Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model: Regulate, Relate, Reason

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hi i'm john richardson-love director of

mental health and lead trauma and

resilience educator here at child savers

i want to share with you a way to think

about our brains and understand our

brains particularly when they're going

through times of stress and sometimes

trauma too this comes from bruce perry

who's a physician who has written a

number of different books most recently

with oprah winfrey the book called what

happened to you he also created

something called the neurosequential

model of therapeutics that sounds pretty

fancy but in the nmt model he created

this idea that helped us understand how

our brain functions brain states and if

we don't understand people's brain state

it's hard to understand how we can

interact with them and help them be

successful the first and most basic

fundamental brain state that people have

is their need to real to regulate and

our regulating need is regulating our

survival response when someone's not

well regulated in this basic fundamental

brain state they're going to be in their

survival response that might be their

fight their flight their freeze that

kind of of basic animalistic response to

the world around them because it's

focused on survival and if i don't feel

safe if i'm not well regulated then i'm

going to have a hard time being

successful and doing anything else once

we help people be well regulated we need

to help them feel related to feel

connected with the world with other

individuals so that they don't feel

alone in the world because when

somebody's not related someone is not

connected to other people oftentimes bad

things happen and then the third brain

state and the highest level of brain

state is reasoning and that reason is

our ability to reason to learn to

process to think to plan to

operationalize to regulate and

self-regulate all those kind of skills

that we really need in that reasoning

state and that reasoning brain state is

where we want people to be 90 if not 100

of their lives but sometimes they're not

we understand these brain states we can

understand how we can support them

because when someone is in this need for

regulation then i'm going to approach

that individual with helping them

regulate which might be about play it

might be about movement it might be

about music it might be about giving

them food and rest it might be about

just giving them time to to be peaceful

a peaceful quiet space and we need to

understand that because if someone's in

that need for regulating then i'm not

going to be able to help them and

connect with them in a relationship if

they are well regulated then i can work

on that reasoning brain state and when

we're working in the reasoning brain say

that's when i can use my body language

my voice tone my empathy my compassion

um the words that i have and my

relationship in general to help them

understand that they're not alone in the

world to help them feel connected and

it's only after they feel safe and they

feel connected that we can be in that

highest level of brain state that

learning brain state that

reasoning brain state so that we can

help people to do all those things that

they need to do once they're there

they're golden and we want to help keep

them there and maintain their presence

there understanding people's brain

states is essential to this

interpersonal communication to helping

anyone whether adult or child to be

successful in the world and to have good

positive interventions with them and

remember behavior communicates the brain

state i hope this helps you understand

the people around you that you serve

that you work with particularly the

children in your lives as we help them

walk through those critical moments

and we have the gift to be in being able

to spend time with them and help them be

successful thanks for listening

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