Adolescent Focus Bundle
Supporting Adolescents Through Change: An Attachment-Based Approach
A Collection of Transformative Insights from Neufeld Institute Conference 2022 featuring presentations by Neufeld Institute faculty and facilitators.
This bundle has over 13 hours of on-demand recordings with lifetime access, and includes three bonus conference keynotes and End-of-Day Panel Discussions.
Adolescence is a time of immense change—marked by growing independence, deep emotions, and new challenges. As parents, caregivers, and educators, we strive to support teens with wisdom and connection, yet it’s easy to feel uncertain, especially when faced with anxiety, withdrawal, peer pressure, or digital distractions.
Join us and approach these challenges with greater understanding, confidence, and connection.
The Adolescent Focus Bundle from Neufeld Institute Conference 2022 brings together six sessions designed to help you navigate the teenage years with insight and compassion. This carefully selected collection is filled with practical guidance rooted in developmental science and attachment-based practices, equipping you with the tools to foster resilience, strengthen relationships, and support teens through life’s ups and downs.
Included Sessions in this bundle
My Teenager is Stuck in the Basement!
Teenagers often retreat into their rooms, seeking solitude and escape, leaving parents feeling helpless. Robin Brooks-Sherriff unpacks why teens withdraw, what’s happening in their brains, and how to reconnect—offering practical strategies to bring them back into relationship and support their growth into healthy, emerging young adults.
Helping Adolescents with Anxiety
Teen anxiety is on the rise, driven by school pressures, peer relationships, and an ever-changing world. Sandy Hitchens explores the roots of adolescent anxiety, offering insight and practical strategies to help teens manage stress, build confidence, and navigate life.
Sowing Seeds of Resilience in a Sensitive Child
Sensitive children experience the world deeply, making them more vulnerable to stress and overwhelm. Lori Abramowitz explores how to nurture their emotional strength without pushing too hard or overprotecting, offering practical strategies to help them develop resilience while maintaining connection.
Rethink Play: Bouncing Back through Emotional Playgrounds
Play is a powerful yet often overlooked tool for emotional healing and growth. Tamara Strijack & Hannah Beach explore how play helps children process emotions, recover from stress, and reconnect with themselves—offering practical ways to bring more play into homes, schools, and communities.
Bouncing Back in a World Filled with Screens
Screens can connect us or disconnect us, serving as an instrument of communication or as a means of escape. Heather Ferguson explores the impact of our screen-saturated world, offering practical strategies to reclaim face-to-face connection, creativity, and nourishing downtime in everyday life.
Helping Adolescents Bounce Back from Peer-Based Trauma
Teens are wounding each other in astounding numbers through cyberbullying or betrayals in friendship and romance. Lisa Weiner will focus on understanding the depth of wounding that can occur when peers matter most, and how healing approaches that are subtle and indirect can best support true recovery.
Who Is This For?
🌱 Parents of teens looking for guidance through the challenges of adolescence.
🌱 Educators and caregivers who want to support emotional resilience in the teens they work with.
🌱 Anyone seeking a developmental and attachment-based approach to navigating the teenage years.
Bonus Sessions in this bundle
As a special bonus, you’ll receive convenient access to the anchor keynote from Neufeld Institute Conference 2022, Bouncing Back: From Stress to Strength by Gordon Neufeld, along with two powerful keynotes not available to the public—Back to Nature Where We Belong and Back to Nurturing Through Food.
In addition to the three keynote presentations, your bundle includes exclusive access to the End-of-Day Panel Discussions with Gordon Neufeld, Deborah MacNamara, and Tamara Strijack. These engaging conversations offer deeper insights into each day’s keynote and provide answers to participant questions, making the learning experience even more enriching.
ANCHOR KEYNOTE
Bouncing Back: From Stress to Strength by Gordon Neufeld
Stress is unavoidable—for us and our children. Instead of battling it, we must understand its wisdom: how Nature works to protect us and what it needs from us in return. Dr. Neufeld shares insights from the science of emotion, revealing how stress can be transformed into strength. While focused on children, these principles apply to all ages, offering hope that resilience is within us all.
KEYNOTE
Back to Nature Where We Belong by Tamara Strijack
We once lived in harmony with nature, attuned to its rhythms and cycles. But along the way, we lost our connection. How do we find our way back? Science now confirms what intuitive cultures always knew—the natural world fosters learning, healing, and growth. What stands in our way, and how can we reclaim this connection? Join Tamara Strijack in exploring these questions as we journey back to nature together.
KEYNOTE
Back to Nurturing through Food by Deborah MacNamara
Does all food nurture? We’ve lost something essential in how we feed and gather. Beyond sit-down meals, what truly brings our loved ones to rest in our care? Dr. Deborah MacNamara explores the deeper connection between food and relationship, drawing from her book, Nourished.
