This
webinar will discuss the M-E-T-A™ (Mindful Examination of Thinking and
Awareness) intervention approach and related evidence-based strategies to help
children and adults improve executive functioning and achieve positive
outcomes. The presenter will share strategies that children and adults can use
to enhance goal-directed planning and future-forward thinking as well as build
emotional resilience, gratitude, compassion, and pride.
Learning
Outcomes
You will
be able to:
- Identify
the nature and scope of hot and cool
executive function, social-emotional
regulation, and the role of context in
achieving goals
- Define
and describe the role of mental time
travel, future prospection, and emotional
gap as they relate to serving the needs of
current vs. future self
- Utilize
the M-E-T-A intervention approach and
tools that promote the transfer and
generalization of social-emotional,
cognitive, and executive function skills
into everyday situations
Contents
- Overview of
executive
function, and goal-directed persistence and adaptive flexibility
- Introduction
to
the framework of Hot & Cool Executive Function as it relates to social-emotional
modulation
- Nature of mental time-travel and future prospection in the context of
goal attainment
to serve the needs of the future-self and connecting the
emotional
gap between the current and future-self in differentiated
contexts
(Hot vs. Cool Executive Function, Cognitive Load and Affective
Coloring)
- Development of
a
training plan and a case study and discussion regarding transfer and
generalization
of skills
- Evidence-based strategies and M-E-T-A™ (Mindful Examination of
Thinking
and
Awareness) intervention approach
- Discussion and Q&A
Presenter
Information
Sucheta
Kamath, MA, CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS, is the founder and CEO of
ExQ®, a TEDx speaker, and an award-winning speech-language
pathologist. As an EdTech entrepreneur, Sucheta has created an innovative
online digital curriculum that assesses and teaches nine areas of Executive
Function skills in children from grades 6 to 12 to help cultivate
self-awareness and strategic thinking. In her weekly podcast, “Full
PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function,” she
interviews world-renowned experts across various fields including cognitive
neuroscience, developmental psychology, education, contemplative science, and
business leadership. She has produced more than 200 episodes and her audience
spans more than 150 countries. Sucheta serves on many nonprofit boards
including the Leadership Atlanta and the National Multi-Faith Initiative to End
Mass Incarceration (EMI) and is deeply committed to racial healing and
interfaith community dialogue. In addition, she co-founded a nonprofit called
the Georgia Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (GSHF) and has been instrumental
in creating and leading a cost-free “Leadership through
Communication” training program for Atlanta’s work-ready
displaced community. Finally, Sucheta has a more-than-decade-long meditation
practice and has completed a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification
Program from the Awareness Training Institute.
Financial
Disclosures:
- Financial compensation from ASHA
for this presentation
- Founder/Owner of the private
practice Cerebral Matters
- CEO of ExQ software
curriculum
Nonfinancial
Disclosures:
Assessment
Type
Self-assessment—Think
about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your
new
knowledge.
To earn
continuing education credit, you must complete and submit the learning
assessment by the end date below.
Program
History and CE
Information
Live
webinar date: November 7, 2023
End date: November 9, 2028
This course is offered for 0.2 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).
