What will be covered

The purpose of the Davis Concepts for Life – Early Years Program is to provide powerful solutions and wrap-around support for young children who are struggling with focus, behavior, relationships, self-regulation, executive functioning or meeting developmental milestones.

The three-day workshop takes you through every step of the program, providing you with comprehensive training on how to best work with a child at home, school or in a therapy setting. 

By the end of the workshop, you will come away with:

• a personal set of tools (mental strategies), to help you remain calm and relaxed while working with your child or student

• the ability to provide the child with a simple, highly effective set of self-regulation strategies for managing stress, regulating their energy, and enhancing focus  

• methods for facilitating a greater awareness of both self and others

• the ability to teach and actively create the fundamental life concepts of change, consequence, cause and effect, before and after, time, sequence, order and disorder, using the engaging hands-on method of modeling with plastilina clay

• an understanding of how to create meaningful, positive learning experiences in the home, school or external environment to actively explore these life concepts. This enables the child to integrate their experiences into their personal identity, as a framework for understanding the world, and creates a solid foundation for stimulating positive and lasting change

• the ability to guide a child towards making good behavior decisions that are more likely to create positive outcomes for themselves and others

Outcomes experienced

Young clients who have completed the program have experienced many changes. Some of the most significant improvements reported back to the Foundation include:

• better self-regulation (can calm themselves down)

• showing much less anxiety

• reduced stress

• less resistance to change

• a willingness to try new things

• increased capacity to play with others

• increased understanding of cause and effect

• can follow instructions using the ideas of before and after

• improved behavior

• will go along with others’ ideas/suggestions in groups and when playing

• understands why – improved reasoning, and

• willing to share own ideas