Event type: Workshop, hands on. 45 minutes - 4 hours. Skillset shift.

Audience: High school seniors, but can be structured for any age group from 6th grade-12th grade and into college.

Learning Objectives: 

• Identify Personal Values: Students will articulate their core values and understand how these values can guide their decision-making and future goals.
• Recognize Cognitive Distortions & Develop Positive Thinking Patterns: Students will identify their biggest worries, and how those worries impact their thoughts, feelings, and actions. They will be able to identify distortions in thinking, and how to counteract them. 
• Build Coping Skills: They will learn coping skills and strategies from dialectical behavioral therapy to cope when they’re feeling stressed by recognizing the ways their Mind and Body are involved in negative feelings like anxiety and anger.
• Create a Personal Action Plan: Participants will develop a personalized action plan that incorporates their values, coping strategies, and positive thinking techniques to prepare for the transition to the next phase of life.

Optional add-on: Some schools choose to incorporate a handcrafted fragrance oil that can be used for enhancing sensory input that can reduce cortisol, nourish the nervous system, and create a proxy for positive emotions. Students will learn to make their own fragrance oil with nervous system, dopamine, serotonin, and cortisol supportive natural scents.

Event type: Workshop, hands on. 45 minutes - 3 days. Skillset shift.

Audience: Students 6th grade-12th grade and into college. 

Learning Objectives:

• Understand Key DBT Skills: Students will learn essential DBT skills, including mindfulness and emotional regulation.
• Enhance understanding of emotions: Students will break down our primary and secondary emotions, and learn how each emotion feels in their body. They'll begin to understand how some emotions are easier to feel than others, and some emotions can actually hide more vulnerable ones.
• Practice Mindfulness: Participants will engage in mindfulness exercises that connect their thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations to their environment.
• Enhance Emotional Resilience: Participants will develop strategies for distress tolerance and emotional regulation using nature-based practices.
• Foster Community Connection: Participants will build interpersonal effectiveness skills through group activities that promote support and empathy.
• Create Personal Action Plans: Participants will design an actionable plan to integrate DBT skills and nature practices into their daily lives for ongoing well-being.

In these workshops, the amount of learning objectives that are addressed will directly correlate with the amount of time we have. These workshops can be across multiple days, to get into the core components of DBT: Mindfulness, Emotional Regulation, Distress Tolerance, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. We can focus on one module at a time, or incorporate elements of each into a single session.

We will use a Mind, Body, Earth framework that will address these components of the self and how they are impacted by anxiety and stress, and how we can use them as anchors for healing.

Event type: Workshop, hands on. 45 minutes - 4 hours. Skillset shift.

Audience: Students 6th grade-12th grade and into college. Can also be formatted for K-5. 

Brooke Marie Bridges, our founder, is also a farmer and herbalist, and teaches about nature  connection, herbal remedies and fragrance for healing, and how to utilize gardening and being  with plants to soothe the nervous system. These special workshops are specific for schools  with a sustainability or gardening program with a garden onsite, or a community garden nearby.  These workshops can range from one day, to multiple days over the course of a quarter, or a  year. 

Learning Objectives:  

• Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Distress Tolerance skills  through the lens of nature connection. 

• Information about how gardening has been proven to reduce symptoms of anxiety,  depression, stress, and fatigue. 

• About plants that are safe for teens to use that help with nervous system support. 

• How to make their own herbal tea blends, fragrances, and self-care products. 

In these workshops, students will learn about the scientific evidence behind getting your hands in the soil and your feet on the ground, and engage directly with the garden at their school alongside Brooke. 

For these workshops, we will collaborate with the school to create a custom workshop that accomplishes the goals of the school community. When considering a custom workshop, think about your pain point.

Are you struggling to support the teens in your school with the proper skills and tools to manage their emotional challenges? Do the kids in your school need assistance with conflict transformation? Do they need a better understanding of their emotions?

These workshops can range from 45 minutes - 6 hours, to multiple days, and will range in price from $2500-$8500 depending upon the details, time, and supplies needed. Pricing is also negotiable based on budget.