Workshops
Transformative Sessions for Emotional Growth, Connection, and Joyful Outcomes
Our workshops—available virtually or in person—are designed to equip educators, teams, and leaders with practical tools to navigate emotional, behavioral, and social challenges with clarity and confidence. These sessions create space for honest reflection, skill-building, and shared understanding—all essential to creating environments where people feel safe, supported, and capable.
By strengthening emotional intelligence and fostering trust, these workshops lay the foundation for more joyful, connected, and purpose-driven outcomes in schools, workplaces, and communities.
Signature Workshop: The Back to Zero Workshop
This foundational session helps participants shift from reaction to reflection. Through proactive approaches and de-escalation strategies, it provides tools to respond skillfully to emotional complexity while maintaining connection and compassion. Whether you're supporting students or leading a team, this workshop empowers you to create a culture where emotional well-being, accountability, and joy go hand in hand.
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Back to Zero: Because Some Days Are Not So Easy
This session recognizes that we all encounter difficult moments, and recovery is within reach. It focuses on emotional awareness, communication, and strategies for fostering self-recognition and connection in personal and professional settings to recognize and respond to BIG emotions with empathy and compassion.
Through the lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), participants will explore tools that are accessible and adaptable, ensuring that emotional well-being is nurtured for individuals with diverse needs. This approach aims to equip participants to embrace challenges as opportunities for growth.
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I'm Ready!Joy Works: 8 Lessons for Educators
This professional development experience invites participants to explore the intersection of joy, work, and life. Through this session, individuals reflect on how joy can be cultivated in their daily tasks, professional responsibilities, and personal pursuits.
The structure integrates design thinking principles, encouraging participants to adopt a mindset of curiosity, experimentation, empathy, and, most importantly, courage to reimagine work as a space for personal fulfillment.
Leading with Joy for ExcellenceÂ
This experience equips leaders with proactive strategies to foster joy, well-being, and excellence within their organizations. It emphasizes the importance of joy as a driving force for meaningful leadership and positive outcomes, encouraging leaders to model behaviors that inspire engagement, creativity, and resilience in their teams.
Leading with Joy for Excellence helps leaders cultivate an environment where joy and achievement coexist, resulting in higher engagement, productivity, and retention. Through interactive exercises, self-assessments, and reflective practices, participants learn to lead confidently, foster joyful cultures, and create spaces where teams can thrive.
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I'm Ready!Back to Zero Community Engagement Program
This program aims to cultivate connected communities, ensuring children and families grow in understanding and compassion when it comes to responding to daily challenges.It offers comprehensive support through:
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Professional Development: Staff training, equipping them with tools to effectively respond to challenges.
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Parent/Caregiver Workshops: Empowering families with strategies to nurture children’s emotional well-being and collaboratively embrace challenges with empathy and love.
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Read-Aloud Sessions for Children: Interactive storytelling experiences that build a shared language around key themes, focusing on identifying challenges and developing coping strategies.
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Bulk discounts are available for class sets or individual books to build classroom or home libraries. Follow-up resources and discussion guides are materials that extend learning beyond the sessions.
Keynotes, Book Events & Author Read Alouds
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