- Faculty:
- Lee-Anne Gray
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 7 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Jan 24, 2018
Description
Outline
- Self-Compassion
- Cultivating mindful awareness, self-kindness, and shared humanity
- Developmental considerations of training teens in self-compassion
- Activity: Loving kindness practice
- Activity: Just like me practice
- Interpersonal Neurobiology of Self-Compassion and Teens
- The developing teen brain
- Self-healing properties
- Activity: How is my amygdala today?
- Self-Compassion Strategies for…
- Depression and Anxiety
- Increasing resilience, happiness and coping
- Reduce sadness, worry, doubt and fear
- Negative thinking, self-criticism, and lack of motivation
- Activity: Move in and out of the default network
- Activity: Powerful pranayamas
- ADHD
- Minimize ADHD symptoms, and improve executive functioning
- The role of the body in hyperactivity and thinking problems
- Non-medical approaches
- Activity: Nutrition/activity/concentration log
- Activity: Watching thoughts
- Trauma
- Minimize risks of decompensation and dissociation
- Self-kindness and honoring vulnerability
- Role of shame in treating trauma
- LGBTQ
- Intersectionality and self-compassion for teens
- The spectrum of genders
- The spectrum of sexualities
- Self-compassion for collective traumatization
- School Challenges
- Stress, academic failure, college competition, parental demands, and not performing according to one’s potential
- Executive functioning difficulties
- The role of creativity
- Activity: Creativity and self-compassion – a guided practice for accessing “flow”
Faculty
Lee-Anne Gray, Psy.D. Related seminars and products: 5
Lee-Anne Gray, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, educator, and author. She is certified in EMDR, a trauma treatment, as well as a national speaker in self-compassion, mindful awareness, LGBTQ youth, assessment, special education, and gifted individuals.
As the president and CEO of The Connect Group, she serves the global educational community with innovative professional development seminars in empathy, compassion cultivation, Design Thinking, and transformational coaching.
Formerly an instructor of Psychology of Gender in the Department of Psychology/Women’s Studies at UCLA, Dr. Gray has served the LGBTQ community as an ally and through her private practice. She was also forensic expert and independent consultant to the Orange County Public Defender where she evaluated LGBTQ youth in juvenile hall.
Dr. Gray’s latest book, Self-Compassion for Teens: 129 Activities and Practices to Cultivate Kindness (PESI, 2016), is the first of its kind; a collection drawn from her work with teens at The Connect Group. Self-Compassion for Teens is enthusiastically endorsed by Tara Brach, Christopher Germer, Kelly McGonigal, among others. It was the #1 new release on Amazon, in Child Popular Psychology and Emotional Mental Health, and contains a whole chapter focusing on the unique needs of LGBTQ youth. She is also the author of LGBTQ Youth: A Guided Workbook to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (PESI, 2018) and the Self-Compassion & Mindfulness for Teens Card Deck: 54 Exercises and Conversation Starters (PESI, 2017).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lee-Anne Gray is the President and CEO of The Connect Group and co-founder of The Connect Group School. She is an author for PESI Publishing & Media and receives royalties. Dr. Gray receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Lee-Anne Gray writes a blog on Educational Trauma for the Huffington Post.
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