Maureen Healy
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The Shared Anchor: Co-Regulation to Self-Regulation
Telling an upset student to "calm down" has a 0% success rate. However, showing them how to calm down by actively co-regulating with them yields profoundly positive outcomes. Moving a student from co-regulation to true independent self-regulation is complex, but with the right strategies, children can develop the self-awareness needed to make constructive choices.
As students advance through elementary, middle, and high school, their academic and social worlds become increasingly complicated — meaning our ability to support them needs to level up, too.
What Participants Will Learn:
- The Borrowed Calm Framework: Demystifying the neurobiology of stress and exploring practical calming tools for teachers, parents, and professionals.
- The First 30 Seconds: Crucial, immediate strategies to effectively respond to a highly emotional or overwhelmed student.
- De-escalation Over Confrontation: Proven techniques to defuse a meltdown or conflict without escalating power struggles.
- The Internal Anchor: How to help students build a lifelong "toolkit" of self-regulation strategies tailored to their specific age and needs with consideration of particular traits from perfectionism to worry, as examples.
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Books by Maureen Healy
“The Happiness Workbook for Kids: 24 Fun Activities to Help Kids Focus, Make Smart Choices, and Bounce Back from Challenges” (2022)
“My Mixed Emotions: Help Your Kids Handle Their Feelings” (2018)
This thoughtful, engaging book is packed with helpful hints, tips, and techniques for helping children learn to recognize and express their emotions.Feelings can be complicated, and learning to express them is a skill that must be developed. My Mixed Emotions is here to coach children through a variety of emotions and situations including dealing with bullying, understanding grief, and coping with large family changes, such as divorce.Divided into happiness, fear, anger, and sadness, My Mixed Emotions explores the four main emotions, the reasons why we feel them, and the science behind each one. Children will discover great things about themselves, such as what happens in their brain when they are happy, why they cry when they are sad, and why they sometimes feel nervous.My Mixed Emotions will become a friend and guide as children travel through the mixed-up world of emotions to discover the wonderful, unique person that they are.
“The Emotionally Healthy Child: Helping Children Calm, Center, and Make Smarter Choices” (2018)
The Emotionally Healthy Child: Helping Children Calm, Center, and Make Smarter Choices
“Growing Happy Kids: How to Foster Inner Confidence, Success, and Happiness” (2012)
“365 Perfect Things to Say to Your Kids” (2010)
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