Maureen Healy | Internationally Renowned Educator, Author of "The Emotionally Healthy Child" and Social & Emotional Learning Expert

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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Featured Keynote Programs

The Emotionally Healthy Child

Understanding children’s emotional health and how to help children build emotional regulation and intelligence 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 strategies that build emotional awareness, and self-regulation. Different emotions like anger and sadness are considered, as well as strategies in effectively handling them specifically. Different types of children discussed too (the perfectionist, stubborn child, intense and/or creative child, and so forth). 
•    Scripts (things to say) that help children slow down, stop, and make better choices are shared. 
•    An understanding of the “big picture” of children’s emotional health, and resilience development.

Fostering Student Resilience

Resilience is a skill that children can learn to develop regardless of their circumstances. Being able to understand the science of childhood resilience, as well as the ideas and skills that help students get unstuck from problems, as well as form a resilient mindset can be game changing for the home or classroom.

Audience takeaways: 
•    Resilience and emotional health are learnable skills.
•    Understanding the resilience equation (3 elements of resilience) can help every child, parent, and teacher build resilience, as well as restore it after its broken.
•    Framework for incorporating resilience-building ideas, and strategies for elementary and middle school. Strategies by grade are shared. 
•    A clear understanding of the science of childhood resilience, as well as how to help children bounce back after experiencing a small to epic situation. 

Student Well-Being

Being able to systematically improve well-being in students and schools can have true bottom line results: improved academic results, and other pro-social outcomes (for example, resiliency, sense of belonging). Science shows the how of advancing student well-being, and this speaker guides schools, as well as parents to make small to bigger changes that offer meaningful results. 

Audience takeaways: 
•    Clear definition of student well-being.
•    Gain clarity on the 7 elements of student well-being, and how schools/teachers/families can make small shifts, which produce measurable results. Science-backed strategies shared.
•    Receive an individualized school assessment of well-being (what you are doing well, and where opportunity exists). 
•    Create “bumpers” in your school framework to protect student well-being, and assist our most vulnerable students in getting timely help (i.e., lowering the risk of school violence, and harmful behaviors).

How to Be Happy
(The Class)

Want to add a happiness class as a school elective? Ever wonder what would be needed and how to begin? Connect with Maureen Healy to craft a happiness class for your school or community. She shares the science and wisdom of the world in nurturing students ability to feel good, and in turn, do better. This is the class we all wish we had learned earlier (good news, it’s never too late). 

Audience Takeaways: 
-    Happiness Class Framework: What you need to teach students the science of happier life experiences, and what happiness teachers worldwide say. (Sample syllabus shared)
-    Receive a resource list, which includes this authors: The Happiness Workbook for Kids, and many other books and qualified sources 
(videos, activities, projects, and teachers). 
-    Understand the connection between childhood resilience, happiness, brain development and well-being, as well as how happiness leaves clues. 
-    Enhance your classroom (or home) and community with specific happiness strategies, which aren’t costly but produce immediate and positive results. Evidence-based strategies shared.
 

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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 Challengesby Maureen Healy

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 Happinessby Maureen Healy

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 Childby Maureen Healy

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 Kidsby Maureen Healy

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 Reviews

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Featured Articles & Resources

Speaker Wins 2014 Nautilus Book Award

We are proud to announce that Maureen Dawn Healy recently won the 2014 Nautilus Book Award for her book "Growing Happy Kids: How to Foster Inner Confidence, Success and...
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The Highly Sensitive (and Stubborn) Child

Over the past few months, I have been happily working with parents from around the globe especially regarding their stubborn children. One of the moms, Maggie, explained her...
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Raising "Media Healthy" Children

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