The Nurtured Heart Approach®: Recent Episodes
Childrens Success Foundation
The Nurtured Heart Approach® (NHA) is a world-acclaimed set of strategies, helping all children flourish. Join Stephanie Rule as your host and NHA Certified Trainers and Advanced Trainers as guests monthly in discussing the application of Nurtured Heart in a variety of topics.
Tune in to listen to Stephanie Rule and her guest, Dovid Levy, discuss how NHA is not just a set of strategies, it is a mode of being. Dovid and Stephanie have a candid discussion around applying the Nurtured Heart Approach® to every aspect of one's life. The self-reset playing a major part in how to truly dial in the 3 Stands in each moment that life brings.
Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-podcast/
Music: Reset To Your Heart's Intention- John Frick
Lyrics: Howard Glasser
Join Stephanie Rule and her guest, Stacy Nielsen for a candid discussion about using NHA to support our self-care in an unhealthy relationship. We all experience relationships that have some level of toxicity, and Nurtured Heart Approach® provides us with the tools we need to take care of ourselves in the midst of these unhealthy relationships. Stacy and Stephanie walk through the 3 Stands™ and how to apply them not only to the relationship, but to yourself as well.
Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-podcast/
Music: Reset To Your Heart's Intention- John Frick
Lyrics: Howard Glasser
Join Stephanie Rule and her guest, Maxine McFarlane, as they dive into building Inner Wealth in the elementary classroom. They hold an informative discussion around weaving NHA into school disciplinary policies. Tune in for real-life examples of how to implement The Nurtured Heart Approach® in a classroom environment, and how to create a paradigm shift to help you begin to see your students' intensities in a positive way!
Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-podcast/
Music: Reset To Your Heart's Intention- John Frick
Lyrics: Howard Glasser
Join Stephanie Rule and her guest, Mussi Diskin in a conversation about using NHA and renewing your Inner Wealth® in the coming year. Listen to their meaningful discussion on how to explore growing your own Inner Wealth as they dive deep into the use of the 3 Stands™ of Nurtured Heart Approach to grow an inner NHA practice.
Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-podcast/
Music: Reset To Your Heart's Intention- John Frick
Lyrics: Howard Glasser
For our last episode for 2020, take a listen back to a discussion from 2017. This discussion centered around using the Nurtured Heart Approach® during the holiday reveals how it can be a life force in navigating unhealthy relationships and setting clear boundaries for children and family members. Join the host, Stephanie Rule, as she leads our brilliant guests, Jennifer Lotery and Mary Black, in a conversation about utilizing NHA as an adult and keeping you and your children emotionally healthy during the holidays.
Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-podcast/
You can also register now for the virtual Nurtured Heart Approach® Certification Training Intensive 1/17/21 - 1/22/21. (https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/certified-trainer)
Music: Reset To Your Heart's Intention- John Frick
Lyrics: Howard Glasser
Join Stephanie Rule and her guest, Juana Zegarra in a conversation about NHA and families with immigration uncertainty. Listen to their meaningful discussion on how the 3 Stands can give parents the opportunity for consistency in what they feel is an unpredictable future for them and their children. Also, tune in to hear how using NHA recognitions can support families in speaking about difficult topics.
Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-podcast/
You can also register now for the virtual Nurtured Heart Approach® Certification Training Intensive 11/17/21 - 11/22/21. (https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/certified-trainer)
Music: Reset To Your Heart's Intention- John Frick
Lyrics: Howard Glasser
Join Stephanie Rule and her guest, Scott Lindstrom in a conversation about Big Energy. They have an open discussion around what to do with the big energies we come across in life. How can you use NHA to support you in learning to embrace difficult energy, making friends with that difficult energy, rather than bracing against it? Tune in to find out!
Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-podcast/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Stephanie Rule interviews her guests, Nicole Semmens and Leah Marcus, about strategies for shifting from solely modeling the approach at home, to incorporating strategies and activities for directly teaching the approach in your home! It is a lively discussion with great tools for supporting you in teaching NHA to your kids!
Guest Bios: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/september-podcast-teaching-nha-to-your-kids/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Tune in to hear this month's episode between Stephanie Rule and Nara Derapelian as they discuss the long term effects The Nurtured Heart Approach® has on a person's Inner Wealth®. Nara transparently shares her emotional upbringing with her mother who adopted her at a young age. She shares the impact that NHA had on her life and in her relationships, as a child and as an adult today. This heartfelt episode gives parents beautiful insight into having The Nurtured Heart Approach as a foundational aspect in one's life, and how it leads to an adult who can see what is going right in even the most difficult situations, and develops clear boundaries and healthy relationships.
Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/august-podcast-all-grown-up/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Stephanie Rule and Howard Glasser hold an inspiring and uplifting conversation about building Inner Wealth™ amidst a world crisis, the Pandemic COVID-19. Tune in to hear about tools that will not only help build Inner Wealth in your children, but also in yourself. Learn how to apply The Nurtured Heart Approach® to your children, the adults in your life, and yourself, on ever-deepening levels.
Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/april-2020-howard-glasser-is-our-guest/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Listen to this moving conversation as Stephanie Rule interviews recently certified trainer of NHA, Robert Smedley. Robert is one of the youngest certified trainers, as he became certified when he was only eighteen years old. Robert discusses how NHA has impacted his life since he returned to the CTI, and how NHA has helped him to connect with the youth he serves in a heart-centered way.
Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/march-2020-teaching-nha-to-youth/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Tune into this month's NHA discussion between host and NHA trainer, Stephanie Rule, and her guest Laura Leigh Smith. Certified Advanced NHA trainer, Laura Leigh Smith, shares her intimate family experience with addiction and recovery, and the impact NHA made on the process of recovery for her family. This conversation is beautifully authentic and heartfelt. Take a look into one family's complete transformation by fully embracing NHA during a turbulent time in their life.
Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-podcast
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Listen to this incredibly moving podcast about beating the odds! Stephanie Rule interviews two strong and resilient Certified NHA trainers who grew up in the foster care system. They share how they didn't just survive growing up in the system - but how they are able to thrive and flourish in their adult lives. Such a powerful discussion about how The Nurtured Heart Approach can transform your challenging life experiences, no matter what they are. Michele Moran and Gina Lynn Pearson are authentic, beautifully present with their lives today, and are determined to help transform the lives of as many foster youth as they can. Tune in to their stories about how to live with intention using NHA, even through the most difficult life experiences.
Guest Bios: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/the-nha-podcast/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Listen to the brilliance of Advanced Trainer, Dawn Kowalczyk, as she shares her story of becoming a foster parent. As she navigates the bumpy road of fostering, she sheds her default beliefs about parenting, and emraces a new paradigm. Join our host, Stephanie Rule, as she intently listens to Dawn's story of learning and becoming the Nurtured Heart Approach, and watching it transform her family before her eyes.
Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/november-nha-podcast/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Join host Stephanie Rule as she guides you through an emotionally compelling episode of the NHA Podcast. Her discussion with Advanced Trainer, Debbie Neumann, is motivating for caregivers of a loved one with Alzheimer's Disease, and it illuminates how NHA provides hope to the caregiving role, that can sometimes feel hopeless. Listen to Debbie weave the 3 Stands of NHA into the role of caregiver for a loved one with Alzheimer's - learn how take care of yourself, in the face of caring for one you deeply love; and how to help a loved one see what is going right in the midst of chaos and negativity in their mind. The Nurtured Heart Approach can restore hope for both the cargiver and the loved one suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.
click here for gues bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/its-october-and-podcasts-are-back/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Host Stephanie Rule, and Guest Neils Wright, hold a powerful discussion about how Neils was able to apply NHA to his life during the fires that destroyed the little town of Paradise, CA. Join them to hear a moving account and firsthand experience of weaving Nurtured Heart into the tapestry of one's life - and watching as it plays out even amidst a traumatic experience.
