Echo Parenting & Education

Click below to view the presentation by Susan Hess from Echo Parenting and Education’s Changing the Paradigm Conference.

 

Based on the philosophy and practice of nonviolence in childraising, the Echo Approach has been embraced by family therapists, childcare workers and domestic violence service staff to inform and shape their interactions with parents and children. This two day conference features RUTH BEAGLEHOLE, MARGARET HOBART, SUSAN HESS and more. For more information, DOWNLOAD THE FULL BROCHURE

DAY ONE
Introduction to the Echo Approach

Many nonprofit organizations as well as educational and government institutions exposed to the principles of the Echo Approach have asked for training not only in creating new standards of trauma-informed ‘empathetic care’ for their clients, but also in transforming their organizational culture into a healthy environment that promotes well-being and cooperation. The first day of conference programming reflects the core belief that human beings should be treated with dignity and respect. We are especially concerned about the most vulnerable among us – children – who need nurturing care to heal from trauma.

Program material will include: Preventing re-traumatization Understanding the effects of trauma on the brain Supporting the survivor in their role as a parent Breaking the cycle of violence Helping children to heal

 

DAY TWO
Stream A: “Thinking Shelter”

(For domestic violence shelter staff teams*)

Margaret Hobart on rethinking shelter rules

How can we keep our shelters safe, clean, and cooperative? How do we avoid becoming coercive and punitive?  This day-long workshop is a chance for staff to discuss how rules can reflect our ideals, think through the practical problems rules are meant to address, and build skills for creating a cooperative, respectful environment that honors each person’s dignity.

* A team is one or more persons who provide direct services (advocates) and at least one person with supervisory and policy making duties (such as a shelter manager) and ideally, an executive director. Why teams? The training will include multiple opportunities for participants to consider how the information offered in this training could be adapted to their program. This can be done most effectively when line staff and management attend together.

 

Stream B: “Deepening the Practice” (For professionals working with families who have experienced violence)
Echo Approach workshops on trauma-informed, nonviolence in childraising

This second day of conference programming provides opportunities for professionals to develop strategies for applying the tools and techniques of the Echo Approach into their unique professional settings. How do we each make the paradigm shift away from judgement and toward empathy? Deepening our own personal practices is necessary in order to convey kindness and respect to others.

Program material for this day will include:
Feelings and Needs: a new framework for understanding ‘behavior’
Regulation: triggers, the ‘anger volcano’ and tools for regulation
Strategies for supporting traumatized children

This conference is presented in conjunction with: the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles, and is funded in part by the John Gogian Family Foundation.

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