About

THE MODEL

Workshops include interactive exercises using everyday objects and personal reflection to help participants move through a three-step process (LEARN, INTERNALIZE, TEACH) that helps them understand and apply the science behind growth mindset and social emotional intelligence. This process sparks new levels of passion for learning and a sense of purpose that fuels perseverance through challenges and willingness to risk failure.

Clients then get neuroscience-informed strategies and resources on how to catalyze mindset and perception shifts within their teams, organizations and communities in order to cultivate innovative, deep learning and contribution from all members.

ABOUT ME

My graduate degree from New York University, and fieldwork at the NYU Phelps Lab for Neuroscience Research, NYU Institute for Prevention Science, and Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine focused on the cross-section of neuroscience, mindset and empathy.  In 2010, I won third place at the NYU Graduate Research Conference for my original research on Family Emotional Climate and Empathy.  I also won the Government of Canada Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003.

The training programs I've created combine over a decade of counseling and teaching in schools and organizations across the US, Canada, Europe, Latin America and Africa, with insights gained from my graduate research and training in monasteries with meditation and mindfulness teachers from Africa, the US, Vietnam and India.  I offer workshops and consulting to universities and businesses such as Google, HPI Design School in Berlin, Illinois State University, Northwestern University, Chicago Teachers Union, City Colleges of Chicago, as well as nonprofits and school districts throughout the US, Europe, Australia and Canada.