Maureen Healy

Maureen Healy Speaking Topics

• Boosting Well-Being: Planting the Seeds

  Meta-analyses show that schools with integrated well-being programs often see an 11 percentile point gain in academic achievement. So, well-being programs do help boost student mood, but also clearly contribute to improved learning outcomes. Invite Maureen Healy to understand the research backed and best practices of today’s well-being programs.

  Specifically, Maureen will customize her event but may cover:

  • Micro-habits of well-being in the school and classroom (embedded into curriculum)
  • Restorative practices that benefit K-5, Middle and High School Students
  • Character development (essential concepts to help children)
  • Brain Science and Digital Well-Being (“the dopamine loop”)

  Common myths of well-being programs may also be addressed such as the belief that they’re about feeling good all the time. Wrong! They may (and often do) have the side effect of boosting student and community mood, but they go much deeper including strengthening student belonging, self-regulation and identity, co-regulation with adults, school climate scores and smart use of technology including AI.

• Student Resilience: The Art & Science of Bouncing Back

  Students have challenges – whether academic or social, which will need to be faced and with support they can learn to develop a resilient mindset and strategies to strengthen and repair their resiliency when life throws obstacles at them.

  Audience takeaways:

  • Understand the big picture of childhood resilience from a scientific perspective – and what you can do.
  • Strategies shared to help teachers and parents build, strengthen and repair student resilience, especially in our high-tech world. (AI and technology discussed too).
  • Reframe resilience as a skill, which can be developed. It is not the result of great genes, but certain segments of the population tend to demonstrate higher resiliency – on average.
  • Connect the dots between resilience, emotional stability, well-being, and ultimately, flourishing.

  With deep awareness and understanding, Maureen Healy shares with educators, administrators, parents and professionals the how of building children’s resilience and inner strength in today’s noisy world.

• The Emotionally Healthy Child: Emotional Intelligence

  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, and a plethora of activities to use in K-8 classroom.
  • Science-backed tools that helped children foster emotional intelligence even in the toughest of times. Self-reflection scripts shared too.
  • Receive special training to build EQ in different populations, especially neurodivergent and special education students.

  Invite Maureen Healy to deepen your understanding on how to impart and nurture emotional and social intelligence with today’s students, especially in the age of AI, anxiety and distraction. No questions are off-limits, and Maureen happilyengages with all participants.

  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 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.
  • Micro-habits to integrate into your classroom or home that can bolster well-being.

  Invite Maureen Healy to deepen your understanding of the complexity and components of childhood happiness, as well as what we can do in the classroom or home, which can boost children’s well-being.