The Nurtured Heart Approach®

Guests, Dana Kasowskii and Paula Reiders are both teachers in Special Ed classrooms in different states.  They are seeing the fruits of change in their NHA classrooms.  Our hosts for this podcast are Stephanie Rule and Veronica Coates.  Veronica is a Special Education Local Planning Area (SELPA) Director for a rural county in Northern California and feels inspired and humbled to serve in a leadership position for students with special needs. Veronica is passionate about serving at-risk students and making the IEP process safe and positive for parents from the paperwork to the implementation. She has utilized the Nurtured Heart Approach since 2008 in every aspect of her personal and professional life.  She has been an Advanced Trainer since 2013.  Veronica is the proud mother of one son, Holden, and most of her free time is spent on the pool deck and traveling to her son's swim meets. She lives in Chico, California with Holden and her husband Jesse.   Dana, a Certified Advanced NHA Trainer, is in her 13th year as a special education teacher in Wahpeton ND.  She currently teaches students who receive special education services under the area of Emotional Disturbance.  Building Inner Wealth in her students has become the focus of her classroom.  Dana and her husband are raising their three children using NHA.  In addition, she teaches NHA classes within her community and is the owner of Greatness Unleashed Consulting. Paula, a Certified NHA Trainer, is the mother to seven children, five who were born to me and two who were born in her heart.  She also has eight grandchildren.  Her work, her passion, is Special Education.  Currently, she is teaching in a Primary Special Day NHA classroom.  Becoming a NHA Trainer has been a beautiful journey of transformation.    

Our hosts, Howard Glasser, creator of the Nurtured Heart Aproach and Stephanie Rule, School Counselor and Mom welcome guests Shirley Faleer and Lyla Tyler to this month's podcast. Shirley is in a solo private practice, Heartbound Counseling.  She lives with her husband, Rob and Gracie, her Yorkie-Poo, who assists her in her counseling practice in Mt. Pleasant Michigan.  Shirley has been working as a counselor and play therapist for 20 years.  A NHA Certified Advanced Trainer since 2013, she has been growing in and using the NHA as a part of her self-care and personal transformation, in her counseling practice and in her family as a parent of two and as a grandparent with her four brilliantly intense grandchildren.  She has completed extensive training in Sandtray-Worldplay with Gisela DeDomenico, PhD and is a level 2 practitioner of the Body-Brain Approach to Sandtray Play Therapy presented and created by NHA Certified Trainer, Rita Grayson, LCSW, RPT-S.  Integrating these experiential tools with the Nurtured Heart Approach has been powerful and effective with clients of all ages. Lyla is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor and also an Advanced Trainer for the Nurtured Heart Approach®. Lyla specializes in treating children, teens and families at her midtown Sacramento, California private practice.  She was a Program Manager for two large Residential Treatment centers in Sacramento and also facilitated groups for Sutter Medical Foundation through the Children’s Bereavement Art Group.  She is also trained in Experiential Play Therapy, Art Therapy, EMDR, Theraplay®, and the Trauma Resiliency Model®. For the past 30 years Lyla has provided training throughout California and Internationally

We are excited to have Jamie Gregory and Sarah How as hosts.   Our guests, Tanya Fraizer and Matt Steinborn will round out this important conversation for our July 15, 2016 podcast.  No More Bullies! will be our topic for July.   Full bios can be found at http://childrenssuccessfoundation.com/nha-podcast  We know this will be a conversation you won't want to miss and the beginning of more to come at work, school and in your homes.  For additional details regarding podcasts now and in the future, register for a monthly update here.   All podcasts are recorded and archived for on-demand listening.  Please feel free to browse the archives below.  

