Maureen Healy

Maureen Healy Speaking Topics

• Boosting Student Wellbeing: The Scientific Path to Strong Students

  Being able to systematically improve student well-being can support their development and ultimately, increase academic and pro-social outcomes. Science shows what negatively impacts well-being, as well as what can be done to improve well-being in ourselves, as well as our students and communities.

  Maureen Healy expertly threads the needle on what you need to know to improve well-being, especially in today’s anxious student population.

  Audience takeaways: 

  • Understand the science of student well-being.
  • Receive proven strategies to foster well-being in K-12 students in the school setting. Best practices shared (school and communitywide).
  • Specific pedagogical approaches that boost distinct types of student wellbeing (intellectual, emotional, social, physical) per data.
  • Understand the metrics to measure well-being of today’s students, especially in challenging and uncertain times.

  Engage with Maureen’s expertise helping schools nationwide boost wellbeing, which helps retain teachers and increase attendance.

• Helping Students Become Resilient in Uncertain Times

  Our students need to be strong from the inside out. They have challenges – whether academic or social, which will need to be faced and with support they can learn to develop a resilient mindset and habit of inner strength that with time can make them unbreakable.

  Audience takeaways:

  • Understand the big picture of childhood resilience from a scientific perspective – as well as the signs of vulnerability.
  • Deepen your expertise with creating, repairing and maintaining resilience in your classroom and/or community.
  • Engage with the best practices of resilience-building schools and communities to inspire you.
  • Become familiar with resilience-building technology, which can be helpful.
  • Connect the dots between resilience, achievement and wellbeing.

• Deeply Feeling Kids: Helping Children Make Smart Choices

  Children can have oversized feelings and reactions, which can disrupt a classroom or home. They don’t yet understand how to handle such big feelings and as such can throw notebooks in the classroom, slam doors at home, or push someone on the playground when a smarter choice was available.

  Key Takeaways:

  • Understand the 7 essential ideas children need to learn to begin managing their emotions better.
  • Add to your “adaptive toolkit” new strategies that help deeply feeling kids calm, center and make better choices with their intense emotions.
  • Learn whole brain approaches that build emotional regulation and reduce reactivity, which feel better for everyone – and produce positive results.
  • Get inspired by best practices to teach emotional regulation for a whole wide variety of students, which include neurodivergence, among others.

• The Emotionally Healthy Child: Helping Students Become Strong Inside

  Understanding children’s emotional health and how to help children build emotional regulation and awareness is the focus of this program. Participants gain a completely fresh perspective, and tools to nurture emotional health in themselves, as well as their students and families.

  Audience takeaways: 

  • Clear definition of children’s emotional health.
  • Receive the “7 Essential Lessons” of how emotions work.
  • Science-based techniques that build emotional awareness, and self- regulation (for home or classroom). Different emotions like anger and sadness are considered, as well as strategies in effectively managing them at distinct stages. Latest in emotional and social development shared.
  • Scripts, activities and technologies that can support a child’s ability to express their emotions constructively are shared.

  An understanding of the “big picture” of emotional health and how it interconnects with resilience, wellbeing and student advancement.

• Helping Children Become Happier

  Our world has become increasingly stressed, uncertain and unhappy for people, including many children. Being able to step back and plant the proven seeds of happier life experiences in children not only helps them today, but guides them with agency on how to create happier life experiences in whatever situation they’re presented with. They can learn to bounce back from life’s difficulties and become happier step-by-step.

  Audience takeaways:

  • Ideas and science-backed activities to foster happier life experiences.
  • Insight into the practical wisdom that helps preschool, elementary, middle and high school students develop the mindset, as well as the habits that produce happier life experiences.
  • Clear interventions for students who present pessimistically the majority of the time, as well as perfectionistic and anxious students, as examples.
  • A fresh perspective on how to integrate happiness and resilience lessons into any classroom, as well as a sample semester of happiness courses based on the latest science of childhood happiness.