Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control Classes

Beyond Consequences Logic & Control, A Love Based Approach to Helping Children with Severe Behaviours by Heather Forbes and Bryan Post is a groundbreaking approach that has helped even the most difficult of family cases find stability and healing. Based on scientific research, the Beyond Consequences Model was developed to provide a simple yet powerful model for helping children with severe behavior. The Beyond Consequences Model has been shown over and over to help families find the healing that they have been looking for after years of "trying everything and nothing worked."

A Different View

with Sally Flintoff

This 18 hour course is based on the concepts contained in BCLC, and takes an indepth look at the Stress Model and the principles behind it. It covers brain development and explains the brain from a variety of perspectives. It covers the impact of stress and trauma and explores the concepts of discipline, boundaries and consequences.

It is particularly beneficial for children who exhibit extremely challenging behaviours, and those who have experienced trauma such as adoptive or foster children. However, many biological children have also experienced trauma that can significantly impact them not only as children but throughout their life without them ever being aware of it. We often think of trauma as some huge life-shattering event or situation (sexual or physical abuse for example), without realizing that even seemingly relatively minor experiences can sometimes be traumatic for a child especially if experienced repeatedly.

Each of us views the world through our own filter of experiences that begin in utero and continue through childhood. These experiences help to form neural pathways in our brain and once established future experiences are channeled through these same pathways reinforcing them further, creating a unique filter for each of us that dictates how we perceive the world. For anyone who has experienced trauma their filter can lead them to perceive the world and those in it as predominantly unsafe. This perception can lead to behaviours that often seem bizarre, without any logical basis and leave us confused and frustrated as parents. Our child may repeat the same negative behaviour over and over no matter how often we try to teach them why they shouldn’t, either through explaining the reasons, or consequencing them for that behaviour.

This course draws on neuroscientific research and leads parents step by step through the understanding of what is going on behind the behaviours, as well as helping parents understand their own role in the dynamic of parenting and how their filter of experiences impacts the way they view their children and ultimately the way they parent.

Sally Flintoff

Sally Flintoff lives in Perth, Western Australia. She is the mother of 2 boys, both adopted internationally at the age of 4 years, one in 2003 and the other in 2006. Click here to read her full bio.