Maureen Healy

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Educator and author on raising emotionally healthier and happier children with insights from her best-selling book

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"The event was a success! We had over 400 parents, gave away over 300 books, and Maureen stayed to sign all of them. Our parents loved her."

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Keynote speaker, educator, and award-winning author of The Emotionally Healthy Child, Maureen Healy speaks to educators and parents alike about how to raise emotionally healthy and ultimately, happier children in today’s world. She holds a bachelor's and an MBA from Clark University and completed her Ph.D. coursework in child clinical psychology from Fielding Graduate University. Additionally, Maureen has authored a social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum for K-8 students, which has been implemented in several independent schools around the world.

Why book speaker Maureen Healy?

She is an accomplished educator. Maureen co-founded the “World Happiness Summit” for parents, teachers and professionals wanting to know the how of children’s emotional health. She writes a popular blog for Psychology Today, which has reached millions worldwide, and her first book, Growing Happy Kids, won the Nautilus and Reader’s Favorite book awards.
She brings international international insights. As a keynote speaker, Maureen brings a wealth of unique experiences from her global background in teaching and counseling children on the how of becoming emotionally healthy. While living at the base of the Himalayas, she taught Tibetan refugee children and continued on across Asia, Europe and the Americas helping children and adults gain a fresh perspective and positive strategies on happiness.
She can teach you the path to emotional happiness, and that is her ultimate goal as your keynote speaker. Maureen has globally studied happiness with teachers round the world. The experience brought her joy and more ways than she could have imagined, and she brings those experiences and more as your keynote speaker. “Life is never boring,” says speaker Maureen, especially when you are equipped with the emotional tools she uses to listen and learn from every person you meet. Book her to begin your journey to happiness.

“I do what I do because I want to see more children grow up happier,” says keynote speaker Maureen Healy. An educator, award-winning author, and leader in the field of children’s emotional health, Maureen’s bestselling book, The Emotionally Healthy Child, gives adults the ideas they need to nurture positive emotional health in today’s children. The book also includes a preface from the His Holiness the Dalai Lama that reads, “I hope Maureen Healy’s book – The Emotionally Healthy Child – will contribute to a more wholesome education for future generations.”

Speaker Maureen’s previous book, Growing Happy Kids, focuses on cultivating confidence and notably won several awards.

Complementing Maureen’s practical experience, she is traditionally trained in the field of child development and positive psychology. She holds a bachelor’s and an MBA from Clark University and completed her Ph.D. coursework in child clinical psychology from Fielding Graduate University. Additionally, Maureen has authored a social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum for K-8 students, which has been implemented in several independent schools.

Her insight into how to help today’s children grow up healthier and happier is why audiences love her, and, as your keynote speaker, it is why you will love her, too.

See keynotes with Maureen Healy

Special virtual keynote by speaker Maureen Healy

The Emotionally Healthy Child: Mindset + Habits

Understanding children’s emotional health and how to help students move toward their well-being is the focus of this program. Participants gain science-based strategies to build resilience and positive emotional health in their students (and themselves).

Audience takeaways:

Emotional health is widely misunderstood.
When adults (parents, teachers, and professionals) learn the ideas and strategies of positive emotional health things get easier. (7 life-changing ideas shared)
Cultivating a mindset of emotional health is key for long-term health.
Explaining things to children – in age-appropriate ways, helps them grasp how emotions work, and what they can do with them (especially the tough ones!).
Emotional health is a precursor for happiness, and every adult (parent, teacher)wants their children to become happier.
Complex topics may be covered such as Technology addiction, college admissions pressure, social media, cyber-bullying, pandemic, and school shootings.

Special Virtual keynote by speaker Maureen Healy

Cultivating Calm during (and post) COVID-19

Creating calmness isn’t necessarily easy during a global health crisis, but it is possible. Maureen shares how students can learn emotional flexibility, and the tools needed to navigate the new educational normal in 2020 and beyond.

Audience takeaways:

How to employ science-based strategies to help students calm (and family members too!)
What to say in emotional moments when the “wheels come off the bus” with students
Understanding the science of emotional flexibility and how to help children learn it
Strategies to keep students connected and engaged even during online learning

Special Virtual keynote by speaker Maureen Healy

Post Pandemic Growth: The 4 Essential Takeaways for Every Students

Every student has the opportunity to build resilience and inner strength throughout this time. Of course, this isn’t necessarily easy, but with guidance from skilled teachers and parents – it is possible.

Audience takeaways:

5 Building Blocks of Resilience per scientifically backed research
What to say to students that are struggling emotionally, academically and socially at this time
The Bigger Picture of this Pandemic – What are the 4 essential life lessons that every student can learn and integrate into their lives building resilience.
How to identify at-risk students during the pandemic and strategies to help them (for example, lessen anxiety, stress, risky behaviors, harm)

Special Virtual keynote by speaker Maureen Healy

Helping Teachers Thrive in the New Educational Normal

Schools will never be the same. There is an upside and downside to this situation. Join Maureen and learn to see the upside in this new educational normal, and hone your skills needed for being able to teach in-person and remotely.

Audience takeaways:

Gain clarity on elementary, middle and high school responses for a new educational normal
Science-based strategies to keep students connected despite distance learning
Understand how to assess the risk of students with online learning (for example, anxiety, stress, suicide) and how to minimize risk
Tools to remain calm, centered and clear on the new normal can be a positive thing in this new world – how to remember this, and focus on this one.

Special Virtual keynote by speaker Maureen Healy

Emotional Health: 7 Science Based Strategies for Teachers and Parents

Emotional health is the skill of balance. Life throws people off balance, but learning how to regain your balance despite challenges is the work of emotional intelligence.

Audience takeaways:

Elementary, middle and high school students self-regulate, self-soothe and make responsible decisions even when emotionally charged. Maureen identifies for participants the stages of emotional development and what each stage needs.
What to say to students struggling emotionally, and shares her “list of phrases” that students positively respond to.
You as a teacher feel more “in control” of your educational program whether it is in the classroom, at-home (distance) or a new integrated model of education.