For Counsellors & Helping Professionals Bundle
Supporting Healing & Emotional Growth
A Collection of Transformative Insights from Neufeld Institute Conference 2022 featuring presentations by Neufeld Institute faculty and facilitators.
This bundle has nearly 15 hours of on-demand recordings with lifetime access, and includes three bonus conference keynotes and End-of-Day Panel Discussions.
Clients today face increasing levels of stress, anxiety, and emotional wounding, making healing more complex than ever. As counsellors and helping professionals, we strive to offer meaningful support—but at times, we may feel uncertain about how to best guide the healing process, especially when working with trauma, attachment challenges, or emotional defenses.
Join us and approach these challenges with deeper insight, confidence, and connection.
The For Counsellors & Helping Professionals Bundle from Neufeld Institute Conference 2022 brings together six sessions to enhance your understanding and support of emotional well-being. This carefully curated collection is filled with practical guidance rooted in developmental science and attachment-based practices, equipping you with the tools to support healing, reduce emotional distress, and create space for lasting transformation.
Included Sessions in this bundle
How Minds Bounce Back: The Neuroscience of Resilience
Understanding how the brain processes emotions can unlock new ways to support growth and healing. Eva de Gosztonyi explores the neuroscience behind adaptation, explaining how the brain moves us from anger to sadness and what helps children develop true emotional resilience.
Indigenous Ways of Healing
Indigenous healing traditions have long embraced the power of relationship, culture, and ritual in supporting emotional well-being. Denise Findlay & Marla Klyne Kolomaya explore the intersections between ancient wisdom and modern science, offering insights into how these practices nurture healing and human potential.
Softening the Defenses: Helping Children Face Vulnerability and Gain Resilience
Dr. Neufeld and faculty often speak of the need for a child’s heart to remain soft, for emotions to be felt and expressed, and for tears of futility to be shed to foster development and maturity. Sometimes our brain can evoke natural defenses that make it harder to feel. Colleen Drobot explores ways to restore emotional expression, lower frustration and anxiety, and nurture resilience—sharing real-life stories as a therapist, educator, and mother.
Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma may leave lasting imprints, even when the events are long past. Gordon Neufeld explores the wisdom of trauma, how to recognize its effects, and what it truly means to provide trauma-informed care—offering a three-pronged approach to healing for children and those who support them.
Helping Children Bounce Back from Divorce
Separation and divorce bring big changes—and big emotions—for children. Tamara Strijack, Jodi Bergman & Michele Maurer explore how parents and caregivers can support children through shifting routines, new relationships, and the challenge of staying connected across two homes.
The Alarm Spectrum: Anxiety, Attention Problems and more
Anxiety, phobias, attention issues, and adrenaline-seeking behaviors all stem from the same root emotion—alarm. Deborah MacNamara unpacks the continuum of alarm-based challenges, explaining how common interventions can sometimes worsen them and offering a developmental approach to true healing.
Who Is This For?
🌱 Counsellors and helping professionals looking for insight in supporting the recovery of emotional health.
🌱 Anyone seeking a developmental and attachment-based approach to navigating the restoration of emotion well-being.
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.
