Creating Calm: How Understanding the Brain Can Transform Stressful Situations into Peaceful Connections for Educators and Parents

Creating Calm is an educational guidebook that helps educators and leaders understand the brain and the stress response, which leads to improved interpersonal communication. This book sheds light on the ways in which we react to stress and perceived threats as well as the impact that trauma and stress have on the brain. Understanding the fight or flight response mechanism and skills to self-regulate when we become stressed can lead to improved self-awareness and better communication and interactions. The better we understand ourselves, the better we can understand and connect with others in our personal and professional lives. In this book, you will learn:•The ways trauma and stress affect our response to perceived threats in school and life as teachers and students•Why fight or flight mode is a hardwired part of our survival system, how those who experience trauma develop a hypersensitive stress response system, and how to care for traumatized students•How punitive systems in schools often retraumatize students who experience the most trauma and how to deal with student misbehavior in a more positive and helpful way•How awareness and self-regulation skills can reduce stress and burnout and create a calming environment•Ways to teach children and adults self-regulation skills, and how teaching these skills can improve communication and connection in schools and organizations. Read more