Effortless Engagement: Connecting with Families While Boosting Your Own Wellbeing

Effortless Engagement: Connecting with Families While Boosting Your Own Wellbeing Barbara Flis, Parent Action for Healthy Kids Description What if engaging families didn’t require any additional time in your day? What if engaging families improved your overall wellbeing? Not only is it possible, it’s the way engaging with families and others is meant to be. In this workshop you will discover how to use your whole brain and body to authentically connect to self, students, colleagues, and families. Objectives By the end of this presentation participants will be able to do the following: • Examine the current mental model for family engagement; • Describe the impact that leadership embodiment and brain-based learning principles have on our interactions with families. • Practice skills that incorporate leadership embodiment and brain-based learning principles to connect to self, colleagues, and families; • Foster leadership among colleagues and team members for making connections with families. Interactive Methods Think-Pair-Share, Problem Solving Scenarios, Role-Playing/Simulations Citations • Aron, Elaine N. 2010. The Undervalued Self. New York, New York. Little, Brown, and Company. • Ginwright, Shawn. 2021. The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves. Berkely, California. North Atlantic Books. • Klussman, Kristine. 2021. Connection: how to find the life you’re looking for in the life you have. Boulder, CO. Sounds True. • Palmer, W., &Crawford, J. (2013). Leadership Embodiment: How the Way We Sit and Stand Can Change the Way We Think and Speak. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. • Parker, Priya. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. New York, Riverhead Books, 2018. • Taylor, J.B., PhD. (2021). Whole brain living: The anatomy of choice and the four characters that drive our life. Hay House, Inc.