Click here for Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/august-nha-podcast-living-with-intention
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Join host, Stephanie Rule, as she interviews her last NHA Global Summit presenter! This podcast marks the end of a 5-month series, spotlighting presenters from the upcoming Global Summit in New Jersey, July 14-17, 2019. Stephanie speaks with NHA Advanced Trainer, Barbara Wilson, as Barabara shares with us a glimpse of her breakout session, on Resetting to your Optimal Zone in the Window of Tolerance. Barbara shares how resetting is a powerful exercise in co-regulation, and how she will be teaching incredible tools to all who attend her breakout session at the 2019 Global Summit. If you are new to NHA, join us at our Nurtured Heart Approach®? Global Summit, and gain a multitude of tools to help you learn and apply NHA to your personal life, professional life, and community. We will have over 24 Certified Traienrs from around the world presenting on how they use NHA in their daily lives, and 4 incredible keynote speakers! It's not too late to register!
Register Here: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-global-summit/
Click here for Guest Bio: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/2019-june-podcast/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Listen in to catch just a quick glimpse of Certified NHA Trainer, Dana Kasowski, share her story about how The Nurtured Heart Approach saved her teaching career! If you are a teacher who is feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, and like there is nothing else out there that could save your teaching career, THIS is the podcast for you to listen to! Better yet, our upcoming Global Summit, July 14-17 2019, in West Orange New Jersey is the place for you to be! Dana will be one of our many presenters at the Global Summit, and she will share her secret - how she was able to save her teaching career using NHA. Don't miss it!
Listen in to hear our guests, Melissa Lowenstein and David and Jennifer Burke, share a glimpse of what they will be presenting at our upcoming Global Summit in July 2019. If you are new to NHA, join us at our Nurtured Heart Approach® Global Summit, and gain a multitude of tools to help you learn and apply NHA to your personal life, professional life, and community. We will have over 24 Certified Trainers from around the world presenting on how they use NHA in their daily lives, and 4 incredible keynote speakers! In today's podcast you will hear about two of our breakout sessions that will be presented at our Global Summit. Catch a glimpse of what these NHA trainers will be presenting on about NHA and SEL with teenagers and educators, as well as using NHA in an adolescent treatment center!
Click here for guest bios: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/april-2019-podcast/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Listen in to hear our guests, Brooke Tafoya and Dorothy Derapelian, share a glimpse of what they will be presenting at our upcoming Global Summit in July 2019. If you are new to NHA, join us at our Nurtured Heart Approach® Global Summit, and gain a multitude of tools to help you learn and apply NHA to your personal life, professional life, and community. We will have 26 breakout sessions lead by our very own NHA trainers from around the world, and 4 incredible keynote speakers! In today's podcast you will hear about two of our breakout sessions that will be presented at our Global Summit. Catch a glimpse of what these NHA trainers will be presenting on about teaching Nurtured Heart to adolescents and transition age youth, as well as using NHA and Core Attachment Therapy!
Click here for guest bios: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/march-2019-podcast/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Listen in to hear our guests, Diandra Kaufman, Christina Marinaro, Lyla Tyler and Tammi Van Hollander share a glimpse of what they will be presenting at our upcoming Global Summit in July 2019. If you are new to NHA, join us at our Nurtured Heart Approach® Global Summit, and gain a multitude of tools to help you learn and apply NHA to your personal life, professional life, and community. We will have 26 breakout sessions lead by our very own NHA trainers from around the world, and 4 incredible keynote speakers! In today's podcast you will hear about two of our breakout sessions that will be presented at our Global Summit. Catch a glimpse of what these NHA trainers will be presenting on about teaching Nurtured Heart to youth, as well as using NHA in play therapy!
Click here for guest bios: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/february-2019-nha-podcast/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Have you ever wished you could change your negative "self-talk"? Listen to this engaging discussion about using The Nurtured Heart Approach® to transform your negative inner dialogue to a more positive version! Join host, Stephanie Rule, as she guides her guests, Stacie Lancaster and Jeffrey Swan, in a dynamic discussion about how to notch up your own Inner Wealth™. Learn about developing your own inner NHA practice through the use of the foundational pieces of NHA. Have you always thought that The Nurtured Heart was only for your children? Well, listen to this podcast episode to discover how to use The Nurtured Heart Approach to transform YOU. What you feel to be true about who you are on the inside is also what you offer to the world - so why not discover the tools that will help you find the joy within your own heart so you can share your joyful heart with the world.
Click here for guest bios: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/notching-up-your-inner-wealth/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Join this captivating discussion about how The Nurtured Heart Approach®? bridges the cultural divide. Listen to host Stephanie Rule and her two guests, Darron Harley and Viviana Barajas, talk about NHA being a way to reach past our outer shells, and get to the truth of the moment – the truth of who we are on the inside. Listen to hear about the highlighted culture of Japan, and how one NHA trainer, Reiko Yamamoto, persists in her journey of bringing NHA to her country. This is a great discussion about how The Nurtured Heart Approach is a universal truth, and how to cross cultural boundaries by remaining in your authentic self.
Click here for guest bios: http://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-podcast/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Listen in for our discussion involving people with developmental disabilities from infancy to adulthood. Advanced trainers Joe Clem and Melissa Niemi speak candidly about their experiences and stories in implementing The Nurtured Heart Approach in this community. Joe and Melissa discuss how the majority of people with developmental disabilities soak in the NHA recognitions. Listen to their great conversation about how there is always something to recognize about people in this population - stay in the moment and recognize the good in front of you.
Click here for gues bios: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/disabilities-of-development/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
In this episode of The Nurtured Heart Approach®? Podcast, our host, Stephanie Rule, guides a discussion about how to notch up your use of NHA during the transition between summer break, and back to school! Our guests, Ann Bell Worley and Christy Munch share in a dynamic conversation in how to notch up your NHA skills, whether you are a teacher with a classroom full of students, or a parent of intense children. Listen to hear brilliant tools for implementation and words of NHA wisdom, as well as to just hear how our host and guests live and breathe The Nurtured Heart Approach.
Click here for gues bios: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/educational-success/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
When just beginning to implement the Nurtured Heart Approach® there are often questions about the "how to"of using it. This is the last episode of our 3-part series exploring those Frequently Asked Questions. This month our Host, Stephanie Rule, explores Stand 3: Absolutely Clear: Consequences and Limit Setting with her guests. Join guests Jim Kimberling and Brooke Tafoya as they hold an engaging conversation about how to implement Stand 3 of NHA.
Click here for guest bios: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/notching-up-nha-mastering-stand-3/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Listen as our host, Stephanie Rule and this month's Podcast guest, Scott Lindstrom, have an inspiring discussion about how to Notch up Stand Two of The Nurtured Heart Approach®. Go on the journey with them as they discuss building Inner Wealth™, and great strategies for giving impactful NHA Recognitions - to children, significant others, family members, friends, and yourself.
Guest Biography Here: https://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/notching-up-nha-mastering-stand-2/
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
When just beginning to implement the Nurtured Heart Approach® there are often questions about the nitty gritty of using it. This 3 part series explores those Frequently Asked Questions starting with Stand 1: Absolutely No: Refusing to Energize Negativity as Stephanie Rule leads a conversation with an experienced Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach®, Paula Wick.
Click here for Paula's biography.
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Dr. Elizabeth Sylvester and Dema Stout discuss with host, Stephanie Rule, how Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is typically seen a set of negative behaviors and symptoms, but through the paradigm shift of the Nurtured Heart Approach®, it is a set of exceptional attributes! These Certified Advanced Trainers in the Nurtured Heart Approach share their experiences in working with children with ADHD, supporting their parents, and as college students who have ADHD!
