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
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.
Helping Children Become Happier
Our world has become increasingly stressed, uncertain and unhappy for people, including many children. Being able to step back and plant the proven seeds of happier life experiences in children not only helps them today, but guides them with agency on how to create happier life experiences in whatever situation they’re presented with. They can learn to bounce back from life’s difficulties and become happier step-by-step.
Audience takeaways:
- Ideas and science-backed activities to foster happier life experiences.
- Insight into the practical wisdom that helps preschool, elementary, middle and high school students develop the mindset, as well as the habits that produce happier life experiences.
- Clear interventions for students who present pessimistically the majority of the time, as well as perfectionistic and anxious students, as examples.
- A fresh perspective on how to integrate happiness and resilience lessons into any classroom, as well as a sample semester of happiness courses based on the latest science of childhood happiness.
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