HEART-STRONG ACADEMY:
Your Behavior Breakthrough Blueprint
We are CURRENTLY OPEN for enrollment!
INTRODUCING…
A comprehensive courrse for parents and educators designed to help you end challenging behaviors once and for all!
Growth and Healing for Children with Trauma
The HEART-STRONG Academy is designed to help you create a happy and emotionally healthy family or classroom by ending meltdowns and other fear-based behaviors with compassion and connection, so that everyone feels safe, loved, happy, and successful!
YOU ARE DEALING WITH A CHILD (OR CHILDREN) WITH THESE CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS…
Refuses to comply with your rules or even simple requests…
Gets angry and upset out of proportion to stress, difficulty, or challenges…
Exhibits frequent shut downs, meltdowns, and episodes of aggression…
Has anxiety that interferes with activities, school, and family time…
Controls everyone in the house so that you are walking on eggshells…
Whines, complains, cries, sulks, gets angry often…
Has difficulties at school, especially with classwork and homework…
Leaves you feeling overwhelmed and exhausted from control battles…
Lies, steals, bullies others, or has food issues…
YOU FEEL LIKE…
You’ve tried everything to figure out how to get the out-of-control behaviors to stop. Yet…there has been so little progress from your efforts.
There are so many incidents of defiance, rage, explosive and aggressive meltdowns. And…so FEW times when you actually ENJOY being a parent or teacher.
Your days are full of so much chaos!
Things are getting harder every day, and your patience is in short supply.
You are walking on eggshells trying to keep the peace, and you’re doing everything you can just to hold it together between behavior episodes.
You’re exhausted, discouraged, and at your wits’ end looking for solutions…. and at this point, you’re just not sure how much longer you can keep going on this way.
You’ve read books, joined the online groups, maybe even listened to trainings or attended conferences, but when it comes to the day-to-day conflict, you feel lost and confused about how to stop the chaos.
You believe in a positive discipline approach and really WANT to create a strong connection, but right now, it’s a struggle to even be in the same room.
Behaviors are spiraling out of control with frequent and often intense episodes of anxiety, anger and sometimes even aggression. Sometimes you don’t even feel safe.
YOU ARE READY TO...
Effectively end meltdowns, rages, and defiance… with compassion and connection.
Create more peace and calm and reduce the need for crisis intervention.
Create a strong and effective safety plan, self care plan, and support plan.
Address “distress call” behaviors by meeting needs, teaching skills, and solving problems.
Prevent rage, aggression and defiance with a proven, practical system.
Prevent a need for extended respite care or residential treatment.
Teach kids how to solve problems and develop emotional resilience.
Use effective communication to gain trust and cooperation as a family.
Create a strong connection with your child.
Rekindle your hope and confidence.
Build a peaceful, happy home or clasroom.
Build deeper trust and empathy.
Enjoy being a parent or teacher again!
YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE!
I want you to know that being more strict, using more rewards and consequences, or trying to control children isn’t the answer.
The answer is a RADICAL shift in how you communicate and connect.
That means everywhere, in every situation. In everything from your how you ask a child to help clear the table… to talks about screen time and homework.
There is a different way to support a child with complex developmental trauma, anxiety, and other challenges with emotional regulation and behavior.
This is NOT the end of your story… it’s just the beginning!
Don’t listen to people who tell you that kids with behavior challenges associated with anxiety, attachment and trauma can’t ever heal.
They can, and they do… but only with the right approach!
It is absolutely possible for ALL children to find peace, growth, and healing.
You just need the right tools and support to guide you as you help make it happen.
When you understand how to communicate with compassion and build a solid connection, your mindset and confidence as a parent will surge back up to meet you.
You’ll realize that the influence you have IS truly transformational.
You’ll realize that it’s worth so much to the children you are raising and teaching… and you’ll start communicating that way more and more each day.
You’ll start seeing transformation happen right before your eyes.
The BEST part about this?
It’s not just about transforming trauma in your child, it’s about trauma transforming in YOU.
You CAN do this. You really do have the power to transform trauma!
That’s exactly why I created the HEART-STRONG Academy!
