"How Would You Like to Have Me, John Micsak, Personally Giving You My Very Best Advice, Answers and Strategies for Working with Challenging Children and Adolescents, Throughout a FOUR-DAY Bootcamp?"

Here's the real scoop on Healing the Inside Child, an intensive four-day boot camp that utilizes a proven brain-based, wellness approach with stressed and traumatized children, adolescents and adults by implementing a revolutionary and non-traditional method that incorporates body/mind research, neuro-relational research, resiliency approaches and trauma informed care.

Training of Trainers

Including Instructor Certification

This camp is not for everyone, but for those few who really are looking for a new pathway to do extraordinary and compelling work.

Limited to the first 20 "Heroes or Heroines"
that meet the above criteria.

Work with Me and Gain Access to "My Healing the Inside Child" System

October 4th – 7th, 2011 Edgewood, KY

"I've Never Been to a Training Like This Before..." “John Micsak has outstanding hands on experience with the most troubled youth. He provides one example after another. I took 50 pages of notes and strategies. I’ve never been to a training like this before; the workshop itself was a sensory experience.” Dr. Karen Stubenbort University of Pittsburg

"Startling New Developments in the Area of Childhood Trauma..." “John Micsak’s workshop was recently rated as the top presentation at the (MEAAY) Michigan Educational Association for Adjudicated Youth conference in Lansing, John provides startling new developments in the area of childhood trauma, neurophysiological (body-mind) research, positive youth psychology and resiliency work with at risk children and adolescents.” The Michigan Federation for Children and Family State News Lansing, MI

Gain Access to My Synthesized and Proven Approach for Working with Challenging Children and Adolescents, Drawing from Trauma Informed Care, Relational Work, Resiliency and Brain Research

• The main secret why educators and professionals fail with behavior approaches.
• Answers to your biggest challenges and greatest frustrations in working with challenging children and adolescents.
• New and groundbreaking trauma interventions for Adults
• Revolutionary breakthroughs in neurophysiology (body/ mind) and resiliency research in working with challenging youth populations.
• The latest trauma informed strategies and interventions with video reviews and case study applications.
• The Triune brain treatment- addressing disruptive behavior by focusing internally on healing the nervous system and 3 brain regions from sequentially from the bottom to top.
• Techniques to break through the walls of defensiveness and re-connect with a child.
• Insights to providing extraordinary care-giving through conscious relationship building.
• New and advanced modalities reaching deeper brain regions resulting in long term and intrinsic healing with a child.
• How to feed the brain and body what it needs, taking away the toxins.
• The Whole Child Approach, enabling you to set up healing environments for your school, family or treatment facility.
• Creating compassionate care and trauma informed practice in hospitals and mental health facilities.
• Care for the Caregivers, a method for challenging our own subconscious programming and creating a passion for your work.

Healing the Inside Child

Boot Camp Schedule of Events

March 7th- 10th,

Clarion Hotel and Conference Center

Ann  Arbor MI.

FOUR DAY “TRAINING OF THE TRAINERS”

DAY ONE:

• AM Coffee/Registration

• The Impact: Traumatic stress in the new millennium
• Are we out of our minds! Keeping sane in an insane world.
• The 8 components of the stress response
• Polyvagal Theory (Dr. Steven Porges)
• Acute Stress vs. Traumatic Stress
• Defining Type I , Type II trauma, Complex PTSD and Developmental Trauma Disorder
• Regulation, dysregulation and immobilization/Hypo-arousal and hyper-arousal

• AM BREAK

• Trauma soft ware: Adverse childhood events
• The three year blueprint and attachment disruption/Rupture and repair
• The impact on brain structures and brain chemistry/Brain plasticity
• Risk Factors for PTSD/Neurological considerations
• Video: Adolescent discussing traumatic events

• LUNCH

• What parents and professionals need to know to help traumatized children and themselves
• Group activity: Honoring our own pain, acknowledging the “Inside Child”
• Video presentation: Sensory integration with traumatized children and adults
• Creating safety and structure before processing
• Drawing and expressive therapies
• The 6 keys to processing stories

• BREAK

• Conducting individual sessions (geared for therapists)
• The trauma narrative
• Pros and cons of memory work.
• Titration and pendulation
• Structured sensory intervention (Dr. William Steele)

DAY TWO:

• Coffee/Registration

• Group building exercises: Find your family
• "The Microwave Society” and The “Second Family Phenomenon”
• The biological imperative for relationship: Building inclusion and belonging
• The four crucial needs for emotional and psychological growth of our children (and us).

