COURSE OFFERINGS:

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Transformation Teaching

 12 WEEK 1:1 COACHING AND REMOTE LEARNING COURSE INCLUDES LIFETIME ACCESS TO AN ONLINE PORTAL, RESOURCE BOOK, AND CERTIFICATION

 

Using the Jai Institute's Transformational Parenting Program, I have developed a hybrid model for educators that blends self-paced learning with personalized support. Educators receive access to an online portal filled with foundational resources and tools, alongside twelve one-hour private coaching sessions designed to dive deeply into individual needs, classroom dynamics, and real-world challenges

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This twelve-week journey honors Jai's science-informed approach to attachment, nervous system regulation, and emotional development, while intentionally adapting it to support educators and classrooms.

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Weeks 1–2 | Foundation and Intention
You begin by creating an individualized teaching program using Jai Institute principles, clarifying your intentions as an empowered educator and grounding your work in shared values and purpose.

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Weeks 3–6 | Understanding Behavior
You explore the Ten Pillars of Transformational Teaching alongside attachment science, nervous system science, and brain development through the Jai Institute framework. These weeks focus on understanding the why behind behavior and how safety, connection, and regulation support learning.

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Weeks 7–8 | Emotional Intelligence and Communication
Building on Jai Institute practices, you deepen your emotional intelligence and that of your students while learning empowered conversation tools that strengthen trust, cooperation, and connection.

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Weeks 9–10 | Boundaries and Big Emotions
You learn to set clear, healthy boundaries rooted in teaching values and Jai Institute philosophy, while exploring anger and healthy aggression to reduce power struggles and build emotional resilience.

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Weeks 11–12 | Play, Integration, and Reflection
The journey concludes with playful teaching and storytelling, followed by reflection and celebration of growth. These final weeks honor integration rather than perfection, recognizing how much has shifted both professionally and personally.

This program is not about reinventing the wheel. It is about learning a trusted, science-informed framework and thoughtfully integrating it into your classroom, your relationships, and yourself as an educator​​.

 

READY TO TRANSFORM YOUR CLASSROOM AND GAIN TOOLS THAT WILL DIRECTLY IMPACT YOUR OWN MENTAL WELL-BEING 

AS WELL AS THAT OF YOUR STUDENTS? 

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Click below to schedule your discovery session where 

all of your questions will be answered and your transformation begins

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Additional Workshop Offerings

 

Raising Resilient Kids and Teens ​- 1.5 - 2hrs, depending on participation

A live or virtual interactive workshop designed to help adults understand resilience through a nervous system and developmental lens. Together, we explore the five keys of resilience, how those keys often get lost under stress, anxiety, pressure, and overwhelm, and how to help children reconnect with what is already within them. Powered by GoZen​ & Treehouse Minds

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This workshop offers practical, real-world interventions parents and educators can use right away, especially in moments when children are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or under pressure. Rather than trying to give children something they are missing, we shift toward supporting the strengths and capacities they already have, through connection, regulation, and understanding. 

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Anger Transformation  2-3 hrs, depending on participation 
Reframes anger as a signal rather than a problem, and offers guidance for understanding, expressing, and transforming anger in healthy, developmentally appropriate ways.​  Powered by GoZen & Treehouse Minds

 

This live or virtual workshop focuses on anger transformation, helping adults understand anger as a signal rather than a problem to eliminate. Through a nervous system and developmental lens, participants learn how anger shows up in both adults and children and how it can be supported in healthy, constructive ways.

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Transforming Together | We begin by grounding the group in shared purpose, connection, and awareness, setting the tone for growth and reflection.

Patterns and Triggers | Participants explore common emotional patterns and triggers that drive reactive behavior, gaining insight into why certain moments feel so intense or repetitive.

Disrupting the Patterns | This section focuses on practical, nervous system-informed strategies that help interrupt unhelpful cycles and support regulation, safety, and resilience.

