The 2nd Annual Community Conversation on Bullying, will bring together featured members of the Community including representatives from the fields of education, medical, legal, and mental health with the goal of supplying the information and tools necessary to engage educators, parents and students to be proactive in their anti-bullying efforts within their own communities.
On August 23, SCHA-MI will hold a ACE’s training in Lansing from 10:00am-11:30am. We will have lunch from 11:30am-12:00pm, and then reconvene from 12:00pm-1:30pm with a panel of school-based experts who will talk about how they have integrated trauma informed care to their center and school. Mary Mueller from MDHHS will facilitate the panel of experts.
Please RSVP for this training opportunity to Robin Turner: rturner@scha-mi.org.There is no charge for this training or lunch.
Upon RSVP, we will provide the location (Lansing). CE’s will be requested for this training, and if received, will require in-person attendance. If CE’s are not needed, you may conference in if you like, though the quality is generally not great. Please RSVP for conferencing option as well.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Nansook Park
Nansook Park is professor of psychology, director of the Michigan Positive Psychology Center at the University of Michigan, and a nationally certified school psychologist (NCSP). She is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.
She did her graduate work both in Korea and the USA and has a research and practice background in clinical and school psychology. Her research program most broadly reflects positive psychology. Her main research focuses around a psychology of human strengths and the promotion of positive development and well-being across the life-span in different culture settings. Her research topics include character strengths, moral virtues, positive relationships, life meaning, positive experiences, and strengths-based practice, and their role in resiliency, well-being, health, family, work, and education. Her work in collaboration with the late Christopher Peterson in developing ways to measure character strengths and virtues and studying consequences and ways to cultivate good character across cultures is considered one of the most ambitious undertaking within the field of positive psychology.
She is currently leading the Resilience in Orphans project in South Africa. Her work has been featured in numerous newspapers and popular magazines worldwide including New York Times, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, USA Today, PBS, and ABC News.
She has over 120 scholarly publications and has received several national and international awards and honors including the 2015 Christopher Peterson Gold Medal Award (International Positive Psychology Association(IPPA)’s highest honor), the Fellow Awards (International Positive Psychology Association & Association for Psychological Science), the Academic Excellence Award (Beijing Normal University & Beijing Institute of Education, China), the Distinguished Scholar Lecturer at Chungnam National University in Korea, the Distinguished Alumni Lecturer at University of South Carolina in USA, and a Templeton Research Fellow at the Positive Psychology Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
She has given more than 100 invited lectures and workshops in leading institutions and conferences in 20 nations over 6 continents including China, Japan, Australia, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and Kenya.
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Are you interested? Please let us know if there are specific trainings you would find helpful, as our agenda is not yet complete! Please contact Robin Turner, Outreach Consultant, SCHA-MI: rturner@scha-mi.org