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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 Student Wellbeing
The Scientific Path to Strong Students
Being able to systematically improve student well-being can support their development and ultimately, increase academic and pro-social outcomes. Science shows what negatively impacts well-being, as well as what can be done to improve well-being in ourselves, as well as our students and communities.
Maureen expertly threads the needle on what you need to know to improve well-being, especially in today’s anxious student population.
Audience takeaways:
• Understand the science of student well-being.
• Receive proven strategies to foster well-being in K-12 students in the school setting. Best practices shared (school and communitywide).
• Specific pedagogical approaches that boost distinct types of student wellbeing (intellectual, emotional, social, physical) per data.
• Understand the metrics to measure well-being of today’s students, especially in challenging and uncertain times.
Engage with Maureen’s expertise helping schools nationwide boost wellbeing, which helps retain teachers and increase attendance.
Helping Students Become Resilient in Uncertain Times
Our students need to be strong from the inside out. They have challenges – whether academic or social, which will need to be faced and with support they can learn to develop a resilient mindset and habit of inner strength that with time can make them unbreakable.
Audience takeaways:
• Understand the big picture of childhood resilience from a scientific perspective – as well as the signs of vulnerability.
• Deepen your expertise with creating, repairing and maintaining resilience in your classroom and/or community.
• Engage with the best practices of resilience-building schools and communities to inspire you.
• Become familiar with resilience-building technology, which can be helpful.
• Connect the dots between resilience, achievement and wellbeing.
Deeply Feeling Kids
Helping Children Make Smart Choices
Children can have oversized feelings and reactions, which can disrupt a classroom or home. They don’t yet understand how to handle such big feelings and as such can throw notebooks in the classroom, slam doors at home, or push someone on the playground when a smarter choice was available.
Key Takeaways:
• Understand the 7 essential ideas children need to learn to begin managing their emotions better.
• Add to your “adaptive toolkit” new strategies that help deeply feeling kids calm, center and make better choices with their intense emotions.
• Learn whole brain approaches that build emotional regulation and reduce reactivity, which feel better for everyone – and produce positive results.
• Get inspired by best practices to teach emotional regulation for a whole wide variety of students, which include neurodivergence, among others.
The Emotionally Healthy Child
Helping Students Become Strong Inside
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.
• Science-based techniques that build emotional awareness, and self-regulation (for home or classroom). Different emotions like anger and sadness are considered, as well as strategies in effectively managing them at distinct stages. Latest in emotional and social development shared.
• Scripts, activities and technologies that can support a child’s ability to express their emotions constructively are shared.
An understanding of the “big picture” of emotional health and how it interconnects with resilience, wellbeing and student advancement.
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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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Speaker Wins 2014 Nautilus Book Award
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