Details:
Full-Day 8/21/25
Time: 6:30a - 2:00p PST / 7:30a - 3:00p MST / 8:30a - 4:00p CST / 9:30a - 5:00p EST
Lunch Break: 11:30am CST
Virtual Platform: Zoom (Email with registration link will be sent roughly 1 week prior to training date from email address: team@bowmanconsultgroup.com)
Who should attend?
- Educators, Administrators, Specialists, Service Providers
- Mental Health Providers, Social Workers
- Parents, Caregivers & Advocates, Childcare Providers
Content:
A groundbreaking, innovative approach to trauma-informed, neuro-affirming Functional Behavior Assessments (FBAs) and Behavior Support Plans (BSPs) redefines chronic undesired (challenging) behavior as a result of nervous system dysregulation and lagging neurocognitive skills. Rather than focusing only on what a student is trying to "get" or "avoid," this method digs deeper—assessing impacts of trauma on autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning and the brain's ability to manage everyday demands.
Attendees will learn about this powerful, research-backed framework that prioritizes repatterning the nervous system’s stress response and strengthening essential neurocognitive skills, both essential to seeing durable reductions in undesired behavior and/or increases in desired behavior.
As a result of shifting the focus from surface-level behaviors to underlying neurological and developmental barriers, attendees will walk away with a more compassionate and effective approach for addressing behavior while supporting core critical needs of students and avoiding re-traumatization that can often occur as a result of conventional behavior intervention methods.
This session equips participants with a full array of practical, effective, science-based tools that can be used to create FBAs and BSPs that truly address the needs of children and youth impacted by trauma, neurodivergence, or other causes of chronic undesired (challenging) behavior, fostering lasting growth in self-regulation and adaptive behavior.
What will I take away from this opportunity?
- Approaches for looking deeper, beyond what a child is trying to “get or avoid”, to assess the underlying nervous system state and skills that need to be built
- Comparisons of how brain-based, skill-focused FBA’s & BSP’s more effectively address the impacts of trauma than traditional models
- Processes to assess and plan proactive regulation as part of a plan to help a child become more accessible for intervention
- Strategies for intervention components of the FBA and BSP to ensure that the brain can tolerate and grow from the experience
- Templates & Application of how to take the information learned and create successful and effective Behavior Support Plans
This workshop-style training is intended for educators - administrators, classroom teachers, school counselors, educational assistants, etc. Participants will experience a combination of didactic instruction, visuals, and examples, followed by hands-on creation of a plan to take back to their particular setting to implement with students who struggle due to trauma impacts or other causes of chronic challenging behavior.
Trainers:
Rick Bowman's qualifications include:
- M.A. in Clinical Psychology
- Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner - Clinical (CTRP-C®)
- Certified HeartMath and "The Resilience Advantage" Trainer
- Certified Trainer in Collaborative Problem Solving®MGH (Think:Kids, Massachusetts General Hospital)
- K-21 licensed school administrator in the state of Oregon
- Founder and Leader in the "Transforming Trauma `~ Raising Resilience Connected Community" (www.bowmanconsultgroup.com/ttrrcc)
His training and consultation background has included mental health and human service agencies, non-profits, and corporations, as well as speaking/consulting internationally in Russia, Cuba, and Jamaica.
Rick has been employed as a Clinical Psychologist, Community College Professor, Assistant Principal, Alternative School Director, Student Services Director, and non-profit Assistant Executive Director. His recent implementations of CPS have been:
-- With children in a non-profit alternative middle school and high school setting in the David Douglas School District in Southeast Portland where students face significant barriers to their social, emotional and educational progress such as homelessness, severe poverty, drug & gang involvement, and disengagement from school.
-- With teens in a Long Term Care and Treatment school for students in Level 5 residential foster care who have experienced significant trauma.
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Doris Bowman's qualifications include:
- M.S. in Education/Special Education
- Graduate Certification - Applied Educational Neuroscience
- Advanced Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner - Clinical (ACTRP-C®)
- Advanced Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner - Education (ACTRP-E®)
- Certified HeartMath and "The Resilience Advantage" Trainer
- Certified "Stress & Well-Being Assessment" Provider, HeartMath
- Certified Trainer in Collaborative Problem Solving®MGH (Think:Kids, Massachusetts General Hospital)
- K-21 licensed special educator and school administrator in the state of Oregon
- Founder and Leader in the "Transforming Trauma `~ Raising Resilience Connected Community" (www.bowmanconsultgroup.com/ttrrcc)
Doris has co-authored Going to Bed is Easy Now, and Going to School is Easy Now, the first two in a series of children's' books designed to support children with challenging behavior (www.easynowbooks.com). She has a broad background in special education and behavior consultation with over 20 years experience working with and supporting children with behavioral challenges and their families.
