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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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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.

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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). Some core concepts include:

  • 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 covered such as: Technology addiction, college admissions pressure, social media, cyber-bullying, and fear of school shootings.

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Science of Happier Children

As your keynote speaker, Maureen will leave your audiences inspired and informed on the “how” of happiness, which is especially relative to today’s children and teens. She shares the latest scientific findings, and simple yet powerful steps that you can take home and put into action today. Specifically, Maureen explores the “Top 5” scientifically proven aspects to bolstering the happiness of your children or students.

You will learn:

  • Real-life strategies you can do today to help your son or daughter develop the skill of happiness
  • Gain insight into where things are going really well, and what opportunities exist to further bolster our children’s sense of well-being
  • Last but not least, speaker Maureen covers the how of transforming challenges, disappointment, rejection and failures as necessary steps toward your children’s happier life experiences

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Making Smarter Choices in Middle and High School

Middle and high school students are in a time of rapid change, as well as development. Helping today’s adolescence make good decisions is especially  important, which includes:

  • Understanding the science of brain development in middle and high school students
  • Learning real-life strategies to gain trust (build a “trust fund”) and foster connection
  • Becoming knowledgeable about today’s youth vocabulary (what they really say),and how to positively impact their choices, especially on “big” issues.
  • Complex topics include: Cheating, vaping (or other addictions), video games, peer pressure, anxiety, fear of school shooting, social media and technology.

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Well-being Centered Schools

Become inspired by today’s leading-edge educational centers, which focus on well- being alongside academic achievement and learn how you can join the pack!

  • Schools throughout the United States (and world) are refocusing their efforts on nurturing student well-being along with academic achievement.
  • Well-being centered schools do 5 things differently, which revealed a commitment to nurturing the “whole” child and has produced higher academic outcomes and measured pro-social behaviors.
  • With her engaging style, Maureen also covers the latest scientific findings on violence prevention, bullying, and at-risk student populations so more schools can become centers of well-being.

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Emotional Balance: The Whole Brain Approach

Emotional health is the skill of balance. Maureen inspires audiences by sharing how the whole brain approach facilitates emotional health, and intelligence in today’s children.

  • Children who learn to make decisions from a whole brain approach make better choices, especially regarding their emotional well-being.
  • Maureen shares how to help creative (right brain) children bring their logic (left brain) online sooner, and vice versa.
  • Boys and girls (and us adults too!) who can make integrated choices (right and left brain) can learn to find emotional balance, reset themselves, and make choices from a calmer place.
  • Understanding the science of emotional balance and learning new strategies to help your children develop those much-needed skills sets them up for positive life experiences.

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"We are so happy. I'm getting lots of emails from parents and people in the community that loved your talk! You really did a great job and I'm so glad we brought you to speak at our Early Childhood Education Symposium."

Kelley Schiess, Assistant Head

The Summit Country Day School

"Maureen was a wonderful speaker. She gave our audience research and real-life strategies to help today's children become more resilient and emotionally intelligent. I recommend her without reservation!"

Dean of Garden Street Academy

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