Challenges Facing Our Schools: Anxiety, Depression, and the Disconnection of Our Youth…Using Growth Mindset to Create a Context of Insight, Accountability and Healing
DATES: September 10-11, 2018
TIME: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
LOCATION: Asheville Event Center
REGISTRATION FEE: $95
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: September 7, 2018
This two-day workshop with Kaye Randall is in response to the positive feedback from her Mental Health Challenges workshop last spring. We will look at the context within which our children are living today…a context of disconnection, fear, anxiety, and blame. Often we address mental and behavioral health issues from a divisive, fearful, punitive or overly unhelpful approach which can increase the feelings of loneliness, anger or disconnection, and can lead to severe emotional, behavioral and mental health problems.
Participants will learn individual, classroom and schoolwide strategies that will support identification, insight, understanding and compassion for all youth, and will have important tools in helping staff and students learn social and emotional skill sets that will help them be more in control of and responsible for their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We will explore innovative strategies and solutions in helping to identify and help youth at risk. Kaye Randall, MSW, LISW-CP, is a clinical therapist, author and speaker. She is co-owner and director of Turning Point Counseling in West Columbia, South Carolina. She is the co-author of See My Pain: Creative Strategies for Helping Young People Who Self-Injure, Mean Girls: 101 ½ Strategies for Working with Relational Aggression, and 102 Strategies and Activities in Working with Depressed Children and Adolescents. Contact Hours: 10
Victoria Pidgeon Andrews, recently retired, served as NASA’s first Deputy Planetary Defense Officer at the NASA Planetary Defense Program office in Washington, D.C. “Planetary Defense” refers to detecting, tracking and characterizing space objects such as asteroids and comets that come close to Earth, and more recently, to developing approaches to prevent potential asteroid impacts from occurring. Ms. Andrews led the Nation’s intergovernmental policy, planning, and cooperation efforts for planetary defense. She holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of North Carolina and a master’s degree in science and technology policy from Virginia ‘Tech. She has worked on flight-system and instrument-development projects for NASA’s human exploration and Mars exploration programs. From 2005-2010 she was the Program Executive for the LCROSS mission, notable for confirming the presence of water ice on the Moon. After leading an asteroid utilization study for NASA in 2010, she became passionate about understanding, managing, and explaining the risk posed by near-Earth asteroids. Prior to retirement, Ms. Andrews co-chaired the NASA-FEMA Planetary Impact Emergency Response Working Group and served as Executive Secretary of the White House National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Space Weather, Security, and Hazards. Ms. Andrews is an avid fan of science fiction film and literature and possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of the genre.