[Download Now] Intensive 2-Day Workshop: Enhancing Executive Function: Going Beyond the Prefrontal Cortex – Lorelei Woerner-Eisner

• Fresh integrative research-based and clinically-proven techniques
• Explore 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, resistance
• Modify sensory input to increase alertness or facilitate calming

The workshop brings research-based and clinically proven techniques to enhance initiation, engagement, attending behavior and memory, as well as processing and self-monitoring.

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 are some of the challenges we can use.

The effects of the gut and sensory input, as well as stress and fear, will be explored. We will learn and experience strategies that will make a difference in children’s lives.

• Developing healthy habits
• Yoga
• Mindfulness and meditation
• Breath
• Self-generation and determination
• Impulsivity and healthy social connections

Sought after an occupational therapist and international lecturer, Lorelei Woerner-Eisner shares her 20 plus years of experience, continuing education, and therapeutic techniques.

The seminar will show you a deeper view of executive function that will increase your effectiveness as a therapist. You will leave with strategies to facilitate cooperation and carry-over in your clients. There is a chance to explore cutting-edge treatment ideas.

1. Explore challenges in executive function through integrative techniques and a whole person perspective.
2. Explain the significance of brain development and the autonomic nervous system on executive functioning.
3. Apply effective yoga poses that create alertness and those that calm and facilitate focus.
4. Explore the mindfulness – meditation continuum and how to use these techniques to enhance executive functioning.
5. Identify breath-related strategies that support self-regulation.
6. Describe the gut-brain connection and how it can affect executive functioning.
7. Explain the emotion-motivation-attention-memory connection and how to facilitate toward learning and recall.
8. List strategies to develop healthy habits and self-discipline.
9. Explore strategies to get around the “shut-down” effect that stress and anxiety play on EF.
10. Describe 2 new techniques that diminish impulsive behaviors and facilitate delayed gratification.
11. Describe a new perspective of therapeutic use of self and the environment to help promote healthy social connections.
12. Identify strategies to help your client learn to take more ownership of their own well-being.

1. Explore challenges in executive function through integrative techniques and a whole person perspective.
2. Explain the significance of brain development and the autonomic nervous system on executive functioning.
3. Apply effective yoga poses that create alertness and those that calm and facilitate focus.
4. Explore the mindfulness – meditation continuum and how to use these techniques to enhance executive functioning.
5. Identify breath-related strategies that support self-regulation.
6. Describe the gut-brain connection and how it can affect executive functioning.
7. Explain the emotion-motivation-attention-memory connection and how to facilitate toward learning and recall.
8. List strategies to develop healthy habits and self-discipline.
9. Explore strategies to get around the “shut-down” effect that stress and anxiety play on EF.
10. Describe 2 new techniques that diminish impulsive behaviors and facilitate delayed gratification.
11. Describe a new perspective of therapeutic use of self and the environment to help promote healthy social connections.
12. Identify strategies to help your client learn to take more ownership of their own well-being.

Enhancing Executive Function: Going Beyond the Prefrontal Cortex is a two day workshop. Enhancing Executive Function: Going Beyond the Prefrontal Cortex is a download. Enhancing Executive Function: Going Beyond the Prefrontal Cortex is an intensive two day workshop.