Tara Mager

Leverage wellbeing tactics to develop and retain staff. Improve mental health and wellbeing through six simple tools that increase thriving behaviors in ourselves and our staff. In this engaging and interactive workshop, you will explore evidence-informed practices to better understand how the science of wellbeing positively affects mental health, improves job satisfaction, and reduces turnover. You will gain free resources including a wellbeing measurement tool and activities including building positive emotions, job crafting, intentional assimilation, bio poem, the learning loop, and tiny habits.

Trauma-informed care, diversity, equity and inclusion, anti-bullying, mental health, social and emotional learning, restorative practices… Does just the list of priorities and initiatives overwhelm you? What if you considered these practices through a single lens, realized there is a common solution, and wove them together in an easy-to-understand and implement plan? Join this interactive session where you will work with peers and a veteran community partner who specializes in creating simple solutions that weave together existing initiatives. We will explore commonalities in current challenges and solutions, and explore how the evidence-based frameworks of developmental assets, applied positive psychology and social and emotional learning come together to address student wellbeing. Leverage these scientific approaches to create one comprehensive solution and promote an environment of wellness.

Play games with kids while they build mental wellness! Have a conversation with kids
while they acquire thriving skills that promote mental health and provide tools to avert crises. Equip kids through everyday interactions to fail well (build resilience), include others (create belonging), and communicate in a way that promotes empathy and trust (healthy relationships). Learn ways to help our kid’s mental wellbeing without them even realizing it.