Healing Discipline: Part 2, The Joy Continues....

You don’t have to wait until next June!The in-person and live streaming event is scheduled for June 11-12, 2026 (8:30 AM–5:00 PM), but you can take the class anytime through our On Demand option.

The educational setting is becoming more challenging. Children are coming into our schools without the self-regulation to manage their behavior, sit quietly through a lesson, or follow the educator's directions. Educators are overwhelmed by the enormity of their responsibilities, the constant disruptions and chaos that ruin their best-laid plans, and feeling the pressure to fix it all.

Course Description

In this two-day conference, we will explore personal needs, priorities, emotional triggers, and the roadblocks that get in the way of caring for ourselves and setting appropriate boundaries with our students. Understanding ourselves helps us set reasonable expectations for our students, establish healthy boundaries, and build strong relationships and teams. This self-awareness prevents us from taking student behavior personally, allowing us to connect in ways that support student healing and create a fun, caring school environment. We will review Healing Discipline Strategies and teach additional techniques for managing student behavior. Participants will be able to create Healing Discipline Behavior Plans they can immediately implement in their classrooms.

This class is a continuation of our first course: "Healing Discipline: Finding Joy in Working with Challenging Students." While it is helpful to have taken our first course before this one, it is not required. We understand that everyone's schedule is different, so if you want to take our first course, you can see if we have a live class available or register for the class on demand, providing you with the flexibility to learn at your own pace and convenience.

EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

• Build Self-Awareness & Confidence - Strengthen self-acceptance and skills for working with challenging students.
• Deepen personal insight by reflecting on experiences and examining belief systems to better understand how they shape your teaching and discipline philosophy.
• Clarify Student Expectations - Understand how lowered expectations have affected our students. Set clear, consistent, and age-appropriate behavior expectations.
• Strengthen Trauma-Informed, Accountable Practices - Explore how trauma impacts behavior and emotional development while maintaining clear boundaries and accountability. Learn how to lead with empathy without lowering expectations and how to recognize when trauma-informed practices are misapplied as permissiveness.
• Review the Healing Environment and Learn More Behavioral Strategies
• Collaborate in Teams - Work effectively with colleagues and families to support student growth.
• Create Healing Behavior Plans - Design behavior plans that combine structure/accountability, empathy, and relationship building.

• Build Confidence in Working with Challenging Situations - Strengthen your confidence and competence in working with students who exhibit severe or disruptive behaviors.
• Deepen Self-Awareness and Professional Clarity - Reflect on the personal experiences and belief systems that shape your approach to teaching and discipline. Learn to accept yourself as an educator, which enhances your ability to communicate clearly and compassionately with families.
• Identify and Challenge Toxic Thinking - Understand what toxic thinking is and how to recognize the thoughts and emotional patterns that undermine your ability to set and maintain healthy boundaries—for both yourself and your students.
• Understand Trauma and Emotional Healing - Gain a clear, practical understanding of how trauma affects a person’s belief system about themselves and others —and what it takes to overcome trauma.
• Recenter Your Priorities and Protect Your Well-Being - Reevaluate your expectations of yourself and others. Learn how to detach from student behavior, so you can remain grounded, compassionate, and effective—even in the most difficult moments.

Focus: Behavior strategies, emotional regulation, expectations, and working with school teams to manage student behavior.

• Understand how student academic and behavior expectations have been slowly lowered over time. Learn how to set and maintain high, developmentally appropriate behavior expectations for students.
• Understand how emotional regulation develops—and how to respond when students are dysregulated - it is not what you think.
• Learn practical Healing Discipline strategies like Tea Talk, Paradoxical Techniques, and guidelines for using reinforcements (if you use them at all).
• Strengthen your ability to collaborate with families and colleagues—even when perspectives differ. Student behavior can not change if even one team member is undermining the process.

Design individualized Healing Behavior Plans that use The Healing Environment model to blend empathy, structure, accountability, and relationship-building.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I register for credit?Participants can earn one college credit or receive a certificate for 15 hours of instruction. Credits are through Northwest Nazarene University and are graduate-level non-degree seeking professional development. NNU Professional Development credits are accepted by the Colorado Board of Education. To learn more click here. Credits through Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) are $60 a credit.

NNU CREDIT: https://pdlearn.nnu.edu/modules/shop/index.html?action=section&OfferingID=924837&SectionID=3976953

We are accredited through the IdahoSTARS training office.

What materials are needed to attend?

In order to keep registration costs low, all participants will receive an email one week prior to the event with conference materials and handouts which can be printed out and brought to the conference.

Where can I stay if I am coming in from out of town to attend the class?

The class will be held in the Red Rock Room at:

Courtyard by Marriott Denver Golden/Red Rocks.

Address: 14700 W 6th Ave Frontage Rd, Golden, CO 80401, phone (303) 271-0776

Contact Lisa at 720-587-6332 or email her at bGlzYSAhIGhhbmRzY2hpbiB8IGFpbWJyaWRnZSAhIGNvbQ== and let her know you are coming to the Healing Children Conference to get a Hotel Room Rate.

What is your Refund Policy?

To receive a full refund, send your request at least 30 days prior to the event via email to the event organizers at aW5mbyB8IGhlYWxpbmdjaGlsZHJlbiAhIGNvbQ==. You will receive a full refund minus Eventbrite processing fees. If we receive a refund request less than 30 days before the event, you may transfer your registration to another event at a later date or to an online or on demand class.

Who do I contact if I have questions?

Contact Traci Glover or Leena Weaver:

1. Via email at aW5mbyB8IGhlYWxpbmdjaGlsZHJlbiAhIGNvbQ==.

2. Through the website at healingchildren.com.

3. Call us at 1-888-311-1883.

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