Guest biographies here.
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Michelle Dicus and Sally Baas discuss with host, Stephanie Rule building Inner Wealth™ in young adults! These heart-centered college professors change the culture in their lecture halls and classrooms by not only utilizing the NHA, but by being it!
Guest biographies here.
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Join us this month as we give you a glimpse into the transformation of the Nurtured Heart Approach®.
The approach was developed by Howard Glasser to help parents “deal” with challenging, difficult, and frankly frustrating behavior from their child. But it has evolved over 25 plus years ago into the honed approach it is today, consisting of 3 Stands; Absolutely No, Absolutely Yes, and Absolutely Clear.
Listen in as our host, Stephanie Rule, and co-host for this podcast, Matt Steinborn, dive into each of the stands and paint a picture of how the approach can bring transformation to your life as a parent, educator, and mental health professional.
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Life becomes infinitely more scary when a diagnosis of cancer happens. Scarier for the person receiving the diagnosis, but also the loved ones of that person. Our host, Stephanie Rule, interviews Julie Mears about her experience navigating a cancer diagnosis, surgery, treatment, and the impact the Nurtured Heart Approach® (NHA) had on her journey to recovery. Stephanie shares her perspective as a loved one walking through a similar process and how NHA took part in supporting herself, her family, and her mother.
Full biography for Julie here.
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Stephanie Rule, host of the Nurtured Heart Approach® podcasts, interviews Certified/Advanced Trainers in the Nurtured Heart Approach® (NHA) about their lives before NHA was in it and how they’ve come to realize the gift of NHA.
Debbie Sands, an advocate for families and people with disabilities, discusses how the NHA opened her eyes to a new world of positivity. This new world of positivity shifted her professional life into altering how she interacted with young people in a society where celebrating what is going wrong is the norm.
Eulanda Thorne, a school counselor, talks about her journey from being on the verge of resigning as a classroom teacher to finding the NHA and transforming her life. Giving her the tools to change the trajectory of her life path.
Julie Steinberg, a cantor and trained social worker, discusses how NHA transformed her family and gave her the skills to navigate her daughter’s intense behaviors. Julie beautifully describes the dance between the 3 Stands™ and how she scaffolded the support and love for her daughter.
For full biographies for Debbie, Eulanda, and Julie click here.
Music: Sunny - Bensound.com
Listen as this discussion centered around using the Nurtured Heart Approach® during the holiday reveals how it can be a life force in navigating unhealthy relationships and setting clear boundaries for children and family members. Host, Stephanie Rule, leads our brilliant guests, Jennifer Lotery and Mary Black, in a conversation about utilizing NHA as an adult and keeping you and your children emotionally healthy during the holidays.
Jennifer provides an excellent perspective as a clinical psychologist with her experience counseling adults and children. She discusses navigating challenging relationships with adult family members and taking care of yourself during the high emotional stress of the holiday season.
Mary brings a unique perspective as a mother of intense children (her biological, adoptive, and foster children). She discusses different ways to honor and protect her intense children during family traditions, while resetting unrealistic self-set expectations of what the gathering(s) should look like.
Click here for full biographies for Jennifer and Mary.
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Join the host of the Children’s Success Foundation, Stephanie Rule, as she leads a discussion on the Nurtured Heart Approach® (NHA) in the Preschool Setting! Our guests, Nancy Gomez and Kellie Knodel discuss how they implement NHA in their classrooms and how they use the NHA professionally to propel greatness as a teacher.
Kellie has a Psychology degree and worked with high school students as a youth minister for 2 years before moving to preschool. Kellie started teaching at St. John Christian Preschool in and completed a Child Development Associate Degree. Kellie is currently in her 9th year of teaching preschool. She took her first NHA class in 2012 and started using the approach at work and at home with her daughter Lillie. Kellie became a Certified Trainer at the Fargo CTI in July of 2016. Since then, she has been teaching classes to parents and educators in Fargo, ND. Kellie lives with her husband and 3 children, ages 7, 4, and 1.
Nancy is an Advanced Trainer in the NHA. She attended her first CTI in Jan. of 2012, and the second in Jan. of 2015, both in Tucson. Her initial drive to learn NHA were her three daughters Deeana 15, Madi 12, and Leeah 7. She soon realized NHA worked in her career as well. Nancy has 22 years of experience in Early Childhood Education between YDI Head Start and Kirtland Air Force Base. She has an AA in Early Childhood Multi-cultural Education and an AA in Child, Youth, and Family Development. She is currently working on a BA in Education Studies at Grand Canyon University. “The NHA has changed my life and I continue to use it daily personally, professionally, and most importantly with myself. I’m not perfect, but now I am aware, and I know how to reset myself back to greatness.”
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Join the host of The Children’s Success Foundation, Stephanie Rule, as she leads a discussion on the Nurtured Heart Approach®(NHA) in the Juvenile Justice System (JJS). Our guests, Harvey Uken and Toni Rose, bring a refreshing NHA perspective to working with youth in JJS, and the prevention of youth entering the system. Listen as the conversation unfolds and these dynamic Certified NHA Advanced Trainers share their experiences about building the Inner Wealth™ of the youth in the Juvenile Justice System.
Toni Rose, BS, is a Certified Nurtured Heart Approach® Advanced Trainer as well as a Wraparound Facilitator at Southwestern Behavioral Healthcare. She has provided over 100 NHA trainings to parents, caregivers, volunteers and clinicians from all over the state of Indiana. She has 18 years of experience collaborating with Department of Child Services, Juvenile Justice, CASA and Head Start. She has also worked directly with mental health agencies, psychiatric hospitals and educators. Her passion is supporting children and families to build successful relationships not only in their homes but in their communities as well.
Harvey Uken has been working as a Youth Counselor at the Red River Valley Juvenile Center (16 bed facility for 10-18) in Crookston, MN for the past 14 years. He was the Family Week Coordinator and Clinical Supervisor for eight of those years. These experiences with intense people in intense situations led Harvey to see the Nurtured Heart Approach as the way to help the children he serves towards heart-felt transformation when he was introduced to NHA in 2013. Harvey is looking forward to full retirement to begin employing the Nurtured Heart Approach in Northern MN and ND to help people recognize the greatnesses in themselves and others.
We are excited to have our guests from May join us again to share the amazing journey of parenting teens and young adults with our guests, Catherine Stafford and Alastair Gardiner in this month's podcast. Stephanie Rule is our host.
Catherine is a mom of 4, a therapist in private practice, a Certified NHA Advanced Trainer and well known chldren's book author. (Full bio here )
Alastair is dad to 3 boys. He is an international speaker and presenter, a Certified NHA Advanced Trainer. He works with intense children around the world and consults with foster care givers around the globe. (Full bio here)
We are excited to share the amazing journey of parenting teens through the high school years with our guests, Catherine Stafford and Alastair Gardiner in our May podcast. Stephanie Rule is our host.
Catherine is a mom of 4, a therapist in private practice, a Certified NHA Advanced Trainer and well known chldren's book author. (Full bio here )
Alastair is dad to 3 boys. He is an international speaker and presenter, a Certified NHA Advanced Trainer. He works with intense children around the world and consults with foster care givers around the globe. (Full bio here)
Eulanda Thorne
Eulanda, a Certified Advanced NH Trainer, is a unique individual who lives her life daily to make a positive impact in the lives of others. She has been a guest speaker for the NH Global Summit and her work with NH has been featured during several trainings and presentations. Eulanda is a graduate of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University with a degree in Elementary Education. Her motto in life is a quote from Maya Angelou; I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” For this reason, she lives her life showering others with love. Eulanda lives in Wilson, North Carolina where she is a devoted school teacher and single mother of four beautiful children.
