"The event was a success! We had over 400 parents, gave away over 300 books, and Maureen stayed to sign all of them. Our parents loved her.
"I do what I do because I want to see more children grow up happier." Maureen Healy
Social and emotional expert
Maureen is an educator, award-winning author, and leader in the field of children's emotional health. Her best-selling book, The Emotionally Healthy Child, has a preface from His Holiness the Dalai Lama (New World Library, 2018) and gives adults the ideas they need to nurture positive emotional health in today's children. Her prior book, Growing Happy Kids, focused on cultivating confidence and notably won several awards. She also regularly blogs at Psychology Today, which has reached millions of adults worldwide.
Unique about Maureen is her global background teaching and counseling children on the how of becoming emotionally healthy. She's even lived at the Base of the Himalayas in 2007 and taught Tibetan refugee children. In subsequent years, Maureen has spoken across Europe, Asia, and the Americas helping adults gain a fresh perspective and positive strategies. In 2017, Maureen co-founded the "World Happiness Summit" for parents, teachers, and professionals wanting to know the how of children's emotional health.
Complimenting Maureen's practical experience, she is traditionally trained in the field of child development and positive psychology. She holds a BA and MBA from Clark University in Worcester, MA and completed her Ph.D. coursework in child clinical psychology from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA. Additionally, she's authored social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum for K-8 students, which has been implemented in several independent schools.
Maureen's wisdom and practicality has also been featured on TV, Radio and across all media outlets such as: Disney's "The Fatherhood Project" with Hank Azaria, Scholastic, Parents Magazine, PBS, Martha Stewart Living Radio and television such as the CW's "San Diego Living" as well as "Happier TV" with Tal Ben-Shahar. Her insight into how to help today's children grow up healthier and happier is why audiences love her, and she gets the highest ratings repeatedly.
Our children – despite our best efforts, make mistakes, get teased, come down with a cold, and don’t always make the grade. So, what can we do? We can equip ourselves and them with a science-based skillset, which builds resilience. Author and expert, Maureen Healy, has helped 1000s of children, families and schools learn the science of childhood resilience, as well as the strategies (activities, scripts, skills) that help children bounce back versus break down when problems arise. Invite Maureen to gain a fresh perspective, and walk away with practical tools to help today’s children in our wildly unpredictable world.
Additional follow-up keynotes, and workshops include:
We all want to raise, and nurture healthy children. The question most of us stumble with is how? Invite Maureen to share the science and real-life strategies of nurturing positive emotional health in today’s elementary and middle school aged children.
Audience member takeaways include:
Our children are stressed out whether it’s the bully on the playground, or the homework they’re struggling with. Things aren’t necessarily easy, or carefree. Helping children constructively express and manage their stressors, and learn coping skills, as well as how to have happier life experiences is our aim. Author and Educator, Maureen Healy, shares the art and science of happier children. She shares what you can do in the classroom (ideas, activities, strategies) as well as the “little things” that make a mighty difference at home.
Participants walk away with: