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CHC SBHC Behavioral Health Kick-Off 2026: Keynote Session
Session Information
The Power of a Playful Mindset
Steve's goal is to inspire others to embrace a more playful mindset — one that elevates joy, connection, engagement, and empowerment in the workplace. He reminds leaders that these are not only the four key ingredients of play, but also the four most powerful levers for building stronger, healthier organizations, especially in times of uncertainty and challenge.
Speaker Information
Steve Gross applies the lessons learned during his 30+ years of international trauma-response work to help organizations strengthen resilience and cultivate thriving teams and cultures. A clinical social worker by training, Steve has dedicated his career to teaching others how to build healing, transformative relationships with children facing overwhelming adversity.
Steve has earned global recognition for pioneering innovative, play-based trauma interventions in countries such as Haiti, Ukraine, Rwanda, Turkey, Denmark, Japan, the United States, and more. His work is featured as an example of how play can help children heal from trauma in the longtime #1 New York Times bestseller The Body Keeps the Score.
Conference Schedule
Keynote Session
9:00-10:45AM
- Steve Gross, MSW: The Power of a Playful Mindset
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Available Credit
- 1.75 ACE/ASWBThrough Joint Accreditation Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) credit to social workers at its activities.
- 1.75 APAThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Psychological Association (APA) credit to psychologists at its activities.
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