Session Title:
Small Group, Big Impact: Using Student-Led Projects to Build Career Readiness

Session Description:
Discover how a small-group counseling program evolved into a schoolwide movement. Students explored career pathways while serving on leadership, media and marketing, and event production teams to create and deliver a schoolwide pep rally. Participants will gain practical tools for designing career-connected experiences that promote student voice, engagement, leadership, and postsecondary readiness.

Session Title:
Beyond the Surface: Shifting the Lens to Support the Whole Child 

Session Description:
Beyond the Surface helps adults understand what lies beneath children’s behavior. Grounded in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and the Learning Skills Pyramid, this interactive session explores how safety, connection, and movement support brain development and regulation. Participants gain practical strategies to better support children, strengthen relationships, and promote healthy development and resilience. 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Fill Your Cup & Flip the Switch: From Survival Mode to ROSE

Session Description:
In today’s schools, many students, as well as educators, are operating in survival mode. When the brain is overwhelmed, learning shuts down and behavior takes center stage. But what if we could flip the switch?

This high-energy keynote introduces the ROSE Framework, a powerful and practical approach to supporting students from the inside out. Participants will learn how to:

• Recognize hidden barriers that impact learning

• Observe the role of brain development and unmet needs

• Support students using brain-based, relationship-centered strategies

• Empower students through resilience and growth mindset practices

Blending the energy of the Regulation Mixmaster™, a rhythm-driven approach to help students regulate, refocus, and re-engage, alongside Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and the Learning Skills Pyramid, this session delivers a fresh, engaging approach to regulation and coping.

Participants will leave with practical tools, consistent language, and ready-to-use strategies to look beyond behavior, build perseverance, and create classrooms where every student can succeed.

When we change the rhythm, we change the response, and when we change the response, we don’t just fill the cup… we grow the ROSE. 

SESSION ONE

Session title: A.R.T.ful Conflict Management: The M.I.C. Check for Regulated Conversations

Session description: Conflict doesn’t have to derail your day. With the right rhythm and framework, conversations can become calmer, clearer, and more collaborative. In this engaging session, participants will learn the A.R.T. approach—Awareness, Reflection, and Tools—paired with the M.I.C. Check: Mindfulness, Integration, and Confidence. Through movement, visuals, and hands-on practice, counselors will gain practical strategies to navigate difficult conversations with confidence. 

SESSION TWO

Session title: The Regulation Mixmaster: Helping Stressed Brains Grow and Find Their Flow

Session description: Led by “The Rapping School Counselor,” this interactive session blends rhythm, movement, music, and neuroscience into practical, evidence-based strategies that help stressed brains grow and find their flow. Participants will experience tapping, beat-based regulation routines, movement resets, and music-infused counseling tools they can immediately use in classrooms, small groups, and responsive services to strengthen student regulation, resilience, focus, connection, and readiness to learn.

SESSION THREE/Co-presenting

Session title: The Stranger Things of School Counseling

Session description: This presentation uses Stranger Things as a framework to explore school counseling concepts, including trauma, student behavior, and family dynamics. It highlights how unresolved trauma (“the Upside Down”) impacts students and counselors, emphasizing connection, self-awareness, and support systems as key to preventing emotional crisis and promoting student well-being.