Healing the Wounds of Attachment Dysregulation: Parenting to Heal the Hearts of Traumatized Children
2 Day Intensive Training with Nancy Thomas
ATTCH is thrilled to have Nancy Thomas, renowned reactive attachment specialist presenting on Nov 7 & 8 of 2014. Lori had the opportunity to hear her speak last summer at the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children's Summer Assembly and found her training to be rich in current attachment, trauma, and neuroscience research. Ideal for parents, foster parents, adoptive parents, child welfare workers, therapists, nurses, early intervention and parenting specialists, helping professionals or anyone interested in learning more about forming healthy attachments and managing attachment disorders. his information will change the way we parent, support, and promote healing within our clients and children. You will leave understanding Attachment Disorder and what you can do about it.
Parents, teachers, therapists, child welfare staff, respite providers working together and united by a powerful plan can be the super glue to mend a child's broken heart.
Join Nancy Thomas for two fun-filled days for each team member to learn the how to's for success.
The first day will focus on building a foundation and understanding and working with challenging children. The second day will be spent going over specific behaviours and how to handle them with attachment informed parenting techniques.
Day One:
Day Two:
Please register early to ensure your space. Register online or mail registration form with cheque payable to Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing to:
PO Box 10
St. Davids, ON
Canada
L0S 1P0
A limited number of subsidized, student, and group rates are also available.
$350 for two full days of intensive training
Registration will begin at 8:30
Training will run from 9:00 - 4:00
Location: St. Catharines Golf and Country Club, 70 Westchester Avenue, St. Catharines ON, L2R 3P4
Morning and afternoon refreshments and snack will be supplied, lunch is on your own
*Dress code in effect - no jeans please
Accommodations:
We have secured reduced rate accomodations at the Four Points Sheraton which is approximately 5km away from the conference venue. A personalized Web site for ATTCH Conference Healing the Wounds of Attachment Dysregulation occurring (November 7, 2014 - November 8, 2014) has been created for you.
Guests can access the site to learn more about the event and to book, modify, or cancel a reservation from September 1, 2014 to November 9, 2014.
ATTCH Conference Healing the Wounds of Attachment Dysregulation (OR copy and paste the following link into a web browser) https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/ATTCH
Parents, teachers, therapists, child welfare staff, respite providers working together and united by a powerful plan can be the super glue to mend a child's broken heart.
Join Nancy Thomas for two fun-filled days for each team member to learn the how to's for success.
The first day will focus on building a foundation and understanding and working with challenging children. The second day will be spent going over specific behaviours and how to handle them with attachment informed parenting techniques.
Day One:
- The latest information on attachment and bonding
- What does effective therapy look like
- Specific effective interventions
- Questions and answers
Day Two:
- Answers to problem behaviours
- The family connection - doing it right!
- Educating the educators
- Questions and answers
Please register early to ensure your space. Register online or mail registration form with cheque payable to Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing to:
PO Box 10
St. Davids, ON
Canada
L0S 1P0
A limited number of subsidized, student, and group rates are also available.
$350 for two full days of intensive training
Registration will begin at 8:30
Training will run from 9:00 - 4:00
Location: St. Catharines Golf and Country Club, 70 Westchester Avenue, St. Catharines ON, L2R 3P4
Morning and afternoon refreshments and snack will be supplied, lunch is on your own
*Dress code in effect - no jeans please
Accommodations:
We have secured reduced rate accomodations at the Four Points Sheraton which is approximately 5km away from the conference venue. A personalized Web site for ATTCH Conference Healing the Wounds of Attachment Dysregulation occurring (November 7, 2014 - November 8, 2014) has been created for you.
Guests can access the site to learn more about the event and to book, modify, or cancel a reservation from September 1, 2014 to November 9, 2014.
ATTCH Conference Healing the Wounds of Attachment Dysregulation (OR copy and paste the following link into a web browser) https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/ATTCH
Post Office Box 2812
Glenwood Springs, CO 81602
970-524-4111
www.attachment.org
Nancy Thomas, the Mother of six children and grandmother of seven, has been a Therapeutic Parenting Specialist since 1985. Nancy was a Professional Therapeutic Parent for The Attachment Center at Evergreen from 1985 to 1995. Nancy has worked as co-therapist with children in intensive attachment therapy with eight of the leading Attachment Therapist, Psychiatrists and Psychologists in the country. Nancy worked for over 2000 hours as a secondary lay-therapist. These children, among other challenges and issues, displayed severe symptoms of psychophthology
and sociopathy. They have a history of being abusive to animals. Many were also diagnosed with mood disorder, character disorders, personality disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Asperger’s ADD, ADHD, Tourette’s Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder. Some had histories of homicide and arson.