Theresa Gaylean
Theresa is a Certified Advanced NHA trainer who has witnessed the transformative power of the approach as an educator in a community day classroom serving K-8th grades (5 years) and currently in a second grade classroom. The approach has also gifted her with powerful relationship with her husband of 25 years, and as the mother of three children 17, 14, and 7.
Tanya Fraizer
Tanya Fraizer is a dynamic individual with a passion to help others find joy and peace in their personal and professional lives. Tanya is a graduate of Concordia College – Moorhead with a degree in Elementary Education. She has worked extensively with families, with experience in both in-home and agency-based parent education. Tanya is a Nurtured Heart Approach Advanced Trainer and the owner of Heart To Heart Consulting, through which she provides coaching, classes, trainings and speaking engagements on NHA. Her prowess for leadership with clarity and compassion is a joy for all the NHA Trainers she is so personally dedicated to serve. Tanya lives in Fargo, ND with her husband and daughter.
Mark Pfaff
Mark, Certified Advanced NHA trainer. In Public Education 10 years serving Special Education grades Preschool, K - 8, Adult Post-Secondary, Mild/ Moderate/ Severe students. Was a Middle school Assistant Principal and now serving as a county SELPA administrator and Program specialist. Co-parent of three children ages 15, 8, 5 in Chico, CA.
Nick Bartlett
Nick Bartlett has been a School Psychologist since 2010. His experience is diverse, having served students from preschool to post-secondary, from all disability areas. He became a Nurtured Heart Approach © advanced trainer in 2016. Nick has trained hundreds of parents and educators in The Nurtured Heart Approach and utilizes the powerful methodology with students he counsels as well as his own children who are 7 and 4 years old. He is a firm believer in the transformative power of the approach and truly enjoys seeing children light up when children begin to become of aware of and own their greatness.
Jana Bruhschwein
Jana, a Certified Advanced NHA Trainer, has been an educator for over 25 years. She was an elementary teacher, a Head Start Program Director and is currently the director of St. John Christian Preschool where kids aren’t tolerated, they are celebrated. Jana lives in Horace ND with her husband and three children ages 17, 16, and 10.
Leah Marcus
Leah studied Studio Art, Art Therapy, and Counseling, and worked in community mental health in Ohio for 3 years before moving to Michigan to start a family. She experienced a tremendous paradigm shift upon learning about the Nurtured Heart Approach in late 2011. With the help of two CTIs (Syracuse 2012 and Norwich, UK 2013) and the 2013 Global Summit, the NHA infused her work as a therapist, her marriage, and her mothering with new meaning and vitality. In fact, she was pregnant with her now 3 year old son Avery during the Summit and the UK CTI, so her parenting was already Nurtured-Heart focused before it even began! She’s spent most of her time in the past few years as a primary daytime parent to Avery. Licensed as a counselor in both Ohio and Michigan, Leah recently became involved with the Washtenaw County Parent Coalition, committed to building resilience and connections among local families and area resources.
Josh Kuersten has over 20 years experience in special education as an aide, teacher and behaviorist. He says, "I have over 10,000 hours of focused experience specifically in the area of behavior, working with students, professionals, and my greatest teachers, my own children, teaching and maintaining pro-social behavior." He has been actively engaged in learning, using and training the Nurtured Heart Approach® for more then 5 years. At present, he works as a behaviorist in over 40 schools, working with all kids pre-K through age 22. He provides in home consulting on a small scale, working with families to implement NHA strategies in creative ways to achieve an environment that breeds success and celebrates the greatness in each family member.
Samantha Pierce
Initially trained as a plant scientist Samantha Pierce's experiences as a mother inspired her to focus on autism, parenting, and education. She has worked with young adults with mental health issues and children with behavior challenges. Samantha weaves NHA into her work on autism, education advocacy, and parenting. She provides community training in to help transform the experiences of families and educators. Samantha lives in Syracuse, NY with her husband and five children affectionately known as The Horde.
Anca Niculae
Anca Niculae is a licensed marriage and family therapist in magnificent Fort Collins, Colorado. Her previous work experience includes working as a Head Start teacher and case worker, as well as a medical liaison in a residential treatment center with children 7-16 years of age. After receiving her graduate degree, she worked at the local community mental health center, first as a therapist in a behavioral modification program (using dirt bike riding time as a reward!) for children ages 10-18, and then as an addictions counselor for adults with co-occurring chronic mental health and addictions. She has also worked as part of a holistic treatment center, alongside experts in various fields, working together to support individuals and families from a multi disciplinary perspective. She is currently working in private practice, utilizing The Nurtured Heart Approach, Brainspotting, EMDR and mindfulness techniques in order to continue to provide a compassionate and supportive environment for all of her clients. Her daily intention is to fully experience and express gratitude.
Howard Glasser and Stephanie Rule are our hosts for this timely conversation regarding transitioning youth and the homeless and how NHA can be life changing for these individuals.
Join us as trainers, Quinn Donnay, Sarah Schutt and Nicole Semmens share their experiences with this segment of population.
Quinn, is a Transitional Living Program Manager at New Day Youth & Family Services, a non-profit agency that aids young people ages 17-22 that are experiencing homelessness, have a lack of supports, and minimal protective factors in Albuquerque, NM. Quinn utilizes NHA in her supervision with staff as well as with the young people in care. Quinn pairs NHA with young people experiencing homelessness to relentlessly build inner wealth so that they are able to recognize their greatness and strengths to move forward onto a rich path of independence.
Sarah, is first and foremost an involved and dedicated mother to 2 sensitive, caring, and vibrant children. she currently works as the Homeless Management Information System Administrator for the Housing and Homeless Coalition of Central New York, which acts as HUD Continuum of Care for Oswego, Cayuga, and Onondaga Counties. She was a Case Management Supervisor of Runaway and Homeless Youth Case Management Services, which served youth 16-24 who were homeless or housing vulnerable in Onondaga County.
Nicole, has been an NHA Advanced Trainer since 2011. She is a mother of two incredibly joyous children and a former program director of 12 years working with transition-age homeless youth. She is currently working as the Event Assistant for Children’s Success Foundation in addition to working as an NHA Coach/Trainer passionately spreading the Nurtured Heart Approach to parents, teachers, and mental health professionals.
Howard Glasser, Creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach and Stephanie Rule, Certified Advanced Trainer share our time together this month with Heather Meyer and Toni Rose, Certified Advanced Trainers in this live podcast.
Toni Rose,BS, is a Certified Nurtured Heart Approach Advanced Trainer as well as a Wraparound Facilitator at Southwestern Behavioral Healthcare. She has provided over 85 NHA trainings to parents, caregivers, volunteers and clinicians from all over the state of Indiana. She has 17 years of experience collaborating with Department of Child Services, Juvenile Justice, CASA and Head Start. She has also worked directly with mental health agencies, psychiatric hospitals and educators. Her passion is supporting children and families to build successful relationships not only in their homes but in their communities as well.
Heather Meyer, owner of Dynamic Wisdom, LLC, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Certified Nurtured Heart Approach Trainer specializing in counseling and consulting services for individuals, families, and organizations in Indianapolis, Indiana. Heather has held a steadfast commitment to sparking a desire for change and blazing a trail of transformation for individuals experiencing significant behavioral and life challenges since 1993. Heather presents at conferences, company-wide workshops and to general audiences speaking on the topics of the Nurtured Heart Approach®, Functional Behavioral Assessments, and Positive Behavioral Support Plans. Heather's most recent work is creating individualized transformational practices with her clients born out her experimentation with using the NHA® to positively transform her experience with chronic health and pain challenges.
Guests, Dana Kasowskii and Paula Reiders are both teachers in Special Ed classrooms in different states. They are seeing the fruits of change in their NHA classrooms. Our hosts for this podcast are Stephanie Rule and Veronica Coates.
