Join Julie and Ginger as they speak with Anashay Wright, a national award-winning educator, speaker, consultant, and ​​founder of Authentic Disruption and Disruptive Partners, a community-based leadership development program.

https://www.anashaywright.com/

Anashay describes her journey by telling a story of inclusive school leaders who surrounded her family with community resources when they were in need. She says that school and district leaders prioritized people over policy, which led to Anashay falling in love with helping children, and she is now paying it forward.

Here are some great takeaways from Anashay:

The curriculum can’t save you.

Brainwash them into greatness.

Use the community as a connector.

Use tech and AI to educate.

Kids don’t need Saviorism; they need servant leaders.

Kids can read! They read what they want. You can drive solutions with what kids CAN do. If they argue, teach them to argue like an attorney.

Beware of the cycle of impoverished thinking.

Give them the power to express themselves, and then listen to them.

Beware of deficit thinking that shames people.

What are the gifts and talents that you bring into the space?

Let them dream. Lead with what’s possible. It starts with the adult dreaming.

Make their vision your mission.

Lead with radical, disruptive love.

The question isn’t how we protect kids from trauma; it’s how we help them respond to it when they encounter it.

Our favorite quote from Anashay:

When we start to lead with what’s possible and the promise, shift our thinking, and actually believe in ourselves and then in our children, we will disrupt the system. Disruptive Innovation means building something better and ignoring what we currently have. In a classroom, that means if all the other teachers are writing kids up, I’m not going to write kids up. I’m simply gonna ask kids, “What’s wrong, what’s the solution, and how are you feeling?” The big and small moves you make every day when nobody is looking disrupt the system.

Join Julie and Ginger in speaking to Occupational Therapist, Kelly Mahler about Interoception and the body-mind disconnect.

Kelly teaches that as caregivers and educators, we should be curious without expectation of a response from the children we work with.

She also explains that we all have different internal experiences; our first step is to believe others and their experiences.

Kelly tells us that before we start working on helping and healing the body-mind connection, we really need to work towards a place of regulation and help that person feel safe in their body and environment.

Check out her website here:

https://www.kelly-mahler.com/

And her Big Book of Interoception Games (and other resources) here:

https://www.amazon.com/Books-Kelly-Mahler/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AKelly+Mahler

Join Julie and Ginger in speaking to Carey Sipp talking about early childhood intervention.

Carey is a solutions journalist and “Neuro-Nurturing ®” advocate who has written about the science of adverse childhood experiences* (ACEs) for about 15 years. She has also worked in communications for nonprofit organizations and for-profit organizations for some four decades. As a person with the experience of trauma and depression, Sipp’s inherent empathy is reflected in all her work, be it writing, speaking, or advocating. An avid nature photographer, shew also loves taking photographs of children and families. Sipp is thrilled that her children, now “thirty-somethings”, are living their dreams of active outdoor lifestyles and careers in recreation and healthcare in Montana.

Carey refers to the following resources:

PACEs science

Deb McNelis Neuro-Nurturing ®” -https://www.braininsightsonline.com/

“First 60 Days” booklet: Leveraging author’s work and movement could spark revolution to prevent and heal trauma, one precious baby, child, and caregiver at a time.

Carey’s book: https://a.co/d/eyAGX7q

Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey “What happened to you?” https://a.co/d/0HqYxfD

Dr. Christina Bethel

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31498386/

Ed Tronick-The Power of Discord

https://a.co/d/e5KfXUq

https://www.pacesconnection.com/blog/exciting-news-paces-connection-is-back

Still face baby experiment video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Jw0-LExyc

How to raise a Viking

https://a.co/d/1gEhVle