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welcome everyone thank you for being here with us today you are welcome to stay hello in the chat box if you would like and we will give folks another minute or so to come on into the room we know you all have very busy evening so thank you for being here William are you okay to speak to the the process for translation briefly one of the Jonas Brother button button can I see the acapella meaningless photos in Paradise City hopefully parents understood that any parent who needs translation services in Spanish please follow directions on the screen in front of you and on the bottom there should be a button that says interpretation is selected and follow their instructions and to get us kicked off I want to thank you guys again for joining us for our session to further if we have any new listing on who were here last week don't worry I'm everything that we present will always build on from 141 sessions the next but even if you start fresh today you'll still be able to take a lot of take away if I introduce myself my name is dr. William Avila I served as the Director of student services for the district and we are pleased to be able to offer this second session for our families on on social learning and using the book permission to feel as a as a guide to talk about elements that are really beneficial for one themselves as an individual but also as parents as you support your children and I just want to thank everybody for their tenants on behalf of our superintendent dr. Mendoza Anna Board of Education thank you for being here tonight and I'd like to turn it over to Miss Kim breed to go ahead and facilitate our presentation and we're thankful that Miss bring continues to work with us here in Baldwin Park to support our students. thank you thank you so much for getting folks welcome thank you say oh for being here as well to help with translation and thank you for translating the PowerPoint for everyone and we so appreciate that and thank you all of you fam members and community members who are able to be with us we know it is not easy to fit this in to your evening so we appreciate you doing that and spreading the word and letting other folks know about the sessions and we're happy to watch the group grow over time we have a few more of these as William said anyone is welcome to pop in at any point so thank you for making the time to be here and also thank you if you watching the recording so we hope you also can fully enjoy through the recording if you weren't able to be with us live we are talking about social emotional learning and the book called permission to feel and this is our son session hopefully folks are all settled in with translation and so I won't I won't ask William to do that again for us but I will know I'll leave this here for just one moment if anyone's came in the folks can be settled in and you are welcome to type in the chat box in English or Spanish whatever works best for you and we issue well please I just want to reiterate I believe we've contacted all the families to wear recipients and who are you put a sign up early on and we were able to distribute copies of the book for the first forty families signed up we did have a few more we were able to provide families but when I believe we reached out and tallest so we had enough work for the sign up early so if we weren't able to get you a book and we apologize but if you have any questions about the book or anything else I put in an email student services. events at bpusd.net if you have any questions feel free to email us there we also based on some of the feedback we got we received from my parents we create a poster that you can if you would like to pick one up your I don't know what you'll be easier coming to the district or what's in a few at the school site and having the night yet but if you would like a copy I know we emailed them to family but if you want to print a copy you can email us at student services event at BP D. Net and we can go ahead and you can always come pick one up at the district office also we have one side English and since we are a dual-language district we also been on the other side in Spanish so we Interstate we just want to thank you for the feedback you've given us and we just want to make sure we're supporting you guys Implement some of the some of the content anywhere from today so as we before we move too far into the presentation that would be so great so much easier to use this with families when you have that printed version so I'm excited for you all to have that we do wish you well we hope that you and your families are safe and that you're able to care of yourselves and each other in all ways that you can we know that these times have been hard so I'll we do truly appreciate you making the time to be here with us and for you making the time to prioritize this type of learning which I know it's also a little bit different to use things at home that schools use at school that professionals use at school and so I want to know I am Kimberly brain and I am a parent like many of you I'm a family and I also use these types of strategies at home with my own son so during the day I work with schools and I work on helping schools to improve the way they support students with academics behavior and with social emotional learning and then I'm really excited to be able to learn how to do this in school so that I can also use it in my own home and then help other families as well and so if you were with us last time I shared a little bit about my own family and here's a picture of the few years old my son here in my arms is a younger he is now a holler than me unfortunately at 13 and the young man next to me is my nephew and this is my mother and I'm sharing this photo because to us family is not just