About the Synergetic Education™ Institute
The Synergetic Education™ Institute exists to transform education through empowering educators and students.
A synergetic approach to creating trauma-informed schools involves supporting students and adults using innovative, integrated, and differentiated approaches, empowering you to support and elevate all students, leading to sustainable growth and healing.
Combining the latest educational, mental health, and leadership frameworks, with neuroscience, nervous system regulation, interpersonal neurobiology, and social-emotional practices, the Synergetic Education Institute teaches practical, daily strategies that will transform your pedagogy and your environment. Synergetic Education approaches and programs integrate decades of experience at the intersection of education and mental health.
Without increasing educators’ workloads, we bridge the gap between daily demands and the real needs of students with a holistic approach that benefits both students and educators.
What Makes Us Different?
- Addressing Root Causes, Not Just Symptoms: Traditional approaches to student behavior often miss the mark, sometimes even escalating situations. Learn how to recognize brain and body states that impact student’s processing capabilities in the moment and the dynamics affecting classroom behaviors, making your interventions more effective and sustainable.
- Prepare Brains and Bodies to Learn: Gain tools to articulate the connection between neurophysiological states and behaviors, equipping you to intervene with the right strategy at the right time, bringing students back to a place of learning. Even the most amazing educators will struggle when students aren’t ready to learn.
- Identify Missing Pieces in School Programs: Discover critical components often absent from current approaches, such as interoceptive awareness and adapting strategies to different environments. Without these abilities students stay stuck in challenging behaviors and unable to apply skills. Learn to integrate these missing pieces in simple, practical ways, helping students use social-emotional skills independently and effectively.
- Empower Students Through Classroom-Wide Regulation: Learn how to demonstrate regulation strategies that benefit all students and teachers, without adding extra work. Regulation is most effective when it’s integrated throughout the day, not just during scheduled brain breaks. Learn how to guide students in understanding their own activation and behavior, helping them take responsibility for their behavior and regulation.
- Options for Support that Match Educators’ Realities: Establish practical approaches that account for differing student needs that can be implemented effectively in classrooms.
- Creating Felt Safety and Belonging: Safety and belonging aren’t just about a welcoming environment—they start in the brain. Learn how to foster an atmosphere where you can help your students develop a felt sense of safety and belonging, leading to better self-regulation and a readiness to learn, which is vital for addressing today’s challenges.
- Transforming Student-Adult Relationships: Power struggles and miscommunication can derail student-adult interactions. We equip you with tools to navigate these complex dynamics, fostering trust, respect, and mutual understanding that lead to positive changes in your classroom and students’ lives.
- Shifting Resistance into Readiness: Collaborating with colleagues can be challenging, especially when resistance to change is high. Our revolutionary Developmental Mindsets Paradigm™ offers strategies to shift resistance into readiness, creating a ripple effect that transforms school culture towards a mindset of curiosity rather than resistance, prioritizing regulation, safety, and belonging for all.
At a Glance: What You’ll Gain
- Practical, Scalable Strategies: Implement classroom-wide approaches that support every student, increases student engagement and doesn’t feel like “one more thing.”
- Deeper Understanding of Behavior and Relationship Dynamics: Uncover the root causes of challenging dynamics and address them in ways that promote students feeling safe, understood, and ready to learn.
- Empowerment to Transform Classrooms: Create regulatory environments, with small but powerful shifts in daily routines that allow for dynamic, individualized support where students take responsibility for their behavior and regulation.
- Collaboration and Connection: Balance support and challenge to keep others in their learning zone cultivating resilience for all and fostering deeper connection and understanding among educators.
Join us in embracing a Synergetic Approach to Education that meets students and educators where they are—and takes them where they want to be.
About the Synergetic Education™ Institute
The Synergetic Education™ Institute exists to transform education through empowering educators and students.
A synergetic approach to creating trauma-informed schools involves supporting students and adults using innovative, integrated, and differentiated approaches, empowering you to support and elevate all students, leading to sustainable growth and healing.
Combining the latest educational, mental health, and leadership frameworks, with neuroscience, nervous system regulation, interpersonal neurobiology, and social-emotional practices, the Synergetic Education Institute teaches practical, daily strategies that will transform your pedagogy and your environment. Synergetic Education approaches and programs integrate decades of experience at the intersection of education and mental health.
Without increasing educators’ workloads, we bridge the gap between daily demands and the real needs of students with a holistic approach that benefits both students and educators.
What Makes Us Different?
- Addressing Root Causes, Not Just Symptoms: Traditional approaches to student behavior often miss the mark, sometimes even escalating situations. Learn how to recognize brain and body states that impact student’s processing capabilities in the moment and the dynamics affecting classroom behaviors, making your interventions more effective and sustainable.
- Prepare Brains and Bodies to Learn: Gain tools to articulate the connection between neurophysiological states and behaviors, equipping you to intervene with the right strategy at the right time, bringing students back to a place of learning. Even the most amazing educators will struggle when students aren’t ready to learn.
- Identify Missing Pieces in School Programs: Discover critical components often absent from current approaches, such as interoceptive awareness and adapting strategies to different environments. Without these abilities students stay stuck in challenging behaviors and unable to apply skills. Learn to integrate these missing pieces in simple, practical ways, helping students use social-emotional skills independently and effectively.
- Empower Students Through Classroom-Wide Regulation: Learn how to demonstrate regulation strategies that benefit all students and teachers, without adding extra work. Regulation is most effective when it’s integrated throughout the day, not just during scheduled brain breaks. Learn how to guide students in understanding their own activation and behavior, helping them take responsibility for their behavior and regulation.
- Options for Support that Match Educators’ Realities: Establish practical approaches that account for differing student needs that can be implemented effectively in classrooms.
- Creating Felt Safety and Belonging: Safety and belonging aren’t just about a welcoming environment—they start in the brain. Learn how to foster an atmosphere where you can help your students develop a felt sense of safety and belonging, leading to better self-regulation and a readiness to learn, which is vital for addressing today’s challenges.
- Transforming Student-Adult Relationships: Power struggles and miscommunication can derail student-adult interactions. We equip you with tools to navigate these complex dynamics, fostering trust, respect, and mutual understanding that lead to positive changes in your classroom and students’ lives.
- Shifting Resistance into Readiness: Collaborating with colleagues can be challenging, especially when resistance to change is high. Our revolutionary Developmental Mindsets Paradigm™ offers strategies to shift resistance into readiness, creating a ripple effect that transforms school culture towards a mindset of curiosity rather than resistance, prioritizing regulation, safety, and belonging for all.
At a Glance: What You’ll Gain
- Practical, Scalable Strategies: Implement classroom-wide approaches that support every student, increases student engagement and doesn’t feel like “one more thing.”
- Deeper Understanding of Behavior and Relationship Dynamics: Uncover the root causes of challenging dynamics and address them in ways that promote students feeling safe, understood, and ready to learn.
- Empowerment to Transform Classrooms: Create regulatory environments, with small but powerful shifts in daily routines that allow for dynamic, individualized support where students take responsibility for their behavior and regulation.
- Collaboration and Connection: Balance support and challenge to keep others in their learning zone cultivating resilience for all and fostering deeper connection and understanding among educators.
Join us in embracing a Synergetic Approach to Education that meets students and educators where they are—and takes them where they want to be.