Join our hosts, Howard Glasser, Creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach and Stephanie Rule, NHA Advanced Trainer and Mom in this engaging podcast with dads, Shane Mosley and Neils Wright!  We promise you won't be disappointed as this amazing group shares stories of life with an NHA Dad in their homes and out and about.  NHA infueses in every aspect of their lives and with their children. We are excited to have Stephanie Rule join us as Howard’s co-host this month.  Stephanie is a former school counselor with a master’s degree in counseling. She has chosen to be a stay-at-home mom of her two children.  She is an Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach and raises her own children using NHA.    She teaches NHA classes in her community and is also the Director of the STAR program for the Children’s Success Foundation. Stephanie lives in Northern California with her husband and children Shane Mosley, lives in Phoenix with his wife and six children.   He is a Certified Advanced Trainer in the Nurtured Heart Approach and has dedicated himself to sharing its incredibly simple and life changing tools whenever possible. Neils Wright is an  Education Specialist. NHA Advanced Trainer, first CTI January 2012.  I am in my seventh year as a teacher of students with Emotional and Behavioral Disturbance.  I am a father and I get to "dad" in happier, healthier and richer way because of NHA. Full bio's of our guests and hosts are available here.   

Frank Picone and Tim Hunt are part of the momentum in moving the Nurtured Heart Approach® forward in the state of New Jersey.  Catherine Stafford, our host for this month's podcast guides this conversation about the $12million SAMHSA grant awarded to the state of New Jersey to roll out the Nurtured Heart Approach to assist with mental health services for youth with complex behavioral health challenges at the state level.  This podcast airs during the culminating hours of the first of several Certificiation Training Intensives specific to the implementation of the grant in New Jersey..  Fraink Picone: Frank Picone earned his Masters of Social Work from the School of Social Work at Rutgers University. Mr. Picone is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Advanced Trainer for the Nurtured Heart Approach as well as a certified School Social Worker For the past 30 years,  For the past 20 years as Founder and Director of “Positive Culture Change” he has provided clinical and staff development consultation and training to juvenile justice facilities, residential treatment programs and school systems throughout the country focusing on work with youth who have experienced trauma and dealing with behavioral and mental health challenges.  Mr. Picone is also an instructor for the Rutgers College and is currently working with them on a 4 year 12 million dollar grant from SAMHSA aimed at adopting a trauma informed approach in New Jersey’s Children’s System of Care.  A major part of this grant is training all staff in the Nurtured Heart Approach. For more information please visit www.positiveculturechange.com.   Bio for Tim Hunt to follow shortly.   

Our hosts for this podcast are Catherine Stafford, LCSW, Author, Certified Advanced Trainer and Jamie Gregory, LCSW, Certified Advanced Trainer.  (full bio available here) Our guests  for this podcast are: Jeffrey Swan and Elizabeth Sylvester Jeffrey D. Swan holds a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from U.T Austin. He has been using the Nurtured Heart Approach for 15 years and is an Advanced Nurtured Heart Trainer.  Dr. Elizabeth Sylvester is a Psychologist and Educator working with children, parents and families in Austin Texas for over 30 years. She is a practitioner of the Nurtured Heart Approach ®, and has completed advanced training in this system. They are co-founders of Austin Child Therapy, an organization whose mission is to support the work of pediatric mental health professionals in Austin.  A full bio can be found here.  Joe and Celeste Elsey Joe and Celeste Elsey, both NHA ATs have been married for 31 years and have used the approach with their family for the past 8 years.  They enjoy open and honest relationships with their immediate family members and with each other. Extended family relationships have also become stronger with use of NHA.  Joe has worked for State Farm Insurance for many years and his use of positive recognition and refusing to give energy to negativity have earned him praise for a job well done.  Celeste currently works in Alternative Education and trains students as well as educators in the approach.  Joe and Celeste agree that NHA is a precious gift that has improved their quality of life and the lives of others around them.

Tammy Jacobs joins Howard and Catherine again for part 2 of our Greatness Activities series.   Tammy is a Licensed clinical social worker, currently working in private practice. Tammy has over 20 years experience working with challenging children/families in crisis centers, group home, residential treatment, as well as, outpatient and community mental health. Tammy has been an advance trainer in the nurtured heart approach since 2007 and enjoys teaching this to children/teens, adults/parents, group home staff and educators. Although Tammy has extensive training in a variety of interventions/strategies geared towards helping children and families, the nurtured heart approach has proven to be the most effective and therefore is the foundation of her work. Not only does Tammy utilize the approach in her private practice she uses it on a daily basis in raising her two daughters, ages 11 and 13, and in her marriage of 17 years.

