Social-Emotional Learning from the Inside Out
Teaching Kids Interoceptive Awareness Skills Through Play Therapy to Build Insight, Empathy, and Compassion
- Speaker:
- Daniel J. Siegel, MD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 30 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Jun 03, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150715
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Join Dr. Daniel J. Siegel, world-renowned neuropsychiatrist, for this 90 minute training session where he breaks down the neuroscience of interoceptive awareness – the gateway for insight, empathy, compassion, and self-regulation cultivated in play therapy.
Drawing from his social-emotional learning framework, NowMaps, Dr. Siegel shares concrete play-based tools for teaching kids and tweens to:
- Create space between impulse and action through imaginative play
- Observe their inner experience using play therapy activities that make feelings visible and tangible
- Assess their internal state of being with sensory-rich games
- Direct their attention and energy in helpful ways through movement, storytelling, and creative expression
Credit
Speaker
Daniel J. Siegel, MD Related seminars and products
Mind Your Brain, Inc.
Dr. Dan Siegel is the founder and director of education of the Mindsight Institute and founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, where he was also co-principal investigator of the Center for Culture, Brain and Development and clinical professor of psychiatry at The School of Medicine.
An award-winning educator, Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and over fifteen other books which have been translated into over forty languages. As the founding editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology (“IPNB”), Dan has overseen the publication of over one hundred books in the transdisciplinary IPNB frame which focuses on the mind and mental health.
A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dan completed his postgraduate training at UCLA specializing in pediatrics, and adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry. He was trained in attachment research and narrative analysis through a National Institute of Mental Health research training fellowship focusing on how relationships shape our autobiographical ways of making sense of our lives and influence our development across the lifespan.
Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Dr. Dan Siegel serves as the Medical Director at the Lifespan Learning Institute and is the Co-Founder and Director of Education at the Mindsight Institute. He is also the founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. Dr. Siegel receives royalties as a published author and serves as a scientific advisor for the Inner Development Goals initiative and as an advisor for the Center for Child Well-Being. Additionally, he receives honoraria and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Siegel has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Dan Siegel is an honorary member of the Austrian Federal Association for Mindfulness. He also serves on the Board of the Garrison Institute and as an advisory board member for both Gloo and Convergence.
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Objectives
- Differentiate the two basic components of the mind as a regulatory process using play-based strategies to illustrate monitoring and modulating functions.
- Appraise how neuroplasticity enables the brain to mediate insight and empathy through creative play therapy that builds new neural connections.
- Determine the connection between interoception and regulation by applying sensory play and movement activities to link body signals with emotional control.
Outline
- What is interoceptive awareness?
- The brain’s role in developing insight, empathy, compassion, and self-regulation through experiential play, symbolic expression, and safe emotional exploration
- The relationship between interoception and regulation through play
- Supporting kids and tweens in their SEL development through play therapy
- Risks and Limitations
Target Audience
- Play Therapists
- Child Therapists
- Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Physicians
- Nurses
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