parents and caregivers we know that family is much broader than that it's our grandparents it's our aunties and uncles it's our cousins sometimes it's our neighbors and it's our friends who feel like family so please know it when we use the word family we really do mean everyone and we hope that you all will share what you learn here with as many of those other family members as you would like knowing that when our children are around other family members who can use some of the same language I have some of the same skills it goes even further especially if some of our family members are helping us to raise our children so for example my nephew is being raised by my mother so he lives with his grandmother not his mother that happened in many cases and many families for lots of reasons aunties and uncles and grandparents so please share this information with as many folks as you feel comfortable doing so are we know that lots of folks within our own that works within our circles can help our children be as well balanced than healthy as possible so this is our schedule today is our second session we have two more after today so no. will always be 6:30 to 7:30 and we appreciate folks register and so we can get you the link but I believe the link is also available on the website is so folks can just jump in at any time and this is the book that we are anchoring in called permission I feel you do not need to have the book to participate but having it is is even better so that you can go back in and learn a little more so I will be sharing some information from the book as we go through these sessions so I want to know that I believe the best learning is the kind that helps kind of star or activate your own great idea so in these sessions I will share a little bit but as soon as you're ready you are all are invited to type into the chat box and share your own great ideas so even in the last session just our very first session together I left inspired you all had so many great ideas that you shared about how you're using these things are planned to use these things at home so please continue that tonight I invite you all to be Mico facilitator is share your ideas so you can all learn from in with each other so we are going to use the mood meter right now as we get started here today if you are new or if this is the second time you're hearing this I will give these brief instruction I'm first showing this in Spanish and then we will show the mood meter in English next so if you prefer the English version please still follow along with me and you will find an area that pops out to you in this picture and I show you the English version you'll get your English word for it so you're going to take your finger and go to the bottom corner where the two arrows meet where energy and pleasantness come together and you might need to take a deep really try to get settled sometimes I even close my eyes for a moment and try to figure out like how much energy do you have in your body right now and then let your finger go up for the amount of any do you have in your body now you are not going to share your word with us so please let the honest word find you it is okay no matter how you're feeling so you might have lower your energy or middle or high so wherever your energy is that your finger go to that part and then bring your finger across where the amount of pleasantness you're currently feeling now remember you are not going to choose a word with the mood meter and it's important you teach your children the same directions we let the mood word find us so I don't look at this and look at the words and shoes all I would like to feel this way or the good word I think it sounds like I'm kind of a I'm here instead we literally do it this way with energy plus pleasantness and the word will find you something to give folks a moment to do that sometimes it takes a minute to really know even how you're feel we get so busy during the day and we get so used to saying I'm good or I'm fine that we could have a mask over our real feeling all throughout the day and so whatever your word is it's okay you are not going to share this with us so you were I don't want you to put in the chat box I want you to have your real word find you energy plus pleasantness and let that word find you now you can continue to do this activity if you started on the Spanish version but you need your English word this one has one less row on both sides and I might ask you William to send me the copy you you had and I think I do have that I should put that in the PowerPoint next time so they'll be the exact same one and so same idea energy plus pleasantness and let your word find you right now you to write this word down so whatever word found you go ahead and write it down now I want to talk to you for just a few moments here so you know that you came to this so to talk about feelings a bit which can seem like an odd conversation sometimes and so we want to know that this work is grounded in with called emotional resilience and that is about our ability to cope with and adapt to stressful situations and at the core of emotional regulation is this idea of the ability to manage our own emotions so it's important that we tell our child we know that all emotions are okay to have sometimes we're going to be very angry or very you know high energy low pleasantness sometimes we're going to be very sad or down those emotions are okay to have it it's important that we let our children know that but sometimes it's not a good mood for the moment so if you're on your way to work it might not be a good time for certain moods if our children taking a test at school it might not be a good moment for that mood and so we will all want to learn how to regulate our emotions when needed knowing that sometimes we allow ourselves