Honored to train with and work along side renowned experts in the attachment field. Nancy learned and shared her wisdom with leaders in attachment including, Lloyd Boggs, MSW, Neil Feinberg, MSW, Bill Goble, Ph.D., Deborah Hage, MSW, Daniel Hughes, Ph.D, and Mike Orlans, MSW. She trained with and worked for ten years with Foster Cline, M.D., psychiatrist, author and founder of the Love & Logic program, who has praised Nancy’s work highly. Dr. Cline said of Nancy, “She has been acclaimed by national as well as local audiences. She has taught both professionals and front line workers. I am sure that almost any organization would benefit greatly by having Nancy Thomas in almost any position that requires her wit, intelligence, sense of humor, charm and people skills.”
Nancy and her family live in the high mountains of Western Colorado in a home centered around healing the hearts of children. Nancy and her husband, Jerry, have shared their life and home for over thirty years with severely emotionally disturbed children with attachment problems. Ninety percent of the children placed in her care were kids who had killed. She has an eighty-five percent success rate with these high-risk children, which is one of the highest in the country. She specializes in bonding and conscience development.
Based on her years of hands on experience and high success rate Nancy authored a parenting guide, entitled When Love is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder, which has been well received by parents and professionals. Recognized internationally as one of the leading authorities on parenting emotionally disturbed children, Nancy was asked to join several esteemed attachment professionals in co-authoring The Handbook of Attachment Interventions, published internationally in 1999 by Academic Press. She has written and produced five training videos that have helped thousands of parents that have children that have broken hearts and wounded minds. They are: Mastering Steps to Reach Children, Building Brilliant Brains through Bonding, Captive in the Classroom, Give Me a Break and The Circle of Support.
The Glenwood Post honored Nancy on April 12, 1997 in a front-page article entitled: Using Love, Woman Opens Heart To Children Of All Types. The article said: “Imagine the most badly behaved children in existence --children completely beyond control. What to most of us would be an abject nightmare is no more than just a challenging way of life for Nancy Thomas. She loves it.” The publication of the American Psychological Association, the APA Monitor in the June 1997 edition, quoted Nancy along with top specialists of Attachment Disorder in an article entitled: When Children Don’t Bond With Parents. The journal entitled “The New Therapist,” from Sussex, England, published Nancy’s article; When Love is Not Enough, in the Autumn 2000 issue. She has also had articles published in the High Risk Newsletter; and, The Cline/Fay Love & Logic Institute recently published her audio tapes Healing Trust: Rebuilding The Broken Bond.
Nancy began speaking professionally and doing consultation work in 1986. Since her work was highlighted in an HBO special in 1990 entitled CHILD OF RAGE she has become a much sought after and respected speaker. She has shared the effective keys to her high success rate in working with these high risk children in hundreds of state, county, and private agencies in 48 states, Australia, Canada, England, China, India, Ireland, Japan and Romania. Nancy has captivated audiences with love and laughter as she taught the skills to teach children how to be respectful, responsible, and fun to be around to over 35,800 parents and professionals.
As an interim professor at Colorado Mountain College in 1996, Nancy taught behavior modification theory and concepts, traditionally focused on people, toward behavior management of animals. In 1997, 98, and 99 she taught classes for Providence General Medical Center for Continuing Medical Education to satisfy the relicensure requirements of the Washington State Board of Medical Examiners and for the Physicians Recognition Award of the AMA.
A dream that Nancy has had for years became a reality when she established and began directing a summer camp program for emotionally disturbed children in 1999. At camp the children are able to laugh and learn with their parents in a healing environment. She has now directed camp in five states as well as England.
Nancy is the founder and chairperson of SAVY incorporated, a foundation to help Stop America’s Violent Youth. She is proud to be a part of this group that is working toward shaping our country’s future by helping the children.
Honored as an invited speaker on several radio shows, Nancy has been able to help many. In November 2000 Hawaii Family Forum aired an interview with her. Focus on the Family aired a radio show featuring Nancy on November 24, 2003, and again in February of 2007, internationally, to over three million listeners.
