08/22/2026
Workshop Highlight: Liz Powers
Senses in Motion: Calming, Learning, and Growing Together
How can sensory experiences support children’s regulation, connection, and learning?
This workshop invites early childhood professionals into a practical conversation about how sensory experiences can help children manage stress, emotions, and behavior while creating calmer, more connected learning environments.
Participants will explore how early brain development influences children’s responses to stress and emotion. Then translate that knowledge into simple, low-cost sensory materials and routines that can be used right away. The workshop will also consider strategies for supporting children with disabilities, children impacted by trauma, children experiencing intense emotions, and children simply having a hard day.
Grounded in Learning Stories, the session will explore how documenting sensory experiences can reframe behavior as communication, highlight children’s strengths, and deepen belonging. Educators will practice capturing moments of regulation, resilience, and growth so that children and families can see narratives of capability and resistance rather than deficit.
✨ Registration is OPEN!
Join us at the 9th National Learning Stories Conference for practical strategies, meaningful conversations, and opportunities to explore our theme, Telling Our Way Forward: Learning Stories of Belonging and Resistance.
👉 Register today: https://www.salsa-global.org/conference-registration