to feel whatever it is that we're feeling and so in our schools we are working on this thing called the social emotional learning core competencies and so you'll see a website here in the bottom corner from what we call a castle. Org answer you see here at the main core competencies for our students and our adult is social awareness and relationship skills in the green self-awareness and self-management in the orange and then sensible decision making in the yellow so we're going to come back to this soon but you can see this works in our communities with our families and our homes at school and so we know that regulation is because sometimes it's not a good mood for the moment and so self-regulation skills are good for us as adults and for Youth and the idea about self-regulation skills is that we can teach this skill to our children and two other adults just like we teach any skill so the way we teach our teenagers to drive or the way we teach our children to ride a bicycle or the way we teach a young person to read if the same play we can teach emotional regulation and so we're going to talk more about that tonight and we're going to do that grounded in this idea of what we call the ruler method so in the book directions to feel you'll find the mood meter and then you'll find a lot more information on What's called the ruler method now it's called the ruler because in English these words start with are you ER so are for recognizing emotions than understanding causes and consequences of emotions labeling emotion as accurately that's what the mood meter helps us to be for express our oceans which is also where the mood meter comes in handy and then regulating our emotions efficiently which will start doing tonight so I'd like to do a very brief activity with you briefly I'm going to turn off my camera cuz I'm going to engage in this activity with you and I am going to ask you to do what's called triangle breathing so this is all I'm going to be for 1 minute what you'll do is you will watch the triangle expand like it looks here and when the triangle expands we want you to fill your lungs with as much air as you can you're going to slowly take in a law I'm deep breath and when the triangle starts to collapse back into just that 3 sided shape your air will be going out cuz we're going to bring our are in and still up at the image shows up and then we will exhale as the image comes back down to be smaller and I'll be right back with you in a moment all right hope that you did that with us so now I'd like to ask you to do the mood meter one more time you're going to take your finger go to the bottom corner you're going to let your word find you you're going to go up with the amount of energy you have in your body you're going to go across where the amount of pleasantness you're currently feeling and you're going to let your word find you and when you're ready please write that word down we got energy plus pleasantness our word finds us I'll show you in English you letting your word find you now when we see you in our next session we will also show you some of these mood M made for younger children found it. have any words at all you can do this with just the colors you can do this with faces all right so now I'd like an excellent people are already sharing their words you know you know what I want to do so I would love to know enact and ask you you can share your word but you don't have to but I'm even more want to know is did your mood word change from the first time to the second time and if your mood word did change what way did it change did it go up or down in energy did it go up or down in pleasantness and I know I'm going to thank you you can type in such a box and English or an and then I thinks I I was going to help me with the English translation in just a moment so thank you all for typing in there so wow optimistic I must say that it is curious that I spellbinder movie curious and rare that the word finds us so to speak because we are usually used to staying the mood yes exactly so we are so used to the reason we we say let the word find you is because we judge ourselves and so even though we don't like to be judged by other people off and we even judge ourselves and I know I can be guilty of that where I O I feel pressure to be in the yellow and so my first instinct is to just assume I'm in that yellow part of the mood meter and I you know I'm like yeah that I feel around here but if I actually let my word find me sometimes. not true right and so we want to be compassionate to ourselves we want to be accepting of ourselves just like we want to be compassionate except things to other people so thank you for that comment about letting the word find oh and I think for our children by teaching them this way to there's no judgment to the children so it's not the same thing as our children being mad and maybe yelling at us and say I'm mad at you this is a way to let some sort of put it on the mood meter like that's the word that found me right now that's how I'm feeling right now so I'm going to check in on the chat box and see how but folks are sharing solarena thank you for that some people got the same word that is totally okay now I want to say a few things about that one but I did tonight was very fast and it wasn't as powerful of a mood regulator as we use last time and I really did that on purpose. let us see that sometimes even the tiniest little intervention like a few deep breaths can change our mood so we don't always have to take a lot of time to change your mood sometimes just one minute could do it and I want to know that sometimes that's not enough right sometimes we might need a bigger and more powerful intervention to change our mood but sometimes you're in a fine mood so where you are is all good and there's no need to change it so