Veronica is a Special Education Local Planning Area (SELPA) Director for a rural county in Northern California and feels inspired and humbled to serve in a leadership position for students with special needs. Veronica is passionate about serving at-risk students and making the IEP process safe and positive for parents from the paperwork to the implementation. She has utilized the Nurtured Heart Approach since 2008 in every aspect of her personal and professional life. She has been an Advanced Trainer since 2013. Veronica is the proud mother of one son, Holden, and most of her free time is spent on the pool deck and traveling to her son's swim meets. She lives in Chico, California with Holden and her husband Jesse.
Dana, a Certified Advanced NHA Trainer, is in her 13th year as a special education teacher in Wahpeton ND. She currently teaches students who receive special education services under the area of Emotional Disturbance. Building Inner Wealth in her students has become the focus of her classroom. Dana and her husband are raising their three children using NHA. In addition, she teaches NHA classes within her community and is the owner of Greatness Unleashed Consulting.
Paula, a Certified NHA Trainer, is the mother to seven children, five who were born to me and two who were born in her heart. She also has eight grandchildren. Her work, her passion, is Special Education. Currently, she is teaching in a Primary Special Day NHA classroom. Becoming a NHA Trainer has been a beautiful journey of transformation.
Our hosts, Howard Glasser, creator of the Nurtured Heart Aproach and Stephanie Rule, School Counselor and Mom welcome guests Shirley Faleer and Lyla Tyler to this month's podcast.
Shirley is in a solo private practice, Heartbound Counseling. She lives with her husband, Rob and Gracie, her Yorkie-Poo, who assists her in her counseling practice in Mt. Pleasant Michigan. Shirley has been working as a counselor and play therapist for 20 years. A NHA Certified Advanced Trainer since 2013, she has been growing in and using the NHA as a part of her self-care and personal transformation, in her counseling practice and in her family as a parent of two and as a grandparent with her four brilliantly intense grandchildren. She has completed extensive training in Sandtray-Worldplay with Gisela DeDomenico, PhD and is a level 2 practitioner of the Body-Brain Approach to Sandtray Play Therapy presented and created by NHA Certified Trainer, Rita Grayson, LCSW, RPT-S. Integrating these experiential tools with the Nurtured Heart Approach has been powerful and effective with clients of all ages.
Lyla is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor and also an Advanced Trainer for the Nurtured Heart Approach®. Lyla specializes in treating children, teens and families at her midtown Sacramento, California private practice. She was a Program Manager for two large Residential Treatment centers in Sacramento and also facilitated groups for Sutter Medical Foundation through the Children’s Bereavement Art Group. She is also trained in Experiential Play Therapy, Art Therapy, EMDR, Theraplay®, and the Trauma Resiliency Model®. For the past 30 years Lyla has provided training throughout California and Internationally
We are excited to have Jamie Gregory and Sarah How as hosts. Our guests, Tanya Fraizer and Matt Steinborn will round out this important conversation for our July 15, 2016 podcast.
No More Bullies! will be our topic for July.
Full bios can be found at http://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-podcast
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Join our hosts, Howard Glasser, Creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach and Stephanie Rule, NHA Advanced Trainer and Mom in this engaging podcast with dads, Shane Mosley and Neils Wright! We promise you won't be disappointed as this amazing group shares stories of life with an NHA Dad in their homes and out and about. NHA infueses in every aspect of their lives and with their children.
We are excited to have Stephanie Rule join us as Howard’s co-host this month. Stephanie is a former school counselor with a master’s degree in counseling. She has chosen to be a stay-at-home mom of her two children. She is an Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach and raises her own children using NHA. She teaches NHA classes in her community and is also the Director of the STAR program for the Children’s Success Foundation.
Stephanie lives in Northern California with her husband and children
Shane Mosley, lives in Phoenix with his wife and six children. He is a Certified Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach and has dedicated himself to sharing its incredibly simple and life changing tools whenever possible.
Neils Wright is an Education Specialist. NHA Advanced Trainer, first CTI January 2012. I am in my seventh year as a teacher of students with Emotional and Behavioral Disturbance. I am a father and I get to "dad" in happier, healthier and richer way because of NHA.
Full bio's of our guests and hosts are available here.
Frank Picone and Tim Hunt are part of the momentum in moving the Nurtured Heart Approach® forward in the state of New Jersey. Catherine Stafford, our host for this month's podcast guides this conversation about the $12million SAMHSA grant awarded to the state of New Jersey to roll out the Nurtured Heart Approach to assist with mental health services for youth with complex behavioral health challenges at the state level.
This podcast airs during the culminating hours of the first of several Certificiation Training Intensives specific to the implementation of the grant in New Jersey..
Fraink Picone:
Frank Picone earned his Masters of Social Work from the School of Social Work at Rutgers University. Mr. Picone is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Advanced Trainer for the Nurtured Heart Approach as well as a certified School Social Worker For the past 30 years, For the past 20 years as Founder and Director of “Positive Culture Change” he has provided clinical and staff development consultation and training to juvenile justice facilities, residential treatment programs and school systems throughout the country focusing on work with youth who have experienced trauma and dealing with behavioral and mental health challenges. Mr. Picone is also an instructor for the Rutgers College and is currently working with them on a 4 year 12 million dollar grant from SAMHSA aimed at adopting a trauma informed approach in New Jersey’s Children’s System of Care. A major part of this grant is training all staff in the Nurtured Heart Approach. For more information please visit www.positiveculturechange.com.
Bio for Tim Hunt to follow shortly.
Our hosts for this podcast are Catherine Stafford, LCSW, Author, Certified Advanced Trainer and Jamie Gregory, LCSW, Certified Advanced Trainer. (full bio available here)
Our guests for this podcast are: Jeffrey Swan and Elizabeth Sylvester
Jeffrey D. Swan holds a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from U.T Austin. He has been using the Nurtured Heart Approach for 15 years and is an Advanced Nurtured Heart Trainer.
Dr. Elizabeth Sylvester is a Psychologist and Educator working with children, parents and families in Austin Texas for over 30 years. She is a practitioner of the Nurtured Heart Approach ®, and has completed advanced training in this system.
They are co-founders of Austin Child Therapy, an organization whose mission is to support the work of pediatric mental health professionals in Austin. A full bio can be found here.
Joe and Celeste Elsey
Joe and Celeste Elsey, both NHA ATs have been married for 31 years and have used the approach with their family for the past 8 years. They enjoy open and honest relationships with their immediate family members and with each other. Extended family relationships have also become stronger with use of NHA. Joe has worked for State Farm Insurance for many years and his use of positive recognition and refusing to give energy to negativity have earned him praise for a job well done. Celeste currently works in Alternative Education and trains students as well as educators in the approach. Joe and Celeste agree that NHA is a precious gift that has improved their quality of life and the lives of others around them.
Tammy Jacobs joins Howard and Catherine again for part 2 of our Greatness Activities series.
Tammy is a Licensed clinical social worker, currently working in private practice. Tammy has over 20 years experience working with challenging children/families in crisis centers, group home, residential treatment, as well as, outpatient and community mental health. Tammy has been an advance trainer in the nurtured heart approach since 2007 and enjoys teaching this to children/teens, adults/parents, group home staff and educators. Although Tammy has extensive training in a variety of interventions/strategies geared towards helping children and families, the nurtured heart approach has proven to be the most effective and therefore is the foundation of her work. Not only does Tammy utilize the approach in her private practice she uses it on a daily basis in raising her two daughters, ages 11 and 13, and in her marriage of 17 years.
Join our hosts and guests for this timely podcast.