Practice and Integration | The workshop concludes with guided practice, reflection, and real-world application, often supported by special guests, leaving participants feeling confident and supported. Workshops run approximately two to three hours, depending on participation. 

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Power Struggles and Boundary Support 1 - 2 hrs, depending on participation 

 

This workshop explores power struggles as a natural and necessary expression of autonomy rather than defiance or disrespect. Through a developmental and nervous system-informed lens, participants gain a deeper understanding of what drives resistance, pushback, and control battles in both children and teens. Powered by Treehouse Minds.

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Adults learn to set clear, confident boundaries without resorting to threats, punishments, or power-over strategies. The focus is on maintaining connection, cooperation, and trust while supporting a child's need for agency and emotional safety. Practical, real-world tools help reduce daily conflict, shift long-standing patterns, and create environments where children feel respected, capable, and supported.

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Growth Mindset 1.5-2 hrs, depending on participation 

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This workshop looks at the big picture of how beliefs about effort, mistakes, and learning shape confidence, resilience, and motivation in both children and teens. We explore what a growth mindset really is, beyond buzzwords, and how it shows up in everyday moments at home and in the classroom.

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Participants learn how to lay a strong foundation for doing hard things and supporting children when challenges feel uncomfortable or frustrating. The focus is on building perseverance without pressure, helping kids move through frustration productively, and coaching them to keep going rather than giving up or shutting down.

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We also explore how mistakes can become powerful learning opportunities instead of sources of shame or fear. Practical tools help adults support children and teens in overcoming obstacles, reframing setbacks, and staying curious even when things do not go as planned.

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This workshop is grounded in growth mindset principles, offering realistic strategies that foster confidence, flexibility, and emotional resilience without perfectionism. Powered by Treehouse Minds & GoZen

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Sowing the Seeds....Upcoming Offerings 

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School Transitions and Adolescent Stress
Launching Spring 2026

This developing workshop supports families and educators in navigating school transitions, academic pressure, and social stress through a nervous system and developmental lens. We explore how transitions such as new schools, increased academic demands, shifting peer dynamics, and identity development impact emotional balance, behavior, and confidence, particularly during adolescence. Participants gain practical, real-world tools to support resilience, regulation, and emotional flexibility during periods of change, uncertainty, and heightened stress.

Ideal for parents, caregivers, educators, and school communities supporting upper elementary, middle, and high school students.
Offered as a live or virtual workshop. Powered by Treehouse Minds.

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Caregiver and Educator Burnout
Launching Summer 2026

This developing workshop addresses the impact of chronic stress on caregivers and educators and how it gradually erodes clarity, connection, and sustainability in demanding roles. Through a nervous system-informed approach, participants explore how burnout shows up in the body, behavior, and relationships, often long before it is recognized. The workshop offers realistic strategies to support emotional well-being, boundaries, and capacity without guilt, pressure, or perfectionism, helping adults reconnect with purpose, balance, and longevity in their work.

Ideal for parents, educators, administrators, and caregiving professionals seeking sustainable support and renewal. Offered as a live or virtual workshop. Powered by Treehouse Minds.

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The Seeds Have Been Planted, and the Cultivating Is Underway 

 

Inside my developing book, rooted in real life, guided by science, and grown slowly with intention, because meaningful growth takes time

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You Can’t ALWAYS Have the Ice Cream, and Here’s Why?

 Powered by Dr. Deb.,  Real Life, and Treehouse Minds

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Welcome inside the early pages of You Can’t Have the Ice Cream, and Here’s Why? a book rooted in real life moments, developmental science, and the very human experience of raising young children.

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This work grew out of years spent alongside families and educators, witnessing the everyday power struggles, big emotions, and quiet breakthroughs that shape early childhood. It is powered by decades in early childhood education, thousands of parent conversations, and the beautifully messy truth of life with young children.

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This is not a book about quick fixes, perfect parenting, or magic scripts that promise to solve everything before dinner. If that existed, we would all be on a beach somewhere eating the ice cream.

