WORKSHOP: Helping Kids Regulate through Movement and Play
GUEST SPEAKER: Robyn Gobbel, MSW, LSW
DATE:
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
From 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (PST)
(online workshop)
Challenging behaviors emerge from a nervous system in protection mode. Movement and play are the antidote to a stressed out nervous system and invites it back into connection mode. Webinar participants will learn the neurobiology of play and how to use playfulness to decrease dysregulation. Participants will leave with practical play and movement-based tools and activities that they’ll be able to use immediately. Feeling too stressed to even imagine being playful with your child? No problem! We’ll also learn why play is so hard for parents of dysregulated kids and learn easy, low-energy ways to make playfulness possible.
Who is this Workshop for: Adoptive/Permanency/Foster Parents, Waiting Adoptive/Permanency Parents and Professionals who work with these families.
To Register: https://forms.gle/
Deadline for Registration: Monday, January 27th by noon.
Next Steps: ACBC will send a link to all registrants by noon on Monday January 27, 2025. Please include any questions/comments in your registration form and we will address them as soon as we are able!
Who is Robyn Gobbel?
Robyn Gobbel, MSW, has 20 years of practice as a family and child therapist, specializing in complex trauma, attachment, and adoption. While she is no longer practicing as a therapist, Robyn’s diverse clinical practice and training creates the foundation of her work and includes EMDR (including EMDR adapted for children with attachment trauma), Somatic Experiencing, Theraplay, Trust Based Relational Intervention®, The Alert Program® and Yogapeutics Aerial Yoga Level 1 Teacher Training. Robyn has expertise in the field of relational neuroscience, including interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory and polyvagal theory. Robyn consults, teaches, and trains extensively throughout the US. She previously served as an instructor for the Foundations of Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program at Portland Community College as well as with the Adoptive & Foster Family Therapy Post-Graduate Certificate Program. Robyn has served on the working board of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS). Robyn is the host of The Baffling Behavior Show podcast and the author of Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work (Jessica Kingsley Publishers).
