Dr. Charlotte Reznick's real-world experience and clinical expertise are conveyed with unique warmth, humor, and enthusiasm. Parents, physicians, therapists, teachers, nurses, hospital staff - anyone who works with children - will be delighted and enlightened by Dr. Reznick’s rich visuals and experiential activities. Presentations can range from one-hour lectures up to three-day workshops and can be tailored to meet each group's specific needs.
Topics:
- Transforming Kids Pandemic or Disaster Stress: Harnessing the Healing Power of Child and Teen Imagination (more info)
- Mindfulness, Meditation, and Imagination: Creating Resiliency in Children and Teens (more info)
- Imagery For Kids®: Breakthrough For Learning, Creativity, and Empowerment (more info)
- Healing Children Through Imagery (more info)
- Imagery As A Therapeutic Tool With Children
- How To Be Your Own Stress Reduction Therapist (more info)
- Self Esteem: Challenge For Empowerment
- Adolescence: A Look Forward
- Other topics on request
TEDxStudioCityED The Healing Power of Children's Imagination
Transforming Kids Pandemic or Disaster Stress: Harnessing the Healing Power of Child and Teen Imagination
Our recent experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond show the enormity of stress, fear, and worry in kids of all ages during such an on-going crisis. Clearly kids need to be equipped with coping skills like never before.
Dr. Reznick shares a plethora of wisdom on how the potency of our brain’s imagination can help our youth reduce trauma while increasing creative coping skills. We will explore how nine effective imagination tools can easily help connect to inner resources, develop intuition, and discover wisdom that can offer comfort, support, and relief.
You’ll learn how to…
Help kids manage and transform many of the issues that they have during turmoil, from sleep troubles, somatic complaints, self-harm, irritability, tantrums, worry, fear, anger, and more. And you will understand how to adapt and adjust for different ages, developmental levels, and cultures. Several practical exercises will be demonstrated and experienced to help kids heal and positively deal with the vulnerability and sadness that so many experience.You will walk away with...
Numerous perceptive ideas and simple yet profound exercises you can immediately put into practice at home or with the youth you work with.
Mindfulness, Meditation, and Imagination: Creating Resiliency in Children and Teens
The challenges of growing up in today’s rapidly changing society are enormous. Children need to be equipped with skills for survival and growth that were never before imagined. One of the most effective ways to reach our youth is to create an emotional encounter that touches their hearts and souls, a compelling experience that will motivate them enough to change. Through mindfulness, meditation, and imagination practices, kids can not only survive in our fast-paced, complicated techno world, they can thrive and realize their potential throughout their lifetime.
In this experiential presentation, based on research and clinical case studies, we will explore how mindfulness, meditation, and creative imagination strategies can help kids access their own wisdom to develop and trust their intuition, find their own best answers and build emotional resiliency for the 21st Century.
We’ll cover how to help kids…
- Manage anxiety
- Transform fears
- Handle anger, hurt, and frustration
- Overcome sleep disturbances (insomnia, bedwetting)
- Cope with death, divorce, and other losses
- Reduce somatic symptoms including headaches, stomachaches, and tics
- Achieve peak performance at school and in sports
- Live peacefully with siblings and parents
- Love, accept, respect, and appreciate themselves and others
In addition, we will also share:
- The latest research on mindfulness, meditation, and imagination strategies (MMI)
- Motivating kids to use MMI techniques
- How to help kids use MMI to experience and express feelings to reduce emotional stress
- Using self-suggestion to make MMI more effective
- MMI strategies to help children cope with crisis and traumatic events
- How kids can use MMI "on the run"
- How to match different types of MMI with different temperaments and situations
In this experiential presentation, Dr. Reznick will draw upon her highly praised mindful coping skills program, Imagery For Kids. She will demonstrate innovative techniques of guided and interactive imagery, enhanced by music, relaxation skills, drawing, and journal writing. Further, Dr. Reznick will integrate research with her clinical experience to reveal how a host of emotional, behavioral, and learning concerns are effectively addressed by mindfulness and the creative possibilities of imagery.
Participants will gain a practical overview of the Nine Tools critical in developing a child’s inner resources, including:
The Foundation Tools
- The Balloon Breath
- Discovering a Special Place
Connecting with Inner Guides
- Meeting a Wise Animal Friend
- Encountering a Personal Wizard (Wise Person)
- Receiving Gifts from Inner Guides
Connecting with the Wisdom of the Body
- Checking in with Heart and Belly
- Talking to Other Body Parts
- Using Color For Healing
Accessing Energy for Healing
- Tapping into Energy
Parents and professionals alike will immediately begin to help children and adolescents manage and relieve typical life stresses, including areas of self-esteem and self-worth; anxiety, worries, and fears; frustration, anger, and aggression; attention and focus; academic and sports performance; sibling, family and peer harmony.
Children can learn to feel safe, develop empathy and compassion, hone their creative expression, and trust their intuition to make healthy life decisions.
Participant sharing about her experience with one
of the Nine Tools - “Where do I keep my feelings?”
of the Nine Tools - “Where do I keep my feelings?”
The Healing Power of Children's Imagination
Message from Butterfly Animal Friend,
"You are enough!!!"
Dr. Charlotte Reznick maintains that all children and teens hold within themselves profound imaginative and healing abilities. In this rich visual experiential presentation, Dr. Reznick will illustrate how the power of imagination can awaken the inner resources our youth need in order to manage and deal effectively with the stresses of physical and emotional illness.
Participants will learn the steps to Imagery Treatment with Children and Teens, including meditation and breathing techniques, progressive muscle relaxation, music and drawing applications, non-dominant and dominant writing. An array of creative tools for guided, interactive and self-imagery will be offered, including the "balloon" breath, discovering one's "special place," receiving "gifts," "talking" to body parts, encountering a "personal wizard / wise one" and "animal friend," and using "color” and “energy” for healing.
Participants will learn methods for:
- Healing somatic illness (headaches,stomachaches, bedwetting, encopresis, tics)
- Healing pain and anxiety due to illness and medical procedures
- Healing past abuse (emotional, physical, sexual)
- Healing sleep disorders
How To Be Your Own Stress Reduction Therapist
STRESS affects every aspect of family life: Health, Achievement, Happiness! In this presentation, you'll learn how stress can be effectively addressed and transformed by the positive power of imagination. Using simple, practical, and easily implemented tools, we can:
- Recognize, understand, and release stress
- Discover imagination tools to transform anxiety and worry
- Introduce these techniques to our children
“Safe Inside My Light”
For over 30 years, Dr. Reznick’s warmth, humor, patience, and calm personal guidance has been successful in helping children of all ages, from preschool through college, in positively handling many everyday life challanges. She is a California Licensed Educational Psychologist (LEP1475) and is available to assist your family today.