Education

CARES Training

Julia Richter

Implementation Coach

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Choose Love Kickoff

Implementation & Best Practices

Foundations in Choosing Love: Self Care

Trauma-Informed Experiential Wellness

Do any of the following apply to you?

  • You would like to take more time to work on YOU to create a healthier mental well-being.
  • You would like to address the increasing number of students battling social, emotional, and behavioral issues, but don’t feel confident or equipped on where to start.
  • You would like to cultivate strong, authentic connections with staff & students, to enhance trust, collaboration, and teamwork.
  • You want to help your students and staff feel supported, safe, happy and loved to foster positive, loving learning environments and maximize academic learning.

If you checked ANY of these boxes…we have JUST the solution for YOU!

You Aren’t Alone

We are here to help you and your team cultivate positive, healthy mindsets, enhance your personal well-being, embrace Choose Love programming with ease, unite greater as a staff, and better support the needs of your students.

Our workshops will allow you to grow greater awareness around the benefits of Social Emotional Learning (SEL), feel more confident and equipped to integrate essential SEL practices within your personal life as well as the classroom, and create a safe and loving environment.

We’ll Be With You Every Step of the Way

We are here to support YOUR Choose Love Journey in whatever capacity you need. Select one of our current workshop offerings or let us know what you are looking for.

We are more than happy to discuss the unique needs of your team or district to create a custom workshop or series that best suits your current needs.

Experiential CSED Workshops

Unique Professional Development & Coaching

Love is at the core of our social emotional programming, for we are ALL connected in the want and need to love and be loved.

Workshops

Choose Love Kickoff

Duration: 90 minutes
Location: Zoom
Participants: Up to 500

About The Choose Love Movement

The kickoff serves to provide background of the Choose Love Movement and overview of our curriculum. Participants will be nourished and empowered to take a proactive hands-on approach to transform their classrooms and communities into positive learning environments to effectively support the needs of their students.

Outcomes:

  • Provides a powerful background story of the Choose Love Movement.
  • Participants will learn about the researched benefits of the four character values of the Choose Love Formula and understand how and why they are vital to implement in our daily lives.

Implementation & Best Practices

Duration: 90 minutes
Location: Zoom
Participants: Up to 500

Choose Love Experiential Journey

Participants will work together to experience the Choose Love curriculum. Educators will walk away with a complete understanding of the power of the Choose Love curriculum and will be able to implement the lessons immediately.

Outcomes:

  • A step-by-step experiential journey through the curriculum and the Choose Love Formula Pillars.
  • Overview of lesson breakdown, best implementation practices and demonstration of a Choose Love lesson.
  • Learn how the Choose Love Formula grows developmentally with each grade level.
  • Review of scope and sequence charts to assist in customizing a plan to implement Choose Love programming utilizing SMART goals.

Foundations in Choosing Love

Duration: 90 minutes
Location: Zoom
Participants: Up to 500

Choose Love Experiential Journey

Participants will work together to experience the Choose Love curriculum. Educators will walk away with a complete understanding of the power of the Choose Love curriculum and will be able to implement the lessons immediately.

Outcomes:

  • A step-by-step experiential journey through the curriculum and the Choose Love Formula Pillars.
  • Overview of lesson breakdown, best implementation practices and demonstration of a Choose Love lesson.
  • Learn how the Choose Love Formula grows developmentally with each grade level.
  • Review of scope and sequence charts to assist in customizing a plan to implement Choose Love programming utilizing SMART goals.

Trauma Informed Experiential Wellness

Duration: 90 minutes
Location: Zoom
Participants: Up to 500

Creating The Safe Space To Heal

The increased trauma associated with pandemic teaching has created a silent epidemic in
education: educators with nothing left to give. This workshop creates a safe space for teachers to
reconnect to the heart, as it helps to heal from the inside out.

Outcomes:

  • Participants will learn how to identify symptoms of stress and trauma, while learning tools and skills to manage emotions and make positive choices.
  • Cultivate connections with others while exploring opportunities for post traumatic growth.

Custom Workshops Available!

