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Maureen Healy
Internationally Renowned Educator, Author of "The Emotionally Healthy Child" and Social & Emotional Learning Expert
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Maureen Healy
Biography
"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.
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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 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 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 self-awareness is the focus of this program. Participants re-engage with SEL and receive advanced 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 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 happily engages with all participants.
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 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.
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Featured Books
The Happiness Workbook for Kids: 24 Fun Activities to Help Kids Focus, Make Smart Choices, and Bounce Back from Challenges
by Maureen Healy
"Maureen has provided an important antidote to the difficult times so many of our kids are going through these days. The activities in this workbook are both enjoyable and beneficial, can increase happiness as well as resilience" - Tal Ben-Shahar, author and lecturer
In this insightful yet easy-to-read workbook, Maureen Healy teaches kids how to become happier despite the everyday obstacles, frustrations, and big emotions that often challenge their ability to make good decisions. With the tools inside, children will learn how to constructively express their emotions, bounce back from challenges, and move toward happier life experiences.
Intended for elementary and middle school-aged children, this workbook simplifies complex ideas so children can:
- Cultivate self-awareness
- Build emotional health and well-being
- Strengthen resilience and self-reliance
- Develop habits of happiness
- Make smart choices (even with tough emotions!)
By harnessing the awesome power of happiness, this book will help kids recognize how smart, strong, and capable they are of creating their happiest life.
Growing Happy Kids: How to Foster Inner Confidence, Success, and Happiness
by Maureen Healy
Winner of Nautilus Book Award in Parenting & FamilyEvery parent wants his or her child to be happy and grow into a productive, fulfilled adult . . . and according to parenting expert Maureen Healy, the secret to that success is in providing a foundation of inner confidence. Parents and teachers know that confidence and inner strength are important attributes, but in an era where self-worth is often measured by possessions and attractiveness, most have no idea how to model true inner confidence for their kids or how to help them cultivate it. Real power--or inner confidence--is necessary to overcome obstacles, pursue our unique dreams, and be truly happy.
Maureen Healy, a spiritual teacher with twenty years of experience as a child development expert, literally traveled the world from the Bronx to the base of the Himalayas to learn the connection between inner confidence and lasting happiness, and she shares that wealth of knowledge in Growing Happy Kids. Combining her Buddhist training, her background in child psychology, and the latest scientific research, Maureen shares her revolutionary model that defines inner confidence and cultivates a child's sense of optimism and connection. She explores each part of her system, which she called The Five Building Blocks of Confidence, with the mind of a scientist, yet the softness of a real parent who wants to raise strong, happy children. By using those building blocks--biology, beliefs, emotions, social, and spiritual--parents, teachers, and anyone who touches the life of a child can gain the skills necessary to foster happy kids who are strong, self-reliant, and confident.
"In Growing Happy Kids, Maureen Healy has given us rich and valuable tools to assist us in honoring and supporting our children in building their self-confidence and helping them become happier. It is a MUST read for all parents, educators, and people who care."
--Edwene Gaines, author of The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity
"Drawing on her own extensive research and experience, Maureen Healy wisely leads parents and caregivers into the heart of awakening and activating the innate confidence with which every child is born. This is a book that parents will read over and over again."
--Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul's Potential
The Emotionally Healthy Child
by Maureen Healy
Winner of Nautilus Book Award in Parenting & Family
While growing up has never been easy, today's world undeniably presents kids and their parents with unprecedented challenges. The upside, cites Maureen Healy, is a widespread acknowledgment that emotional health, resilience, and equilibrium can be learned and strengthened. Three simple steps are key ― Stop, Calm, and Make a Smart Choice. While not always easy, these steps are powerful and Healy shows readers exactly how to implement them. Children move from acting out or shutting down, experiencing frequent physical symptoms such as head and stomach aches or hurting themselves or others, to recognizing they are being triggered, feeling their emotions, and using strategies to respond from a calmer place. As adults learn to model these skills, both adults and children become freer to do and be their best.
The Energetic Keys to Indigo Kids
by Maureen Healy
In The Energetic Keys to Indigo Kids, Maureen Healy tackles the subject of indigo children from a whole new vantage point: energy. Aimed at healers, stay-at-home moms, and parents who are struggling to understand the unique qualities of their indigo children, the book covers such topics as:
- How indigo energy works
- How indigos heal
- The keys to indigo success
You will learn to see indigos from an energetic perspective—how they think, how they make decisions, what they need, how they heal, and what triggers them the most—as well as how to get them back on track, prevent meltdowns, and, ultimately, see them succeed.
The Energetic Keys to Indigo Kids is a groundbreaking book that reveals how these new children operate in the world. You’ll learn more about your child’s energetic system, including how his/her chakras operate differently. Along with this insightful information, Maureen also provides practical tips based on her real-life work with indigo kids worldwide. She shares how to help them manage their energy better, heal from emotional upheavals more completely, and create more harmony in their lives.
Maureen shares real stories of her clients, their experiences and how they found more success with their highly sensitive, stubborn, and even defiant indigo kids.
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Featured Articles & Resources
Speaker Wins 2014 Nautilus Book Award
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