What is emotional poverty?  

It is when the brain is unintegrated and unregulated, when the bonding and attachment is not secure, and the inner self is under-developed.

Why is this important?  

Increasingly schools are dealing with more students who are angry, anxious and tending to violence (particularly at PK and K). This is taking significant time away from learning.  The typical discipline strategies are only working with about half of the students because many of the behavior issues have very deep emotional roots.   This workshop will provide strategies, understandings of the causes and sources, and vocabulary. In addition, the workshop will help educators identify early the most probable sources of violence so that interventions can begin much earlier.  The "emotional dance" in the classroom will also be named and discussed.  

Bio

Dr. Chestin Auzenne-Curl, has served students, teachers, and administrators in public school systems and higher education for more than 15 years. Auzenne-Curl’s professional roles include various critical teaching and program leadership roles in K–12, as well as teaching and mentoring in higher education. Auzenne-Curl holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, Urban Teacher Education from the University of Houston Main Campus. “In 2005, one of my campus administrators offered me her autographed copy of A Framework for Understanding Poverty. ‘You get this. It’s what you do. I want to send you to become a trainer,’ she said. I had no idea that the pages of the book would speak to me in such a deep way, or that after working and presenting in several local districts for 10 years, that I would find myself on the aha! Process team. I have been growing in my belief that life is a series of ‘aha’ moments, and sharing stories of experience is a warm way to shatter the walls that divide us.”