Educators, caregivers, and community members: Join us for this 5-session series of live, interactive webinars that will focus on your self-care through the lens of CASEL’s five SEL competencies.
Neuroscience of Stress for Parents
In this 45-minute interactive session, parents/caregivers will learn about the neuroscience of stress and the critical healing factors. They will engage in strategies to support the reciprocity of wellbeing, having an awareness of stressors, and practicing simple strategies to be more responsive.
Family Brain Breaks
In this 45-minute interactive family session, families will engage in calming as well as energizing activities. Dress comfortably and join us with our kids. Together, we will learn to breathe, move, and rest. Appropriate for PreK – 8th grade children & their parents.
Planning for the Return: Become an Emotion Scientist
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, as he shares how we can all be compassionate emotion scientists in these challenging times. Read his latest articles.
Family Brain Breaks Series: Play Time & Down Time
In this series, experience Brain Breaks as a family. Thirty minutes of interactive Breathe, Move, Rest strategies will be provided for your family.
Stress Management for High School Students
In this 30-minute interactive session, we will share the neuroscience of stress and its impact on the body. You will learn simple strategies to alleviate stress through breath, movement & rest.
Family Brain Breaks Series: Connecting Time
In this series, experience Brain Breaks as a family. Thirty minutes of interactive Breathe, Move, Rest strategies will be provided for your family.
Family Brain Breaks Series: Focus Time
In this series, experience Brain Breaks as a family. Thirty minutes of interactive Breathe, Move, Rest strategies will be provided for your family.
Heart, Mind & Body: Understanding Grief and Adaptation to COVID Loss
The current pandemic is taking a large toll in human lives. Dr. Shear will provide a model for understanding grief and adaptation to loss, discuss the unique challenges to adaption posed by a Covid-19 loss, and suggest ways to promote adaptation.
Dr. M. Katherine Shear is the Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry and the founding Director of the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia School of Social Work. Dr. Shear is a clinical researcher who first worked in anxiety and depression. For the last two decades she has focused on understanding and treating people who experience persistent intense grief. She developed and tested complicated grief therapy (CGT), a short-term targeted intervention and confirmed its efficacy in three large NIMH-funded studies. CGT is strength-based and focused on fostering adaptation to loss. Dr. Shear is widely recognized for her work in bereavement, including both research and clinical awards from the Association for Death Education and Counseling and invited authorship of articles for https://www.uptodate.com/home and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Heart, Mind & Body: The Impact of Stress & Ways to Build Resilience
Join us for a live webinar with Goldie Hawn. She is an Academy Award winning actress, producer, director, best-selling author and true children’s advocate. She is also the Founder of The Goldie Hawn Foundation. Working with leading neuroscientists, educators, psychologists and researchers, the Foundation developed MindUP ™ an evidence-based curriculum and teaching model for grades K-12 that provide tools to help children self-regulate and understand their own emotions, moods and behaviors; reduce stress and anxiety; sharpen concentration; increase empathy; and improve academic performance.
Family Brain Breaks Series: Physical Time
In this series, experience Brain Breaks as a family. Thirty minutes of interactive Breathe, Move, Rest strategies will be provided for your family.
Heart, Mind & Body: Maintaining Mental & Physical Balance
Join Justin Tuck, husband, father, 2x NFL Super Bowl champion, philanthropist, entrepreneur, children’s book author, VP Private Equity at Goldman Sachs & Pure Edge, Inc. board director for a live uplifting session, followed by a Q&A.
Family Brain Breaks Series: Sleep
In this series, experience Brain Breaks as a family. This session will focus on the interactive nature of Breathe, Move, Rest to enhance sleep.
Family Brain Breaks Series: Time In
In this series, experience Brain Breaks as a family. The first session focuses on “Time In.”
