Helping Children Thrive with
Whole Child Education:
2025 Cohorts Training Program
Children around the world are struggling.
Join us and be part of the solution.
Creative Lives Inc. announces a training opportunity for colleagues from your school to learn and apply our pioneering whole-child approach. Generous funders will cover 62% of your tuition.
Educators around the country are invited to join our 2025 Cohort Program to expand the application of our award-winning approach — A Framework for Wise Education by Ellen Tadd. The Cohort program is extremely popular, offering unique and effective tools to help teachers with common challenges like burnout while addressing the urgent needs of the children.
To qualify for funding, three to five educators from an organization (depending on faculty size) or 6+ educators from a school district must attend. The Framework approach has gained traction in the VT/NH education communities through work with Castleton University, Northern Lights, Antioch N.E., Southern New Hampshire University, and the VTAEYC.
Integrating this approach will offer you remarkable new ways to help students in classroom settings:
Relieve anxiety and depression
Develop focus and insight
Make wise decisions
Value themselves and be curious
Cultivate emotional stability
Skillfully collaborate with peers
Build discipline and responsibility
Become more resilient
Strive for excellence
Navigate frustration and disappointment
These essential skills help young people succeed in school, develop positive relationships, tackle challenges, and share their unique gifts. An additional benefit: 94% of educators taking this training report significant improvements in their own well-being, both personally and professionally.
The Framework methodology stems from cutting-edge discoveries about the practical function of our human energy (chakra) system in education. In our experience, Tadd’s Framework offers a significant missing piece in understanding human behavior and learning.
Join the 2025 Cohort Program with a 62% discount offered through generous funders.
The Framework approach is new. It stems from author and teacher Ellen Tadd’s discoveries about the human energy (chakra) system and its fundamental role in human potential. The Framework methodology distills these discoveries into the tools, attitudes, and environments we can integrate to support such well-function. Her premise is simple but profound: Honing well-function across the energy system yields optimal learning and development for all individuals.
Interested participants can register to join our Spring 2024 or Summer Training Cohorts now by clicking on the button below. Studying this approach as a team has advantages, including shared practice and support, consistent repetition of skills with children as they grow, and collaborative innovation.
Full Training Details, Costs, and Credits
(includes two courses and follow-up support as follows):
Course 1: Summer of 2025
Foundations-1: Ellen Tadd's Framework for Wise Education®
Course portal opens: Sat. June 21st.
First Zoom class: Wed. June 25th, 7-8:30 ET
Length of course: 9 weeks.
Weekly Time Commitment: 5 hours, including class time.
CEUs/Graduate Credits: 45 professional development hours; 1 graduate credit* option via SNHU
Course 2: Fall 2025
Foundations-2: Applying a Framework for Wise Education®
Course Opens: Sat., September 13th. First class Wed. Sept. 17th from 7-8:30 pm ET.
Length of course: 9 weeks
Weekly Time Commitment: 5-10 hours per week (depending if graduate credits sought), including class time and practicum time with students).
CEUs/Graduate Credits: 45-90 professional development hours; 1 or 2 graduate credit* options via SNHU
*graduate credits present a cost of $120/credit through our partner Southern New Hampshire University
Follow-up Symposia: Winter 2026
Dates: 4th of each Month from 7-8:30 PM Jan-April 2026.
CEUs: 6 professional development hours
Tuition Assistance: $800/person (through grant awards) will be applied toward the program price of $1,250.
Total Cost to participants: $450/person.
We have 30 openings for this opportunity. The deadline to reserve a place for your team is May 15, 2025. Register above or below.
Commitment
Because of the nature of our grant funding, we can only offer a full refund if you withdraw from this program four weeks before the start date of the first course so that others on our waiting list may take your place. Spaces are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. We have limited spots (18) in each cohort.
You can learn more about our approach by perusing our website:
Learn more about our approach
Framework overview
Stories from the field (featuring children’s experiences)
Learner Reflections (featuring Trainee experiences)
We also recommend attending our April Webinar on Monday April 21 at 5 pm ET, or scheduling an alternate time for your team to learn more and ask questions. Please write to our Director with “Cohort Training Inquiry” in the subject line to request a time that works for your team: mburford@creativelives.org.
“I wish every teacher in our school could study this approach.”
–A.M., elementary educator, and Framework Trainee, Fall 2024
Fostering Focus
85% of our trainees report improved focus in their personal and professional lives after taking our training.
94% are better able to help children focus on the tasks at hand.
“Through my own examination of the chakra system and forty years of working with students and clients of all ages, I have observed a structure that can help us simplify our understanding of the course of human development —and aid us in creating an educational strategy that supports and endorses the maturation of the whole child.” — Ellen Tadd
Creative Lives Inc.
As early adopters of the Framework for Wise Education, the educational non-profit Creative Lives has partnered with Ellen Tadd to develop a multi-level training program. Enroll in our Cohort Training today and join a community educators expanding how we teach and raise children.
Developing Discipline
96% of trainees report improved self-discipline in their personal and professional lives after taking our training.
48% are better able to help children develop responsible habits.
“I cannot say enough wonderful things about this course! I learned more about myself than I thought would be possible. This course has changed my daily routine, enhanced my problem-solving capabilities, and has left me feeling like a more complete person. Most importantly, it is changing the way that I listen to and work with students of all ages. We really need more people using this framework.” –Cat Buxton, Educator
Stimulating Self-esteem
93% of our trainees report improved self-esteem in their personal and professional lives after taking our training.
71% are better able to help children foster a healthier sense of self.
Our Framework trainees learn tools and skills to improve how they teach and how kids learn
All the experts agree children around the world are in crisis. If the new generation is to effectively navigate the rough waters of their future, we must change the landscape of education, arming them with wisdom and tools for whole living.
Getting certified in A Framework for Wise Education® is key to the upstream change that is urgently needed.
