The Great Lakes MHTTC offers this training for behavioral health professionals in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI. This training is offered in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
This workshop will explore the body, brain, and the individual behavioral responses that we develop. Understanding how our childhood environments affect us throughout our lives provides context for pain-based and other behaviors. This gives insights into how we can respond to change and the resources that people need to provide the support to heal and thrive.
In this presentation, participants will learn how their history is more than the accumulation of what has happened to them in the course of their lives, but also what has happened inside of them because of what has happened to them. Regulating a nervous system is hard, especially when that nervous system has experienced consistent adversity while going through key periods of development.
This training describes the process of building new neuropathways for human beings. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of strategies to build their capacity for connecting, healing, and innovating. Developing this understanding leads to empathy and trauma-responsive approaches, which in turn helps us create calmer, safer, and more healing community resources and environments.
Certificates of attendance will be available to all participants who attend the session in full.
Tyler Reitzner is a husband, a father, and an impassioned advocate for everyone's right to thrive. In long-term recovery from Developmental Trauma, which includes PTSD and substance use disorder, Tyler has put his experience to use in the field of family and community health. His professional life, recovery, and lived experience have given him a deep understanding of the influence that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have on our ability to work, grow, and have authentic relationships throughout life. He provides training and consulting services to help other professionals apply trauma-responsive insights to the work they do. Tyler was the Principal Consultant of Thriver Institute and the MN Node through the MN Association of Community Mental Health Programs. He is the former Executive Director of MN Trauma Project, an ACE Interface trained presenter, Minnesota Social Service Association Board Member, and Child Advocacy Studies Training trainer through the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Cohort. Tyler and his wife Bethany are happy parents to two boys, Logan and Lucas.