I just want to know do any of the above is all okay so thank you for sharing that and I see up and energy that's wonderful deep breaths are amazing because sometimes a deep breath tends to give you what you need if you need to feel calm a deep breath tends to calm you which would lower your energy if you need to feel more energized a deep breath can make you more energized so it's interesting how that can work so I see up and energy yes I am now focused what a great word that's exactly are you want you to be icy energy remain the same book pleasantness increase thank you all for sharing in the chat box I really really appreciate you sharing that and if you're watching this video please consider doing this activity taking your own and then you could facilitate this with someone else and you know you can watch and see how it changes their mood and you can you and your children can even play around with this you know you can do the mood meter and if their energy is low you can say let's do 10 Jumping Jacks and then do the mood meter again right if they are like feeling so sleepy before school and they want to wake up more or their energy is so high there anxious and they don't feel really good our focus and it's time to do homework you might take him taking a couple deep breaths and you might be amazed at how quickly the mood can change so that a link to our Rachel common room and I know we also have various different activities their breathing exercise meditation relaxation different strategies and techniques if you're looking for other strategies and resources I have the link there for you to be able to access at a later time what a great of several districts I know have done that recently and it is so helpful for families so you don't have to like searched online and sometimes what you find is in there great for the age or the events are too long or too short so William you sharing that I could imagine families getting their children settled in after school and maybe going to that site for just a few minutes before starting homework right or maybe going to that site for a few minutes before bed for the last two years I believe so there's a variety of different activities that you can use it for any of those examples that can mention that can mention their stuff for require a break just because he might have feelings and whining and offered just Eureka to what's the weather working for regroup I don't let the right word to use right now if you're coming to my mind but there's activities here provided with a journaling their feelings or thoughts whether visual a relaxation of students in the background watching the fish aquarium in some classical music so there's a variety of different activities at techniques that can be utilized depending on circumstances but we did I just wanted to share that resource as a parent you're off to looking where can I go for this type of thing and I just want to show it to the district has made some activities available for you as soon as I make a little bit easier thank you thank you thank you this is National Women's History Month I like to show pictures in the middle of my presentation to give a little brain break so thank you to all the women out there and for all that you do and you might want with your children to look up some things on Nash women's History Month you can find some amazing facts about amazing women of the past so I want to ask you in the chat box now we both will and I gave you a few ideas but if you'd be willing to share in the chat box how might you use the mood meter and the ruler method so the ruler message is this idea of recognizing our emotions using the mood meter to label them and then trying to use some regulation strategies like the ones is talk about how might you use these things in everyday life and please share if you've already begun so I know some of you were with us last time and I was so inspired by some of the ideas I heard you stay in the chat box I'm how you might start to use the mood meter and regulation strategy so if anyone has already begun or if you have any good ideas right now we'd love to give you a little bit of space to share in the chat box and then we will share more idea you as well but I'll give just a moment and see if anyone has any to share thank you for considering thinking about this and thank you for typing into the chat box for us and I love that comment right there ideal to use during a panic attack boy. That's such a hard time off your young as your loved ones your young ones are adults are having panic attacks it feels like the worst thing in the world at that moment and so I so appreciate you making that connection and in fact if you have people in your life who struggle with panic attacks and if they know the warning signs when those are coming on and so people do not but if they know the warning signs of when they might be starting it's also a great time to use some of these regulations strategies before they're actually fully in a panic attack so thank you for sharing that I see it's a great way to initiate conversation with my teenager love that so like instead of just how was your day and they say fine you can get into the routine of saying hey once a day can we just do the mood meter together and then let you know what forward finds them and you can even ask a teenager can you just tell me a couple things about that word so why do you think that mood word found you right now so thank you for sharing that that's awesome I would use these resources in positive and difficult Grayson's yes exactly so with my son I have a 13 year old who has autism and he has very good verbal skills but he is sort of a perfectionist if any of you know a purse it can be kind of tricky way he holds himself to a very high standard and so I try to use the mood meter with him