Join our hosts and guests for this timely podcast.  Our guests are Dan Peterson and Neils Wright Dan Peterson, is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Advanced Trainer for the Nurtured Heart Approach.  He is the founder of Compass 4 Life, a private counseling and coaching practice dedicated to helping families and schools with challenging children.  Over the past 20 years, Dan has worked in a variety of educational settings including therapeutic, alternative and residential schools.  He has held many positions over the years.  These positions have helped Dan learn the importance each adult plays in the life of a student and what they need to help students succeed.  Currently Dan consults with area schools looking to meet the social emotional needs of their student population.  He also leads trainings and provides on-site coaching for teachers to help with their integrating of the approach. He coaches parents who have challenging children on how to integrate the approach in their home. He credits his training in the Nurtured Heart Approach as the defining moment to starting his own business dedicated to “help all children flourish” Neils Wright, Education Specialist. NHA Advanced Trainer, first CTI January 2012.  He is in his seventh year as a teacher of students with Emotional and Behavioral Disturbance.  He is a father and gets to "dad" in happier, healthier and richer way because of NHA.

Join our hosts, Howard Glasser, Creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach and Catherine Stafford, author and NHA trainer and Therapist share our podcast time with Bryan Forney.  Bryan Forney, MSMFT, MSW, LISW-S, serves as the Executive Director of Focus on Youth, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio, a faith-based foster care, adoption, and behavioral health care agency for children and families.  Bryan has been with Focus on Youth since 2001, having served previously  in other organizations as a community-based therapist, Clinical Director, Residential Treatment Counselor, and several years as a youth minister for his church.  He is an Advanced Trainer of the Nurtured Heart Approach®, teaching this approach to foster parents, staff, and the community since 2007.  He and his wife, Keri, have 2 children, ages 12 and 9. 

Our hosts,Howard, Catherine have invited Tammy, and Laurie to discuss the journey of healing hearts using the Nurtured Heart Approach®.  Laurie's personal story is one that you won't want to miss as she and Tammy (her therapist) share more about how a "heart" devastated by abuse and hurt can be "healed" and Inner Wealth™ can emerge and thrive again.  Tammy Jacobs is a Licensed clinical social worker, currently working in private practice. Tammy has over 20 years experience working with challenging children/families in crisis centers, group home, residential treatment, as well as, outpatient and community mental health. Tammy has been an advance trainer in the nurtured heart approach since 2007 and enjoys teaching this to children/teens, adults/parents, group home staff and educators. Although Tammy has extensive training in a variety of interventions/strategies geared towards helping children and families, the nurtured heart approach has proven to be the most effective and therefore is the foundation of her work. Not only does Tammy utilize the approach in her private practice she uses it on a daily basis in raising her two daughters, ages 11 and 13, and in her marriage of 17 years. Laurie Lee graduated from Arizona State University in 1999 with a degree in Sociology. She has worked for a major corporation for over 16 years and raised two daughters ages 18 and 19 as a single parent. Introduced to the Nurtured Heart Approach in December 2011, her life was revolutionized as she discovered how to live from her heart. Overcoming the odds of being a child of abuse, she now owns that she has created a life she considers successful and she shares regularly with others how finding your greatness can change life in all areas.  

This month's podcast features guest school principals, Rosemary Hardie and Barbara Gaskin-Houghton.  Each brings their story of implmentation of the Nurtured Heart Approach® to their schools from the top down.  Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford will be our hosts leading this discussion. Rosemary a Certified Advanced NHA trainer has served students in the field of education for 20 years as a teacher, principal and directo of special services.  She has been using NHA for the past four years throughout both the regular education and special educational systems in Wahpeton ND. Barbara, also a Certified Advanced NHA trainer is principal at Metteer Elemntary School in Red Bluff CA.  NHA was implemented 3 years ago with 9 staff members now being certified and additional staff familiarized the approach through onsite courses.  Barbara has been an administrator for 15+ years and in education for 20+ years.  For full bios on both of our guests, please click here to visit our podcast page. 

