Webinars

You Can’t Teach a Flooded Brain:
The Neuroscience of Why Mind Matters Comes First

The best relationship education curriculum in the world can’t compete with a flooded nervous system.

Participants often arrive carrying trauma, chronic stress, or the ordinary anxiety of a hard week. Their brains are often running in survival mode, which makes it biologically difficult to absorb new relational skills. And what happens when you, the facilitator, walk into the room carrying the same load?

This webinar explores the intersection of neuroscience and relationship education, and why foundational mental well-being tools must come first. We’ll dig into the science behind the Dibble program, Mind Matters. Understanding your participants’ and your own capacity to self-regulate increases everyone’s capacity to connect.

You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of the neurological “why” behind trauma-informed care, along with practical tools you can share with participants and use yourself.

Key Takeaways:

• The Science of Receptivity. What actually happens in a flooded brain, and why stress blocks learning, teaching, and empathy alike.
• The Power of the “Why.” How teaching participants the science behind their own stress responses builds empowerment and resilience, and why the same holds true for you as the facilitator.
• The 3-Minute Reset. Quick, practical interventions that help people leave the day’s anxiety at the door, yours included, so minds are open to the relationship education material you came to teach.

Presenter: Aaron Larson- Director of Programs; The Dibble Institute

Who should attend: Relationship education facilitators, program staff at youth-serving nonprofits and government agencies/grantees, case managers, mentors, counselors, program supervisors/coordinators, and anyone facilitating Mind Matters.

When: Wednesday, October 14 @ 1:00pm Pacific/4:00pm Eastern

Duration: 60 minutes

Cost: Free!