From the desk of ... Mary Robinson Reynolds, M.S. Educational Psychologist
Re: How to Make Schools Emotionally Safe for ALL

Think back to when you were in school ...

My junior high and high school years were more emotionally tough than they needed to be, because I had no one to coach me through the emotionally painful stuff, and that's why I do what I do today.

Let's face it, school has never truly been a safe place, emotionally and psychologically, for many kids, and certainly not for those kids coming in from dire home situations.

I'm not talking about the part of this that is all about the growing pains of simply growing up.

This is about the fact that what you and I went through as kids is now magnified into some really intense extremes.

This is about Healing Today's Children ... and Ourselves.

Growing up doesn't have to be so painful, and MDPA provides a way to come together - one classroom and one community at a time - to heal generational legacies of pain that permiate how we have come to treat each other.

MDPA is a great beginning point.

Unskillful behaviors come out of our own pain and suffering, because of bottled up emotions that we have not learned how to put into words - in ways that we will be heard and regarded with a degree of humanity and compassion.

Many today still look at unskillful behavior and attack back - to over power it - as if that is what will work. While it may work for the immediate situation, it never works in psychologically healthy ways for the long term.

Together, let's make our schools a SAFE ZONE for ALL Students by first learning how to get outside ourselves to learn the skill of acknowledging others.

This is just STEP ONE.

There are many steps and many ways to creating a safe community that is conducive for kids to live and learn.

And I have a program which can help this be accomplished...

To put an end to hurtful gossip, backstabbing, prejudice, jealousy, labeling, defiance, beligerance, emotional and psychological escape through drugs, alchohol, food and electronics, we must begin with a NEW conversation.

This NEW conversation can begin with the inspirational movies I've brought into the MDPA program, followed with a series of thought-provoking questions designed to engage students with each other and their teachers to discuss the concepts of the story represented in the movie.

As adults, we need to learn how to listen to what Today's Children have to say about how they feel and think even if their "truth" or view makes us uncomfortable - for the adult it is as simple as slowing down and continuing to ask questions until each point of view has been expressed and/or vented.

MDPA is structured so that adults who get jumpy when things get emotional can stay with the questions provided and simply let a classroom of students share their feelings and thoughts ... and keep it SAFE for them to do so.

MDPA teaches students, faculty and staff how to express thoughts and feelings in a way that keeps them coming back to their most AUTHENTIC selves. THIS is where self-esteem begins.

Kids who are getting addicted to drugs, alchohol, food, bullying and electronics must be given SKILLS to deal with their worlds in effective and empowered ways.

This program begins this process, and - if it's used all the way through - it will make tremendous inroads to opening kids up to USE THEIR WORDs in ways that they can be heard and they can get their emotional needs met and understood.

Click picture to hear what Mary says about Acknowledgment.

MDPA reaches out in the community - to the parents and businesses where parents work and where stuff happens!

Until we address what's really going on emotionally for ALL of our students - collectively and as a compassionate caring campus-wide community - there will still be those students who are NOT being seen, heard or felt until they do something extreme.

UNTIL we deal with the CONNECTION issue - the violence will continue and grow exponentially.

MDPA opens the doors to reaching into what's really going on for kids today.

If not you, then who?

If not now, then when?

You have 1 more day to get on this train, because it is leaving the station...

I AM OPENING THIS EXCELLENT OFFER BACK UP
FOR ONLY 1 MORE DAY
I'D LOVE TO SEE YOU IN THIS TRAINING!

By giving you my Train the Trainer overview of MDPA UTrain® Program, I can help you bring the transforming impact of the "Who I am Makes a Difference" Acknowledgment Story into Your Community's classrooms NOW, along with other momentum building stories / movies: The Teddy Stallard Story, The Simple Gesture and more.

The Make a Difference with the Power of Acknowledgment UTrain® Program is designed to inspire and equip educators with a revitalized educational philosophy and practical techniques that will give life to academic performance and requirements.

It is the ONLY program of it's kind, because I'm teaching people about the debilitating effect that shaming, condescending Attitudinal Energy has on the kids who are already in pain, AND most importantly, this program teaches a SKILL SET that deals with Attitudinal Energy in a HUMANE MANNER.

Each Lesson in the program comes with discussions and activities to bridge the gap between social emotional issues and their often dramatic, life-altering effects.

So ... I am offering you free training on the delivery of the program, and you can invite whoever will be delivering the program, if that's not you.

In my VIRTUAL training, I will give you my BEST Exercise that gets everyone on the SAME PAGE - AND INVOLVED in delivering the program.

Plus, I will be walking you STEP-BY-STEP through exactly how to deliver this training site-wide for the greatest results possible. It WILL make a self-sustaining and measurable difference to the entire school for the whole year.

MDPA UTrain® Program is specifically designed to:

==> create social connectedness
==> provide concrete support in times of need
==> teach social and emotional competence

I will also teach you how to get Funding...

EXTENDED! 1 DAY LEFT
I'D LOVE TO SEE YOU IN THIS TRAINING!

If you feel as strongly as I do about this then DO SOMETHING TODAY.

Reaching out to Make A Positive, Transformational Difference ...

Mary Robinson Reynolds
Author & Founder, Heart Productions & Publishing
MakeADifference.com/Acknowledge
UTrain® Program for Business, Churches, Organizations and Schools

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