THE BEST, MOST COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM
FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS
WHO WANT TO CREATE HOPE AND HEALING
FOR CHILDREN WITH CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS
To help children grow and heal from trauma and anxiety, taking another workshop, posting questions in a Facebook group, or reading another discipline book is not enough.
You need a program that’s comprehensive and inclusive to facilitate real change and real results.
The HEART-STRONG Academy offers:
A Proven and Easy-to-Follow System
I have taken the confusing aspects of supporting a child with anxiety, trauma, or other mental health challenges and turned them into a step-by-step, proven system of growth and healing you can easily follow. Many parents and teachers who have used these methods have seen a reduction in the length, intensity, and frequency of challenging behaviors in a matter of weeks or months… instead of years!
While other programs focus only on theories about the brain and trauma but don’t give you a lot of practical, in-the-trenches advice about real behavior challenges, I use a proven process to support growth in my own family that has also worked for hundreds of other families and teachers, and I’m certain will also work for you.
YOU’LL GET: The systems, strategies, and support plans you need to create a safe environment for everyone so that you can build strong, supportive connections.
HEART-STRONG Academy – how does it work?
The HEART-STRONG Academy is a self-paced course that includes all of my best trainings, coaching, and community support.
Parents and educators who enroll in this program will have all the tools they need to help children make massive transformation and positive changes so that they can move more effectively on the journey to rapid post-traumatic growth and healing.
You will also receive complementary access to the Trauma-Informed Changemakers Book Club and Community, where there is a library of our past monthly support calls, book club sessions, trainings and workshops!
HEART-STRONG Academy Certificate of Completion
After you complete the program successfully, you can request a HEART-STRONG Academy completion certificate for up to 30 contact hours that you can use for your professional or personal development. Note: If you want to upgrade your program to become a HEART-STRONG Certified Educational Trainer or Parent Coach, you will need to enroll in the Professional Certification Program.
When you enroll in the HEART-STRONG Academy, here is what you will learn:
Tame the Trauma Dragon:
De-escalation training
FLIGHT Plan:
7 audio training modules & an accompanying PDF workbook
These prerecorded trainings contain all of my BEST proven, practical strategies for supporting children with developmental trauma. You will learn how to implement compassionate, connected techniques to overcome common challenges. You’ll also create your safety plan, self care plan, strategies, and support plan that are individualized to your own unique needs.
Parents and teachers who have used the FLIGHT Plan in the past have told me that the getting a comprehensive safety plan in place alone is worth the cost of the entire program! But there is so much more waiting for you to learn and apply, and I’m going to walk you through each module step by step.
Peaceful Mama/ Peaceful Teacher Masterclass: 3 recordings + PDF Workbook
Tools and strategies for staying CALM in the midst of the chaos! When you are calm and regulated, your child will learn regulation by mirroring and modeling you. Learning these strategies will help you develop the peace and patience you need to develop a strong and loving connection with your child.
EEEK: Explosive Episode Elimination Kit
So many of our children struggle with overwhelming emotions and brain-body dysregulation that can cause them to become extremely explosive and even sometimes aggressive. This training toolkit is a series of five training videos to help you address meltdowns effectively and with compassion when they happen, identify the cause of meltdowns, and then provide support over time so that you can reduce their length, intensity and frequency over time. Eventually, with a lot of practice and patience, you will eliminate the most severe and aggressive episodes so that you no longer have to live in fear of an explosive meltdown!
SUMMARY OF EVERYTHING YOU GET
You’ve read all the details of how the program works to grow your family or classroom to happy and emotionally healthy.
Remember…. here’s everything you’ll get when you sign up:
Family FLIGHT Plan (useful in the classroom, too!)
Peaceful Parent/Teacher Masterclass
EEEK: Explosive Episode Elimination Kit
Bonus: A library of workshops and interviews in our Trauma-Informed Changemakers’ Book Club and Community
Lifetime Access to the Curriculum
If you focus, commit and manage your time, listen to all of the pre-recorded trainings, read the books, and implement the systems and strategies consistently, you should see a reduction of challenging behaviors in the first few weeks, and then additional growth and healing within the following 3 – 12 months.
However, we know life happens, so can do this at your own pace as you’ll have access to the online curriculum for life, and benefit from ongoing updates as new ideas and strategies become available.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q: Who is this program designed for?
