Educator Workshops
Building Calm, Effective Classrooms
Educators today face growing burnout, classroom disruption, and unmanageable expectations. I offer clear, practical tools to reduce stress, restore emotional safety, and engage learners. You’ll walk away with practical tools that support every student’s needs while preserving your well-being and fostering trust in the classroom.
8 Ways to Reduce Classroom Chaos - and Actually Enjoy Teaching Again
Teaching doesn’t have to feel like constant crisis management.
This workshop draws from powerful insights shared by teens in a psychiatric unit, and translates those lessons into practical classroom strategies that actually work. Grounded in my unprecedented doctoral research at a youth concurrent disorders centre, this session offers 8 clear tools you can put into practice right away.
You’ll discover how to:
- reduce classroom chaos and create space for real learning
- ease daily stress so you can focus on teaching, not constant behaviour management
- support students’ needs without draining your own energy
You’ll leave with proven strategies to build a calmer, more connected classroom environment, along with a clearer path back to your own sense of balance and joy in teaching.
Confident Discipline: Seven Strategies for Educators to Manage Behaviour with Compassionate Care
This workshop reclaims the language of discipline, not as punishment, but as the path to building the emotional regulation skills students need for life. Offering seven strategies to bring order to any classroom, this session is for educators who are tired of power struggles, constant corrections, and feeling like the “bad guy.”
Grounded in attachment theory, neuroscience, current research, and my three decades of teaching, these strategies show you how to guide with clarity and care, so your classroom feels both calm and connected.
You’ll learn how to:
- set consistent boundaries without escalating conflict
- redirect behaviour “in the moment” with empathy
- foster student accountability through co-regulation and problem-solving
- stay regulated yourself, even when students aren’t
Walk away with practical strategies that put you in control, and manage a classroom with confidence while creating a space of safety, respect, and lasting learning.
Universal Classrooms: Trauma-Informed Teaching That Supports Every Student and Teacher
You don’t always know which students carry trauma, but every student benefits when teachers create environments grounded in compassion, safety, and respect. This session reframes trauma-informed teaching as a universal approach that makes classrooms calmer, relationships stronger, and learning more possible.
Drawing from my doctoral research, lived dialogues with youth in psychiatric and substance use treatment, Indigenous knowledge and neurology, you will be equipped with:
- a deeper understanding of how trauma impacts learning and behaviour
- clear strategies to create emotional safety for all students
- practical ways to respond to misbehaviour with presence, not reaction
- tools to build trust without needing rigid programs or checklists
- practices that protect your own well-being while supporting students
You’ll leave with grounded, research-informed strategies that make teaching more manageable and classrooms more compassionate for everyone.
Student Mental Health 101: What Educators Need to Know
When educators understand what a student is going through, they respond with more clarity and confidence, reducing conflict, easing tension, and making classroom life smoother for everyone.
This session breaks down the mental health challenges you’re seeing in your classroom and explains what’s happening beneath the surface.
Through real stories and student perspectives, you’ll learn how youth experience these struggles and what actually helps them feel supported at school.
You’ll walk away with:
- a clear, accessible overview of the most common youth mental health challenges
- behaviours to watch for, and what they might really mean
- universal trauma strategies you can apply right away
- what to say (and what not to) when students open up
- a deeper sense of confidence when facing student mental health issues
This session offers practical, research-informed support for educators who want to help but are already stretched thin.