Services For Schools

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Services for Schools

Schools today face the task of providing a community of care against an increasingly fraught cultural backdrop. I offer strategies and practices that can help your faculty and your students meet this moment with programming built by and for educators.

🗓 BOOKING & FEE SCHEDULE:

My minimum engagement for in-person school visits is generally one full day of programming or multiple consecutive half days. For virtual programming, shorter stand-alone workshops may be an option. All programs are custom-designed based on your school’s needs and are priced accordingly.

Program Growth & Design

One-off experiences don’t change school culture. Let’s spend time and energy on a deliberate plan to help ensure that our work leads to a lasting shift.

Program Audit and Strategic Planning

I can help you align with best practices in the field and maximize the potential of your school’s programs. I take a strengths-based approach, looking to build on what’s going well rather than bulldozing it.

Programs we can strengthen together include:

Advisory
Student Support
Mindfulness
Real-World, Experiential, or Project-Based Learning
Student Leadership & Student Stewardship
Student Life & Co-Curricular Programs
Professional Development & Meetings Structure

Whole School Implementation for Mindfulness & Resilience Programs

For schools ready to invest more deeply in a culture shift, I offer a long-term relationship to develop a school-wide or district-wide program in mindfulness or positive education. This means focusing on educator wellbeing first, and then considering student wellbeing programs. We work together to ensure a smooth rollout and delivery that moves at the pace of trust.

Effective programs need to develop organically over time to be sustainable, so schools and districts interested in system-wide initiatives should plan a minimum of 3 years’ investment in the process.

Read about my approach to integrative school change here…

Workshops & Speaking

Workshops are custom-designed to meet your individual needs and will always include an audience-appropriate experiential component as well as time for sharing and integration. (I do not believe in lecture-only presentations!)

For Educators

In order to create a sustainable culture of wellbeing, it is important that educators have time to learn and to practice resilience practices before they are asked to share them with students. Read more about my educator-first approach here.

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Adult Wellbeing

“Too Much, Too Fast, Too Soon”: Working with Overwhelm & Burnout
Centering Educator Wellbeing: Cultivating Mental Health Protective Factors
Post Traumatic Growth: When Do the Most Difficult Events Make Us Stronger?
(Re)Connecting to Your Sense of Meaning & Purpose

Student Wellbeing

Fostering Student Resilience: Incorporating Mental Health Protective Factors in the Classroom
A Non-Clinician’s Guide to Working with Stress & Anxiety in Young People
Beyond Calm: Supporting Students in Crisis

Relationships & Relational Infrastructure

Holding Space: Skills for Supportive Listening & Presence
Difficult Conversations: Mindful Communication for Navigating Conflict
Getting Unstuck in Advisory: Practices for Meaningful Engagement
Unlocking The Power of Relational Agreements

Skillful Teaching

Nervous System Practices for a Trauma-Informed Classroom Practices
City as Classroom: Real World Learning
Teaching Attention in an Age of Distraction
What’s Going Well?: Strengths-Based Teaching & Feedback Processes

Fostering Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging

“Just Like Me”: A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Implicit Bias
Supporting LGBQIA+ Students
The Somatics of Bias: Practices for Tolerating the Discomfort of Equity Work (*generally for white-identified audiences)

Workshops for Teams

Starting Off Right: Setting Team Norms, Agreements, and Needs
What’s Our Conflict Style? Tools for Skillful Disagreement and Generative Conflict
Working Productively Together: Creating Supportive Structures for Busy Teams
Honoring Closure: Celebrating, Appreciating, and Laying Down Our Work Together

For School Leaders

It is an extremely challenging time to be an administrator. Support your leadership team with dedicated time to consider their own wellbeing, as well as skillful ways to model and care for others.

