Healing Journeys

A three-day transition sequence for a 5th-grade classroom themed around 'The Blueprint' where students co-create their physical space, social routines, and community agreements as active designers of their school year.

A comprehensive 9-week high school transition curriculum focused on the 26 principles of A Disciplined Life (ADL). This curriculum empowers 9th graders to build personal character, master effective communication, and lead positive change, culminating in a creative songwriting and lyric performance project.

A complete preparatory unit for 7th graders preparing for high school visits, covering logistical details, rules, active inquiry habits, and reflective campus conversations.

A comprehensive back-to-school character education unit centered around the schoolwide EVCS CARES values: Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy, and Self-Control. Each value is taught through active modeling, guided practice, and reflection, culminating in a schoolwide community project.

A three-session clinical protocol designed to establish rapport, build safety, and lower conversational demands for depressed, highly withdrawn, or non-verbal high school students. It moves systematically from parallel presence to indirect expression, and finally to visual grounding.

A therapeutic series of group sessions designed for adult mental health and substance abuse clients, focusing on interpersonal dynamics, protective defense mechanisms (masking), and maintaining internal boundaries in challenging environments.

A 4-day small group emotion regulation curriculum for middle school students (grades 6-8) using a 1-5 emotional thermometer metaphor. Students learn to recognize emotional intensity, identify triggers, explore coping strategies, and design their own personalized stress-management plan.

A 4-day small-group social-emotional learning unit for grades 3-5 focused on situational emotional regulation. Students learn to analyze their internal emotional state and external environmental constraints to select and apply the most effective, socially responsible coping skill.

A 4-day small group intervention sequence for K-2 students focused on developing basic emotion regulation skills (breathing, breaks, and resting) with adult prompting, aligned with the CASEL Self-Management framework.

A 3-day small group SEL intervention for grades 3-5 focused on self-management and impulse control. Students learn to pause and select a school-appropriate calming strategy (deep breath, take a break, or rest 5 minutes) before responding to high-emotion situations.

A comprehensive, proactive middle school curriculum designed to counter discipline trends of verbal aggression, profanity, drama, and disrespect through social-emotional learning, interactive role-plays, parent partnership, and a unified school-wide visual campaign.

An SEL curriculum unit designed to help middle school students navigate complex emotional landscapes by distinguishing subtle emotional nuances. Focuses on critical distinctions like guilt vs. shame and excitement vs. anxiety to build self-awareness and self-management skills.