Topics for Training & Self-Exploration

The following topics are available for staff training and development; professional development; and personal or self-exploration. Please contact us at (770) 686-0894 to arrange a training, seminar, or development session for your organization, family, or group.

Brain Hacking Classroom & Life Success – to Overcome Challenges With

  • Learning
  • Memory
  • Anxiety
  • Behavior
  • Trauma

Anti-Aging – Boost immunity, flexibility, digestion, memory, cognition, endurance, strength & resilience, and sense of ease through combination of time honored traditional strategies blended with cutting edge biochemistry and neuroscience.

  • Longevity – What Limits Lifespan and How to Increase Odds of Longer Living
  • Understanding Evidence Based Practices – How to Know What is Right for YOUR BODY
  • Epigenetics – Amazing Break Through Technology for Anti-Aging
  • Telomeres – Front Line Defense Against Premature Aging & Neurodegenerative Disorders
  • Enzymes Decrease Energy Needed for Biochemical Activation
  • Digestion & Immunity … Dark Secrets Revealed
  • Ketogenic Modifications to Reduce Inflammation, Pain, Memory Loss, Dementia
  • Bio-Hacking Blood Sugar – Scientific Strategies to Achieve Glycemic Control (for those with a functioning pancreas)
  • Lifestyle Modifications that Boost Lifespan, Health, Flexibility, Memory, Cognition, Sexuality, Emotional Stability, Strength, and Overall Wellbeing

Ketogenic Living – Boost Immunity, Glycemic Control, Memory, Cognition; Reduce Pain & Inflammation

  • Ketogenic Theory
  • Basic Rules to the Keto Lifestyle
  • Considerations for Individual Situations
  • The Keto Kitchen
  • Keto Recipes & Menu Planning
  • Ways to Make Keto a Permanent Lifestyle Solution

Classrooms of Compassion

  • Recognize developmental needs of children in the classroom
  • Adjust academic demands to meet individual needs of the child
  • Model Kindness, Compassion, and Moral Thinking and Behavior
  • Create and Maintain a Socially, Emotionally, and Morally Supportive Environment
  • Incentivize Students Who Choose Prosocial, Responsible & Effective Behaviors

Smarter IEP and Section 504 Provisions

  • Promote Child Development Through Programmed Intervention Schedules
  • Promote Developmental Capacities to Help Children Become Better Learners & Citizens
  • Utilizing Other Resources & Collaborations to Intensify IEP & Section 504 Effectiveness

Developmental Strategies to Dissolve Bipolar Disorder, OCD, ODD (and other mental health disorders)

  • Boundaries, Limits, Guidelines as Sources of Inspiration
  • Attachment Development is Key to Personal Mastery
  • Re-Writing the Narrative – Consequence Based Behavioral & Academic Support
  • Self-Awareness
  • Metacognition
  • Self-Calming, Self-Soothing
  • Impulse Control
  • Attentional Focus
  • Sensory Supports
  • Contracting
  • Good Choices
  • Cross Ability Peer Support

Teaching to EBD (Emotional and Behavioral Disorder) Classrooms

  • Georgia Department of Education Rules for Restraint
  • Contracting with Student to Promote Academic & Behavioral Outcomes
  • Leveraging Attachment Capacities to Anchor Child Focus & Stability
  • Smarter Interventions to Promote Developmental Capacities (help children become better learners & citizens)
  • Positive & Creative Communication
  • When Rewards Punish: Evidence-Based Reward and Incentive Strategies
  • Mapping Personal Inclinations, Reactions, Thoughts, Choices, Behaviors
  • Celebrating Success (Even Very Small Ones)

Trauma-Informed Training for Dental Professionals (in collaboration with Dr. Elaine Wolf)

  • 6 Hour Training
  • Can Provide CEU of Offered in Conjunction with University or PACE Approved Provider
  • Prepares Dental Professionals to Handle Patients with Trauma History
  • Utilize Environmental Modifications
  • Employ Sensory Strategies
  • Empower the Patient to Self-Advocate and Self-Manage

Trauma, Mental Health, & Developmental Disorder-Informed Strategies for:

  • Law Enforcement
  • Juvenile Justice
  • Court (Judge, Prosecutor, Guardian Ad Litem, CASA Volunteers)
  • Education & Administration Professionals
Check back for registration details for this online training series or call us at 770-686-0894.

Human Super Power of Attachment [TM] – RAD & DSED SOLUTIONS 

A 5-Session Parent Training Program

Children involved with child protective services, including those in adoptive and foster placements, often suffer from mysterious behavioral and developmental challenges that wreck lives and break the hearts of parents and children. Explore therapeutic parenting and childcare strategies that can STOP RAD and DSED in their tracks and help these fragile children get back on track. Includes case histories of children who healed through RAD [Reactive Attachment Disorder] or DSED [Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder].

Program developed by a Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Special Education Teacher, and Certified Parent Trainer who has also cared for children with Attachment Disorder in her home for over 25 years. Learn the fundamentals of resolving RAD and DSED; acquire powerful skills; and find solutions. Five one-hour training sessions presented by Darleen Claire Wodzenski, MS ESE, MA CMHC, QPPE, PhD, LPC, NCC of Orchard Human Services, Inc. for parents and guardians of children of adoption, foster care placement, and/or have a history of trauma, abuse, or neglect.

  1. RAD & DSED – Human Super Power [TM] of Attachment to Stabilize Adoptive and Foster Placements
  2. RAD & DSED – When Attachment Goes Wrong; Crazy Baby Brain; Attachment Developmental Framework Overview
  3. RAD & DSED – Attachment Developmental Framework; Mental Health Phenomena in RAD/DSED; Why Typical Therapy Fails
  4. RAD & DSED – Why You Should Suspend Parenting … and do this instead
  5. RAD & DSED – Super Power Therapeutic Parenting and Care Strategies

The following dates

Saturday May 23 at 11 am Eastern Time                    Training 1

Saturday June 22 at 11 am Eastern Time                    Training 2

Saturday July 25 at 11 am Eastern Time                    Training 3

Saturday August 15 at 11 am Eastern Time                Training 4

Saturday September 19 at 11 am Eastern Time          Training 5

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