I hope you can join me for one of the fall classes. The self-healing practices are needed these days. I feel honored to serve so many organizations and communities.

We can navigate the myriad of challenges we are facing with more ease. Doing so makes us smarter. As our bodies enter a restorative state, more oxygen and circulation get to our brains and vital organs. Our brains come out of survival mode more easily and we plug into our exquisite intelligence. We can hear and see each other. We can be in learning and relationship. We can focus more.

Our Fall Cohort for Take Care of Your Heart is forming now.

Our Train-the-Trainer Team for Self-Regulation:Create Habits of Ease is growing!

Self-Regulation helps us navigate each day with a little more ease.

Restorative Anatomy for Self-Regulation helps us learn about our brilliant bodies and minds.

Enjoy these opportunities! Visit PowerOfEaseKeys.Com to sign up.… Continue Reading...

Become a trusted adult to help address the Youth Mental Health Crisis. Join us in growing webs of support for our Youth. We take a two generation approach to mental health. We are working with intergenerational patterns. Together we take the journeys toward wellness. The Calm and Connected Toolkit trainings help communities and networks grow the adult skills needed, and brings in a wealth of wellness practices that are easy to integrate as curriculum in any youth centered programming.

Teresa was a supporting author for the series and integrated Self-Regulation movement breaks into the beautiful curriculum.

Learn more at the website Calm and Connected Toolkit

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation commissioned an article on  Washington State’s Self-Healing Communities: A transformational process model for improving intergenerational health.

The powerful article by Laura Porter, Kimberly Martin, and Rob Anda reflects the learning of the Family Policy Council and our states Community Public Health and Safety Networks.

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Community is at the center of the efforts, community capacity building.  Also key is a complexity and adaptive learning approach to addressing the prevalent issue of the community.  The third essential element is an understanding of trauma and supporting systems and communities to adapt their strategies rooted in understanding of trauma and brain science.

The potential cost savings from taking such an approach are significant.  One of the many things I admire about the work of the Family Policy Council was their commitment to data and measuring their impact and their learning.

The sister article to the one above is a case story that details the level of cost savings secured with small investments. … Continue Reading...

Watch the webinar I led for Public Health Institute of California at the link below. Sue Grinnell is running a learning and innovation lab for California’s Accountable Communities of Health and this was one of the monthly sessions offered.

The discussion questions posed to the ACH Leaders were: 

1. How does Adverse Childhood Experiences and/or Toxic Stress impact your ACH’s Population Health challenge?  What data is available to support this?  You can include information from ACE’s study in your findings.
2. Are you using a Trauma Informed Lens to look at the challenges the community faces?  How could the NEAR Sciences paradigm inform your approach/strategy?
3. Given what we now know about NEAR – how to we design systems that help – rather than systems that add to the burden of ACE’s?  What does this look like across the lifespan?
4. Do you know your ACE Score? Your Resilience Score?   What does NEAR have to offer YOU personally on the journey to hope/healing/health?