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Administrator Wellbeing

“No Really, How Are You?”: Taking Time for Ourselves as School Leaders
Getting Clear: Reflection & Intention Setting (end-of-year or start-of-year)
Setting Healthy Boundaries: How Not to Take It All Home with You

Supporting Systemic Wellbeing

Fostering Resilient Learning Spaces: Incorporating Mental Health Protective Factors across the Curriculum and Beyond
Supporting Overwhelmed Nervous Systems in Overwhelmed School Systems
We’re Doing This Together: Creating a Culture of Community Care
A Non-Clinician’s Guide to Supporting Those with Stress & Anxiety

Relationships & Relational Infrastructure

Holding Space: Skills for Supportive Listening & Presence
Difficult Conversations: Mindful Communication for Navigating Conflict
We Can Work Well Together: Supporting Struggling Teams

Workshops for Teams

Starting Off Right: Setting Team Norms, Agreements, and Needs
What’s Our Conflict Style? Tools for Skillful Disagreement and Generative Conflict
Working Productively Together: Creating Supportive Structures for Busy Teams
Honoring Closure: Celebrating, Appreciating, and Laying Down Our Work Together

For Parents

An involved and engaged parent body is an important component in the growth of a culture of wellbeing. Many schools choose to add an event for parents to a campus visit to help align home and school cultures.

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Program rationale: “The Science of Resilience and the Importance of Resilience Education”
Parent burnout, stress, exhaustion: “Putting on Your Own Oxygen Mask First: Care for the Caregiver”
Attention (including online distractions and ADHD): “Raising Children in an Age of Distraction”
Strengths-based parenting: “Moving Away from Deficits: How a Focus on Your Child’s Strengths Can Change Everything”
Raising resilient children: “Learn to Fail or Fail to Learn: What We Can Do to Help Our Children Develop Resilience”
Transitions (for parents of incoming 9th graders, outgoing 12th graders): “Let Me Go but Hold Me Close: A Parent’s Guide to Changing Needs & Relationships”
The emotional toll of the admissions process: “The Wellbeing Outcome: Navigating the Admissions Process without Losing Sight of What Really Matters”

For Students

In order to best support students, I ask that schools:

consider a format and venue that will allow the workshop to be experiential and active, including practice, movement, and discussion.
schedule time for me to work with faculty first, so that they get direct experience with the same practices we’re sharing with students. Read more about my educator-first approach here.

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Building a Resilience Toolbox

Cultivating Mental Health Protective Factors
Cultivating Distress Tolerance & Working with Overwhelm
Cultivating Self- & Community Care Routines
Cultivating Self-Compassion

Mindfulness

“Just Like Me”: A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Implicit Bias
Beyond Calm: Welcoming the Present Moment
Paying Attention in an Age of Distraction
Savoring: Helping Your Nervous System Find What Isn’t Awful

Equity & School Culture-Keeping

“I’m Still Learning about ____”: Working with Implicit Bias
The School Leader’s Toolbox
Impact vs. Intent: Tools for Addressing Harm
Storytelling for Change & Growth

Groups & 1:1 Coaching

One-On-One Resilience Coaching

The demands placed on educators at this moment can be extremely intense. One-on-one sessions allow educators the time and space to support their own needs so they can show up more fully for their students and colleagues as well. Some areas of support include:

navigating overwhelm and burnout,
managing difficult relationships or classroom dynamics,
establishing routines for mental & physical wellbeing,
connecting to what brings joy and purpose.

Administrative & Leadership Coaching

Leading resilience initiatives can be a real paradigm shift. I support your leadership team in managing their own resilience and overwhelm, navigating challenging relationship dynamics, as well as thought partnership on ways to integrate resilience practices into meetings, messaging, and their day-to-day work.

Instructional Coaching & Observation

Many schools don’t have someone on staff trained to offer feedback in resilience practices. I offer a growth-oriented feedback process that supports educators to safely and skillfully offer trauma-sensitive lessons in mindfulness and other resilience practices to students.

Communities of Practice & Professional Learning Communities

Many educators are starved for connection. Ongoing small groups focus on integrating and sustaining change with the support of peers and are an important way to support participants’ personal wellbeing and teaching practice.

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