Developing the Gifts for Connection, Communication, and Collaboration
/Ashley M. Blanco | Kids Life Coach, Educator, & Author | www.risewhereyouare.com
Contact: educate.to.invigorate@gmail.com OR (650) 273-6126
When: Monday, December 9th, 5:30-7:30pm
Sliding Scale Cost: $50- $80
Ashley will reintroduce mental fitness as a vehicle for reducing stress, increasing students’ and their families' adaptive capacities, and increasing enthusiasm as a framework for emotional agility. Families will experiment with building happier learning habits through playful activity. They will also gain tools for improving communication and collaboration through attentional control strategies and internal self-awareness.
Ashley M. Blanco
Ashley M. Blanco serves as a Kids Life Coach, Educator, and Author in the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates learning environments for youth that enrich their prefrontal cortex activity, assist in healthy stress recovery, and develops life-long learning leaders. By teaching the mental fitness skills of attentional control and tolerance for challenging tasks, Ashley supports next-level social emotional learning. Her coaching style facilitates joy as a spark for emotional agility and cognitive flexibility. As an educator with 15 years of experience, Ashley develops youth to be self-understanding; embrace challenges and failures as opportunities for growth; think critically and constructively; recognize patterns for strengthening content knowledge and application; and make thoughtful, powerful decisions. Ashley integrates ancestral wisdom with knowledge of cutting edge research to uplift families in developing their gifts for connection, communication, and collaboration. She grew up in San Francisco with roots in Garifuna Honduras and the American South. She teaches classes in both English and Spanish. Learn more about her impact at www.risewhereyouare.com