both after we had a challenging situation and after something went well because it's really good to punctuate in our mind when you are feeling genuinely Pleasant and high-energy and when you are feeling, it's good to remind ourselves that that's what that's what's happening right so thank you for sharing that I see when client becomes dysregulated yes if you are working with others and supporting other people please borrow anything that we have here you could you're welcome to borrow any of this in your own work and I think we share the PowerPoint with everyone as well so I like to share my work I'm I'm happy to have any of you borrow any of the slides if they would help listening to difficult news are going through difficult times with family yes I love that so especially these days are tends to be a lot of our family are struggling in more ways and so to use the mood meter at those times that might offer a little comfort and might make it easier for people to express themselves and so I see I wasn't here last week but it's very interesting and I can see my using these tools to identify how I feel and how I can change my mode that's wonderful because we're talkin about how to use these with for ourselves as adults and also with our children so it's not just for our children that's what we shared a little bit last time and in any of you are welcome to go back and watch the video from the first time and also see the PowerPoint we talked about this idea that one of the best ways to help our children to regulate is for us to be regulated so sometimes if our children are having a a hard moment you might not even use the mood meter with them you might use it with yourself you might not even use deep breathing with them you just might use it for yourself so I love that that point in the chat box when evaluating teenagers in clinic who are struggling with depression anxiety that's great so I love the folks are going to use this in so many ways thank you for sharing in the chat box please continue to put your thoughts and ideas in there as you go and I'm going to share a few here and I I love that so many of you basically already named this list so here are some things for you to consider many of these you've already met and so this idea of like before and a you can use the mood meter before and after school before and after meals before and after a bath so for example if you have a young person who has very high-energy sometimes closer to the area of anxiety you might do the mood m b or they take a shower or bath and then ask him to do it again afterwards and that tends to be a time that we have lower energy we get some calm after a bath so it just helps to them to identify this is what it feels like to feel come and then that might help them use that strategy in the future if they're feeling anxious they might remember I was taking a shower made me feel, right so you can use it before and after you can also use it during time so during homework during a visit sometimes our children they have friends over and they're starting to get really worked up and you've probably come to notice when it might turn into a problem where our children are getting so high energy that you you're worried like an argument might happen soon you can say a kids real quick let's just check in and you can come up with your own phrase let's check in and see how we're feeling what mood m word is going to find you and then after they're up there mood meter word finds them then you might just really quickly like let's breathe it out or is that a good mood to be in do you want them regulate that mood you can almost see it now incorporate it into their play so you can do these before and after or even during sometimes and just like many of you said in the chat box and can really help to use these strategies mood meter and the regulation strategies during or after an argument do you have to careful like right in the middle of an argument I might not always be okay right in the middle but sometimes if our young are children especially like siblings if they're having an argument it might be a time to say you know can I can I interrupt for a minute do you do know how each other feeling when they did that how did that make you feel and kind of reminding them to peek in on the mood meter and then of course you can use it after an argument after a stressful situation I'm like all he said when you're have a worried or considering child and I love it that folks but in a chat box even after happy things after successes after accomplishments for children who struggle with homework it could be after their homework is done young people who struggle to read you could do it after they've read something and then they can see what that feeling is that kind of feeling of Pride so I'm checking in on the chat box really quickly and I see so it is that we must first give ourselves self-respect I love that in order to be able to understand and help our loved ones when they are going through a state of mind or emotion thank you yes thank you thank you the first part of a ruler is recognizing and it's basically what I found and making maybe making a connection to the comment that was made about recognizing one yourself amazing where you might be on that particular moment and what strategy Works to help self-regulate yourself being a better position to be able to then be able to support your loved one your child your ear your other members and soda that is a good point you go ahead and reference absolutely true to to be okay would where we are see it see ourselves and then if it's not a good mood for the moment engaging in some regulation which will benefit our children so I'm lately my son has been having some anxiety my husband and I just decided yesterday and you know we've known all of a lottery strategies