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All concepts from Conscious Discipline® Program by Dr. Becky Bailey with permission www.consciousdiscipline.com 1.800.842.2846

Using Conscious Discipline®in

Early Head Start

Renee Sutherland, LISW‐S

Conscious Discipline® Certified Instructor

Child Mental Health Coordinator

with

Casey Hoeflich, MSEChild Development Coordinator

Knox County Head StartA Head Start National Center of Excellence

Region V Head StartNovember 6, 2013

ObjectivesParticipants will:

• Identify the three components of the Conscious Discipline®Brain Model

• Identify effective strategies for creating emotional safety for children and adults

• Identify effective strategies for creating connection for children and their caregivers

All concepts from the Conscious Discipline Program by Dr. Becky Bailey with permission www.consciousdiscipline.com / 800.842.2846

Knox County Head Start, Inc. is a stand‐alone non‐profit organization

SERVICES OFFERED:• Half‐day Head Start Preschool

Classrooms and Home Based (School Year)

• Full day/full year Preschool classrooms

• Early Head Start Center Based & Home Based

• Child Care Private Pay & Subsidy• Serving over 400 children and

families annually• Extensive Parenting Training• Began implementing Conscious

Discipline® in 2004

Knox CountyHead Start

Mount Vernon



What is it?

Conscious Discipline® is a comprehensive classroom management program and social‐emotional curriculum based on current brain research, child development information, and developmentally appropriate practices. Conscious Discipline® has been specifically designed to make changes in the lives of adults first. The adults, in turn, change the lives of children.”


Conscious Discipline provides a blueprint for helping adults incorporate safety and connection into their work and life.

When we are able to use Conscious Discipline® consistently in our life, we are better able to help others function from their “executive state”, where they are more able to learn, cooperate and access what they have already learned.


The Skills of

Composure

Assertiveness

Encouragement

Choices

Positive Intent

Empathy

ConsequencesConsequences



Consistently using the Seven Skills of Conscious Discipline®

helps build a healthy “school family”Where willingness, cooperation, memory retrieval and learning become optimized.


Conscious Discipline® Brain Model

Executive StateFrontal Lobe

“What can I learn?”

Emotional StateLimbic System“Am I loved?”

Survival StateBrain Stem“Am I safe?”

Brain State Dictates BehaviorAll concepts from the Conscious Discipline Program by Dr. Becky Bailey with permission

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How we manage our brain states (stress) can largely determine what brain state the child will function from.

We share brain states

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Concepts based on the Conscious Discipline Program by Dr. Becky Bailey, with

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s SAFETY

CSAFETYONN

SAFETY CONNECTION

PROBLEMSOLVING

CooperationMemory RetrievalLearning

A School Readiness Model

Basic Conscious Discipline Structure



The first step in composure for infants and toddlers is for the adult to actively calm himself or herself.

93% of communication is non‐verbal and energetic.

Children must see and feel your composure first, before you can assist them.




Did you know?

Your heart has an electromagnetic field

Concepts based on the Conscious Discipline Program by Dr. Becky Bailey, with permission. Conscious Discipline.com/800. 842.2846

My heart impacts your heart

Active Calming

Step 1: S.T.A.R. Smile, Take a deep

breath And Relax

Step 2: Affirm. “I am safe. Keep

breathing. I can handle this.”

Step 3: Wish the child, adult or

situation well.Concepts based on the Conscious Discipline

Program by Dr. Becky Bailey, with permission. Conscious Discipline.com/800.

842.2846


The Skill of “Composure”

“

“No one can make me angrywithout my permission”

The Power of Perception

Structure: Safe Place

Safe Place Progression




The ultimate goal is

Not to STOP the behavior

But to begin the process of teaching self regulation.

Every conflict (problem) is an opportunity to teach!


Infants and toddlers learn to self‐regulate their internal states

in dynamic interactions with caregivers.

They cannot do it alone.

For children to be successful we have to lend them our prefrontal lobes.



What is attunement

All Concepts from the Conscious Discipline Program, by Dr. Becky Bailey, with permission, www.Consciousdiscipline.com 800.842.2846

Definition

Being aware of and responsive to someone.

Attunement occurs when one person is able to consciously focus his other attention on the internal world of another.

How do we know when there is attunement?


The Attuned Adult is:

Present – focused on the moment

Reads the child’s (other adults) signals

Nonjudgmental (it is what it is)

We cannot love an judge at the same time.



What is attachment


• Attachment serves to keep the infant close to it’s mother until it is mature enough to survive on it’s own.

• Healthy attachment makes way for independence and connection with others.

• Attachment figures are the secure base we return to when life seems to be unraveling.

How do we know there is attachment? All Concepts from the Conscious Discipline Program, by Dr. Becky Bailey, with permission,

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A child forms her primary attachment during times of distress, generally the mother figure.

A child may also form secondary attachment bonds with caregivers.

CAF = Caregiver Attachment Figure



Secure attachment style:

R = Respond Consistently to the infants distress

O = Organize yourself first (to be in a calm state)

A = Attune to the child’s internal state by offeringempathy and understanding

D = Describe by “mind reading” intentions and desires.


Job #1

It’s our job to help insure that the infants and toddlers in our care have secure attachments.

It’s only thru these secure attachments that

children can learn.

It’s all about the relationship!


I Love You Rituals Create Connections & Facilitate Attunement



Keys to connection

Eye Contact

Touch

Total Presence

Fun!




“” “I Love You Rituals” ground you in the present moment, connect you with your children, and help you re‐establish and maintain a safe place within from which

love radiates.

I Love you Rituals

I love you rituals create predictable times and ways for connections to occur.

Try do I Love You Rituals with children at approximately the same time of the day every day.




Diaper Changing Ritual



Concepts adapted from the Conscious Discipline Program

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The capacity to generate positive emotional states in our core adult‐child relationships is key to healthy development, and lifelong physical and mental health.

Parent‐Child/Care giver/child interactions that create joy and positivity reduce behavior problems later in school.


Did you know?

To wire a brain for attunement . . .

46% of the child’s awake time needs to be face time.

A sad fact:

Depressed parents provide an average of 10% face time.


Baby Doll Circle Time

All Concepts from the Conscious Discipline Program, by Dr. Becky Bailey, with

permission, www.Consciousdiscipline.com 800.842.2846


Knox County Head StartWishes you well!

For more information about bringing Conscious Discipline® to your agency contact:

Renee Sutherland, Conscious Discipline® Certified Trainer [email protected]

Knox County Head Start740 393 6986


All concepts from the Conscious Discipline® Program, by Dr Becky Bailey, with permission www.consciousdiscipline.com/ 1.800.842.2846

Conscious Discipline® For Infants & Toddlers

Worksheet

When you are functioning from your “Survival State”,

what do your behaviors look like?

When you are functioning from your “Emotional State”, what do your behaviors look

like?

Think of a time that you were functioning from your

“Executive State”. What did that look like?

Active Calming

Step 1: S.T.A.R. Smile, Take a deep

breath And Relax

Step 2: Affirm. “I am safe. (Keep

breathing) This is hard, but I can handle

this.”

Step 3: Wish the child, adult or

situation well.

Documents

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