What People Are Saying About Our Workshops

Choose Love has had an immediate and positive impact on our school community. After a comprehensive review of available SEL approaches, our team unanimously selected ‘Choose Love’ for its approach, alignment, and vision to support the social/emotional learning and well being of our students and staff. It has been wonderful to see how quickly ‘Choose Love’ has been embraced by our schools and our community. Scarlett provided a moving Keynote address at our Convocation, which sparked our initial efforts. We are so grateful for this partnership and the benefits ‘Choose Love’ will bring to our students.

Don Briere

Director Of Educational Services, Hebron Public Schools, CT

Meet Our Certified Trainers

Julia Richter

Choose Love Implementation Coach & Wisconsin Ambassador

Julia Richter has a BA in Elementary Education and Minor in Dance. She received her Masters Degree; “Integrating the Arts in Education” from Lesley University and taught arts based programming in inner city schools to help cultivate strong, authentic relationships and build levels of trust, integrity, respect, and confidence. She became a certified Growth Coach through Lifeforming Leadership Coaching and received her certification in Mindfulness & Social Emotional Learning and Positive Intelligence.

Julia took her experiences of teaching, coaching and social emotional learning to create the “C.A.R.E.S.” Coaching Program for Schools. In “Cultivating Authentic Relationships in Education System,” Julia coaches creative strategies and social emotional well-being practices to unite and empower educators and school leaders in becoming the best versions of themselves, and to cultivate strong, healthy connections that will help build morale and positive, successful school cultures. Julia is ecstatic to join forces with the amazing Choose Love Movement to help our schools flourish to become the absolute best, safest, loving, nurturing, learning environments they can possibly be.

Lisa MacKenzie

Choose Love Curriculum Writer & California Ambassador

Lisa MacKenzie is one of the curriculum writers for the Choose Love for School Program. While piloting the original Choose Love Enrichment Program several years ago, Lisa developed a Social Emotional Learning/Trauma Sensitive program to serve students with extreme social-emotional and behavioral needs, which earned the Distinguished Schools Award for her school.

Lisa has spent her entire career, of over 30 years, helping struggling students become successful in school and life. She is a special education teacher, author, speaker, and nationally recognized educator. Lisa has her Master’s Degree in Special Education. She holds her Mild/Moderate and Multiple Subject credentials, a supplementary autism credential and single-subject science credential. In addition, she is a certified behavior specialist & mindfulness instructor.

Kim Harrison

Choose Love Curriculum Writer & California Ambassador
Kim Harrison is one of the curriculum writers for the Choose Love for Schools Program. Kim was a twenty year resident of Newtown, CT before moving to San Diego in 2015. Kim has a BA in Communication Studies, a MA in Elementary Education, and a MS in School Counseling, and has taught at the Elementary and Middle School levels.

Kim had regional and statewide responsibilities for exploring new educational approaches to advance curriculum and was the recipient of several awards and grants including “Outstanding Prospective Teacher” from a pool of over 200 applicants.

Kim is also a volunteer and Board Member of Words Alive, a local literacy based organization helping students to become lifelong learners through literature.

Workshop News

Choose Love C.A.R.E.S. School Assembly

Choose Love C.A.R.E.S. School Assembly

By Julia Richter, Choose Love C.A.R.E.S. Implementation Coach I was privileged to onboard Choose Love programming at Curtis Strange Elementary School in Kenosha, WI in late August 2021 by facilitating 4 hours of Choose Love CARES Professional Developments to staff. ...

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Shifting the SELF into Regulation

Shifting the SELF into Regulation

More love is needed in our lives and in this world. It’s a word we don’t use often enough for ourselves and our children. It is a word that can truly transform a thought, a feeling and an action. I’ve been teaching the evidence-based practices of breath, movement and mindfulness to schools across the country. I created the Mindfulness Extension Program for the Choose Love Movement because I deeply believe in the mission of helping school communities learn to how to nurture, heal and love.

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Meet Your Choose Love Ambassador

Have additional questions? Locate and connect with a Certified Choose Love Ambassador near you.

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Training & Implementation

NEW! Whether your staff is in need of some SELF Care, Professional Development or full-service implementation and support for our programs, we’ve got you covered.