"Kids Don't Want Your Power. They Want Their Own" with Kelsie Olds, The OccuPLAYtional Therapist

About the event Join us for a free two-hour training session, Q&A, and book signing with Kelsie Olds, The Occuplaytional Therapist. We're excited to open the doors of our new therapy and community center, Trailhouse, for the first time to educational professionals. Kelsie, one of our all-time favorite speakers and advocates for children, will be sharing her insights and expertise. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. For more information about Trailhouse, visit www.trailhouse.org.

"Empowering children" is a phrase that sounds ideal: great for writing in the vision statements of schools and daycares. But in the day to day, how are adults supposed to actually attain that -- especially with students for whom power is something to grab, struggle over, or wield like a weapon?

Kelsie Olds, "The Occuplaytional Therapist", offers an empathetic window into children's point of view, then gives practical, everyday ways for adults to truly empower the children in their life. Whether in a family or a professional capacity, adults will walk away with ideas about how to support their children in flexing their own growing autonomy skills, while balancing everyone else's needs, too.

Kelsie shares passionately every day online with thousands of parents, teachers, professionals--and adults simply seeking to heal childhood wounds in their own selves--about the healing and power in play as the core meaningful occupation that underlies childhood. Kelsie has most recently worked as an occupational therapist on an Air Force Base in England which gave them a unique perspective on both the US and UK systems of healthcare and education that intersect and affect the children they work with every day. Currently, Kelsie is working full-time in online advocacy, traveling, consulting, and lecturing.

• Date and Time: August 24th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM 
• Location: Trailhouse, 11303 Park Rd, 40223 
• RSVP Information: Please sign up for a free ticket to reserve your spot. 
• Audience: This training is suitable for educational professionals, therapists, parents, and family members looking to gain valuable tools for supporting and empowering children in their care. 
• Contact Information: Questions? Email info@trailhouse.org

Book Signing! Kelsie's new book will be available for purchase at this event. More about it below:

Your Child's Point of View: Understanding the Reasons Kids Do Unreasonable Things.

In Your Child’s Point of View: Understanding the Reasons Kids Do Unreasonable Things, the Occuplaytional Therapist (Kelsie Olds) combines reassuring knowledge, modern research, light humor, and empathetic imagination to provide helpful insights and collaborative strategies for solving common adult/child challenges at home and at school, with an emphasis on meeting everybody’s needs in a positive way.  Whether you are raising a baby or teenager, teaching preschool or high school, or embarking on the often-difficult journey of reparenting your own inner child, this book is for you. Within its pages, you will find over fifty relatable examples of common childish behaviors. Each scenario, initially shown from the adult’s perspective, offers a possible child’s perspective, along with key things to know about why children may act this way and key things to try for replacing conflict with joyful connection.