For the teachers, administrators, school mental health professional and school support staff, we teach various topics, mainly based on our own research, the research of other mental health specialists in the field, and our extensive experience. Generally, we teach the context for understanding behavior so that implementing healing discipline strategies has the highest chance of success.
We recommend you take a handful of coaching sessions when beginning to implement these strategies because it can test your patience at first and be incredibly challenging. In the beginning, it may feel like nothing is happening. This is normal. Creating a Healing Environment takes time, commitment, communication, understanding, empathy, courage, vulnerability, and collaboration. It’s near impossible to develop all of these elements at once. Here is a sampling of topics that come up in our public conferences: