Webinar: Guiding the Most Challenging Children

Encouraging and forming relationships with children who challenge us can be one of the most difficult parts of teaching. Often these children say hurtful things to others, frequently refuse to comply or join in and are sometimes physically hurtful to themselves or others in the classroom.

Conscious Discipline asks adults to view these children as calling for love.

Children who are relationship resistant are the most challenging in our classrooms. We can relate to these children on some level as we have all had hurt and betrayal in our lives. As adults we build defenses to distract us from that inner pain, children show us their inner pain with disruptive and hurtful behaviors in the classroom. Conscious Discipline provides adults with sills to enhance brain development by creating optimal learning environments, support self-regulation in ways that foster relationships instead of damaging them, resolve conflicts, and help children build respectful relationships with others.

Join Conscious Discipline Certified Instructor Jill Molli to learn strategies for reaching and building relationships with these children transforming both their life and the life of the classroom. Listen in and learn how to create a School Family, utilize the skills of active calming, encouragement and powerful connections to reach even the most challenging children.

Webinar Outline

00:40 Conscious Discipline brain model
01:49 Three strategies for guiding challenging children
02:10 Skill 1: Safety
04:38 Visual schedules and picture routines to set clear expectations
07:08 Importance of self-regulation in relation to behaviors
09:07 Video Clip: students learn breathing arms with Dr. Bailey
11:37 Step 2: Make a Connection
18:39 Ways to encouraging connections
19:22 Video Clip: I love you rituals with challenging children
20:57 Creating books to teach I love you rituals
22:18 Step 3: Teach missing skills
25:13 Video Clip: Elijah’s story
30:00 Importance of jobs
31:19 Video Clip: Older child explains his jobs and how they help him
32:20 Teach missing skills – teaching children to ask for a turn
33:08 Video Clip: teaching a child how to get a friends attention
35:00 Summary

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Jill Molli

Conscious Discipline Certified Instructor

Jill Molli has a B.A. in Elementary Education and a Masters in Counseling. She possess the gift of delivering this important message of Dr. Becky Bailey’s Conscious Discipline program with humor which makes for a wonderful learning experience. Jill was selected as an LGA because of her no-nonsense ability to get to the heart of a situation plus her commitment to living Conscious Discipline principles at school and at home.

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