• BREAK

• Video Clip: “Broken Circle” the plight of a young man caught in the foster care/adoption system (award winning documentary)
• Mending broken bonds: Stop the madness! Bringing love back into a fear based coercive society.
• 10 sure fire resiliency builders (presence, limbic resonance, co-regulation, acceptance, triple A, bids and windows, time in, return of family rituals and more)
• Rupture and repair: Creating restorative environments

• LUNCH

• Self-exploration exercise Risky vs. Protective Adults
• The Neuro-Physiological feedback loop/Exploring the blueprints of your unconscious
• 10 keys to becoming a charismatic adult (Acknowledging the humanity of our children, physical affection, humor and playfulness, making peace with yourself and much more)
• Group Activity: The lost art of listening , learning to be a witness
• Right brain communication: Non-verbal skills (proxemics, kinesthics and para-verbal behavior)
• Non-Violent Communication
• Self Exploration/Developing coherent life narratives

• BREAK

• Video Case Study: Explosion in the Classroom
• The number one reason for failed disciplinary actions in schools and out of home placements.
• Discipline: balancing love, nurturing, presence, role modeling and limit setting
• Two destructive trends: Dictators /fear mongers or the permissive/absent adult.
• Time in, containment and collaborative problem solving
• Stop driving our kids further from the social bond: 5 steps towards immediate recovery and reintegration (vs. restraint, isolation, expulsion and suspension).

"According to John Micsak... " "I am writing today from the 2009 National Institute for Trauma and Loss Annual Symposium, a gathering of trauma specialists from around the US who share an interest in sensory and somatic interventions for traumatized children and their families. According to John Micsak, symposium keynote and director of a resiliency outreach program for youth, addressing three regions of the brain can help. These regions are defined as 1) the thinking brain [cortex] responsible for abstract reasoning; 2) the emotional brain [limbic] responsible for affect regulation, empathy, affiliation, and tolerance; and 3) the survival brain [brain stem or reptilian] responsible for fight or flight, heartbeat, and other body regulation functions." Dr. Cathy Malchiodi "Psychology Today" May, 2009

DAY THREE:

• Coffee/Registration

• Video case review: traumatized youth in inner city Baltimore
• Triune brain: interventions for the three brain regions and the nervous system
• Triggers, Body Awareness and Wellness cards
• The C.A.R.E program (resiliency planning )
• Trauma assessment tool: measuring arousal, avoidance and re-experiencing
•  The De-stress approach: calming aggression and/or extreme arousal patterns
• The Engage Model : connecting and collaborative problem solving

• BREAK

• Video case review: Creating the healing vortex for a traumatized, fetal alcohol spectrum child.
• Demonstration of Thera-Play (Dr. Stanley Greenspan)
• Co- regulation and advancing auto-regulation
• Practicing the Relaxation Response
• Sensory work: healing through the eight sensory pathways
• Down regulation and up regulation strategies
• Sensory Diets: Stopping sensory assaults and introducing sensory “nutrition”
• Sensory rooms, boxes, carts and learning centers

• LUNCH

• Sub-cortical interventions
• Dynamic body-mind approaches
• Bi-Lateral stimulation: Psych K, Super Brain Yoga and EMDR
• Energy Psychology: Tapping, Focusing and Grounding
• Tai Chi, Yoga and Eastern Medicinal Approaches

• BREAK

• Group Activity: Bio-Feedback Experience
• Adventure/ Logo Therapy: Trauma specific activities for all of us
• Video review: Demonstration of Somatic Processing
• Family Regulatory Therapy/Group Activity: Applying Theory and Technique

DAY FOUR:

• Coffee/Registration

• Traditional vs. trauma informed environments
• The 10 keys to a trauma informed program for schools and agencies.
• Research: 8 iatrogenic (how we screw kids up) in residential programs
• Creating safety and protective factors
• Assessing physical environment
• Schools: Stop boring students to tears! Creative pedagogy ( enhance your teaching approach)
• Reducing the negative impact of school pressure and no child left behind mandates.