Glenwood Springs, CO 81602
970-524-4111
www.attachment.org
Nancy Thomas, the Mother of six children and grandmother of seven, has been a Therapeutic Parenting Specialist since 1985. Nancy was a Professional Therapeutic Parent for The Attachment Center at Evergreen from 1985 to 1995. Nancy has worked as co-therapist with children in intensive attachment therapy with eight of the leading Attachment Therapist, Psychiatrists and Psychologists in the country. Nancy worked for over 2000 hours as a secondary lay-therapist. These children, among other challenges and issues, displayed severe symptoms of psychophthology
and sociopathy. They have a history of being abusive to animals. Many were also diagnosed with mood disorder, character disorders, personality disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Asperger’s ADD, ADHD, Tourette’s Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder. Some had histories of homicide and arson.
Honored to train with and work along side renowned experts in the attachment field. Nancy learned and shared her wisdom with leaders in attachment including, Lloyd Boggs, MSW, Neil Feinberg, MSW, Bill Goble, Ph.D., Deborah Hage, MSW, Daniel Hughes, Ph.D, and Mike Orlans, MSW. She trained with and worked for ten years with Foster Cline, M.D., psychiatrist, author and founder of the Love & Logic program, who has praised Nancy’s work highly. Dr. Cline said of Nancy, “She has been acclaimed by national as well as local audiences. She has taught both professionals and front line workers. I am sure that almost any organization would benefit greatly by having Nancy Thomas in almost any position that requires her wit, intelligence, sense of humor, charm and people skills.”
Nancy and her family live in the high mountains of Western Colorado in a home centered around healing the hearts of children. Nancy and her husband, Jerry, have shared their life and home for over thirty years with severely emotionally disturbed children with attachment problems. Ninety percent of the children placed in her care were kids who had killed. She has an eighty-five percent success rate with these high-risk children, which is one of the highest in the country. She specializes in bonding and conscience development.
Based on her years of hands on experience and high success rate Nancy authored a parenting guide, entitled When Love is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder, which has been well received by parents and professionals. Recognized internationally as one of the leading authorities on parenting emotionally disturbed children, Nancy was asked to join several esteemed attachment professionals in co-authoring The Handbook of Attachment Interventions, published internationally in 1999 by Academic Press. She has written and produced five training videos that have helped thousands of parents that have children that have broken hearts and wounded minds. They are: Mastering Steps to Reach Children, Building Brilliant Brains through Bonding, Captive in the Classroom, Give Me a Break and The Circle of Support.
The Glenwood Post honored Nancy on April 12, 1997 in a front-page article entitled: Using Love, Woman Opens Heart To Children Of All Types. The article said: “Imagine the most badly behaved children in existence --children completely beyond control. What to most of us would be an abject nightmare is no more than just a challenging way of life for Nancy Thomas. She loves it.” The publication of the American Psychological Association, the APA Monitor in the June 1997 edition, quoted Nancy along with top specialists of Attachment Disorder in an article entitled: When Children Don’t Bond With Parents. The journal entitled “The New Therapist,” from Sussex, England, published Nancy’s article; When Love is Not Enough, in the Autumn 2000 issue. She has also had articles published in the High Risk Newsletter; and, The Cline/Fay Love & Logic Institute recently published her audio tapes Healing Trust: Rebuilding The Broken Bond.
Nancy began speaking professionally and doing consultation work in 1986. Since her work was highlighted in an HBO special in 1990 entitled CHILD OF RAGE she has become a much sought after and respected speaker. She has shared the effective keys to her high success rate in working with these high risk children in hundreds of state, county, and private agencies in 48 states, Australia, Canada, England, China, India, Ireland, Japan and Romania. Nancy has captivated audiences with love and laughter as she taught the skills to teach children how to be respectful, responsible, and fun to be around to over 35,800 parents and professionals.
As an interim professor at Colorado Mountain College in 1996, Nancy taught behavior modification theory and concepts, traditionally focused on people, toward behavior management of animals. In 1997, 98, and 99 she taught classes for Providence General Medical Center for Continuing Medical Education to satisfy the relicensure requirements of the Washington State Board of Medical Examiners and for the Physicians Recognition Award of the AMA.
A dream that Nancy has had for years became a reality when she established and began directing a summer camp program for emotionally disturbed children in 1999. At camp the children are able to laugh and learn with their parents in a healing environment. She has now directed camp in five states as well as England.
Nancy is the founder and chairperson of SAVY incorporated, a foundation to help Stop America’s Violent Youth. She is proud to be a part of this group that is working toward shaping our country’s future by helping the children.
Honored as an invited speaker on several radio shows, Nancy has been able to help many. In November 2000 Hawaii Family Forum aired an interview with her. Focus on the Family aired a radio show featuring Nancy on November 24, 2003, and again in February of 2007, internationally, to over three million listeners.
