Sponsored by: KSDE

Session Overview

This half-day session is for those who have attended at least one Enhancing Student Wellness workshop on February 27-28, 2025, September 29-30, 2025, or October 27-28, 2025.
Participants will share the plans and lessons they've created and implemented, based on the learning in the first workshop. Participants will also be invited to troubleshoot the next steps for enhancing student wellness.

Choose between an in-person session in Hutchinson (8:30–11:30 AM) or a virtual session on Zoom (12:30–3:30 PM)

Free to attend 

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025

Hutchinson

Explore the practices, mindsets, and nervous system states that shape our feelings and behaviors-and whether they promote ease and safety or dysregulation. Since emotions and stress are contagious, adults can become aware of their nervous system states and learn practices to calm, regulate, and center themselves. Dr. Desautels will lead us in potent practices that reduce power struggles and conflict with students, while opening space for curiosity, reflection, and new strategies.

Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM

Where: Zoom

We will Cover:

Session 1: Embodied Awareness & Focus - Thursday, January 15, 2026 

We will discuss the brain areas activated by the skills of focus and embodied awareness. We will then begin to explore how to practice awareness, internal boundaries, revisioning and persistence to align with our goals and needs in ways that foster resilience and growth.

Session 2: Imagination & Self-Talk - Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Too often, we imagine from fear states: worrying about the future or replaying the past. Rather than thought processes engaging the imagination from a place of protection, how can we begin to engage it from a place of possibility? We'll explore self-talk and integrating imagination from a safe, social, and regulated state to more easily shift toward safety, ease and confidence.

Session 3: Momentum & Visualization - Thursday, April 16, 2026

Explore practices that interrupt negative momentum and enhance positive “flow” at home and in the classrooom. Examine visualization through the lens of science and the nervous system as a form of mental preparation for new sights, sounds, places, conversations, or goals that start to feel as familiar and comfortable as slipping on your favorite well-worn shoes. This is neuroplasticity in action! 

Sponsored by: TASN