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Instead, this book focuses on understanding what is actually happening beneath behavior, why boundaries matter, and how connection and regulation grow over time. It plants seeds of realistic expectations, emotional intelligence, and trust in development, then gives them the space they need to take root.

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The stories, research, and reflections are still being cultivated with intention, because meaningful growth, for children and for this work, is never rushed. The cultivating has begun, and you are warmly invited into the garden.

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Introduction

The idea for this book began, like many realizations, in a grocery store.

As an early childhood professional, I have spent decades observing children and families in real-life moments, the kind that never make it into parenting manuals or research articles. These moments happen in parking lots, car lines, school hallways, and frozen food aisles. They are unscripted, emotional, and deeply human.

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Our world is complex, and most parents are exhausted. Between work, caregiving, school demands, financial pressure, and the constant pull to do more and be more, families are often running on empty. Let me be clear from the start, this book is not about judging parents. Parenting is hard. I will say that frequently, and I want you to hold onto those words as you read. I write this book not to shame or preach, but to inform, translate, and offer relief. My goal is not perfection. It is understanding.

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Full disclosure, I do not promise parenting will suddenly become easy. I do promise that when you understand what is happening beneath behavior, it becomes easier to respond with confidence instead of panic.

Children are often described as our future, yet we rarely talk honestly about what it takes to nurture that future. When you plant a garden, you research the soil, sunlight, timing, and care required. You adjust when conditions change. You protect what is growing. Children are far more complex than any garden. They require extraordinary amounts of love, patience, guidance, and emotional presence. Yet parents are often expected to figure this out without tools, without context, and without support.

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Parenting is hard. There it is again. But as we educators and leaders tell our preschoolers and team daily… YOU CAN DO HARD THINGS!!!

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When adults start a new job or learn a new skill, they expect a learning curve to be present. They expect mistakes. They expect growth over time. Yet when parents bring a newborn home, armed with a car seat and a booger sucker, they are somehow expected to know already exactly what to do. Babies are challenging, but they are also forgiving. They need us, they rely on us, and their communication is relatively simple.

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Then comes toddlerhood.

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Suddenly, that sweet baby grows into a determined, curious, strong-willed, and often exhausting little human. This is where many parents begin to doubt themselves. This is where power struggles emerge. This is where good intentions collide with real life. This is where my work, and this book, truly begins.

Picture this. You take your toddler to the grocery store. Not ideal, but unavoidable, because life does not pause for parenting readiness. Somewhere near the produce section, you promise ice cream if they behave. As you move through the aisles, things begin to unravel. Screaming. Standing in the cart. Pulling items off shelves. Throwing keys. You calmly remind them, “If this continues, you will not get ice cream.” You repeat it, aisle after aisle, as the behavior escalates.

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Eventually, you reach your limit. You say it firmly… “No ice cream”.

And then it happens. The meltdown. The full body, no turning back moment. Other parents are watching. Some are silently cheering you on. Some are judging. You are tired, overstimulated, and just want this moment to end.

So you cave. You grab the ice cream. Maybe two kinds. You need your sanity.

This book is not about labeling that moment as failure. It is about understanding it.

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Ice cream was never the real problem!

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This book is about what lives underneath moments like these. It is about understanding child and teen behavior through the lens of development, nervous system science, and real-life experience. It is about why pressure and power struggles often make things more difficult, rather than easier. It is about helping adults respond with steadiness instead of fear.

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Throughout these pages, you will find real stories, research explained in plain language, and reflections shaped by years of working with children, families, and educators. You will read about autonomy, boundaries, nervous systems, past programming, social pressure, perfectionism, and the invisible weight parents carry. You will read about why connection matters more than control and why understanding changes everything.

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Parenting was never meant to be done alone.

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It takes a village and an expansive toolbox. This book is here to help you build yours.

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At the heart of it all is the reason most people became parents in the first place: connection. When we return to that, everything else begins to make more sense.

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​More to COME.....

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