ABC’s of Child Care Conference

Brain-Wise Strategies to Impact Children in a Meaningful Way

This training will provide you with an understanding on social and emotional development and specific brain-wise strategies to use with children. Discover self-regulation tools, strategies to emotionally connect with children, and how to utilize problem solving skills to support social development. Reflect on your own struggles and how this gets in the way of meeting children’s emotional needs. Also, learn ways to self-regulate in the classroom and at work.

Objectives – Early Childhood Professionals will:

• Obtain knowledge on how stress impacts the brain
• Understand the importance of emotional connection and what this means for children’s regulation
• Learn specific strategies on how to respond to children in a brain-wise way to support reduction in maladaptive behaviors and overall improved emotional regulation
• Discover self-regulation tools, strategies to meet children’s neurobiological needs, and other brain-based strategies
• Reflect on your own struggles and how this gets in the way of meeting children’s emotional needs
• Learn specific ways to help self-regulate at work and in the classroom that will influence your ability to implement the brain-based strategies for the children you are teaching

Conflict Resolution with Adults

Conflict – no one likes it, but growth does not occur without it. Discover competencies (skills + knowledge = action) to manage yourself in conflict, grow yourself and your day care business in conflict, and grow your confidence in handling conflict with colleagues, parents, and those around you.

Objectives – Early Childhood Care Professionals will:

• Recognize how to use stress for peak performance
• Practice controlling physiological stress during conflict
• Utilize forgiveness strategies to let go of stress’s burdens in life and business

Teaching Conflict Resolution to the Child in Your Life

You developed your own confidence in handling conflict, and now you are asking how to teach it to the children in your life? This class will give you five techniques to teach young minds and bodies to grow their confidence in handling conflict.

Objectives – Early Childhood Care Professionals will:

• Gain tools for teaching and handling conflict stress
• Practice teaching exercises for little ones
• Set up an environment to care for physiological stress during conflict discussions with children

Dream Your Stress Away

Do you wonder why Big Bird was driving your car? Or why some dreams leave you sleeping peacefully, while others startle you awake? This interactive experience takes you through how to interpret dreams, and how to use them to work through your stressors in life. Let’s start dreaming in peace!

Objectives – Early Childhood Care Professionals will:

• Interpret symbols in a dream experience using guided imagery
• Identify why humans dream
• Evaluate a dream to help you reduce a stressor in life

Jordan McCoy

Jordan McCoy is a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner who has been practicing therapy for seven years, specializing in the treatment of children, adolescents, and families who have experienced trauma. She also works with childcare centers and schools to teach and support with trauma-informed practices in their settings. She has a deep appreciation for childcare settings and all that they do to foster the development of children.

Jordan has extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused-CBT, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). Jordan is also working toward becoming Certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Jordan enjoys helping guide children and families as well as childcare centers and schools to more connected relationships.

Tammy Stuhr

Tammy Stuhr recently released her children’s book, “Jax Dreams of Heaven.”  She has spent her career working in education, beginning when she started a preschool program in her home which she expanded to a church. Her experience also includes teaching at a community college, in teen ministry programs, and at UNL as a faculty member specializing in positive youth development and servant leadership.

Tammy is the CEO of her company, Author My Day, which is focused on empowering people to strengthen their courage muscle and move towards their life’s purpose. She is a national trainer and writer for 4-H. Her specialty is training adults to have an influence in a young person’s life.

She lives in Central City, with her husband, Scott, and their dog, Jax. Tammy loves to spend time with her daughter’s family including two grandkids. And when she takes a free moment, you will find her enjoying nature.