we've used them at different times but you know you tend to forget and stop and start using things and so we just said yesterday we really have to be careful that or tone of voice doesn't sound anxious when we speak with our son when he's anxious so we are like let's both try to just take a deep breath ourselves before we intervene with him so he's doing something and he's getting anxious and I have the disc myself just one quick deep breaths will help me speak with him in a way that's a little less anxious myself and then that will be more likely to keep him, as well I love that you're saying you would try the triangle braids you can that's if you can find the link in the PowerPoint and I think you can find that on YouTube and so it's even something you could keep handy on your phone that you can click on and look at and so I appreciate that you like that strategy it's so short and so quick and yet pretty powerful okay so I use these little brain breaks so we can kind of take a moment thank you for all of your participation so far in honor of national women's History Month you see the quote here says the greatest challenge I faced and becoming a neurosurgeon was believing it was possible and in many ways being able to read they are emotions and not feel like victims of our emotions is part of being able to attain our goals so you being here and investment you're making here is so important for your children in so many ways and as you said for ourselves as parents as well so there are lots of emotional regulation strategies that we can use you now have a site from the district where you can find lots strategies there if you have the book you'll find lots of specific strategies in the book and we've done a few so far so if you remember in our first session we use my favorite strategy which is expressing gratitude and now and today session we use breathing and so I want to show you there's a few so mindful breathing comes in many forms there's lots of ways to do this so literally just as simple as saying let's take a deep back together so with your children and with adults sometimes people don't want to be told to do something to regulate it can actually be triggering reduced if you say to someone else you should take a deep breath and less you've talked about this with them already and they know that you know that's a strategy they like you can remind your child you know I want to take a deep breath but it's even better if you say let's take a deep breath. gather and then you just start to do it sometimes the children don't even hear your words they see you doing it and then they start to do it and I can work for adults as well we looked at triangle breathing today in the video there's also a I called four square breathing so I just let you know there's lots of these versions out there and I want you to be able to pick the one you like the best and maybe let your children pick so four square breathing it breaks breathing down into four parts and so you bro in to the count of four you hold your breath for the count of four you breathe out for the count of four and then you do nothing for the count off for any start again so I'm going to do it and I'll try to stay as I do what you can try to do it with me and see which of these you like the best so we're going to breathe in for 4 so we're going to hold it for 4 we're going to breathe and then nothing so do it again with you ready but this time I'm not going to use my words so I don't know if this is true but I've heard that they use this in in training so folks who do life like Navy Seals I heard use the force we're breeding but you can back check me on that one another one is called 333 breathing which is very similar but its 3 so you breathe into the count of three you hold it for the count of three and you breathe out to the couch 3 and then you go again so and with all the if you can go as fast or as slow as you like so you might want to play around with a couple of these and see which ones you like better remember you can count as fast or as slow as you like in the same for the children and maybe you guys can decide on the ones you like the next set of strategies are called attention shifting strategies and so you'll see this in the book as well we use expressing gratitude as a way to shift our attention last time so I'm feeling stressful I need to go do something I call use gratitude and I'll text my mother and say I'm so grateful I have you in my life thank you for always encouraging me and just that little shifted my energy I'm not thinking about the things it's stressing me as much now and it's a way to regulate so you can Express gratitude with handwritten notes you can do it on your phone you can text you can say it out loud to someone and you can say it to yourself and if you have a spiritual practice you can do do a meditation or through prayer to just expressing gratitude is actually a way to regulate and Ray maybe right now some of you are realizing that you do that all the time the other thing that you can actually specifically try to distract yourself or distracts on Alice and so they can be a little tricky to distract yourself but it's a little easy to distract someone else my son depending on his mood and what's going on I'll try to be a little silly and playful with him and I might even tickle I'm a little bit and I know so my son tickling him or his kind of pretending that I'm going to tickle him immediately puts a smile on his face and I can tell I've kind of pulled his mind out of whatever he was going to getting stuck on and in mindful eating and drinking it might seem strange but you can try this for fun you can try this with kids it's a good time like after school if your children have a snack you can say let's do mine eating so mindful eating 70 here you might first like look at the