SACCA AGM + Workshop: Connecting With Children To Re-Route Difficult Behaviours

Completion certificates are emailed at the end of conference to email provided.

REGISTRATION: 9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

AGM: 9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

WORKSHOP: 10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

LOCATION: Virtual – Zoom

Connecting With Children To Re-Route Difficult Behaviours

This workshop draws from interpersonal neurobiology, Emotion Coaching, and Teacher-Child Interaction Therapy treatments that are aimed at addressing disruptive behaviour in children. You will learn how to connect with children in a way that fosters deeper understanding, enhances emotion regulation, and creates better cooperation. The reasons behind children’s behaviour come from a number of sources, but the ways to address them are simple and logical if they are applied with consistency and predictability. We will focus on positive discipline strategies, including how to pay more attention to children when they are behaving well, then when they are not.

By the end of the workshop you will know how to:

• Connect with the children in your care through specialized self-esteem-boosting interactions
• Respond appropriately to emotional melt-downs and co-regulate with children
• Transform negative, attention-seeking behaviours to positive, praiseworthy changes in children

• Effectively choose when a child is able to learn from their behaviour and when they are not.


Workshop Presenter: Kate Saunders

Kate Saunders has over 20 years of experience as a counsellor and educator, specializing in working with children and families. Kate completed her BA in Child Youth Care and her MA in Counselling Psychology, and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in BC. She works therapeutically with children in play therapy, with parents/adults, and with parents and children together to address challenging behaviours and emotion regulation. Kate is a sought-after presenter for the practical and effective strategies she offers, as well as her lively presentation style. Kate is a certified practitioner and trainer of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, one of the few empirically-valid treatments for disruptive behaviour in young children. Kate focuses particularly on supporting healthy attachment and emotional development with all of her clients.