Our guests are Dan Peterson and Neils Wright
Dan Peterson, is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Advanced Trainer for the Nurtured Heart Approach. He is the founder of Compass 4 Life, a private counseling and coaching practice dedicated to helping families and schools with challenging children. Over the past 20 years, Dan has worked in a variety of educational settings including therapeutic, alternative and residential schools. He has held many positions over the years. These positions have helped Dan learn the importance each adult plays in the life of a student and what they need to help students succeed. Currently Dan consults with area schools looking to meet the social emotional needs of their student population. He also leads trainings and provides on-site coaching for teachers to help with their integrating of the approach. He coaches parents who have challenging children on how to integrate the approach in their home. He credits his training in the Nurtured Heart Approach as the defining moment to starting his own business dedicated to “help all children flourish”
Neils Wright, Education Specialist. NHA Advanced Trainer, first CTI January 2012. He is in his seventh year as a teacher of students with Emotional and Behavioral Disturbance. He is a father and gets to "dad" in happier, healthier and richer way because of NHA.
Join our hosts, Howard Glasser, Creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach and Catherine Stafford, author and NHA trainer and Therapist share our podcast time with Bryan Forney.
Bryan Forney, MSMFT, MSW, LISW-S, serves as the Executive Director of Focus on Youth, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio, a faith-based foster care, adoption, and behavioral health care agency for children and families. Bryan has been with Focus on Youth since 2001, having served previously in other organizations as a community-based therapist, Clinical Director, Residential Treatment Counselor, and several years as a youth minister for his church. He is an Advanced Trainer of the Nurtured Heart Approach®, teaching this approach to foster parents, staff, and the community since 2007. He and his wife, Keri, have 2 children, ages 12 and 9.
Our hosts,Howard, Catherine have invited Tammy, and Laurie to discuss the journey of healing hearts using the Nurtured Heart Approach®. Laurie's personal story is one that you won't want to miss as she and Tammy (her therapist) share more about how a "heart" devastated by abuse and hurt can be "healed" and Inner Wealth™ can emerge and thrive again.
Tammy Jacobs is a Licensed clinical social worker, currently working in private practice. Tammy has over 20 years experience working with challenging children/families in crisis centers, group home, residential treatment, as well as, outpatient and community mental health. Tammy has been an advance trainer in the nurtured heart approach since 2007 and enjoys teaching this to children/teens, adults/parents, group home staff and educators. Although Tammy has extensive training in a variety of interventions/strategies geared towards helping children and families, the nurtured heart approach has proven to be the most effective and therefore is the foundation of her work. Not only does Tammy utilize the approach in her private practice she uses it on a daily basis in raising her two daughters, ages 11 and 13, and in her marriage of 17 years.
Laurie Lee graduated from Arizona State University in 1999 with a degree in Sociology. She has worked for a major corporation for over 16 years and raised two daughters ages 18 and 19 as a single parent. Introduced to the Nurtured Heart Approach in December 2011, her life was revolutionized as she discovered how to live from her heart. Overcoming the odds of being a child of abuse, she now owns that she has created a life she considers successful and she shares regularly with others how finding your greatness can change life in all areas.
This month's podcast features guest school principals, Rosemary Hardie and Barbara Gaskin-Houghton. Each brings their story of implmentation of the Nurtured Heart Approach® to their schools from the top down. Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford will be our hosts leading this discussion.
Rosemary a Certified Advanced NHA trainer has served students in the field of education for 20 years as a teacher, principal and directo of special services. She has been using NHA for the past four years throughout both the regular education and special educational systems in Wahpeton ND.
Barbara, also a Certified Advanced NHA trainer is principal at Metteer Elemntary School in Red Bluff CA. NHA was implemented 3 years ago with 9 staff members now being certified and additional staff familiarized the approach through onsite courses. Barbara has been an administrator for 15+ years and in education for 20+ years.
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Join our hosts for this month as they explore the notions of using the Nurtured Heart Approach in Greatness Activities with children, tweens and teens with Tammy Jacobs, a Licensed clinical social worker, currently working in private practice. Tammy has over 20 years experience working with challenging children/families in crisis centers, group home, residential treatment, as well as, outpatient and community mental health. Tammy has been an advance trainer in the nurtured heart approach since 2007 and enjoys teaching this to children/teens, adults/parents, group home staff and educators. Although Tammy has extensive training in a variety of interventions/strategies geared towards helping children and families, the nurtured heart approach has proven to be the most effective and therefore is the foundation of her work. Not only does Tammy utilize the approach in her private practice she uses it on a daily basis in raising her two daughters, ages 11 and 13, and in her marriage of 17 years.
Please feel free to listen to any of our previous NHA podcasts to gain additional insight to what the approach can bring to your family, classroom or workplace.
Our hosts, Howard Glasser, Creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach® and Author, and Catherine Stafford, LCSW and Author visit with Pat Bethke in this month's NHA podcast. We're so excited to share her story with you.
Pat Bethke has degrees in Child Development and Family Life, and a Master of Arts in Education with research focused on social and emotional learning. She was an early childhood educator for 14 years during which time she was introduced to, and became certified in, the NHA®. Pat is the Founder of Interconnections, LLC which provides services of support and training in the Nurtured Heart Approach, and is located in the Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area. She’s the mother of 4 adult children, grandmother of 1, and lives in Lakeville, MN with her husband Tim who is also trained in the Approach.
Listen in! You won't want to miss it.
Our guests are: Karen Clayton, is a licensed Professional, Therapeutic Foster Care Provider, currently providing foster care for adolescents enrolled in a substance abuse rehabilitation and recovery program. Karen holds a Master's in Education with an emphasis on youth who are emotionally and behaviorally 'at risk' for failure. During her time as an educational program corrdinator, Karen created "I Am Part of The Solution," an anti-bullying program founded on the Nurtured Heart Approach. She is a Certified Nurtured Heart Approach Advanced Trainer and Enthusiast! Karen offers classes and coaching for parents, teachers and other professionals. Kim Combes, M.Ed., has been in the human service arena since 1980 in various positions such as being employed as a Social Worker for the Iowa Dept. of Human Services and as a family therapist for two private agencies (among others). Kim is currently self-employed as a private practice counselor and national presenter. He and his wife, Diane, reside in Iowa. Since 1994 Kim has also provided foster care for 40+ teenage boys and adopted five children now ranging in age from 16-23. Too, he has articles published in several foster/adoptive care magazines and books. Nate Bultman lives with his family in Rockford, MI and is married to his wife Dawn for 9 years. They have 10 wonderful children in their blended family ages of 3-16. They have been blessed and challenged as adoptive parents of intense and highly energetic children who are adjusting to a new family. Nate is a Licensed Professional Counselor, (LPC) a Marriage and Family Therapist (LLMFT) and teaches an intensive 6 week course on the Nurtured Heart Approach ® as a certified trainer to caregivers in West Michigan.
More to share soon about this podcast, so stay tuned!
Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford will be joined by guest, Peggy Archuleta, RN, Education Specialist, for our May 15th podcast.
Peggy Archuleta began her nursing career in 1992 and worked extensively with cancer patients in the hospital setting before going into nursing management in 2005. In 2008, Peggy transitioned into the role of Clinical Education Specialist. In September 2014 she fulfilled her long-time dream of becoming a full-time diabetes educator and teaching patients health promoting behaviors. Peggy was introduced to the Nurtured Heart Approach several years ago and shortly thereafter sought certification. Following certification in the NHA, Peggy then began to seek ways to bring NHA to the hospital system she works for.
Join Howard Glasser, Creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach and Catherine Stafford this month sharing the airwaves on BlogTalkRadio channel with Jamie Gregory.
Jamie is a Certified NHA Advanced Trainer. He is the owner of User Friendly Therapy specializing difficult/challenging children and families. He offers brief solution oriented therapy. He is a consultant for Head Start, an Adjunct Professor at West Virginia University's Masters Program at the School of Social Work.
