Understanding ACEs: Building Self-Healing Communities Presentation

Join us for Part One:

Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences: Building Self-Healing Communities Presentation!

Addressing intergenerational and historical trauma, promoting healing and protective factors, and reducing adversity in future generations will require the involvement of many creative, collaborative, and passionate people. The goal of the Understanding ACEs: Building Self-Healing Communities presentation is to offer a common language and understanding of core concepts from the fields of neurobiology, epigenetics, ACEs (epidemiology), and resilience research. You will also have time to discuss your ideas on how this information can be applied to your sphere of influence in your work, family life, and community.

This presentation will be shared in three sections:

1. Neurobiology & Epigenetics focuses on how our brains adapt to our environment during childhood and some basic concepts related to how toxic stress can impact healthy development

2. Key Findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study highlights some of the data from the original ACE study

3. Resilience provides a framework for thinking about resilience, and focuses primarily on attachment and belonging, supporting individual capabilities, culture, community, and spirituality as key protective systems

Part two of this Mini Conference:

Accessing Creative Expression and The Stories Children Hold: Moving from Trauma to Adaptation.

This workshop will enrich both lay-people as well as therapists’ skills to work respectfully with child and teen PTSD defenses for them to be more present in their current lives. We have merged our decades of clinical observation and experience to lay out how therapists can tap creative movement, song, story, and art to fuel key change moments in a youth’s therapy journey. This workshop will draw from Polyvagal Theory to facilitate deep healing with children who too often are caught in their reactions to complex trauma experiences. Participants will be offered methods of evoking creative expression for trauma healing directly into their own practice. Child-care providers and family members will also gain fascinating knowledge of this vital topic as well!

More Resilient Minnesota is a partnership between the Minnesota Department of Human Services and FamilyWise