Calm Kids, Happy Learners

Preschool is often a child’s first experience being regularly separated from their parents and exposed to classroom organization and intense peer relationships. How things start is often a predictor of how things will go in the future. Here I talk to a group of preschool teachers and parents about emerging self-regulation in young children and offer tools they can use to support it in the classroom.

Trauma in the Classroom

There is a huge need for systems to understand how trauma impacts children in schools. When children have trauma it impacts behavior and ability to learn. Most schools are set up to punish and create consequences, rather than support. Teachers and administrators are expected to do so much with little funding. It’s a big challenge. Here I spoke to a group of teachers and school counselors to help them understand trauma in elementary school aged kids, and offered ways that they can make small changes to help kids with trauma, which don’t involve more work for teachers or increased funding.

Stress and the Art of Self Regulation: The Mind-Body Connection

Grief is a universal human experience, and one of the most challenging. Here I talk to a group of volunteer grief counselors and therapists who offer grief support.

Interview With Dr. Daniel Foor on Cultural and Ancestral Healing

Brandy and Daniel talk about ancestors, intergenerational trauma, cultural healing and talking to plants.