Nurtured Heart Approach

NHA & The 3 Stands in Social Justice with Jeffrey D. Swan, MA, LPC

Keeping Cool and Staying Effective in Difficult Conversations with Jeffrey D. Swan!

When we are faced with difficult social situations, humans have a tendency to respond in one of two ways. We either confront the situation with force or we shy away. Both of these approaches can lead to other difficulties. This workshop is designed to help us find a pathway for having reasoned conversations around hot topics without further alienating our colleagues, coworkers, and students.

Speaker

Jeffrey D. Swan holds a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from U.T Austin. He has been using the Nurtured Heart Approach for 15 years and is an Advanced Nurtured Heart Trainer and Peer leader. Jeffrey currently works full time in private practice specializing in treatment for children, adolescents and young adults. He is co-founder of Austin Child Therapy, PLLC, which provides training and support services to child and adolescent psychotherapists in Austin.

Register

Date: Thursday, September 29th, 2022

Time: 5:30 PM-7:00 PM

Prior NHA training is encouraged but not required to attend. MUHSD staff will be compensated for attendance. Registration will close on Thursday the 29th at 5:30 p.m. Join us on Zoom!

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Viviana Barajas, M.A., Ed., PPS Nurtured Heart Approach Advanced Trainer

Viviana Barajas is a first-generation Mexican-American who was born and raised in California. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Human Development at UC San Diego, and received her Master’s in Educational Counseling from California State University, Stanislaus. She is the proud mother of two amazing boys and has always had a passion for helping underserved populations and for finding opportunities to promote positive relationships. Her experience includes early childhood education, non-profit community work, domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy, early intervention and prevention services for children and families, foster youth advocacy, residential treatment facility training and support, and program development. For the past 8 years, Viviana has been working exclusively to integrate the Nurtured Heart Approach as an Advanced Certified Trainer into school and agency settings and has grown a successful independent consulting business. Viviana has created a Nurtured Heart Approach mental health high school course for teens, is a certified instructor in Teen Mental Health First Aid, and is the creator of Greatness Project, a non-profit organization in the making to provide a platform for youth to share this life-changing method with other youth and adults. Her Greatness Project includes youth who are homeless, displaced, in the foster care system, and recently released youth from juvenile detention centers and in an alternative educational setting. For the past four years, she has led parent workshops through Modesto Junior College for resource families in Stanislaus County, including CASA workers, social workers, residential treatment staff, teachers, counselors, administrators, families, and community partners. She has professionally trained thousands of adult professionals, parents, and students in San Joaquin, Fresno, Kings, Stanislaus, and Merced Counties, with no plans to slow down. She has been consulting with MUHSD for 3 years.