His hobbies include bird watching, performing the guitar and vocals. He is a practitioner of Yoga and Heart Rhythm Meditation. He and his wife live in the passive solar house he designed and built 28 years ago. He is a proud grandpa as well.
Our guest for March will be Dorothy Derapelian. We are so excited to add her to our line-up of guests for 2015.
Dorothy has been in private practice since 1986. She obtained my Bachelor of Science from The University of Texas at Austin in 1976 and her Master of Education from the University of New Hampshire in 1986. She specializes in play therapy and has worked with many children in the foster care system. While working with these children, it became apparent that their emotional needs are extremely important to help them move forward with their greatness.
To do so, she began creating Core Attachment Therapy© in the early 2000’s and became an advanced trainer for NHA® in 2007. She also conduct home studies for Child and Family Services for families interested in domestic and international adoptions. But most importantly, Dorothy is an adoptive mother. Adopting a lovely girl from Russia at the age of 6. She is currently 25 years old and is an example of walking in greatness.
We hope you'll join us for another inspiring program.
Join our co-hosts, Catherine Stafford and Josh Kuersten in conversation with Melissa Lowenstein.
Melissa is an author and editor who has collaborated on seven books with Howard Glasser. She is also a Nurtured Heart Advanced Trainer; a facilitator and grant writer for the AHA! (Attitude. Harmony. Achievement.) program for teens, which brings social-emotional learning to 3500 youth each year in southern California; a parent and stepparent; and has been, over the years, a yoga teacher, contemporary dancer and choreographer, visual artist, theater director and actor, and enthusiastic participant in personal growth groups and workshops. She lives in Santa Barbara, California with her partner, William Swan, her two school-aged children, and Will’s teen son. She loves to read, write in her journal, watch great films, and spend time outdoors near bodies of water and very large trees.
This podcast is suitable for all audiences as many of the thoughts and stories shared will offer transitional ideas for our listeners to breathe in.
We are so excited to share the beginnings of the Nurtured Heart Approach with our very special guests: NHA creator, Howard Glasser and co-author of Transforming the Difficult Child, the Nurtured Heart Approach, Jennifer Easley. Our host for this show will be Josh Kuersten.
This podcast was pre-recorded
Howard Glasser creator of The Nurtured Heart Approach® is dedicated to awakening the greatness in all children and in particular the world’s intense and challenging children. He is the author of eight books including, Transforming the Difficult Child, currently the top-selling book on ADHD; Notching Up the Nurtured Heart Approach: The New Inner Wealth Initiative, a leading book on school interventions; and All Children Flourishing, on using the Approach with all children, difficult or not. F He is currently working on his latest release entitled Igniting Greatness.
Jennifer Easley, is an elementary school military counselor. Most children I work with are well aware they are at risk of loosing a parent to war or the parent they once knew returns home, forever changed from military trauma. This loss of innocence at such a tender age merits special support and recognition for those small, child warriors! I am deeply gratified to be a part of the child's and families' home support team!
Jennifer co-authored the book that details the Approach with Howard, Transforming the Difficult Child, The Nurtured Heart Approach; and was a huge support and contributor to the book, Transforming the Difficult Child, Stories of Transformaion.
Join our hosts, Catherine Stafford and guest host, Josh Kuersten for our December podcast. We are all aware that bullying is a hot topic across the nation. We encourage you to listen in to this very timely and important conversation.
Our guests for this pre-recorded podcast are:
Karen Clayton, is a certified Nurtured Heart Approach® Advanced Trainer and Enthusiast! She believes that regardless of the environment,there is always an opportunity to share and be the Nurtured Heart Approach. During her time as a program coordinator, Karen created, “I Am Part of The Solution,” an anti-bullying program founded on the Nurtured Heart Approach. Since June of 2014, Karen has provided therapeutic foster care services in her home and has witnessed the same life serving outcomes that result whenever NHA is applied with love. Karen holds a Master’s in Education with an emphasis on youth who are emotionally and behaviorally ‘at-risk’ for failure. Karen offers classes and coaching for parents, teachers and professionals.
Tanya Fraizer, is a dynamic presenter with a passion to help others find joy and peace in their personal and professional lives. She has a BA in Elementary Education and has also worked extensively with families, with experience in both in-home and agency-based parent education. Tanya is a Nurtured Heart Approach® Advanced Trainer, under the instruction of its creator Howard Glasser, and is the ownder of Heart To Heart consulting, through which she provides coaching and presentation on NHA locally, nationally and internationally. She is also the Director of Trainer Network for the Children’s Success Foundation. Following her passion on the topic of ceasing bully in Orlando FL.
Join Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford as they have a conversation with Julie Gelo and Sarah How.
Julie is the legal mother to 16 children ranging in age from 8 to 47. She and her husband, Lynn, live in Washington state with the youngets six children. They were licensed foster parents for 22 years. Eleven of the children have been diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or related conditions. She is a certified Advanced Trainer of the Nurtured Heart Approach, Executive Director of the Washington State Affiliate to the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and co-founder of the FASt Friend FASD Community Support Network. She is also a Continuing Education Coordinator with the alliance for Child Welfare Excellence. She also works closedly with Special Olympics in her area. She presents workshops and trainings throughout the US, Canada and Europe.
Sarah How is a practicing Certified School Psychologist and Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach. She is currently serving as president of the North Dakota Association of School Pyschologists. Her passion and experiences have led to being invited to train businesses and educators. She can be found coaching families, individuals to be more intentional in relationships every day. She has a Tedx talk and is the author of two children's books that inspire greatness. She is the mother of four children, two of whom had previously been in therapeutic foster care. She knows first hand what it means to be the approach, "like your life depends on it."
Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford will be joined by guests, Gail Anderson and Laura Bailey for this episode of the Nurtured Heart Approach podcast.
Gail has a Masters in Religion and Counseling; PhD in Educational Psychology and is an Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach. She has worked for 20 years as a school psychologist and recently began an early retirement. She is currently teaching and training schools, homes and church settings, helping parents, children and teachers to find freedomw and worthiness through NHA! She is also certiried as a Non-Violent Crisis Intervention trainer and a Pyramid trainer. She has been married for 37 years. Gail has 2 grown sons, one a family practice physician and the other an assistant district attorney. One is is married and has three children, ages 5, 4, and 2. She and her husband are thrilled to be grandparents
Laura is an LMFT and Advanced Trainer of the Nurtured Heart Approach and focuses her work on Children in foster care. Finding many simple ways to improve the quality of traumatized children's lives, givimg them hope, she was inspired to write the book, Courageous Love: Instructions for Creating Healing Circles for Children of Trauma, especially for grandparents raising grandchildren.
Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford welcome Veronica Coates and Dorene O'Brien to this broadcast.
Veronica is an Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach who works in the educational system. She coordinates a school based mental health program in Norther California for at-risk and emotionally intensive students. NHA is the foundation of the program and 100% of her staff are atrained. She is also a credentialed school psychologist and counselr who has always had a passion for students with emotional and behavioral challenges. Her biggest triump and honor is raising her son, Hold, with her partner Jesse.
Dorene O'Brien, an Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach is a certificated SpEd teacher at a K-5th grade elementary school specifially designated for children with SpEd certifications that have intense and challenging behavioral issues causing them to be (as yet) unable to attend their neighborhood school. She uses NHA with amazing results. She is the mother of two intense children, both having Autism, Garrett & Rown, ages 12 and 9 who have been raised on NHA and that is why they are such incredibly successful students in their neighborhood schools. .
Join Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford with guests, Nancy Kling, Dema Stout and Micki O'Brien as they share how NHA can make a difference in the lives of families and individuals who are impacted by Autism.
