.  These words shape the self talk that gives the child strength to learn and grow.  How we coach matters.  When we coach is even more  important.

Register for this 4 week course with this link.  Each sessions is only $15 and if you pay all at once you will receive a CD of the Coaching Call above. Pocatello residents, can click  HERE​ to join the Oct 23 group   http://app.steadytide.com/events/PlayBallLive

In these 6 weekly sessions we will cover attachment from the styles, or stages, as John Bowlby introduced us to them and apply them to the adventures and journeys we all take in life as we learn and grow through leaving the safe haven of our homes, anxiously venturing to the batters box where an opponent hurls chalenges at us in every effort to take us out.  If we win there is the pressure to reach the temporery safety of first base and our journey has begun.  We only return to the secure base of home if we succeed in defeating all the obsticles presented to us.  If we fail, we are out and sent back to our dugout.  This is one of the most critical times for developing resiliance and empowering the child to try again.  If we fail as the coach, we may find that the child begins seeking alternative safe haven in someone elses dugout.

Topics covered are:

The stages (styles) of attachment.

How grieving impedes a child ability to learn 

What it means to lead with Pom Poms and bandages

Why self talk is more powerful than external coaching

and so much more.

When you understand the process of exploration and the resilience that healthy attachment provides, the process of raising resilient empowered children becomes very easy.

About the presenter.

Brett M. Judd LMSW Lead Presenter and Success Coach          

Using skills honed through years of clinical experience with individuals and families, coupled with his genuine compassion and approach-ability, Brett has helped his many clients build healthier, more satisfying lives by stamping out sleep problems, improving intimate relationships, and finding freedom from fear, grief, depression, and traumas. Additionally, the exclusive NeuroBalancing system enables Brett to combine cutting-edge technology with over 20 years of rock-solid expertise, empowering you to change your brain and enhance your life. 

Brett obtained his Bachelors in Social Work from Idaho State University in 1996 and then his Masters in 2006 from Walla Walla University. His career has taken him from a therapeutic aid in a school for at risk youth and adjudicated teens, working as a Felony Probation/Parole Officer, and then a Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Social Work at Idaho State.  He currently practices with his wife at An Open Mind Counseling and NeuroBalancing in Pocatello Idaho.

Author of two books currently available on Amazon Kindle, Brett speaks and writes about the issues he sees in the life and worlds of the professional and the client.  The Art and Joy of Parenting - With Time Out recently reached number one position in the category of Family; Emotional regulation in Amazon Kindle.  Discipline For a Change, A Guide to Positive Principled Parenting  is a book for both professionals and parents.  It teaches the difference between discipline and punishment and it gives easily to master and understand tools to stay in the positive discipline centered practice of parenting. 

An innovator in his field and a sought-out speaker and trainer, Brett oversaw the training of foster and adoptive parents for the Department of Health and Welfare before licensing them as certified caregivers. While a faculty member of the Idaho State University Social Work Department he taught and oversaw clinical skill development in graduating students as well as practicing professionals.

During this time, Brett also served as the Easy Idaho Branch Chair of the Idaho NASW

Past Topics and Presentations

2008 Idaho System of Care Conference: Systemic Approach to Trauma

Idaho Foster Parent Conference:  Fostering Trauma

Independent CEU courses taught:

The Ethics of Trauma Focused Practice.

Bio Kids - Kids who Foster.

Understranding the complexities of Complex Trauma and Complicated Grief

It's All In Your Head - understanding how mindset and focus shape our emotion

Brett and Gina are the proud parents of 4 biological children and one adopted daughter.  They have been married since 1990 and fostered for 8 years.  

Want to have Brett in your agency?  He can be scheduled for private agancy trainings for staff and clients.  Talk to him about it at the seminar, or email us at seminars@anopenmindcnb.com