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The series is 4.5 days. 32 participants each session
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with next steps.
When: February 10-14, 2025
Where: Marshalltown
Lodging: TBD, information will be emailed to participants
Food: Breakfast, Lunch, Beverages & Snacks are provided
Daily Schedule: 8:00 am – 3:30 pm in session
7:30 am Check-in & Breakfast
Iowa License Renewal and Graduate Credit Available at the Event
Renewal: 2 credits $ 70 –through ISEA Academy
3 Graduate Credits - Augustana College - $300 –through Danielle Theis.
Registration: Register Now :: Iowa ASCD
• $1,000 also includes the required materials & book ($175 value) and one-year membership in Iowa ASCD.
• **School Counselors who are members of the Iowa State Education Association will have their registration costs covered (includes the registration fee, lodging, and license renewal credit) through the Ross Trust Reserve Funds.
Iowa ISEA School Counselors: MUST register - put ISEA in the PO blank
• LSCI book will be mailed to you after registration. It is highly recommended that participants read the entire text prior to attending the course. Mailing directions are in the confirmation email
Please send the PO information to: Email the PO to: Becky Martin at rjmartin@mchsi.com
OR US Mail to: Iowa ASCD, Attn: Sara Oswald, 1425 290th St. Tipton, IA 52772
We look forward to learning with you!
Dr. Susan Pecinovsky specinovsky0820@gmail.com
Colleen Heinz, ISEA Teaching & Learning Specialist, Colleen.Heinz@isea.org
Registration/Cancellation Questions: Contact Becky Martin
Facilitated by Danielle Theis, Master trainer for Life Space
National Consultant on Mental Health and Trauma-Responsive School including Teach to Heal.(teachtoheal.org) Danielle provides consultation and training to support children experiencing mental health and behavioral challenges, and the adults who serve them, in our schools and communities. danielletheisconsulting.com
Life Space Certification Intervention (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 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.
Cancellation Policy - Read before you register.
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 about 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.
We look forward to learning with you!
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