The Think Sensory Summit · Season 1 · Part 1
Conscious Discipline: What to Do When Kids Hit, Run, or Meltdown
Presented by Mr. Chazz Lewis
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- 52:53
When a child hits, bites, runs away, or screams "you're not invited to my birthday party," what's actually happening in their brain? In this session, Mr. Chazz breaks down the three brain states - survival, emotional, and executive - and explains why understanding them changes everything about how we respond to challenging behaviors.
Drawing from Conscious Discipline and his daily experience teaching mixed-age groups in Brooklyn, Mr. Chazz walks through exactly what to say and do when big behaviors happen. He explains why fawn (the people-pleasing survival response) isn't the win adults think it is, why punishment keeps kids stuck in lower brain states where learning can't happen, and how to create the felt safety and connection children need before any teaching can stick.
This session offers practical scripts and strategies: how to approach a child who just hit without "coming at them hot," language that helps kids feel understood, and how to teach skills like asking for a turn before conflict happens. Most importantly, Mr. Chazz reminds us to Q-TIP (Quit Taking It Personally) - because these behaviors aren't about us, they're about how the brain works.
Mr. Chazz Lewis
Mr. Chazz Lewis is an educator, speaker, and leader with a massive online, where he shares Conscious Discipline strategies and a more compassionate approach to teaching kids skills. What started as needing a job turned into a passion for igniting curiosity and possibility in children - and a realization that he'd have to buck a lot of systems and do his own learning and reimagining to make it happen. He holds a master's degree in executive leadership from American University and has spent years using his classrooms as living laboratories, developing a more conscious, joyful, and dignity-driven approach to learning. His philosophy has found relevance far beyond the classroom - from parenting to personal development to organizational leadership. Mr. Chazz currently serves as lead teacher and head of education at Birdhouse, a micro center in Brooklyn, New York, where he works daily with mixed-age groups putting these strategies into practice.
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