Maureen Healy
Educator & Best-Selling Author of The Emotionally Healthy Child
Maureen Healy
Educator & Best-Selling Author of The Emotionally Healthy Child
Biography
Maureen Healy is an award-winning author, sought-after speaker, and expert in the world of children’s emotional health and education. Tal Ben-Shahar said, “Maureen has provided an important antidote to the difficult times that so many of our kids are going through these days” while describing Maureen’s new book: The Happiness Workbook for Kids (PESI, 2022). Prior books include: The Emotionally Healthy Child (New World Library, 2018) with a preface from the Dalai Lama, and Growing Happy Kids (HCI Books, 2012), along with a popular blog on Psychology Today’s website.
Unique to Maureen is her global experience working with parents and their children from the rural mountains of Mexico to upper Manhattan. Her work has been seen across all media platforms including The New York Times, Fortune, PBS, Scholastic magazine, and AOL’s streaming services, as well as NBC, ABC, and CW. Her ability to distill complex ideas into simple, proven strategies to create more emotional health and well-being at home, as well as the classroom has been noticed. The Dalai Lama said, “I hope Maureen’s book, The Emotionally Healthy Child, can contribute to more wholesome education for future generations.”
With two decades of experience, Maureen has helped countless parents and children through teaching and school development. She’s taught from kindergarten to the college level, volunteered in Asia and worked with Tibetan refugee children in 2007. Her traditional educational credentials include a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Clark University and a PhD program in Clinical Psychology at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. Maureen has also studied with scholars and scientists globally on the science of childhood happiness, which has bolstered her joy immensely.
Invite Maureen to your school, organization, or conference to engage and inspire them with ideas, as well as evidence-based strategies of resilience, emotional well-being and wellness. She also delivers keynotes worldwide (virtually and in-person).
Speaker Videos
Dealing with Anger
The Emotionally Healthy Child
Emotional Development
How to Raise Happier Children
Raising an Emotionally Healthy Children
Speech Topics
The Emotionally Healthy Child: Equipping Children to Thrive (in any situation)
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).
- Digitally based strategies to build emotional regulation, as well as proven analog tools. Scripts (things to say) that help children slow down, stop, and make better choices.
- An understanding of the “big picture” of emotional health, and resilience development.
Children’s Well-Being: Helping Transform Stress & Anxiety to Well-Being
Being able to systematically improve children’s well-being can translate into a more supportive school community, and ultimately, better 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 uncertain and often chaotic world.
Audience takeaways:
- Understand the science of student and community well-being.
- Learn how to use stress and anxiety as fodder for well-being, especially in educational settings – and how to teach it to students. Evidence-based strategies and best practices shared.
- Become adept at seeing well-being in the world, and understand the science of well-being especially related to school and organizations.
- Leaders can learn the current metrics to measure well-being and how it boosts student attendance, employee retention, and overall job satisfaction, as examples.
Strengthening Resilience: Strategies for a Resilient Mindset & Bouncebackability
Resilience is a skill that students 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.
Audience takeaways:
- Resilience and emotional health are learnable skills.
- Science-based strategies to bounce back after little to large scale events, experiences or tragedies.
- Understand the latest research on resilience and hear empowering stories from diverse cultures on how resilience is strengthened.
- Best practices for teachers and schools to foster building, restoring and maintaining resilience in their community.
Stress Reduction: Antidotes to Anxiety and Overwhelm
Helping today’s students lower their stress, and then, make smart choices in the face of pressure is important. Stress is a normal human experience, but toxic stress can have severe and negative impacts on child development and learning (academic achievement).
Invite Maureen to learn fresh ways to:
- Help students identify their stress and apply coping skills.
- Learn the latest coping skills (including technologically supported) that students like, and utilize successfully in elementary, middle and high school.
- Receive scripts that help adults check in with their children, and students in a non-threatening way.
- Understand the fine line between manageable stress, and a child (or student) who needs professional assistance.
Maureen happily speaks to auditoriums of children, as well as educators who want to learn the latest stress reduction and anxiety busting tools.
Strategies for Self-Regulation in the Classroom
Students have big emotions and oftentimes even bigger reactions! Being able to help them learn evidence-based tools to handle their challenging emotions, and stress is essential to them progressing academically and socially.
Invite Maureen Healy to engage and inspire your audience by providing:
- A clear picture of self-regulation strategies (by grade, K-12).
- Strategies for self-regulation and stress management for teachers.
- Clarity on how improved self-regulation is connected to resilience, emotional health, and happier life experiences.
- Added tools for conflict resolution, responsible decision-making, self-awareness, and emotional learning.
- Resource list for teachers, learning professionals, and parents.
- Sample lessons for self-regulation, awareness, and responsible decision-making even in tricky situations.
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