My specialty in education is theatre.  I visit schools to facilitate growth individually and group-wide to achieve better health and engagement. To do this, I teach skills to recognize limiting or self-sabotaging behavior, expand emotional management, and identify group dynamics. The arts are filled with people who have anxiety and depression, though no study has determined why this is so.  Students have different and additional burdens than those who came before them including technology, demands on time, and some have less preparation to deal with the day to day tasks of living independently.  I have been teaching in higher education for decades and witness the toll of anxiety and depression on students’ abilities to handle these rigors and more.  Add to that the collaborative work necessary for scholastic success and you introduce group dynamics.  Dr. Heather is an expert in emotional intelligence, which includes abilities of empathy and emotional management, . 

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Sessions might include:

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• Examine ways of being with self and others

• Listening

• Attention structure

• Resource building

• Emotional component identification

• Impulse from inception to action

• Active and effective communication

• Affect regulation management

• Gifts of anxiety and depression

• Navigate collaboration and group dynamics

• Empathy expansion

• Imagination as a Super Power