Electrify your educators and parents with an award-winning
SPEAKER
Allison Edwards delivers strategically developed topics that empower educators, counselors and parents with the tools they need to grow strong kids. Her sessions blend brain science with practical strategies that can be implemented immediately. Each engagement with Allison is a pivotal step to cultivating a culture of empowerment within homes and schools.
Allison is available for both in-person and virtual events.
Allison makes it easy for you.
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SELECT A TOPIC
Choose from the topics below, designed to transform your role as an educator and parent.
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CUSTOMIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE
Contact Allison to customize your chosen topic, add additional topics, or choose a plan based that will fit your unique goals and audience.
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UTILIZE THE BOOK DISCOUNT
Use the 25% discount to purchase corresponding books as a reference to enhance learning.
TOPIC 1 *New Topic
Growing up Strong: Empowering Young Minds to Manage Emotions, Navigate Conflict and Embrace Growth
Based on Allison’s new book, this presentation teaches parents and educators how to help kids do hard tasks, accomplish goals and become more independent. She will share the 5 feelings kids need to manage before 18 and best practices to help kids build resilience and grow emotional muscles. Using real-life examples, brain research and practical strategies, Allison will teach adults how to lead kids down the path of becoming resilient, capable and emotionally aware.
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Age-appropriate exercises to help kids build emotional muscles
Clear steps for emotion regulation to help kids manage difficult situations
Practical guidance for educators, parents and counselors
Real-world examples that illustrate key concepts
TOPIC 2
Flooded: A Brain-Based Guide to Help Children Manage Emotions
Based on her best-selling book, Allison explains how parents, educators and counselors can help children regulate emotions. Filled with techniques, real-life examples, and practical suggestions for setting up spaces to support emotional regulation, Allison will help adults identify flooded children and help them reset. In this program, adults will not only learn how to help children reset their brains but also how to reset their own brains when triggered by dysregulated children.
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How the brain processes emotion and how children become flooded
The process of regulation by resetting the 5 senses at home and at school
The affects of trauma on emotional dysregulation and how to provide safety
Practical ways to help educators and adults reset when triggered by dysregulated children
Feel like you don’t have enough time to do counseling? Participants will learn 15 counseling techniques that can be implemented in less that 15 minutes from when a student walks into your office. The program can be suited to elementary, middle or high school counselors (or a combination of all) and participants will not only learn the strategies but will be doing them alongside Allison as she teaches how to implement them. Get our your Play-Doh! The hands-on experiential progam will revolutionalize your counseling department and leave participants feeling empowered.
TOPIC 3
15-Minute Counseling Techniques that Work: What You Didn’t Learn in Grad School
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15 practical strategies that can be used with kids, K-12
A description of each strategy along with materials to use, setting and best practices
Leave with strategies you can implement tomorrow. A great way to build or grow a counseling practice
TOPIC 4
Calm Minds, Bright Minds: Tackling Student Stress
Based on her best-selling book, Allison teaches participants how bright kids think and why they struggle with anxiety and emotional regulation. She empowers educators with practical tools to use in the classroom and counseling office to help kids navigate these fears. This presentation simplifies anxiety, empowers educators and relieves fears that kids won’t be able to overcome anxiety. A fresh approach that has helped tens of thousands of parents understand their anxious child.
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An easy to understand definition of anxiety and how to overcome it
15 tools to take kids from debilitated to empowered
How to set boundaries, promote confidence and allow children to overcome fears on their own
TOPIC 5
Approaching Anxiety: How and When Educators should Intervene
Feel like you don’t have enough time to do counseling? Participants will learn 15 counseling techniques that can be implemented in less that 15 minutes from when a student walks into your office. The program can be suited to elementary, middle or high school counselors (or a combination of all) and participants will not only learn the strategies but will be doing them alongside Allison as she teaches how to implement them. Get our your Play-Doh! The hands-on experiential progam will revolutionalize your counseling department and leave participants feeling empowered.
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15 practical strategies that can be used with kids, K-12
A description of each strategy along with materials to use, setting and best practices
Leave with strategies you can implement tomorrow. A great way to build or grow a counseling practice
TOPIC 6
Helping Students with Trauma and Emotional Dysregulation
Based on her best-selling book, Allison guides participants through the mental and emotional process of where fears come from and why they are so hard to move past. She empowers parents with 15 practical tools to help kids navigate these fears along with helping parents understand their role in the process. This presentation simplifies anxiety, empowers parents and relieves fears that kids won’t be able to overcome anxiety. A fresh approach that has helped tens of thousands of parents understand their anxious child.
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Understand how the brain reacts to trauma
Learn effective ways to interact with traumatized kids
How ACE's affect learning and everyday functioning
TOPIC 7
Helping the Helper: Self-Care for Counselors
We spend our days helping kids but how do we help ourselves? This program outlines self-care models for counseling professionals, uses humor and storytelling to normalize how hard our jobs are, and leaves counselors feeling rejuvenated. Tips for how to structure the workday, balance home and work life and how to focus on your role will help counselors better manage their taxing jobs and give them strategies they can use for years to come!
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Define your role and let the rest go
Strategies to reset your brain during a stressful day
Boundaries that create work-life balance and career longevity
“You were amazing and such an easy to follow speaker. You spoke with poise and wisdom and with authenticity. That is hard to find these days and I truly appreciate your boldness to keep it real for us.”
“THE PROGRAM WAS A SLAM DUNK!
Allison was terrific, and really seemed to reach our audience’s concerns. I have heard nothing but glowing comments.”
“Our counselors love your practical strategies they can implement immediately. ”
