School Climate Coaching
Through Mindfulness-Based SEL
Coaching The Butterfly Within™ Your School
Schedule a complimentary 30-minute consultation call to see how we can support your school’s goals together.
"Engaging, relevant, calming, and focused. My staff loved the different tools and techniques to incorporate mindfulness and SEL into their classroom and own lives."
—Julie B., Elementary School Principal, Illinois
Schedule a complimentary 30-minute consultation call to see how we can make your goals come to life together.
School Climate Coaching Journey
Mindfulness-Based SEL works from the inside out and the outside in to create a powerful and sustainable learning community.
School Climate Coaching can be supported through in-person and/or virtual formats. The timeframe and pricing are through a collaborative structure that matches the needs of your learning community.
NOTE: Although school-wide coaching creates the conditions for success, there is still the layer of teacher choice and readiness that is supported along the way. Wellness is never “forced”, it is finding what works for each person/community that allows all learning community members access to develop their heart-centered resilience in and out of the classroom.
Step 1:
Mindfulness-Based SEL Leadership Coaching
The success and sustainability of a supportive school climate and culture are found within the HEART of the leaders of the school. Leaders need to have their own practice and investment in Mindfulness-Based SEL and wellness to become Heart-CenterED Changemakers. This coaching focuses on developing a resilience plan for leaders.
Step 2:
Preparing the School Environment
This stage of the coaching cycle prepares your school climate to become a supportive and equitable learning environment. It sets the foundation for Mindfulness-Based SEL and creates a school-wide investment in well-being. This is a systems approach to sustainability.
Step 3:
Mindfulness-Based SEL (MBSEL) for ALL
Together, we develop a customized professional learning path. Your school learns the foundation of mindfulness-based SEL and how to integrate MBSEL into each part of the school following out MBSEL Framework. Teachers and leaders create a heart-centered, trauma-informed, mindful school, and embrace well-being at the core of all that you do as a learning community.
Step 4:
Supporting Teacher Well-Being
This stage of the coaching cycle empowers school leaders to support teachers in developing their resilience plans and nurtures Adult SEL skills that are aligned with the Adult SEL CASEL guidance. Learn how to thread well-being into the fabric of your school culture so that teachers are recharged, resilient, and ready to develop heart-centered classrooms and lives.
Step 5:
Building MBSEL into Your School Culture
This stage of the coaching cycle expands to developing MBSEL instructional practices and structures for your learning community that follow our MBSEL Framework and CASEL’s implementation guidance. If you are currently using an SEL program, we would explore how to integrate your existing SEL instructional plan into meaningful and connected experiences with the MBSEL approach.
Step 6:
Family and School Partnerships
This stage of the coaching cycle supports families (and the community) in discovering the power of Mindfulness-Based SEL and brings them along the journey. Share learning opportunities throughout the process that connect families and the school together. Guide families in developing their family resilience plan to support their children in partnership with the school, and to advocate for their child’s needs.
Each school has its own unique needs, qualities, and goals. If you have a goal that you would like support with bringing to life that is not within the current coaching sequence, reach out and let’s brainstorm to see how we can make it happen.
Special Coaching Option:
Author Visit(s) with MBSEL Coaching & Professional Learning Series
This is a special learning opportunity that pairs Lindsey’s books with learning and coaching. If you are looking for a unique way to support teachers in developing mindfulness-based SEL alongside their students, this coaching option is for you! Within Lindsey’s children’s books, you learn lasting practices that are easy, yet powerful, in a fun and accessible way.
Lindsey works with your teachers through a professional learning series that connects to her book(s). The books serve as the launching tool that can be used year after year or as a one-time school theme, yet the teaching practices last beyond the books.
As teachers learn new skills, they are offered the opportunity for embedding learning and practice through coaching.
As students learn new skills, they work towards a class-wide and/or school-wide author visit.
