Upcoming Events
Empower Your Teaching
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Information and Q&A Webinar: December 16th
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
Information and Q&A Webinar: November 18th
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
Information and Q&A Webinar: November 4th
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
VTAEYC Annual Conference
Mark your calendar!
Creative Lives Director Maureen Burford and Facilitator Intern Caitlin Gagner will present a workshop at this conference entitled:
Chakras & Human Development.
We will keep you posted when registration opens for this event and let you know what day and time the workshop is scheduled.
About the Conference:
The Vermont Association for the Education of Young Children (VTAEYC), will host more than 350 professionals from the early childhood education profession in Killington, Vermont, for the 2024 Early Childhood Education Annual Conference.
This year’s conference will focus on embedding wellness for children and their caregivers in our practices. We are all born creative, curious, and hungry to explore the world around us. The question is how to keep those qualities alive and flourishing as an adult so we can show up for children and families in both play and leadership.
The National Conference for Spirituality in Education
Join Creative Lives Director Maureen Burford for her presentation at this remarkable conference.
Educators, practitioners, and academics will have an opportunity to build relationships, exchange practices and research, and, foremost, offer a vision for supporting the spiritual core in whole-person education. Participants will receive 10 Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) credits.
Information and Q&A Webinar: October 7th
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
Information and Q&A Webinar: September 2
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
Information and Q&A Webinar: August 19
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
Information and Q&A Webinar: August 5th
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
Information and Q&A Webinar: July 2024
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
Information and Q&A Webinar: June 2024
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
Information and Q&A Webinar: May 2024
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
Teaching & Parenting with a Holistic Approach—Free Workshop
Discover Keys to Helping Children Thrive—A Free Workshop
Early educators in Vermont have been studying and applying a whole-child approach, which has had remarkable outcomes for children. In this workshop, Creative Lives Director Maureen Buford and Framework Practitioner Caitlin Gagner will walk you through this methodology and explain why it is so impactful. You will gain insight into the needs of individual children and new ways to help them cultivate focus, relationship skills, self-esteem, and more.
Information and Q&A Webinar: April 2024
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
Information and Q&A Webinar: March 2024
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
Chakras & Child Development: What Parents & Teachers Need to Know
So many teachers and parents I work with experience pressing concerns for young people and stress in meeting their needs. Join me to learn how supporting good function in the chakra system can help you and the children you serve.
In this workshop, you will explore Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education — based on her discoveries about the chakra system and its fundamental role in potential.
We will learn and practice a powerful tool from Ellen Tadd’s pioneering Framework for Wise Education — “The Tadd Technique.” This technique helps adults and children mitigate anxiety, confusion, and make wise, productive decisions.
I look forward to seeing you soon!
”If I could wave a magic wand, I would put this Framework in the hands of every teacher and parent around the globe. It’s that important.”
—Liz Wiley, Director of the Marion Institute
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: $15
Information and Q&A Webinar: Feb. 2024
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
January Peer Learning Symposiums (Copy)
This month we will explore how to give balanced feedback to a child. By applying Framework tools, we will practice ways to support a child when they have done well or need to hone a skill or change a behavior.
Information and Q&A Webinar: Jan. 2024
Please join us for our free monthly webinar on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education.
On this call, you will learn about our certification program and how you, your team, and your family will benefit from taking our training.
Parenting with a Holistic Approach
In 2023, The Plymouth Schoolhouse co-founder Caitlin Gagner became certified in A Framework for Wise Education with Creative Lives Inc.
Finding the approach profoundly helpful, she is thrilled to invite Creative Lives Director Maureen Burford to share this ground-breaking holistic approach to raising children.
Information and Q&A Webinar
Want to learn more about our program? Please join us at one of our free monthly informational webinars on the 3rd Monday of each month from 7:00 — 7:30 pm (ET)
Information and Q&A Webinar
Want to learn more about our program? Please join us at one of our free monthly informational webinars on the 3rd Monday of each month from 7:00 — 7:30 pm (ET)
VTAEYC Annual Conference: Fostering Self Esteem: Chakras and Child Development
Please join Maureen and Framework practitioner Sandy Bailey at the Vermont Association for the Education of Young Children's (VTAEYC) annual conference, where they will be speaking about the Framework as it relates to helping children foster healthy self-esteem.
Hosted by the Integrative Mental Health University: How to Use Chakras for Whole Person/Child Development
Generously hosted by the Integrative Mental Health University, in this workshop, Creative Lives Director Maureen Burford will discuss A Framework for Wise Education®, an innovative methodology that addresses pressing concerns for parents, teachers, and children.
Cohosted by JAM & AmeUp: Chakras & Child Development Discovering Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education®
Please join Carve Lives Inc. executive director Maureen Burford for a conversation on a new holistic approach to teaching, learning, and raising children.
October Framework Salon: Giving Balanced Feedback
This month we will explore how to give balanced feedback to a child. By applying Framework tools, we will practice ways to support a child when they have done well or need to hone a skill or change a behavior.
September Framework Salon: Truly Seeing Your Students and Children
In this month’s salon, we will discuss tools to aid you in looking at your children and students with non-judgmental honesty so you can cultivate a learning environment in which they are seen and heard, thereby actualizing their potential
Chakras & Child Development: Essential Tools for Helping Children Release Trauma
As you prepare for the upcoming school year, please join Maureen Burford, M.Ed., for a discussion on healing childhood trauma through the lens of Ellen Tadd’s holistic methodology, A Framework for Wise Education.
Fostering Self-Esteem in Children and Young Teens
Presented by: The Marion Institute & Creative Lives
As children move through their many years of schooling, it is not uncommon for them to develop feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem. And as educators and people who work with children, we know all too well that negative self-worth can be a devastating catalyst for dysregulation manifesting in the form of erratic, unpredictable, or uncharacteristic behavior.
Please join Maureen Burford of Creative Lives for a foundational workshop on Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education®.
During this workshop, Maureen will distill the key factors that can undermine self-esteem and suggest ways to mitigate their negative impact on kids.
Join us to discover how practical knowledge about the chakra system can be applied to support long-term, positive results for children and young teens. By the end of this workshop, you will be equipped with useful, practical tools that you can implement immediately in your classrooms and after-school programs.
For more information and register. Please go here: Learn More
Fostering Self-esteem in Children
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC’s) Professional Learning Institute
As children move through their many years of schooling, it is not uncommon for them to develop feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem. And as educators and people who work with children, we know all too well that negative self-worth can be a devastating catalyst for dysregulation manifesting in the form of erratic, unpredictable, or uncharacteristic behavior.
Maureen Burford of Creative Lives will discuss Ellen Tadd’s Framework for Wise Education® and how it relates to a child’s self-esteem.
This lecture will be taking place at NAEYC’s Professional Learning Institute conference in Portland, OR; please go here to Register