This is Brooke's signature, most inspiring talk! Ideal for youth audiences aged elementary through high school.

In this presentation, Brooke outlines her own struggles with mental health challenges when she was a teenager. She outlines how looks can be deceiving, and that no matter who you are or how you appear to others, the most important thing is how you feel, and if you're not feeling strong, that's okay, but it's something that should be talked about!

Brooke gives takeaway skills that she has used for healing that students can use for their own path to healing.

Key Takeaways:

1. Students understand the difference between helpful fear and unhelpful Anxiety.

2. Develop self-awareness and self-management by understanding how certain emotions manifest in the body.

Exploring the Narratives that Fuel Suicide

In this suicide prevention talk, Brooke discusses how human's propensity toward negativity bias, coupled with challenging emotions and an inability to cope, can create the harmful narratives and beliefs that lead to suicidal ideation.

By sharing her own story with suicidal ideation when she was a teen, she weaves a story that helps students deepen their understanding of self, learn skills to combat negative self-talk and beliefs and, create a more intentional life.

Key takeaways:

1. Students will understand their own personal values and how they can live in alignment with them.

2. Students will identify ways that their thoughts have become fact, and how to disentangle emotion-fueled thinking from reality.

3. Students will learn concrete tools to help them combat negative thinking and manage themselves when challenging thoughts arise.

This is an ideal talk for youth, college aged, and adults alike. We are all familiar with shame and the downfalls of shame when it comes to healing our emotional and mental challenges.

In this keynote, Brooke talks about how Shame has played a role in her healing, and how at times it has made healing hard because she almost felt like she didn't deserve to feel better because of the negative coping mechanisms she used in the past to deal with her anxiety and depression.

Brooke shares the scary feelings of shame, and how to overcome them through recognizing behaviors that trigger feelings of shame and how to breed self-compassion despite those feelings of shame.

Takeaways: to help us identify where shame infiltrates our own lives, how to respond to feelings of shame, and ways to cope with those feelings.

As an herbalist, farmer, and nature-lover, Brooke shares the magic of nature with audiences in hopes they utilize it as a resource for healing. This is a presentation best done outside when the weather is nice.

Brooke will lead participants on a foraging walk where they will identify wild medicinal plants, and learn grounding techniques in nature.

If desired, a gardening workshop where participants can plant their own flowers with pots, seeds, and soil provided by Brooke will be present.

Brooke has developed custom presentations, keynotes, and workshops over the years for different needs and desires. If you're looking for something special and customized, please let us know!

Social Emotional Learning Through Storytelling

Brooke's keynote presentations tend to get kids inspired and motivated to start sharing their stories and discussing the challenging emotions that they've been dealing with.

In 2020, Brooke developed a curriculum that paired the 4 pillars of SEL with storytelling as a vehicle for understanding.

The 4 pillars are: Mindfulness, Emotional Management, Interpersonal Skills, and Responsible Decision Making. Storytelling is the 5th, so we can begin to understand how our own stories fit within those learning objectives.

In these workshops, Brooke goes over the 5 pillars of SEL, and how to begin sharing our own stories with those we know and those that we don't, so that we can build understanding, compassion, and resilience.

This is a great workshop for youth groups, after school programs, youth centered nonprofits, and other youth-focused groups.