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Compass Seminars is thrilled to announce this live webinar with influential US educationalist, academic, and author Dr Lori Desautels.

Professionals working with Children and Young People play a pivotal role in helping them to navigate challenges, build resilience, and foster well-being. Incorporating insights from neuroscience into both the education setting as well as clinical practice offers a powerful way to deepen our understanding of behaviour, emotional regulation, and the therapeutic relationship. By recognising how the nervous system responds to stress, relationships, and environments, we can design more effective interventions that promote healing and growth as well as better educational and mental health outcomes.

In this engaging webinar, Dr Lori DeSautels will explore how professionals working with children and adolescents - particularly psychologists, social workers, educators, and other practitioners - can apply insights from Applied Educational Neuroscience (AEN) to better understand the impact of the nervous system on behaviour and learning. AEN integrates neuroscience, psychology, and pedagogy, offering practical strategies that clinicians and educators can apply in their settings and practice to support emotional regulation, strengthen therapeutic relationships, and improve outcomes for Children and Young People.

What You Will Gain from this seminar

Dr.DeSautels will provide evidence-based tools and strategies to help you to:

• Understand the Role of the Nervous System in Behaviour: Learn how stress, trauma, and environmental factors influence nervous system states, and how this affects emotional regulation, cognitive functioning educational outcomes, and interpersonal relationships.

• Recognise and Respond to Activation: Gain practical skills for identifying signs of nervous system activation in clients - and in yourself - to enhance your therapeutic approach.

• Build Co-Regulation Practices: Foster a safe therapeutic space by using co-regulation techniques that support emotional stability and encourage trust.

• Empower Neurodiverse Clients: Develop affirming, individualised strategies to meet the unique needs of neurodiverse clients and promote their strengths.

• Dr DeSautels will also explore the transformative power of neuroplasticity - the brain’s ability to adapt and reorganise - providing actionable insights into how therapy can facilitate positive changes in thought patterns, behaviours, and relationships.

• Support Resilience and Recovery: Harness the brain’s neuroplasticity to create interventions that help young people to build resilience and adapt to life’s challenges.

• Engage Families in the Process: Learn techniques to guide families in using co-regulation and stress-reduction strategies that support emotional health beyond School, or therapy sessions.

• Enhance Therapeutic Outcomes: Integrate neuroscience principles to improve client engagement, emotional regulation, and long-term behavioural change and learning outcomes.

Why Neuroscience Matters

The nervous system plays a central role in how Children and Young People experience their world, relationships, and stressors. Without awareness of how nervous system states influence behaviours and emotional responses, therapeutic efforts can miss the mark. By understanding the science behind these processes, clinicians and educators can design interventions that target the root of dysregulation, fostering better outcomes for clients.

Whether you work with children, adolescents, or adults, this webinar will equip you with cutting-edge insights and practical tools to deepen your understanding of behaviour and improve outcomes for your clients. By grounding your practice in neuroscience, you can empower clients to heal, grow, and thrive.

Join us to enhance your practice.

Dr Lori DeSautels has been an Assistant Professor at Butler University, Indianapolis since 2016 where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the College of Education. Prior to joining Butler, she served as an Assistant Professor at Marian University, where she founded the renowned Educational Neuroscience Symposium, now in its 16th year and attended by thousands of educators and clinicians worldwide.

Dr. DeSautels is also the author of several acclaimed books on educational neuroscience and behaviour, including Connections over Compliance: Rewiring our Perceptions of Discipline. Her expertise and engaging teaching style have made her a sought-after speaker worldwide. Lori joined us from Las Vegas in 2024 to deliver Connections over Compliance as a live webinar to her first-ever New Zealand audience. Following some fantastic feedback, we are pleased to welcome her back as part of our 2025 programme to share her expertise on Applied Educational Neuroscience.