In the last few months of the school year spring fever can feel as contagious as the flu! Having taught for 30 years, Kathy is well versed in the challenges of sustaining the excitement you had for teaching when the school year began. During this 60-minute interactive event, Kathy will explore the neurology of stress, burnout and distraction and deliver simple solutions to strengthen the internal capacities that help us build more resilience, increase happiness and create a sense of calm in our minds and our classrooms! Teachers will walk away from this workshop feeling revived with a handful of turn-key strategies, not simply to survive the spring, but to make it a productive and enjoyable conclusion to the school year. 

Teachers will:

• Explore how stress and chaos impacts teaching and learning
• Understand how we integrate simple mindful rituals to teach more effectively
• Acquire skills to calm our mind on demand (and help our students do the same)
• Utilize tools that can boost positivity for ourselves and our students
• Introduce simple mindfulness routines to enhance our well-being and overall school culture

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This interactive workshop presents micro-mindfulness games and practices that can be used in the classroom to stimulate the prefrontal cortex of the brain.

The tools and strategies Kathy presents, help students develop attention, impulse control, problem-solving, and forward thinking. They also teach students emotional regulation skills, allowing them to approach learning in a peaceful state of mind.

In addition, the practices help teachers to build personal resilience, decrease stress, reduce burnout, and enhance their own well-being.  

Teachers will:

• Develop an understanding of how stress and anxiety impact the brain and student’s ability to learn
• Understand how and why the practice of mindfulness works from a brain-based perspective
• Experience micro-mindfulness practices to bring into their current work with children
• Be provided with guidelines for grade and ability level adaptations
• Walk away with a toolbox of activities that they can integrate into their classroom immediately

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The Survive to Thrive workshop introduces high school teachers to micro-mindfulness skills that can be used personally as well as in the classroom to help manage stress and anxiety as well as create an environment and internal brain state that is most conducive to teaching and learning. Teachers will experience simple practices that not only benefit their students but help them to manage stress, reduce burnout, and enhance their own well-being.

Discussion Points:

• Stress: A brain-based discussion about how stress affects teachers and students. The pace and stimulation of life today has the brains of many children and adults operating in a constant state of fight or flight. We will discuss how this impacts students and provide tools for recalibrating the stress response in the brain.
• Mindfulness:  Mindfulness practices stimulate the prefrontal cortex of the brain. When we practice mindfulness regularly we feel happier, healthier, calmer, less anxious, less stressed, and it is easier for us to concentrate and think clearly. We will discuss why and how mindfulness helps students develop attention, emotional regulation, empathy, and decreases anxiety.  We will also discuss how we as educators can benefit from practicing with our students.
• A Toolbox:  Faculty will walk away with a toolbox of activities that they can integrate into their classroom immediately.

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For parents, grandparents, and caregivers, this is a brain-based discussion on ways to adapt to and create strategies for the high stress, fast-paced, and media saturated environment that our children are growing up in.  

Discussion Points:

• The Science of the Brain: We examine how the brain reacts to everyday stressors in adults as well as children and how this reaction can influence attention, behavior, mood, and learning.
• Hidden Stressors: From the way we schedule our kids’ days to the effects of a media-driven society, we examine how our decisions as parents can increase and/or reduce the amount of stress in our kids’ lives.
• Solutions: Practical, easy to implement solutions are offered to restore a sense of calm in the lives we lead.  From morning routines to dinner table conversations and bedtime strategies, parents leave with a plethora of strategies to take back to their homes.

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Parenting teens is no small task, especially in the midst of an adolescent mental health crisis. Parents and kids alike struggle to foster a peaceful state of mind when faced with the demands of modern society. This workshop includes a brief overview of the neuroscience of stress, and then provides parents with practical tools and strategies for families to manage anxiety, enhance connections, and become more resilient to the stress in their lives.

Discussion Points:

• The Neuroscience of Stress: The stress response in the brain, how it affects all of us, and ways we can help our kids learn to self-regulate
• Put on Your Oxygen Mask First: How we, as parents, influence the stress level in the house and tools to make our lives calmer
• Praise: How the way we praise our kids may contribute to anxiety and perfectionism AND ways to praise kids so they will persist in the face of adversity
• Family Routines & Rituals: How to create simple routines and rituals that foster positive family engagement, reduce perfectionism, and build resilience.

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