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Upon completion, you will have a 1-hour, a 2-hour and a 4-hour training module to share with your colleagues.

Learn to deliver an overview of the science of Positive Education and how to begin infusing the science to help students and staff towards greater well-being.

• Differentiate Positive Psychology from conventional Psychology
• Explore the wellbeing continuum and what it means for the classroom
• Understand that Positive Education is a rigorous evidence-based approach
  Identify a simplified approach to building emotional intelligence
• Define the 6 pathways (PERMA-V) to flourishing
• Get multiple tools to use in the classroom from each of the 6 pathways to well-being
• Experience basic resilience and happiness-promoting activities for personal and classroom use
• Understand how to leverage the power of emotions in the classroom
• Identify the mechanisms by which we can undo stress in real-time
• Uncover how to build mindfulness, peak performance states within people
• Identify how to deepen the quality of relationships
• Learn and practice movements for shifting cognitive states in real-time

Upon completion, you will have a 1-hour, a 2-hour and a 4-hour training module to share with your colleagues.

Learn to deliver an overview of the science of resilience. Learn to teach others to spot the signs of distress and how to manage stress within themselves and help their students do the same.

• Spot lack of resiliency in youth and adults
• Understand how adversity is both inevitable and a necessity for success
• Redirect stress before it becomes distress
• Learn a concrete process for teaching emotional intelligence and emotional regulation
• Share 3 simple approaches for training resilience in real-time
• A simple strategy for staying curious and open when triggered instead of stuck and victimized.
• Basic physical moves for down-regulating the stress response to use on oneself and others
• Utilize a simple cognitive strategy for stress management
• Work with practical reframes for judging judgments which would otherwise lead to overwhelm
• Uncover “cognitive distortions” and a simplified way of helping children navigate them
• Share simple approaches for working with doubts, worries, fears, panic and anxiety.

Upon completion, you will have a 1-hour, a 2-hour and a 4-hour training module to share with your colleagues.

Learn to deliver an overview of the science of mindset: where it comes from and how to shape it.

• Teach practical, ready-to-apply strategies for helping children view failure as feedback, value effort and persist in the face of setbacks.
• What beliefs are, where they come from & how they are shaped
• Share key research findings on the differences between fixed and growth mindset
• Share how to spot harmful beliefs and mindsets in oneself and children
• Learn to praise and offer constructive criticism to children in a way that maintains motivation to learn
• Explore how to help children value effort as a pathway to mastery
• Learn how mindsets impact social comparison and perfectionism
• Understand how mindset relates to children’s behavior when facing challenges and setbacks
• Learn to teach children about self-fulfilling prophecies to prevent self-sabotaging behavior
• Uncover the mindset continuum and the nuances of how mindsets change over time
• Explore basic neurological principles for helping kids adopt a growth mindset
• Learn simple “talk back statements” to redirect pessimistic mind chatter
• Identify how to sustain curiosity in students

Upon completion, you will have a 1-hour, a 2-hour and a 4-hour training module to share with your colleagues.

Learn to deliver an overview of the 24 strengths of character and how to help children know, show and grow their strengths.

• Demonstrate how to have strengths-based conversations, embed strengths into curricula, and implement activities into the classroom.
• Understand the origins of a strengths-based approach
• Differentiate strengths from traits, talents and skills
• Explore the “strengths mindset” and how to hold it while working with children
• Understand the role strengths play in overcoming challenges
• Teach over a dozen, ready-to-use strengths activities
• Understand each of the 24 character strengths in depth
• Identify a buildable skill and tool for each character strength
• Explore basic strengths research in the classroom
• Learn to build strength in balance
• Perceive typically thought of weakness, disobedience and delinquency through the lens of strength
• Recognize how to track and build character strength development
• Plan for character strengths integration into the curriculum