This is for parents and educators who are committed to supporting children with a compassionate, non-punitive approach. We will use collaborative problem solving methods that are child-focused, promote active communication, and teach higher-level thinking skills to promote autonomy and interdependence. If you believe that fear-based systems that rely heavily on rewards, consequences, and strict control, this is not the right program for you.
Q: How much time will I need to spend on the program?
If you are focused and committed, you can complete the full curriculum in just a few weeks. Since you have lifetime access you can go at your own pace. You never run out of support and as long as you maintain your membership, the program modules are always there for you. It’s always better to take baby steps toward a goal than to not walk toward it at all.
Q: Will Sandi be available to me to answer questions?
If you would like to upgrade to Private Coaching, please reach out for a discovery call by sending an email to Support@WingBuilder.com.
Q: I am not sure this will work for me. Are you sure I can do this?
YES! Sandi has worked with parents and teachers of children with so many challenges, and all of them have seen at least one or two steps or stages of growth and healing. You don’t need to be a perfect parent or educator. All you need is an optimistic mindset, willingness to learn, and commitment to follow the process. Move through the curriculum, do the work, and you will make progress towards your goal of a calm, connected, and emotionally healthy family or classroom!
Q: I’ve already struggled for so long, how will this help me?
This program was made to take you from chaos to collaboration and cooperation. If you’re still struggling, most likely you just need someone to help you find the right safety plan, support plan, or strategies that will work for your individual situation.
Q: My child is a teenager (or I teach high school), is it too late for us to have growth and healing?
It’s never too late! Sandi has worked with parents and teachers of young children to older teens and young adults.
Q: I’m scared to invest in a program if I’m not sure it will work for my situation.
When you invest in this program, you are making a commitment to yourself and your children to get on the path of growth and healing. If you don’t find a way to get out of the chaos and control battles, how much money and time will you end up spending trying to seek answers to these ongoing challenges?
Before deciding on whether you are ready for an investment to bring more safety, peace, connection and healing to the children in your life, here are some other common family investment costs to consider (if you are a parent):
Mental health residential treatment center: $42,000 or more for 6 months
Remodel kitchen: $22,000
Build a deck: $7,000
Disney vacation for family of four: $6500
Private summer camp (six weeks + travel): $5400
Computer – MacBook Pro Laptop + Laser Printer – $3400
And for teachers, consider the cost of going back to school to get another graduate degree or certification….
Most average graduate programs cost between $15,000 – 45,000, and that doesn’t include books, travel, and other costs.
Many other professional development training programs lasting only a week cost between $4000 – $6000, again not including the cost of travel, hotel, and meals.
Some other thoughts….
If you are a parent, how much is it costing you right now to take time off of work to handle your child’s behaviors and mental health needs and all the appointments for services that aren’t helping very much?
As a parent or educator, what is it costing you in time, money, health and lost energy to put off dealing with ongoing behavior challenges at home or in the classroom that drain and deplete you?
If you don’t get help now, what will you do if things get worse and things get so out of control that you can’t handle the behaviors? Will you seek to place children with challenging behaviors in residential treatment programs?
As a parent, wouldn’t you rather spend even just a small portion of the college, vacation, or kitchen remodel money you’ve been saving on something that will TRANSFORM your family relationships and promote growth and healing…. so that you can actually enjoy the time you spend together in the kitchen or on vacation?
As a teacher, wouldn’t you rather make an investment that will help you make a lasting impact on the kids that you serve, so that you can actually enjoy teaching again?
Q: How much does the program cost?
In past cohorts, the regular three-month program tuition was $997.
For a limited time, you can special price of only $497!
BONUS: Join today and you will also get access to a library of recordings in the Trauma-Informed Changemakers Book Club and Community at no extra cost!
Q: I’ve still got questions, can I contact you?
Yes, of course! Get in touch via email at support@WingBuilder.com
The HEART-STRONG Academy is the only comprehensive program to help you end challenging behaviors and create a strong connection with your child so that everyone feels safe, connected, happy, and successful!
HEART-STRONG Academy – Enroll Now
HEART-STRONG ACADEMY for PARENTS AND TEACHERS
Special Pricing for a Limited Time: $497