New 1 day Courses

The Angry Smile Course

The Angry Smile course is designed for anyone who lives, works, or interacts with a passive aggressive student and wants to better understand and manage the often-troubling dynamics.

The Angry Smile takes an in-depth look at the roots of passive aggressive behavior in children, exploring masked anger at five distinct and increasingly pathological levels. The course features the Passive Aggressive Conflict Cycle as well as eight specific skills that professionals (and anyone interacting with a passive aggressive person) can use to respond effectively to the troubling behavior.

The Angry Smile course trains participants in a six-step process for confronting and changing passive aggressive behaviors in the long-term, using extensive discussion, video examples, and role play.

The Angry Smile is a one-day course.

For more details and registration information for The Angry Smile course, please contact Signe Whitson at swhitson@lsci.org

Turning Down the Heat: Preventing Counter-Aggression and Conflict in the Classroom

80 % of classroom problems are caused by 10 % of students who challenge and undermine teacher authority.
These students are skilled in frustrating adults and pushing the emotional buttons of even the most competent teachers.

Most teachers are irritated by the behavior of select, challenging students. This is to be expected. Few teachers are trained to understand and acknowledge these normal counter-aggressive feelings. Problems develop when competent teachers stay angry at a student. When a conflict develops, teachers are less likely to perceive accurately, think clearly, and reason coherently. Though competent teachers rarely initiate conflicts with students, they often keep them alive though their unintended, counter-productive reactions.

Turning Down the Heat documents four of the most common reasons that teachers become counter-aggressive with select students. This unique training programs also offers specific skills to manage conflict in the classroom. Teachers will learn how to manage their counter-aggression when it is manageable, simmering, boiling and even when it boils over.

Turning Down the Heat is a unique opportunity and the missing piece of most professional training programs. This course is about you and not your students. It leads to powerful insights which will change the way you think and behave when you are angry.

For more information on Turning Down the Heat training opportunities in your area, please use the International Training Sites link to find an LSCI Trainer in your area, or contact Signe Whitson at swhitson@lsci.org to be connected with a Trainer who can bring the course to your organization for groups of 15+.

LSCI Refresher Course

The LSCI Refresher Course curriculum is designed for those who have successfully completed the certification course and who have already been using LSCI for at least six months. It is not intended as a preview or substitute for those who have not completed the certification course. The Refresher course will serve as a forum to discuss the highlights and challenges of implementing LSCI in the real-world and as a laboratory to practice and sharpen interviewing skills.

The Refresher Course curriculum begins with an overview of the self-defeating pattern of each Reclaiming Intervention along with a review of the Conflict Cycle and Timeline. Also included is a discussion about short term vs. long term RI’s. Next, the course turns to a more detailed review of the RI’s, including the central issue, process, and unique outcome goals for each. Participants are given extensive opportunities to role play and diagnose LSCI crisis situations.

For scheduling purposes, the Refresher Course is recommended as a one-day, 8-hour review of LSCI.

For more details on the Refresher Course, please contact Signe Whitson at swhitson@lsci.org

LSCI Group Curriculum

The eight-session LSCI Group Curriculum is designed to teach child and adolescent students and clients the basic concepts of Life Space Crisis Intervention. The Group Curriculum helps kids learn about self-defeating behaviors and how to avoid falling into these troublesome patterns.

The Group Curriculum is intended as a helpful tool for LSCI-certified professionals trying to integrate LSCI into their classrooms and therapeutic milieus and also as a tool for professionals who desire to run effective groups with clients.

The LSCI Group Curriculum Trainer's Manual walks group leaders step-by-step and session-by-session through eight unique aspects of LSCI for Kids. Trainers may use either the Children's Handbook or the Youth Handbook, depending on the writing and comprehension abilities of participants. A group leader may use both versions in a single group, since the basic activities are the same. However, leaders must use extra care in attending to slightly different sets of written responses.

Click here to read the results of a study conducted at the Northwest Village School in Plainview, CT on the use of the LSCI Group Curriculum with a group of students, ages 13-18.

For more details on the LSCI Group Curriculum, please contact Signe Whitson at swhitson@lsci.org.