FAMILY WORKSHOPS
Strong partnerships between home and school create better outcomes for students. When families and educators share a common understanding of behavior and use a common language, children experience greater consistency, stronger relationships, and more opportunities to succeed. These family workshops complement school-based professional development by extending the same neuroscience-informed, relationship-centered approach into the home.
Focus on the Nervous System to Change Behavior
Length: 1.5 hours
Presented by Becky Knutsen, M.Ed.
Parenting a child with big emotions or confusing behaviors can feel exhausting, isolating, and overwhelming. This introductory workshop offers families and school communities a neuroscience-informed way to understand behavior through the lens of the brain and nervous system.
Participants will explore how regulation, connection, and felt safety shape behavior and leave with practical, relationship-based strategies they can begin using right away.
This workshop can be scheduled by schools, districts, or organizations as a family education event and is also well suited for Minnesota Special Education Advisory Council (SEAC) meetings.
For individual caregivers, this introductory workshop is offered live online a few times each year. Future dates will be posted as they become available.
Acknowledgment
This workshop is inspired by and builds upon the work of Robyn Gobbel, LCSW, LMSW, RPT-S. It incorporates select concepts and visual materials used with permission while also integrating my own experiences, examples, and teaching developed through 25 years in education, educational consultation, and parent coaching.
Workshops presented by Becky Knutsen, M.Ed.
Becky is the founder of Student-Centered Services. She holds a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Special Education and a Bachelor of Science in Child Psychology from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.
A licensed teacher with over 25 years of experience, Becky is also an advanced practitioner in Robyn Gobbel’s Baffling Behavior Training Institute’s Professional Immersion Program. She has dedicated her career to supporting children, families, and school staff with practical, connection-based strategies that create lasting change.