Lorelei Woerner – Eisner & George Mccloskey – Executive Function: Above & Beyond The Frontal Cortex

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Lorelei Woerner – Eisner & George Mccloskey – Executive Function: Above & Beyond The Frontal Cortex
Sought after occupational therapist and international lecturer, Lorelei Woerner-Eisner OTR/L, C-IAYT, RYT500 shares her 20 plus years of experience, continuing education, and therapeutic techniques, as well as her integrative perspective on wellness. This convenient online course brings fresh integrative research-based and clinically proven techniques to enhance initiation, engagement, attending behavior and memory, as well as processing and self-monitoring.
Explore integrative tools you can use with challenges such as: the kid who scores well on tests but performs poorly in school, who is distracted and impulsive, who lacks motivation or is hindered by anxiety.

Expand your principles of yoga, mindfulness, breath and the gut in developing: flexible thinking, memory, planning, organization, impulse control, emotional regulation, attending behavior, task initiation and habit building
Strategies to cultivate motivation, efficacy, carry over and decrease fear, anxiety, and resistance
Modify sensory input to increase alertness or facilitate calming

Lorelei walks you step-by-step through Executive Function beginning with the foundational elements of brain function, effects of the gut and sensory input, as well as stress and fear. Then she will show you how to apply that into integrative treatments while learning and experiencing specific strategies that will make a real difference in children’s lives.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to explore integrative and cutting-edge techniques that you can use the very next day!

Above & Beyond the Prefrontal Cortex
Enhancing Executive Function:
Going Beyond the Prefrontal Cortex
Broaden your view of executive function and increase your effectiveness as a therapist.
Principles of Executive Function Levels of the Whole Person

Physical – movement, posture and anatomy
Breath and physiological systems
Intellect – cognition, self-expression and sensory
Personality – preferences, values and behaviors
Emotional tone and the subjective
Brain development & autonomic nervous system (ANS)
Pruning and the use it or lose it principle
Vagus nerve’s relation to physical and emotional effects

Effects of Stress on EF

Effect on neural networks
Cortisol and fight/flight effect on the brain
Differences between fear and anxiety
Getting to the basis of anger and frustration

The Gut Brain

Enteric nervous system: the “second brain”
Neurotransmitters in the gut that affect mood
ADHD-gut connection
Enhance mood and memory through nutrition

Sensory Processing

3 developmental levels of regulation
Swings effect on the Reticular Activating System
Adjustments in sensory input to create balance
Calm the sympathetic nervous system thru sensory input

Strategies to Develop Healthy Habits

Using your mind to change your brain
Power of thought and visualization
Routines and steps to build habits
Enhancing neurogenesis and neuroplasticity

Yoga, Mindfulness and Meditation Principles

Mind-body-breath connection
Yoga poses for self-regulation
Interoception to build deeper self-awareness
Power of the pause

Breath and Regulation Techniques

Using breath to affect arousal levels
Increasing and decreasing heart rate and blood pressure
Supports movement and posture
Techniques for focus, delayed gratification and processing in the pause

Sensory Processing Strategies

Using the sensory systems to promote self-regulation and calm the sympathetic nervous system
Looking at rhythmicity and touch as factors in enhancing EF

Attention-Memory Connection

Learning requirements for memory
Emotion-motivation connection
Intrinsic motivation to enhance processing
The driving force of optimism and hope
How multi-tasking is counter-productive
Strategies that support focus and recall

Putting the pause on Impulsivity

Marshmallows: the importance of learning to wait
Anti-rush therapy to promote waiting
Do-overs to teach healthy alternatives

Self-Generation and Self-Determination

Promote delayed gratification, self-monitoring, task initiation, emotional control
Supporting persistence to stick with dull and challenging activities
Allowing time for processing, planning and self-correction

Strategies for Healthy Social Connections:

Using the whole self as a therapeutic tool: emotion, modeling and positioning
The power of relationship in therapeutic effectiveness
Cuing and facilitation to promote participation, engagement and increased independence
Teaching tolerance and awareness

Treatment Strategies for Challenging Emotions

Decreasing stress to facilitate EF
Understanding fear, as the basis for many challenging emotions
Using the teachable-moment “failures”