Nancy Kling, MA, is a certified Advanced Trainer of the Nurtured Heart Approach and has been teaching the approach to teachers and parents for the past 10 years. She has worked with children with challenging behaviors for over 20 years. She is the author and illustrators of The Cup Kid: Parenting a Child with Meltdowns and I'm a Cup Kid: The Workbook. She also has a busy presentation schdule providig consultations, workshops and parenting classes. She also presents at conferences on Autsim and behavioral issues. Dema Stout, MA, PCC, CPCC, established her private coaching and consuting practice in 2004 to provide individuals (and their families) with neuro-developmental disabilities such as AD/HD and Autism Spectrum Disorders the best possible support to achieve the quality of life they want and deserve. Dema is a professional certified Coach and a Certified Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach. The Approach is the foundation of everything she does.
Micki O'Brien, MA is a Seattle based Autism, Special Needs and Education Consultant. She is also a Certified Trainer of the Nurtured Heart Approach. Her work in special education has focused on students on the Autism Spectrum and she has beocme passionately involved and has co-founded AutismPalooza, focused on creating fun spaces that are inclusive of all people and to raise the awareness of the unique perspective and insights of people on the spectrum. Micki has incorporated NHA into her work with parents, schools and other orangization wanting to better understand, support and be inclusive of people on the spectrum.
Join us on July 18th at 11am as Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford join our guests,
Bud Weiss, LCSW and Nurtured Heart Approach Certified Advanced Trainer. He has over 50 years of experience with chidren and families. He was a PBIS facilitator with NY Public schools. He is married, has two adult children and lives in New York with his wife of 38 years.
Celeste Elsey, MA in Special Education, works as an Education Specialist in Roseville CA. She is also a Nurtured Heart Approach Certified Advanced Trainer. Celese coordinates the Greatness Kids, a program utilizing the Approach with academic peer mentors. She infuses NHA in everything she does. Celeste and her huband, Joe, are parents of 3 adult sons and recently welcomed their first grandson.
Tammy Holton Arnol is a school counselr and a Nurtured Heart Approach Certified Advanced Trainer. She teaches NHA parent and educator classes. She provided a guidepost of a ninth grade transition program co-implemented as a high-school counselor.
We look forward to having you join us as we showcase the Nurtured Heart Approach in our everyday world
Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford will be sharing the airwaves with Mamak Charepoo, a Nurtured Heart Approach(R) Advanced Trainer, co-founder of Enegergized Perspectives, a company that trains teachers, administrators, and therapists in the Nurtured Heart Approach. Mamak has roots in music as a freelance pianist and teacher for 20 years. She combines NHA and Dalcroze Eurhytimcs to create dramatic and joyful advancement in her students. The most important lessons she learned from her Baha'i parents were to have an open heart, open home and open mind. Joining them will also be Roben Hand, M.ED. She is also a Nurtured Heart Approach Advanced Trainer and is the CEO of Energized Perspectives (founded in 2012),. She specializes in empowering women in business with the money mindset and relationship skills to thrive financially as flourishing leaders and to see the best in themselves.
Our hosts, Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford welcome Karen Clayton, a Learning Supports Coordinator at the middle school level in Tucson AZ creating and implementing programs focused on stutdent success. Karen holds a Master's in Education with an emphasis on youth who are emotionally and behaviorally "at risk" for failure. Karen is a Nurtured Heart Approach Advanced Trainer. She offers classes and coaching for parents, teachers and professionals. Stephanie Rule is a former school counselor with a masters degree in counseling, who chose to be a stay-at-home mom of her two children. She is an Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach to parents, educators and mental health professionals for five (5) years. Her intention for teaching/sharing the approach with others is to help epople develop the healthiest relationships possible with their children or the children they work with.
Any stories shared in this broadcast are amalgums of experiences based on the use of the Nurtured Heart Approach by our hosts and our guests and are not based on any particular person - child or adult.
Join our hosts, Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford as they welcome our guests for April - Rhett Etherton and Howard Moody.
Rhett is currently a program coordinator for Playworks, a non-profit bringing, safe inclusive and fun play to children. Previous to this he taught ESL students in the 3rd - 8th grades for 6 years. He has been a certified Advanced Trainer of the Nurtured Heart Approach since 2007. Mr Etherton holds a BA in Multilinguql/Multi-Cultural Elementary Education from ASU. After seeing how the NHA tools have transformed his students' lives as well as his own, Rhett is excited to bring these tools to parents and educators across the country.
Howard Moody, has been facilitating playshops for over 25 years and he specializes in designing team building, stress reduction, and wellness presentations. Howard has been a faculty member at the Omega Institute for Holistic studies for many years and he is also the co-founder of The Adventure Game Theatre, an extraordinary interactive learning process (featured on PBS and NPR). Play in its many forms is Howard's passion and his mission is to share the value and gifts that play has to offer to everyone. Howard is a Certified Nurtured Heart Approach trainer. He is presently working on a book with Howard Glasser about how within play, the principles of the Nurtured Heart Approach can be enhanced and embodied.
Any stories shared are amalgums of experiences based on the use of the Nurtured Heart Approach by our hosts and our guests and are not based on any particular person - child or adult.
Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford welcome Advanced Trainers, Jamie Gregory and Wendy Pidkaminy to the NHA podcast this month. The topic is re-awakening Inner Wealth in Adults.
Jamie, MSW LICSW is User Friendly Therapy in Charles Town, WV. He has been a Nurtured Heart Advanced Trainer since 2006. He works with children and families as well as couples. In addition he is an adjunct professor for the West Virginia School of Social Work Graduate program.
He performs professionally as a musician and has a passion for bird watching, gardening and his family. He lives in a passive solar house that he and his wife Nancy built in the Blue Ridge Mountains Shenandoah River Valley area. There they raised their big hearted children, Jay 33 and Seth 26.
Wendy,is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified School Social Worker, Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University, Nurtured Heart Advanced Trainer, Christian Counselor and the Author of two books: Parenting Challenging Children with Power, Love and Sound Mind and Jimmy and Julia's Rainforest Adventure. Wendy travels the country sharing her strengths based perspective on healing and helping people who desire to overcome life*s challenge. Wendy owns and operates Nurturing Life Concepts, LLC, a counseling, consultation and coachingorganization dedicated to leading people of all ages, throughout the world, to realize their life's passion, purpose and vision
Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford welcome our guests February 21, 2014. Alletta Bayer and Sherry Blair, co-authors of The Power to Change and The 7 Steps to Ignite Flourishing Leaders, In Teams and Organizations.. We invite you to listen in as they share ideas, tips and the Greatness that grows when The Nurtured Heart Approach is infused in businesses, agencies and more. Join us for this unique perspective and use of the Nurtured Heart Approach. Detailed bios available at www.childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-podcast.
Join Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford as they visit with Tammy Small, MA, School Counselor and Louisa Triandis , MA, Adjunct Professor, discussing the differences School Counselors and Social Workers using the Nurtured Heart Approach can make for a child, a classroom, a school and a community. Both of our guests are Advanced Trainers in the Nurtured Heart Approach and are the authors of "There's Always Something Going Right: Workbook for Educators."
Celeste Elsey, supervising teacher of the Greatness Kids at Cooley Middle school and an Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach and BJ Byrd, supervising teacher for the Greatness Kids Club at Rancho Romero Elementary school and an Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach.
Join our hosts, Howard Glasser, creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach and founder of the Children's Success Foundation and Catherine Stafford, LCSW and certified Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach sharing ideas about building Inner Wealth, reducing bullying and teaching the Nurtured Heart Approach to club members who then use the tools they gain by being greatness mentors at school, at home and in their community.
A discussion with NHA leaders from around the US on the Education front and their question for this podcast is: "What do you recommend as a starting point for introduction of Nurtured Heart into your own school? "