Heidy with a WHY, Inc. Educational Speaker from Des Plaines, IL

This powerful true story keynote, based on real life trauma, provides practical strategies to understand how our Actions, Words & Expressions (AWE) have a direct impact on the outcome of interactions with our students. Trauma transforms the student experience and practicing our perspective can assist in a child's journey to reclaim livelihood. We are empowered to be a part of the problem or part of the solution with ALL kids. Our AWE can either add weight to their shackles or fill their balloons to soar. Inspirational. Motivational. Refreshing. Often, as educators & parents, we receive little guidance when working with special needs, distracted kids, mental illness, emotional stress, behavioral deficiencies, trauma and dysregulated children. Heidy hears you, she's got you & she will help you. Trauma is often overlooked in our society and the need to understand the why behind behavior is a roaring bonfire. Heidy will share over 26 strategies to calm the fire and teach you how to build relationships with tough kids so you can eventually extinguish the fire. She offers strategies for refusal, disruption & finding the why behind behavior. Heidy teaches the trauma cycle and how it impacts our brain. She shows HOW to build relationships with challenging kids instead of expecting you to know how and reveals the magic wand towering with unmotivated kids...Perspective. Your life will be forever changed after hearing this true story of trauma that has been transformed into 26 practical strategies to help THOSE KIDS who've been traumatized, are misunderstood and those who take frequent detours from what's expected.