[Download Now] Executive Function: Above & Beyond the Frontal Cortex – Lorelei Woerner- Eisner & George McCloskey

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• 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

Executive Function begins with the basic elements of brain function, effects of the gut and sensory input, as well as stress and fear. She will show you how to apply it. The treatments are related. While learning and experiencing. There are specific strategies that will make a difference. In the lives of children.

You can explore cutting-edge techniques that you can use the next day.

Enhancing executive function can be done.

Going beyond the prefrontal cortex.

Increase your effectiveness as a therapist by broadening your view of executive function.

The whole person has principles of executive function levels.

• 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

There are 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 brain of the Gut.

• 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

There are 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

The principles of yoga and meditation.

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

Breath and Regulation techniques are used.

• 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

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

There is a connection between attention and memory.

• 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

There is a pause on Impulsivity.

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

Both 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

There are 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

There are treatment strategies for challenging emotions.

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

Strategies to Rewire the Brain and Change Behavior are Improving Executive Functions.

Also. George McCloskey is an international expert and best-selling author. Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties.

• Proven Interventions for Children, Adolescents and Adults
• Profile your client’s EF strengths and weaknesses to target specific interventions
• Promote EF development – strategies for directing, cueing, prompting
• Transition strategies from being externally prompted to internally regulated
• Tailor interventions that can be used individually or with large groups/classrooms
• Teach your clients to be more independent

You will develop the skills you need to better assess, grow and improve executive functioning in your clients by drawing on Dr. McCloskey’s clinical expertise and experience. You can change your client’s brain and behavior with captivating examples, engaging case illustrations, and proven strategies.

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