Facing the Fantasy—Finding the Way Forward: Every Educator's Path to Lasting Behavioral Change with Today's Students Using Neuroscience-Aligned, Trauma-Informed Practices

NOTICE: This training is available to public attendees with a limited number of seats. VIRTUALLY VIA ZOOM.

DETAILS: "Facing the Fantasy—Finding the Way Forward: Every Educator's Path to Lasting Behavioral Change with Today's Students Using Neuroscience-Aligned, Trauma-Informed Practices"

Full-Day 4/20/26

Time: 7:00a - 2:30p PT / 8:00a - 3:30p MT / 9:00a - 4:30p CT / 10:00a -5:30p ET

Lunch Break: 10:30am PST

Virtual Platform: Zoom (Email with registration link and handouts will be sent at least 3 business days prior to training date from email address: team@bowmanconsultgroup.com)

Who should attend?

• Educators, Administrators, Ed Assistants, Specialists, Other School Staff

• Mental Health Providers, Clinicians, Administrators

• Parents, Caregivers & Advocates, Childcare Providers

Content

We’ve been told for decades that if behavior isn’t improving, we need better consequences, stronger consistency, tighter systems, or more data.

But what if the problem isn’t effort — it’s alignment?

What if our Tier 1 and Tier 2 systems are asking students to meet expectations they don’t yet have the regulation capacity or skills to access?

Facing the Fantasy challenges long-standing assumptions about behavior management and offers a neuroscience-aligned, trauma-responsive path forward for entire schools.

This training moves beyond awareness and into design.

Participants will examine where traditional compliance-based approaches quietly undermine regulation and belonging—and learn how to rebuild Tier 1 and Tier 2 systems around access, skill development, and adult regulation.

Instead of asking:
“How do we get students to comply?”

We begin asking:
“How do we build systems that increase capacity?”

What Will I Learn?

• CLARITY on why traditional behavior systems often fail students with stress-sensitized nervous systems—including those impacted by trauma, chronic stress, ADHD, autism, and other neurodivergent profiles

• INSIGHT into the Demand vs. Access Mismatch—and how escalation is often a predictable outcome of overload, not defiance

• FRAMEWORKS for redesigning Tier 1 and Tier 2 systems so they reduce threat, increase predictability, and strengthen skill access

• TOOLS to evaluate classroom practices and schoolwide policies through the Six Trauma-Informed Principles as a decision-making rubric

• STRATEGIES to move from control-based discipline to regulation-first, skill-driven responses

• APPLICATION of how to align adult regulation, MTSS structures, and proactive supports so fewer students need intensive intervention

Who Is This Training For?

This training is designed for:

• District leaders and administrators

• MTSS and Tier 1 / Tier 2 teams

• Classroom teachers (general and special education)

• School counselors and psychologists

• Instructional coaches

• Educational assistants

• Behavior teams and student support staff

And any educator committed to building systems that work for all students—not just the most compliant ones.

Format

Participants will experience:

• Clear, research-grounded instruction

• Visual models and case examples drawn directly from the book

• Structured reflection using the Six Principles as a rubric

• Collaborative system-mapping activities

• Guided planning to identify immediate Tier 1 and Tier 2 refinements

Attendees will leave with a practical next-step action plan designed to increase regulation, coherence, and effectiveness across classrooms and systems.

Trainers:

Rick Bowman's qualifications include:

• M.A. in Clinical Psychology

• Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner - Clinical (CTRP-C®)

• Certified HeartMath and "The Resilience Advantage" Trainer

• Certified Trainer in Collaborative Problem Solving®MGH (Think:Kids, Massachusetts General Hospital)

• K-21 licensed school administrator in the state of Oregon

His training and consultation background has included mental health and human service agencies, non-profits, and corporations, as well as speaking/consulting internationally in Russia, Cuba, and Jamaica.

Rick has been employed as a Clinical Psychologist, Community College Professor, Assistant Principal, Alternative School Director, Student Services Director, and non-profit Assistant Executive Director. His recent implementations of CPS have been:

-- With children in a non-profit alternative middle school and high school setting in the David Douglas School District in Southeast Portland where students face significant barriers to their social, emotional and educational progress such as homelessness, severe poverty, drug & gang involvement, and disengagement from school.

-- With teens in a Long Term Care and Treatment school for students in Level 5 residential foster care who have experienced significant trauma.

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Doris Bowman's qualifications include:

• M.S. in Education/Special Education

• Advanced Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner - Clinical (ACTRP-C®)

• Advanced Certified Trauma & Resilience Practitioner - Education (ACTRP-E®)

• Certified HeartMath and "The Resilience Advantage" Trainer

• Certified "Stress & Well-Being Assessment" Provider, HeartMath

• Certified Trainer in Collaborative Problem Solving®MGH (Think:Kids, Massachusetts General Hospital)

• K-21 licensed special educator and school administrator in the state of Oregon

Doris and Rick are authors of the top release book "Your FBA is a Fantasy! A Guidebook to Creating Trauma-Informed, Neuro-Affirming Functional Behavior Assessments and Behavior Support Plans", as well as "Going to Bed is Easy Now", and "Going to School is Easy Now", the first two in a series of children's' books designed to support children with undesired behavior. She has a broad background in special education and behavior consultation with over 20 years experience working with and supporting children with undesired behaviors and their families.