• BREAK

• Hospitals and Mental Health facilities: Creating compassionate care and sensory soothing environments.
• Reducing cycles of re-traumatization to promote a secure environment for quick recovery.
• Methods to reduce the fear, stress and alienation of clients and patients.
• Creating circles of help: How to develop trauma informed learning communities.

• LUNCH

• Reloading new soft ware into our subconscious
• The secret to the “Law of Attraction”
• Mindfulness awareness practice
• Sunshine sheets, vision boards, scrapbook of strength, and mind movies.
• Eastern philosophies/mantras and karma/meditative Practices.

• BREAK

• Brain Chemistry Optimization Program for adolescents and adults. (Robertson Research)
• Combating compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma
• Brain wellness plans for clients and us (Dr. Daniel Amen)
• A very special activity that will leave you feeling re-energize
• Group closure  

"This is one of the best trainings I have ever attended... " “This is one of the best trainings I have ever attended because the information was research based, evidence based and current Not only was it fun, but it was enlightening, refreshing and reassuring. Additionally, the information was presented form heart to heart. We felt it in our souls!” Yvette Orr School Social Worker, Grand Rapids Public School District, Grand Rapids, MI

	Text Book: Healing the Mind, Body and Spirit
	Training Manual: Module worksheets for each module that will help you focus and create the essential information you need in all the cutting edge disciplines.
	1-Hour Consultation: Follow up one hour phone consultation with John Micsak.
	Top Secret Resource Listings: A list of the best resources in the disciplines of trauma informed work, resiliency research and brain and body science.
	Instructor Certification: Your listing as a certified instructor on the National Institute for Resiliency and Wellness website.

I Am Giving You the First Opportunity to Fill the Upcoming Group BEFORE Anyone Else, So Time Is of the Essence...

Healing the Inside Child 4-Day Intensive Bootcamp March 7th-10th, 2012 Clarion Hotel and Conference Center Ann Arbor Mi. $598 YES! Reserve my spot in your 4-day bootcamp, Healing the Inside Child where I will discover your proven, brain-based, wellness approach with challenging children and adolescents by implementing a revolutionary and non-traditional method that incorporates body/mind research, positive youth psychology, resiliency approaches and trauma informed care. Here's everything that's included in the Bootcamp:   FOUR days that are jam-packed with your EIGHT module system Text Book: Healing the Mind, Body and Spirit Training Manual Follow up one hour phone consultation with John Top Secret Resource Listings Instructor Certification Listing on The National Institute for Resiliency and Wellness website Listing on John Micsak's, www.healingtheinsidechild.com website Profit Sharing with John Micsak/s resources! (earn your registration fee back in no time) Several ways to register: Resister by eMail or 'click here' and copy and paste the document into your email program, fill it out and send via email, or print and send by post Register by using a Form enabled PDF that can be Mailed or eMailed Register using our online form Register by phone 989-928-3967 Pay by Credit Card, Paypal, or Check   March 7th- 10th, 2012 8:30 am - 4:30 pm each day Clarion Hotel and Conference Center 2900 Jackson Ave. Ann Arbor, MI. 48103 4 day Intensive Bootcamp Single $598.00 4 day Intensive Bootcamp Multiple ($498.00) Number of persons 2 Reservations $996.00 3 Reservations $1,494.00 4 Reservations $1,992.00 *Checks payable to National Institute for Resiliency and Wellness mail to: 1422 Allendale, Saginaw MI, 48638 **Cancellations: Requests for cancellation must be submitted in writing via email, mail or fax. If your cancellation request is received within four weeks of the scheduled bootcamp you will receive your bootcamp tuition back in full. Due to our sell-out track record, there will be no cancellations accepted allowing refunds less than 29 days days before the bootcamp . In case of inclimate weather, vouchers will be distributed (no refunds) to attend any days missed.

Wishing you a destiny with integrity and influence,

John Micsak

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Three Good Reasons to Register NOW! REASON NUMBER ONE: You'll save $700.00 off the $1,298 ticket for the 2012 Inaugural Boot Camp REASON NUMBER TWO: Participants are limited. We are only accepting the first 20 registrations. REASON NUMBER THREE: You’ll be among the first qualified instructors to offer this groundbreaking program.   REGISTER NOW!