Sensory Modulation:
Skills & Strategies to Cope with Distress
Delivered by Joanne Lawless (Dip Arts, Psychology)
Online workshop
Tuesday 22 July, 9.00am - 3.30pm
Effective sensory modulation is an effective intervention that is suitable in both clinical and community settings. It can help people feel calmer and less anxious and therefore reduces distress. This workshop introduces the theory of sensory modulation, and then expands into practical strategies that are useful in everyday life across a range of settings.
It will explain:
- How sensory modulation impacts self-regulation
- The ways trauma impacts the brain and sensory modulation
- The importance of sensory screening and how to do it
- The relation between sensory, emotions, and cognition
- The impact of sympathetic nervous system and “Hand model of the brain”
- How to use sensory tools to create sensory modulation
Workshop aims
Joanne draws directly from her experience and research and will cover:
How sensory modulation supports wellbeing
Specific top-down strategies for sensory modulation with consideration of a person’s cognition, executive functioning and emotions
Specific bottom-up strategies for sensory modulation including sensory screening and sensory diets.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is ideal for clinical and allied staff, counsellors, social workers, key workers, and support workers who meet with service users in distress or tense environments.
Sensory Modulation is also a very effective skill set for teachers / educators where it is becoming common practice for schools to put a sensory corner into a room as a safe place for a child to calm down within.
This workshops is worth 20 points/6 hours CPD
Testimonials
"Learning about, and sharing, practical strategies that backed up the theory that we had learnt", May 2023
"Thank you for the lovely workshop, so helpful and supportive", May 2023.
"It is great to learn about sensory modulation including the sensory preference and avoidance. This sensory modulation is helpful for everyone including ourselves. There are so many stressors in our life and work, which leads to our ignorance to reconnect with nature and enjoy the presence. This sensory modulation skills help us to focus on the presence, self-regulate our emotions and feeding inside out (from and towards our body/minds). So that we can relief some stress and reenergize ourselves", March 2021.
"Useful adjunct to psychotherapy to have a different outcome from repeated patterns of overload", March 2021
"Practical, lots of information, good balance between the theory and implementation in everyday practice", March 2021
About the presenter:
Joanne Lawless (Dip Arts, Psychology)
Joanne has extensive experience of autism, both professionally and personally, and is an experienced facilitator in adult learning. Joanne’s two adult sons are both Autistic.
She has a wide experience in both volunteer and paid roles in disability settings and has worked in a disability advisory role for disability training organisations.
Joanne is passionate about Enabling Good Lives (EGL) and system transformation as she works to bring about positive change in the lives of disabled people and their families / whānau.
Price & Registration Information - Early Bird finishes 1 July-save $75 pp
Online workshop
Early Bird: $375 per person, including GST - Book and Pay before 1 July 2025
Standard: $450.00 per person including GST
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e: nathalie@grow.co.nz
p: 021 066 9811
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