You might be wondering…🧐
What’s unique about my approach to professional development? 👇
I understand that working with children, families, clients, and colleagues is as much about ‘having all of the best information’ as it is to connect on a real, human-level. My mission is to thoughtfully weave together left-brain (logical & analytical) and right brain (feeling & intuition) modalities to ensure my audiences are empowered with the forefront, research-validated knowledge AND a deeper “inner-knowing” about their practice.
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Together, we can curate a one-of-a-kind offering for your organization or community!
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👇BELOW ARE SOME OF MY OFFERINGS:👇
🌪️ BIG Emotions and Little People:
A session dedicated to learning about children’s BIG emotions and how to support them (and ourselves) with approaches and perspectives that support overall mental health and well-being.
🧠 The Holistic Practitioner: Supporting Children’s Mental Health (and your own!) in Today’s Context:
A session dedicated to deepening our understanding of: the current, post-pandemic status of children’s mental health, the nature complex childhood trauma, and how to cultivate true wellness for children (and ourselves) in this brand new world.
🧭 The Revolutionary Leader:
For this special workshop, I will offer up some of the forefront research, strategies, and tools which have served me well throughout my career in various leadership roles. As an avid truth-seeker, it is my hope that this session can provide real, effective approaches and methodologies that will both nourish and empower leaders.
🪴 The Early Learning Ecosystem:
A session dedicated to the nature of a balanced “classroom ecosystem” and how educators serve as mindful stewards within this interconnected learning environment. Some examples of topics covered in this learning include: how nature serves as a teacher, the role of the educator and the child within the early learning ecosystem, and interconnectedness among early learning elements.
🥑 Nurturing a Healthy Relationship with Food & Body Image in the Early Years:
This session is dedicated to examining culture’s impact on the way children relate to food and their bodies, and the implications of this on their development and overall sense of self. We will examine some of our own assumptions and deeply-held beliefs on the subject, as well as explore ways of shifting our perspectives. From there, we will uncover effective approaches to nurture children’s natural dispositions and ways of relating to food and body image.
❤️🩹 Trauma-Informed Care: A Four-Part Series:
This session explores the ways trauma impacts the individual in the short-term and long-term, and the many ways we can begin to support healing in our practice. This four-part series focuses on: Childhood Trauma and the Lifespan, Hidden Neglect, Moral Injury, and Self-Nurturing for Service Professionals.
🌈 BELONGING: Through the Lens of Neurodiversity:
Grounded in How Does Learning Happen?: Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years, this session expands on our current understandings of children with special rights, acknowledging ‘Neurodiversity’ as a more accurate and inclusive concept. This workshop invites attendees to consider research-based science and real-life stories to establish the important differences that exist between ‘fitting in’ and true belonging. And, how these ways of being can impact the neurodivergent child’s psyche, sense of self, and future trajectory.
🎨 The Art of EXPRESSION:
Grounded in How Does Learning Happen?: Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years, this session illuminates the nature of the creative process and children’s inherent “creative genius”. This hands-on session offers educators an opportunity to re-awaken their own “creative genius”, ultimately supporting them in cultivating an authentic understanding of how to nurture children’s (and their own) creative expression!
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Mary Hewitt MPEd (ECE), BEd, BA, RECE has been practicing in the early learning field for the past 14 years. Currently, she is a speaker, writer, and part-time Early Childhood Education professor. In the past, she has practiced as a Registered Early Childhood Educator, an Ontario Certified Teacher, and as the Early Years Supervisor for the County of Renfrew. Mary holds a Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education from Western University in London, Ontario. She is passionate about the importance of education and the impact of the early years on the individual’s lifespan.
Mary lives in rural Ontario with her husband and three dogs, whom she adores.
