Understanding children’s emotional health and how to help children build emotional regulation and awareness is the focus of this program. Participants gain a completely fresh perspective, and tools to nurture emotional health in themselves, as well as their students and families.

Audience takeaways:

• Clear definition of children’s emotional health.
• Receive the “7 Essential Lessons” of how emotions work.
• Science-based techniques that build emotional awareness, and self-regulation (for home or classroom). Different emotions like anger and sadness are considered, as well as strategies in effectively handling them at different stages. Science of emotions discussed too.
• Scripts, activities and technologies that can support a child’s emotional development shared (preschool, elementary, middle and high school).
• An understanding of the “big picture” of emotional health and how it interconnects with resilience and happier life experiences.

Being able to systematically improve children’s well-being can support their development and ultimately, increase academic and pro-social outcomes. Science shows what negatively impacts well-being, as well as what can be done to improve well-being in ourselves, as well as our students and communities. Maureen expertly threads the needle on what you need to know to improve well-being, especially in today’s anxious and unpredictable world.

Audience takeaways:

• Understand the science of student and community well-being.
• Learn how to use stress and anxiety as fodder for well-being, especially in educational settings – and how to teach it to students.
• Become adept at seeing well-being in the world, and understand proven well-being strategies especially related to school and organizations. 
• Understand the metrics to measure well-being and what they show repeatedly across ages and stages.

Resilience is a skill that students can learn to develop regardless of their circumstances. Being able to understand the science of childhood resilience, as well as the ideas and skills that help students get unstuck from problems, as well as form a resilient mindset can be game changing.

Audience takeaways:

• Resilience and emotional health are learnable skills.
• Science of childhood resilience, and how to help children bounce back from small to sizable traumas.
• Cross-cultural awareness of resilience methodologies, and what proves successful around the world. Practical strategies shared.
• Best practices for teachers and schools to foster building, restoring and maintaining resilience in their community.

Helping today’s students lower their stress, and make smart choices in the face of pressure is important. Stress is a normal human experience, but toxic stress can have severe and negative impacts on child development and learning (academic achievement).

Invite Maureen to learn fresh ways to:

• Help students identify their stress and apply coping skills.
• Learn the latest coping skills (including technologically supported) that students like, and utilize successfully in elementary, middle and high school.
• Receive scripts that help adults check in with their children, and students in a non-threatening way. Skillful strategies shared.
• Understand the fine line between manageable stress, and a child (or student) who needs professional assistance.

Maureen happily speaks to auditoriums of children, as well as educators who want to learn the latest stress reduction and anxiety busting tools.

Students have big emotions and oftentimes even bigger reactions! Being able to help them learn evidence-based tools to handle their challenging emotions, and stress is essential to them progressing academically and socially.

Invite Maureen Healy to engage and uplift your audience by providing:

• A clear picture of self-regulation strategies (by grade, K-12).
• Strategies of stress management for teachers.
• Clarity on how improved self-regulation is connected to resilience, emotional health, and happier life experiences.
• Added methodologies for conflict resolution, and responsible decision- making, especially in tricky situations.
• Resource list for teachers, learning professionals, and parents.
• Sample lessons available for self-regulation and emotional intelligence for ECE (early childhood education) and K-8 programming.