BREATHING OUT - BREAKING OUT! EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TECHNIQUES IN THE STUTTERING MOMENT

Breathe Out - Break Out!

Managing Fight, Flight, & Frozen Responses in the Stuttering Moment
mindfulness workshops, tools, & ideas for stutterers
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What do worries and negative thoughts elicit? Generally they flood and constrict our thoughts & response to the point where we cannot think clearly and/or our:
  • thoughts race and/or constrict
  • breathing quickens
  • body freezes
  • chest tightens
  • hands feel clammy
  • thoughts become muddled
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Breathe Out - Break Out workshops are designed for you to create and infuse mindfulness skills to increase your ability to tolerate feelings of distress and regulate your emotions. Techniques focus on grounding and resourcing exercises shown to be effective in managing worries and negative thoughts + increasing your own resiliency. We specifically tailored the techniques for People Who Stutter in this workshop to gain support in their Stuttering Journey.

Mindfulness and meditation are scientifically proven to be effective tools for reducing stress and managing stressful moments by and increased ability to:
  • work with strong regulate emotions
  • increase awareness
  • understand your emotional intelligence
  • strengthen decision making
  • develop confidence
  • learn to be nice to yourself

These therapeutic models offers supportive techniques and tools that are useful for all people experiencing an anxious or panicked moment. The handouts, below, are combined from these therapeutic influences:
  • Cognitive & Dialectical Behavioral therapies
  •  Mindfulness & Meditation
  • Somatic & Relational Therapies
  • Psychodrama

Breathe Out - Break Out workshops for Stutterers & Speech Language Professionals have been presented at:
  • Friends Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July 2019 (Friends)
  • ​National Stuttering Association Convention, Chicago, Il, July 2018 (NSA)
  • National Stuttering Association Convention, Dallas, Tx, July 2017 (NSA)
  • National Stuttering Association Conference, Atlanta, Ga, July 2016 (NSA)
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​Questions? Please contact Elizabeth Kapstein, LCSW-R, EMDR, CASAC at elizabeth@ektherapy.com

Workshop Handouts


Workshop - Resourcing
Extra - Challenging Negative Thoughts
Workshop - Feeling Words Floor Check
Extra - Predict vs. Reality
Workshop - 3-Breathe Exercise
Extra - They moved my bowl
Workshop - Grounding
Extra​ - List of Emotion & Feelings
Workshop - Mindfulness DBT
Extra - Parasympathetic Chart
Workshop - Breathing Exercises Extras
Workshop - Change Words
Friends Conference - July 2019 - Thanks for the ideas:
Mindfulness for Kids in School: Mindful Schools

Presenters


Elizabeth Kapstein

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​Elizabeth is a person who stutters and a licensed clinical social worker living in New York City. Elizabeth has been involved locally and nationally with stuttering self-help organizations for 20+ years.

​Elizabeth focuses on working with the whole person and specializes in trauma- and addictions-informed therapy using expressive therapies at ektherapy.com. Her email is elizabeth@ektherapy.com. 
My pronouns are she/her/hers.

Nora O'Connor

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Nora is a person who stutters and living in Los Angeles, California. Nora, Jeff and Elizabeth met in the stuttering community over for 20 years ago. She has been a NSA chapter leader, co-chaired FRIENDS conference (2004), Passing Twice leader (LGBT who stutter), published articles, workshop facilitator, featured in two documentaries, a guest on Stutter Talk and much more. During her career, as a licensed clinical social worker, she began recognizing the clinical interventions she was using with her clients were also helping her live better as a stutterer.

Along with treating addiction, trauma, mood disorders in her private practice, she now provides therapy specifically for people who stutter. Nora also works at Wesley Health Clinics as a medical social worker. She is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness and Trauma Resiliency Model.

​Contact Nora NOConnorLCSW@gmail.com

Jeff Shames

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Jeff is a clinical social worker and writer who has presented at numerous conferences for people who stutter. With Elizabeth Kapstein, he co-founded the Manhattan Stuttering Group in 1994. 

A native of Tulsa, OK, in 2004 Jeff co-produced the award winning personal documentary film Spit It Out. In 2017 the film is being streamed online to reintroduce the film to new audiences in the stuttering and other communities. Sample footage can be seen on You Tube at “Spit It Out Jeff Shames." He can be reached at spititoutfilm@gmail.com.

​He is a psychotherapist at Lighthouse Guild, and lives in New York City with his wife, Elisa DeCarlo.


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​Breathe. Release, Stutter!
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