Research Exchange Group on Autism with Lisa Pinhorn of Empowered Parents

Empowered Parents: Cultivating Calm, Connected Families with Lisa Pinhorn. Empowered Parents (formerly Feeding Futures) is the brainchild of Holistic Nutritionist & Social Worker Laurie Pinhorn and Holistic Family Interventionist Lisa Pinhorn. A few years ago, Lisa and Laurie completely redesigned their support/intervention programs to include parental self-care elements, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy,  Polyvagal approaches, therapeutic yoga, and more neuroscience. They met with world leaders like Kristen Neff of The Centre For Self-Compassion and learned all they could from people like Russ Harris of The Happiness Trap. For the past few years, Lisa has been supporting learners from all over the world to learn about Self-Regulation through her work at The MEHRIT Centre. Each day Empowered Parents supports and teaches families in NL how holistic health impacts childhood anxiety, autism, ADHD, OCD and trauma treatments in our children. Through years of research and practice, Lisa and Laurie have created a hands-on, family-focused, child-directed, and highly motivational approach to therapies.


Location: Via Zoom. Contact rochelle.baker@med.mun.ca for details

Date and Time: Wednesday, Oct 26th at 12:30 PM - 02:00 PM (NDT)

For more information: https://www.mun.ca/nlcahr/research-exchange/autism/