Free Webinar for Youth-Serving Professionals
Practices That Travel: Building the Roads to Resilience with Foster Youth
Free Live Webinar | November 11th, 2026 | 3:00–4:00 PM PT
Live Online, for Free, on November 11th!
Recordings will be delivered after the webinar.
When Everything Around Them Changes, What Can Foster Youth Carry With Them?
For youth navigating foster care, change can arrive before they've had time to adjust to the last transition. Repeated disruptions, chronic stress, and experiences of neglect can affect how young people develop the skills to regulate emotions, build relationships, concentrate, and feel safe. Yet the brain retains a remarkable capacity to adapt, and the right support can help young people build skills that remain with them, even when their circumstances change. What if we could offer foster youth more than support tied to a particular school, placement, or adult? What if we could help them develop practical tools they could carry wherever life takes them?
A Free Dynamic Mindfulness Webinar for Foster Youth Staff and Liaisons
Join us for an experiential webinar exploring how neuroscience and trauma-informed, movement-based mindfulness can help foster youth to strengthen resilience, agency, and self-regulation.
Understanding the Science. Experiencing the Practice.
What You’ll Learn During This Webinar
Part 1: Neuroscience & Resilience
- Stress and the Developing Brain: Explore how chronic stress, neglect, and repeated disruptions can affect emotional regulation, executive functioning, and learning.
- Neuroplasticity and Hope: Understand how the brain's ability to adapt creates opportunities for strengthening regulation skills and resilience.
- The Role of Supportive Adults: Examine how adult self-regulation, consistent relationships, and everyday interactions can influence a young person's experience of safety and connection.
Part 2: Practices & Tools
- Dynamic Mindfulness in Action: Experience accessible movement, breathing, and centering practices that can be adapted to different settings and individual needs.
- Transformative Life Skills: Explore a 15-minute protocol and sample extension activities designed to support stability, agency, and self-esteem.
- Supporting the Supporters: Practice simple regulation strategies that can help adults recognize stress, respond more intentionally, and care for their own well-being.
Meet Your Instructor For This Webinar
Programs & Partnerships Manager, Niroga Institute
Daniel Duarte
Our Programs and Partnerships Manager will guide participants through the neuroscience of stress and resilience. Through a practical, trauma-informed approach, Daniel will help participants connect the science of regulation to everyday opportunities to support foster youth and strengthen their own well-being through practice, drawing on his years of experience as a Dynamic Mindfulness instructor.
Who Should Attend?
For the People Who Show Up for Foster Youth
Whether you're helping a young person navigate a new school, supporting a difficult transition, or working to build stronger relationships, this webinar offers practical insights and tools for your everyday work. No previous mindfulness experience is required. Come ready to learn, move, breathe, and explore what these practices can offer both the young people you support and yourself.
The Need For Support That Travels
Stability Isn't Always Available. Tools for Resilience Can Be.
Dynamic Mindfulness (DMind) offers an accessible, trauma-informed approach that combines mindful movement, breathing, and centering to help strengthen self-awareness, emotion regulation, and resilience. Rather than relying exclusively on external conditions to create stability, these practices give youth and adults opportunities to develop skills they can return to across environments, transitions, and difficult moments.
Save Your Spot Today!
Join us to discover how small, accessible practices can create meaningful opportunities for regulation, connection, and resilience, wherever the journey leads.