snack or the thing right and realize the tag you might smell it and you can ask the children what does it smell like and then you taste it and you really and then you swallow you say how's that feel in your stomach and so you would you eat or drink very slowly very mindfully and you can do this just for one minute or two or three minutes and you might be amazed at how much of a calming effect mindful eating or drinking has and then you can use movement so you can stress you can exercise you can do yoga lots of ways to use movement to help us regulate so for me what are you this is kind of silly but I'm standing at my desk right here I work from home off and I was standing desk and I have a little table and I keep some weight right here by my desk and I have different ones have different amounts and when I'm feeling sort of tired I just used my arm weights a few times and I have some other things around here so you know for some people you might try to touch your toes and then put your arms up to the ceiling so it's amazing how far go to get a good little stretch in or a little bit of exercise okay so lots of things we can do to actually change or regulate is the language we would use here to regulate our emotions so we first have to read he denies that we're having an emotion and then we need to understand what might be causing that emotion and then we want to label the emotion with the mood meter and express it Brantley and then maybe regulate into a different mood so that's the ruler method and so I have one more thing to share with you before we leave you here tonight so the Neuroscience behind what we're talkin about right talking about actually how the brain works to help us regulate emotion and so this quote says dr. Richie Davidson from the University of Wisconsin speaks about every behavioral prevention being a biological intervention and that a Young Person's repeated so I'm going experiences in school and in life have the opportunity to be a powerful blinds for the rewiring of neural Pathways that means the rewiring of the brain that is necessary for Habit to be built and sustained or continue creating and sustaining cancer practices helps create the climate and culture that's vital for optimal learning and working conditions so our brains do not stay the same over the course of our life we don't just learn information and store it in our brains are brains actually shift and change all throughout our lives the physical structure actually changes the way the brain operates changes so I have a brief video to show you hear about that and then we're going to start wrapping up our evening and I will be looking forward to seeing you again next time so I'll brief video and we'll connect about this video and then we'll start to say goodbye. Just one more not so lonely guy many scientists believe that the brain did not change after childhood that it was hardwood and fixed by the time we became at all recent advances in only the last decade now tell us that this is simply not true the brain can and does change throughout our lives it is adaptable what plastic is nearest aunt is coldest plasticity how does neuroplasticity work if you think you can Brian as a dynamic connected power grid there are billions of Popeye's or Rose lighting up every time you think he'll will do some some of these roads are well-traveled established a stinking feeling and doing every time we think in a certain way practice a particular task or feel a specific emotion wheel strengthen this ride easier for our brains to travel this pathway about something differently Lindon Utah would choose a different emotion we stopped having at a new road if we keep track not right I'll brain speaking to use this pathway more and if you why is thinking feeling or doing become second nature the old Popeye get to use less and less and weekends this process of rewiring your brain by forming you connections and weakening old ones is neuroplasticity in action good news is that we all have the ability to learn and Chang by rewiring your brain if you have ever changed a bad habit. What about differently you have caught the new pathway in your brain and experience near plasticity firsthand with repeated and directed attention towards your desired change you can rewire your brain awesome so I love to connect with you just real briefly we have here what we're going do in our next couple of sessions we're going to connect back in on strategies we've already done and some new ones but what did you think of that video folks want to share in the chat box did you know that our brain continues to change so another words did you know that we don't have to be a victim of our emotion so you might hear people say I just get angry over that and I can't do anything about it or I'm just an anxious person and we sort of talked like we are victims of our emotion and yet we know now that if we consciously practice new strategies we actually can create new habits and in that can create new ways of thinking and even feeling and I noticed this I think we all can be guilty of this at times but I notice it very much in teenagers teenagers tend to think that their emotions are in right if I quash is over them and there's nothing they can do about this feeling and I know even for me as an adult it's just amazing how much we can continue to learn and grow and you don't even a couple years ago if I was feeling tired I might think all I need more coffee I would have thought I'll let me you know do a few stretches let me use my my dumbbells and and do a little bit of exercise and it works for me so much better than then just have coffee so you know we all are constantly learning new habits and so I hope that video feels really makes you feel hopeful that we can change our habits our brain can change over time and especially when