Join our hosts for this month as they explore the notions of using the Nurtured Heart Approach  in Greatness Activities with children, tweens and teens with Tammy Jacobs,  a Licensed clinical social worker, currently working in private practice. Tammy has over 20 years experience working with challenging children/families in crisis centers, group home, residential treatment, as well as, outpatient and community mental health. Tammy has been an advance trainer in the nurtured heart approach since 2007 and enjoys teaching this to children/teens, adults/parents, group home staff and educators. Although Tammy has extensive training in a variety of interventions/strategies geared towards helping children and families, the nurtured heart approach has proven to be the most effective and therefore is the foundation of her work. Not only does Tammy utilize the approach in her private practice she uses it on a daily basis in raising her two daughters, ages 11 and 13, and in her marriage of 17 years. Please feel free to listen to any of our previous NHA podcasts to gain additional insight to what the approach can bring to your family, classroom or workplace.

Our hosts, Howard Glasser, Creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach® and Author, and Catherine Stafford, LCSW and Author visit with Pat Bethke in this month's NHA podcast.  We're so excited to share her story with you.  Pat Bethke has degrees in Child Development and Family Life, and a Master of Arts in Education with research focused on social and emotional learning. She was an early childhood educator for 14 years during which time she was introduced to, and became certified in, the NHA®. Pat is the Founder of Interconnections, LLC which provides services of support and training in the Nurtured Heart Approach, and is located in the Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area. She’s the mother of 4 adult children, grandmother of 1, and lives in Lakeville, MN with her husband Tim who is also trained in the Approach. Listen in!  You won't want to miss it. 

Our guests are: Karen Clayton, is a licensed Professional, Therapeutic Foster Care Provider, currently providing foster care for adolescents enrolled in a substance abuse rehabilitation and recovery program. Karen holds a Master's in Education with an emphasis on youth who are emotionally and behaviorally 'at risk' for failure. During her time as an educational program corrdinator, Karen created "I Am Part of The Solution," an anti-bullying program founded on the Nurtured Heart Approach.  She is a Certified Nurtured Heart Approach Advanced Trainer and Enthusiast! Karen offers classes and coaching for parents, teachers and other professionals. Kim Combes, M.Ed., has been in the human service arena since 1980 in various positions such as being employed as a Social Worker for the Iowa Dept. of Human Services and as a family therapist for two private agencies (among others).  Kim is currently self-employed as a private practice counselor and national presenter.  He and his wife, Diane, reside in Iowa.  Since 1994 Kim has also provided foster care for 40+ teenage boys and adopted five children now ranging in age from 16-23.  Too, he has articles published in several foster/adoptive care magazines and books. Nate Bultman lives with his family in Rockford, MI and is married to his wife Dawn for 9 years. They have 10 wonderful children in their blended family ages of 3-16.  They have been blessed and challenged as adoptive parents of intense and highly energetic children who are adjusting to a new family.  Nate is a Licensed Professional Counselor, (LPC) a Marriage and Family Therapist (LLMFT) and  teaches an intensive 6 week course on the Nurtured Heart Approach ® as a certified trainer to caregivers in West Michigan. More to share soon about this podcast, so stay tuned! 

Howard Glasser and Catherine Stafford will be joined by guest, Peggy Archuleta, RN, Education Specialist, for our May 15th podcast. Peggy Archuleta began her nursing career in 1992 and worked extensively with cancer patients in the hospital setting before going into nursing management in 2005.  In 2008,  Peggy transitioned into the role of Clinical Education Specialist.  In September 2014 she fulfilled her long-time dream of becoming a full-time diabetes educator and teaching patients health promoting behaviors.  Peggy was introduced to the Nurtured Heart Approach several years ago and shortly thereafter sought certification.  Following certification in the NHA, Peggy then began to seek ways to bring NHA to the hospital system she works for.