• Creating truly trauma informed milieu

    • Staffing and turnover issues

    • Restraint, isolation & Excessive use of force issues

    • Reducing aggression and violence in the milieu

    • Why two units in the same facility can be totally different: one calm the other escalated?

    • How do I decrease aggression and restraints on my unit?

    • Why does my client demonstrate behaviors they know are wrong?

    • Why does my anxiety increase when I work with my clients?

    • Why do I become more angry when I work with angry clients?

    • Why do I feel like I have less time to get my work done than I used to?

    • How can I keep myself and family happy and healthy, and stay in my profession?

    • The reason for specific emotions and behaviors

    • Tools and techniques to reduce harmful emotions and behaviors

    • How to recognize and mitigate outbursts in youth before they occur

    • How to maintain personal health and safety throughout your workday and career

    • Frontline staff in youth treatment

    • Clinicians

    • Direct-care Supervisors

    • Licensing and Monitoring Specialists

    • Guardian Ad Litem

Immersion Workshop

A fast-paced, playful, highly interactive three-day training for frontline, administration and support staff. Participants practice using tangible tools and spontaneously applicable techniques that integrate the biological mechanisms of emotion and behavior into normal daily routine to benefit clients and staff.

Limbic Integration Introduction is a five-day training that can be delivered on-site.

recommended by 97% of workshop participants

What people are saying

  • “I will be recommending this training to everyone I know who works with children and families.”

    — Kerry Swenson, Residential Care Administrator

  • “One of the most fabulous workshops I’ve ever attended in the field.” “Two energetic and inspiring teachers who brought their whole selves into the room.”

    — April Betty, RCCF staff

  • “Excellent blend of science and application.”

    — Barry Schultz, CDHS Licensing and Monitoring Specialist

  • “Outstanding training. This would be fantastic, therapeutic, and necessary in an RCCF milieu. Quality would increase, safety would as well, and physical restraints would be reduced greatly.”

    — Joe Mitchell, CDHS Licensing and Monitoring Specialist

  • “Excellent training! This needs to be standard practice for all of Colorado’s out of home placements! This is important and valuable information.”

    — Debra Lawrence, CDHS Licensing and Monitoring Specialist

  • “Amazing training experience”

    — Robin Runck, 15 years field experience, Youth and adult services

  • “The workshop was great. This changes my view on the work we do. Wonderful workshop!”

    — Kevin Mitchell, Assistant Director, 21 years in the field

  • “Well done, well prepared. Knowledgeable and experienced presenters.”

    — Jeremy Mulvany, Detention Director, 20 years in the field

  • “Limbic Legacy offers remarkable skills in the discipline of “kid work” and these skills incredibly extend, as well as apply, to the workplace and overall organizational culture.”

    — Catania Jones, MA, Program Manager, Colorado Division of Youth Corrections

  • “Understanding the limbic brain is like standing on the precipice of a whole new world! Thank you! My dream is for us to teach all systems the Limbic Legacy Language.”

    — Pam Neu, CDHS Manager Child and Adolescent and Mental Health Programs