Breathe For Change is on a mission to enhance the health and well-being of educators, students, and entire communities. As a Breathe For Change 200-hour Wellness, SEL, and Yoga Teacher Training Graduate, I facilitate inclusive and trauma-informed wellness, yoga, and social-emotional learning practices, programs, and professional development opportunities that seek to enhance well-being of all members of my community. Anticipate 300-hour graduation 2023 (500 hours completed).

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Host and Writer for this bi-monthly access cable program which advocates the social engagement of people with disabilities for community health and wellness.

Northern Kentucky Social Emotional Learning (NKY SEL) is a LLC consulting service teaching social emotional skills to individuals and communities for all ages and abilities. Created during the Covid-19 pandemic, registered student instruction has mostly been by invitation and online. In this innovative program for non-educators, adults are advancing their own personal growth mindsets and responsible decision-making skills while bonding as a learning community. All of the students are over 18, and more than half have been diagnosed with various disabilities, but eventually all become known more for their abilities. Part of this is possible because we continuously strive to improve our Universal Learning Design toolbox in Real time, striving to match learning styles with learning methods.I have also expanded our social media market with targeted messaging, utilizing our multiple daily posts on Facebook, our YouTube series “What People with Disabilities Teach Us,” and in 2022 NKY SEL is planning to expand into other platforms such as Nextdoor, Instagram, Pinterest, Tik Tok, and more. When in-person programs could be carried out, I have recruited business, civic, and environmental leaders and other representatives from the community to visit an underserved Covington, KY Independent school assuring students and empowering them with community belonging. Individual adults seeking to graduate from our program are required to complete two or more “Individual Social Wellness Plans” (ISWP’s) for their growth and wellness, using CASEL's WHEEL for awareness and guidance.Along with mutual check-ins by me as the instructor, and in turn students commenting on Facebook posts at least once a week, NKY SEL also hosts community recognitions annually with carefully recruited nominees in five categories, Overall Post Traumatic Growth, Adverse Childhood Experiences Growth, Recognition for Social Bonding, Recognition for Social Bridging, and the Community Service Award.

Trained specialist in facilitating local congregations during search process for senior clergy. Provided expert counsel for administration and inspiration as well as maintaining a non-anxious presence during a time of uncertainty.

Beginning with two introductory public speaking courses per semester my first year, I was hired for the next four years to teach five courses per semester, instructing through lecture and individual coaching, more than a hundred students per semester, as well as managing the administration of the classes as a whole, and completing the grading process of each individual student.