Resilience Coach Rasur Certified Trainer, Coach and Curriculum Instructor HeartMath Certified Trainer, Coach and Mentor Carolyn brings a wealth of experience as a Resilience Coach, educator, professional staff developer, and international presenter. Carolyn assists coaching clients, teachers, parents and children in enhancing their natural resilience and living more authentic heart-centered lives. From Carolyn, you will learn elegant techniques to help you or your child transform stress, improve performance, enhance connection with self and others and access your very best intelligence for creative problem solving and conflict resolution. Carolyn co-authored, piloted, and implemented HeartSmarts, a HeartMath Curriculum for grades 2-5 in classrooms in Martinez, CA, Berkeley, CA, and Stockholm, Sweden. She has taught and coached principals, grade-level teams, as well as classrooms (teachers and their students) in HeartMath and Connection Practice strategies and techniques. Together teachers and students create a heart-centered community where students feels heard, valued and cared for. These techniques are especially effective with students who experience academic and social challenges due to ADHD, test anxiety and/or lack of emotional management skills. A video of Carolyn’s work is on the HeartMath website. Listen to what the children say about the difference the Connection Practice and HeartSmarts (HeartMath) make in their lives.  https://www.heartmath.org/donations/stories/brighten-childrens-horizon-with-heartsmarts/ In 2019-2020, Carolyn piloted the new Connection Practice Boards and Classroom  Curriculum with a group of 5th-grade students in an urban school. The children became quite skillful in identifying their feelings and needs using the CP Magnets and began to trust the Insights they received from their hearts. Teachers and Students used the CP Boards during the day to help resolve misunderstandings and conflicts. Empathy and compassion for one another increased, and relationship drama decreased. Children brought the CP home to their families. Dr. Davi Paktar shares his family’s experience in this video,  Connection Practice, Emotional First Aid for our time: https://youtu.be/RKNEtrBQh2I   Unity of Walnut Creek in the San Francisco Bay Area is a heart centered community of practice and has learned HeartMath and the Connection Practice from the very best trainers, coaches and mentors….Rita Marie Johnson (Connection Practice Founder) and Rev David Mc Arthur, and Toni Roberts (both HM Senior Trainers). Rita Marie Johnson, Connection Practice Founder and International HeartMath trainers and speakers are frequent presenters at UWC.  Through David McArthur, our senior minister for 14 years, we learned how to transform our lives through the power of our hearts and developed a community of practice. Through Rita Marie Johnson, we learned how to deepen our connections to ourselves and others through empathy and insight. Carolyn has been leading HM workshops, HeartStudy groups, and monthly Connection Practice groups for over 10 years.  Carolyn welcomes the opportunity to bring these practices to faith based communities. Carolyn facilitates CP workshops and coaches adults and children in person and on the phone. As a professional staff developer, she believes CP Webinar training with a partner (preferably with a friend or family member) is the most effective way to learn the Connection Practice. In the webinar, you benefit by seeing the CP skills taught and modeled by an expert. In the follow up coaching, you will be given the opportunity to practice what you have learned and receive expert feedback from your coach. In between webinar and coaching sessions, you will learn to integrate the practices into your daily life and will experience the difference these tools make in your life. Finally, the coaching sessions are designed to give you experience coaching someone else through the steps of the Connection Practice. We learn best, what we teach. I invite you to schedule a complimentary Heart to Heart Consultation with Carolyn. She may be the perfect coach for you.