Education and Events

Educational Courses, Events and more

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Mini-Courses

1. Mini-Course – The 8 Stages of a Meltdown

This course takes you through a meltdown from within the meltdown. Each stage is described through the entire meltdown life cycle. This will enable you to understand your person more and at what stages you can intervene, deescalate or even divert or avoid.

Adrienne J Furness Pty Ltd

2. Mini-Course – Biodynamics of a Meltdown

It takes you through the biomarkers used to see what is happening inside the body, which your person can't explain, which contribute to meltdowns. There were a few surprises for me, but also great understanding.

3. Mini-Course – Chicken Nuggets and Chips

The diet of many neurodiverse - is it affecting behaviour and learning? (IN DEVELOPMENT)

4. Mini-Course – Breathe Like a Boss

This is a child focused course.

Workshops

Adrienne J Furness Pty Ltd

10. Roadmap to Breaking Through the Meltdown Maze

This is the Bundle of the four workshops making up the Roadmap to Breaking Through the Meltdown Maze

Adrienne J Furness Pty Ltd

11. Workshop – The 8 Senses and Emotional Regulation

This Module looks at the 8 Senses - Over and Under sensitivity to these along with some strategies and ideas for working with each of the senses. It also looks at the executive functioning component of the Pre-Frontal Cortex responsible for Emotional Regulation.

Adrienne J Furness NZ Ltd

12. Workshop – Internal (Inside) Influences

This Module continues to explore Executive Functioning and the Pre-Frontal Cortex, and the relationship with signals to and from the rest of the body. These signal can ease or contribute to meltdowns. We also look at the organs involved, the vagus nerve, and what body systems are involved in feeling safe, unsafe, or threatened. This is the key to meltdowns..... and yes, you can develop mastery over the meltdowns.

Adrienne J Furness NZ Ltd

13. Workshop – External (Outside) Influences

This module looks at all the influences outside the body that can contribute to or ease a meltdown. We look at our thoughts, habits, what we listen to and what we see from TV, video, books, gaming, the people we meet, the situations we encounter. And we discuss what "feeling safe" (it's an inside job) means and setting boundaries.

Adrienne J Furness Pty Ltd

14. Workshop – Interventions and Breathing

We continue to look at the internal systems and how good breathing practices enable mastery of the meltdowns. So a large part of this course is developing our breathing practices and capacity. We also look at other interventions for the meltdowns that explode or implode and our heart rate, heart rate variability and coherence.

The Human Touch