This practice helps you tune into yourself, as well as strengthen the mind’s ability for sustained focus by shifting awareness throughout the body, led by Blair Carleton.
Focus Area: Parent Well-Being & Effective Parenting Practices
Tuning into the Senses (7 minutes)
This practice promotes awareness of your sensory experiences, which can be helpful for tuning into the moment, led by Robyn Long.
Wise Mind Breathing (5 minutes)
This practice helps you connect with Wise Mind, where Emotional Mind and Rational Mind are held in balance, led by Diane Hetrick.
Synchrony and the neurobiology of human attachments
Synchrony – the coordination of biological and behavioral processes between children and their caregivers during moments of social contact – provides the basis for social connectedness and charts a central process in the development of stress management, empathy, and the development of the “affiliative brain”.
Liliana Lengua
Liliana Lengua, Ph.D. is UW’s Maritz Family Foundation Professor of Psychology and has directed CCFW since its founding in 2011. A child clinical psychologist, she studies the effects of adversity on children and examines risk and protective factors that contribute to children’s resilience or vulnerability. Her research has focused on the contributions of children’s temperament,
Adverse childhood experiences to adult adversity trends among parents: Socioeconomic, health, and developmental implications
In this study, CCFW Academic Partners examine patterns of adult adversity in parents who were exposed to adverse childhood experiences (ACES).