2025 June Renew Refresh Life Space Certification: 7:30 am - 3:30 pm

Time to register for the June 16-20, 2025, Refresh-Renew session of the Life Space Crisis Intervention Certification Workshop.   Brought to you by Iowa ASCD and Iowa State Education Association.

June 16-19, 2025   Bridgeview Center, 102 Church Street, Ottumwa, Iowa

Read through this message for details.  
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email.
For those attending as a Refresh-Review:
-- attendance is the first 4 days M-Th, not Friday
-- bring your book and workbook with you

Refresh Registration: On the Register Now page - click on the word Register 
 $350.00 also includes a one-year membership in Iowa ASCD.
**School Counselors who are members of the Iowa State Education Association (ISEA) and ISEA members attending with the school counselor, will have their registration fee covered, including lodging and license renewal credit through the Ross Trust Reserve Funds. 
You must register and enter  ISEA in the PO blank.

Location:  Bridgeview Center, Ottumwa, Iowa
Lodging for NON ISEA members: There is no suggested lodging location or rate.
Lodging for ISEA members: TBD, you will be notified
Food: Lunch M-T,  Snacks, and all-day beverage provided.  Lunch on your own Wednesday & Thursday.Special dietary requirements- Contact Beky Martin at rjmartin@mchsi.com by June 1.

Daily Schedule: 7:30 am Check-in 
Monday-Thursday 8:00 am – 3:30 pm in session

Questions Contact: 
Stan Newton -  snewton@ghvschools.org
Dr. Susan Pecinovsky,  specinovsky0820@gmail.com
Colleen Heinz, ISEA Teaching & Learning Specialist, Colleen.Heinz@isea.org
Registration/Cancellation Questions:  Contact Becky Martin, Iowa ASCD, rjmartin@mchsi.com 

If you are unable to attend the LSCI event for which you have registered, contact Becky Martin of Iowa ASCD by email no later than 14 calendar days before the start of the event. You may send a non-registered person in your place or request a refund. The information of the replacement person must be received within one day of your cancellation.  Processing Fees: Iowa ASCD may charge fees for processing event refunds for the LSCI event.  Processing fees are deducted from the registration refund amount. Credit card fees will not be refunded

Life Space Crisis Intervention Information
Facilitator: Danielle Theis, National consultant on mental health and trauma-responsive schools and Master Trainer of Life Space.  danielletheisconsulting.com

LSCI certification training is provided only by Master or Senior LSCI Trainers acknowledged by the LSCI Institute. This training should be attended by those who will maintain fidelity to the intervention modality systemically or individually with students. 

Attendance at this training certifies an individual to use the strategies. It does not allow a participant to train others in the strategies, tools and concepts presented in the training.

Brief Overview:  This certification training provides carefully structured theoretical and applied instruction in crisis intervention skills for use in reclaiming children and youth involved in patterns of self-defeating behavior. Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) applies to troubled and at-risk students in various education settings. The training provides 27 specific competencies for using the crisis as a teaching and therapeutic opportunity with students showing six different patterns of self-defeating behavior.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Articulate the dynamics of conflict cycles, which lead to self-defeating behavior.
2. Recognize student-thinking errors that interfere with communication and problem- solving.
3. Recognize the process and outcomes of staff counter-aggression, which precludes effective intervention.
4. Assess the circumstances under which LSCI is or is not an appropriate intervention.
5. Demonstrate effective de-escalation, decoding, and counseling strategies for youth in crisis.
6. Differentially diagnose these six common patterns of self-defeating behavior:
a. Problems originating elsewhere in a child's ecology.
b. Problems rooted in a child's reality distortions.
c. Problems resulting from social skill deficits.
d. Problems related to negative peer influence.
e. Problems caused by lack of prosocial values.
f. Problems of guilt and self-abusive behavior.
7. Match specific reclaiming interventions with each of the six patterns of self-defeating behavior.
8. Utilize a six-step sequence and specific communication skills for each reclaiming intervention.
9. Reflect on how certain youth problems relate to the helper's personality and values.