For Educators

We provide professional development and self-care strategies via adult Brain Breaks, trainings and webinars. We also offer ongoing support for our partner districts and organizations. Continuing ed unit opportunities available.

For Students

We provide a range of free classroom resources that include learner Brain Breaks, health & wellness curricula,  and Virtual PE. Our mission is to promote social, emotional, and academic development for all learners.

Webinar Language: English

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Culture of Care Summer Institute II

Please join us Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for a 12-session series. We know that balancing the needs of online instruction and planning for a return in the fall is challenging. This series will help you build knowledge to integrate self-care and social-emotional learning skills into your online and in-person classes. Every session is free and live.

7/27 Session 1: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) & Self-Care 
7/29 Session 2: Respond vs. React: Superpowers  
7/31 Session 3: Stress & Allostatic Load 
8/3 Session 4: The Neuroscience of Stress, Part 1
8/5 Session 5: The Neuroscience of Stress, Part 2 
8/7 Session 6: Neuroplasticity  
8/10 Session 7: Creating Healthy Habits 
8/12 Session 8: Taking in the Good 
8/14 Session 9: Six Critical Healing Factors  
8/17 Session 10: Building Belonging – Emotion & Cognition  
8/19 Session 11: Brain Breaks Implementation  
8/21 Session 12: Culture of Care Implementation 

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Culture of Care Mini-Series

Join us for this four-day mini-series that focuses on self-care and a culture of care that helps build resilience.

8/17:  Building Belonging: Start with Heart 
8/18:  SEL & Self-Care 
8/19:  Introduction to Brain Breaks 
8/20:  Implementing a Culture of Care 

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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.

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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.

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New Jersey Series for Educator Well-Being

Part 1: The Neuroscience of Stress & Educator Self-Care 
This one-hour, interactive session will explore the neuroscience of stress and its impact on the body. We will share how to develop resilience through the practice of simple strategies.

Part 2: Self-Care & SEL  
This one-hour, interactive session integrates self-care and the social-emotional learning competencies of self-awareness and self-management for adults. We will continue to focus on developing resilience through the practice of simple strategies.

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15-Day Self-Care Challenge (“Series”)

Join Gill McClean as we launch our Pure Community 15-Day Self-Care Challenge! The first 50 participants who complete all 15 days of self-care will receive a copy of the book Permission to Feel by Dr. Marc Brackett. We don’t want you to forget about you! We will engage in 5 simple strategies every day to help us build habits in community: Breathe, Move, Rest, Journaling & Attitude of Gratitude.

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MindUP: Building Bridges and Healthy Minds

This webinar will address the critical importance of our mental health, especially with the recent challenges of the global pandemic and racial injustices that have caused trauma amongst us all. Through a lens of equity, we will explore various ways to build bridges across differences, while also building and fostering healthy minds.

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Train the Trainer to Integrate a Culture of Care

We know that dozens of guidance documents call for focusing on educator and student well-being. So we are hosting a free series, Train the Trainer, for any and all educators. In this 4-part interactive series, participants will learn how to use our turn-key decks to support educators in their schools or districts.

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Self-Care & Stress Management for First Responders During COVID-19

The mental health experts at Stanford University share this two-part series to support mental and physical health.
Watch Module 1 — Before watching, please take this anonymous questionnaire to help with stress reduction research. We are grateful for your participation and hopeful that this research will benefit trauma prevention.
Watch Module 2 — After watching, please fill out one more questionnaire for our research.
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Educator Self-Care & Social Emotional Learning

These interactive sessions are designed to support the integration of caring for yourself, the educator, while supporting the social and emotional learning (SEL) initiatives for your students. Participants will apply focused awareness of each of the 5 SEL competencies during each session. We will explore safe and supportive relationships, strengthening co-regulation with others, and building interaction skills that support social competence and academic success in practical context with SEL. (5 Sessions)
Session 1: ESC & Self-Awareness 
Session 2: ESC & Self-Management 

Session 3: ESC & Social Awareness
Session 4: ESC & Relationship Skills
Session 5: ESC & Responsible Decision Making  

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Rebuilding Community: Navigating the New Normal

Dr. Mark Greenberg, Dorothy Morelli, Denine Parks-Goolsby, and Dr. Joseph Gerics

As educators, our lives have been forever changed. We have all experienced trauma in some form. As schools begin to make plans for reopening, it is imperative that we address the effect of this pandemic experience not only for our students, but also for the adults who work with them. This webinar will discuss ideas about how schools can begin to rebuild a sense of community including exploring adult social and emotional needs, collaborating on strategies to build caring connections with our students and colleagues.

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Integrating the Pure Power Neuroscience Unit

In this interactive session, we will plan and develop routines to support your well-being and that of your learners. In this interactive session, educators will develop an understanding of how to integrate A Peek Inside the Amazing Brain (PreK-5) and The Neuroscience of Stress (6-12) through the first four weeks of school.
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Planning for the Return: Building Student Agency

Join our two award-winning mindful educators who have successfully implemented mindfulness and well-being into their school programs. Meet the educators who continually build student agency though their creativity and dedication.  Learn how they have created virtual SEL sessions & mentored the team of NuYu!