From High-Stress Interactions to Collaboration: Tools and Skills to Build Connection
This year’s Forum is designed to help professionals strengthen connection and collaboration in their work, while also nurturing their own resilience and well-being. Together, we’ll learn ways to strengthen our interactions and communications while reducing emotional fatigue and burnout.
Drawing on decades of clinical experience and leadership in early relational health, Dr. Lisa Mennet will introduce the FAN (Facilitating Attuned Interactions) approach—a relational mental framework and practical tool for meeting people where they are, deepening connection, and fostering collaboration even in moments of high stress. Grounded in both the latest research and real-world experience, this approach is for those who work with children and families as well as those in other fields—from child welfare, mental health, and healthcare to early learning, home visiting, and beyond.
Dr. Ben Danielson, pediatrician and community advocate, joins the Forum once again to provide opening remarks and reflections and lead our panel discussion. Dr. Danielson is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington, School of Medicine, and Center Director at AHSHAY, a program that tackles youth incarceration by promoting paths to opportunity for young people, especially youth of color.
Dr. Mennet and Dr. Danielson will be joined by a panel of professionals working in the field who are successfully applying the FAN approach or FAN-aligned principles in their daily practice.
Participants will gain skills and strategies to help transform even the most challenging interactions into opportunities for understanding, growth, and repair.
Our event sponsors help keep Forum registration accessible with different price levels depending on need:
- $50 standard
- $25 reduced rate,
- no-cost option
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- Post-event on-demand viewing included with registration
- 4 CEUs available from Center for Early Relational Health
- MERIT Training: 4 STARS Credits available pending approval
- MCLEs: 4 Credits available for legal professionals in Personal Development and Mental Health pending approval