it comes to the way we feel and act so thank you for sharing in the chat box I see the video reminds me to appreciate changes I have made in life I love that thank you yes because so many of us you've already found this that you change some habits overtime and there's probably a time in the past where you thought you couldn't change that habit and I'm happy for you that you can be on the other side of it and now realizing like you I've made those Booth positive changes I also seen the chat box I recently stopped drinking coffee after drinking it every single day for 6 months neuroplasticity I think so, I love it so if you are willing to are in the chat box did you choose a different strategy that helps you with like having energy and feeling good in the morning if you want to share you don't have to but usually if people have like stopped one habit we can start a new one and so it's just this idea of really being conscious and mindful about how are things serving us are they serving us well or not so well so thank you all for sharing in the chat box we're going to start popping up but you're still welcome to continue to share in the in the chat box and so William will speak in a moment about the last session but right before you do that I want to remind you about the next two we have coming up and you can see here what we'll be doing in each of those sessions and so we're going to continue to use the mood meter and ruler each time to help you build fluency and and feel good practice with it and then we'll start to get into more of highlights from the permission to feel book so whether you have the book or not will bring the strategies to you if you do have the book then you can tell yourself maybe try to read a bit before March 24th and then read a little bit more before April 7th. coming to the meeting it'll strengthen what you read and then we're going to spend more time on emotional regulation strategies that you can build use at home and I do hope you all will continue to share success as well as our we'd love to hear how it's going so when come to these meetings we would love for you to let us know what you're using and how it's working and I love this idea of rewiring what a powerful and optimistic concept thank you for sharing that okay William they want to know about the mood M and Odyssey the last video so thank you again for your attending tonight so in regards to the previous station that we are looking to a place that on our District web page we're still creating that web page to be able to on there the the mood meter that we emailed all the recipients based on he knows that we received we wanted me to put the Powerpoints in the video it's just that we're having had been able to get to that point but the movie will do is I put that are on our District web page and we simply have everybody's emails will go ahead and inform them when when it's up on the web page and where they can access it on our District web page donation via email to all the families in addition to that I did mention early on in the presentation okay so let me go ahead and also put in the email send the link again give me one second I can go ahead and if you have any questions if you for some reason I know we send books to the school site informing them of to distribute the books I know we've I receive comment that families have been receiving them so if there's any any questions regarding your book please feel free to email us at the address but I'm about to put in want to make sure I'm typing it accurately services dash event Indian services that she met the priest email us here at this email address into my department so we can go in and follow up with you to ensure that if we do have you I down for receiving the book we will go ahead and follow up with school if I get in a fight why you didn't receive it but we want to make sure all the people that we were before we will have these available here at the disc Marcus we will be thinking of you are to the school sites also so you can have it available and I will let them know Dad that is for family through every participate but to reiterate that family's or participate in these workshops may be coming to the office to request this too and in addition to that I just want to share another piece of information somewhat related but are our Board of Education took action on this last Tuesday March 8th to go ahead and increase the mental health services available for students in the district we recognized that a lot of students we may be struggling with with their emotions they require some additional counseling and mental health-related services so we have increased the level of support that's available Oracle site if you have any questions or concerns regarding your child's Mental Health social emotional Outlet please feel free to reach out to one of the counselors at the secondary school if you have questions of Fe Elementary child you're more than welcome to speak to school administrator at one of our scoop me and raisins also who can help connect me to the right person or we just want to make sure that we're increasing the level of support for our students and our and our board of education is supportive of this and approved additional services for our students we just want to make sure families are aware of that let me take a look at the check for the last comment and hopefully I know we will still connecting the chat box and see and make we're meeting everyone's needs a thank you William for the advocacy that you and your colleagues do our behalf of children and family I thank you all if you're watching this recording thank you for being here and watching and please consider trying to join us for one of the next session so we stop recording but we're going to stay on

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