Interoception: Feeling the Feels

January 2025 - February 2025
All sessions will be held from 8-9:30am EST
Registration: 7:45am EST

(Space limited to 150 participants)

Registration Opens October 14, 2024

Register Here!

OCALI is pleased to host Interoception: Feeling the Feels Online Training Series with Kelly Mahler. This introductory training series, with eight 1.5 hour sessions, is designed for school-based teams that want to learn about Interoception, the Eighth Sensory System, and how it has a substantial effect on a student's ability to understand body signals and internal feelings, independently self-regulate, and connect socially.

Who Should Attend?

School-based teams, including, but not limited to occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, intervention specialists, administrators, general educators, behavior specialists, guidance counselors, social workers, and mental health therapists.

Key Concepts & Takeaways

  • Generate a description of interoception that can be used with colleagues, students and/or their families
  • Identify at least one method for assessing interoception
  • Identify at least three strategies for nurturing interoception growth
  • Identify how to adapt at least one strategy to meet the needs of students/setting they serve

Presenter:

Kelly Mahler, OTD, OTR/L
Kelly Mahler OTD, OTR/L, earned a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Misericordia University, Dallas, PA. She has been an occupational therapist for 20 years, serving school-aged children and adults. Kelly is winner of multiple awards, including the 2020 American Occupational Therapy Association Emerging and Innovative Practice Award & a Mom's Choice Gold Medal. She is an adjunct faculty member at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA as well as at Misericordia University, Dallas, PA. Kelly is a co-principal investigator in several research projects pertaining to topics such as interoception, self-regulation, trauma & autism.

Fee is $100 per person for the 8-session series. There will be no separate registration for individual sessions.

Registration will Open October 14, 2024.

Space is limited to 150 participants.

Deadline for registration is December 13, 2024.

Cancellation Policy: No refunds will be given for cancelled registration.

Please contact Patt Krug with any questions: 614.401.4049 or patt_krug@ocali.org

Please note: Topics are subject to change or may change by date.

January 9
Session 1: What is interoception and how does it influence school participation?

January 16
Session 2: Interoception, Co-Regulation & Self-Regulation

January 23
Session 3: Interoceptive Awareness (IA) and Assessment of IA (informal and formal methods)

January 30
Session 4: Priming for IA work. Trauma-informed; Regulation-Focused; Curiosity/Autonomy/Validation

February 6
Session 5: Strategies for Noticing Body Signals

February 13
Session 6: Adapting Strategies for Noticing Body Signals for a variety of students and classrooms

February 20
Session 7: Strategies for Connecting Body Signals to Emotion

February 27
Session 8: Strategies for Regulating Body Signals with Feel-Good Actions

Earn Credit

One hour of credit is available through Ashland University. Information for online registration for credit and requirements will be shared during the sessions.