Resilience-nurturing strategies for early childhood professionals
Playfully weaving resilience magic into the lives of young children
Are you…
Finding it difficult to handle the challenging behaviors of children in your care?
Struggling to find ways to support children who have experienced trauma?
Feeling pressured to meet academic standards at the expense of play and imagination?
I can help.
In my newsletter, you’ll find playful ways to weave resilience-building opportunities into your classroom or home routines. Using the magic of fairytales and imaginative strategies, each issue offers simple ways to tackle tricky transitions, support self-regulation, and nurture resilience in all children.
Tame Your Dragons
Today’s early educators face unprecedented challenges. Many children are experiencing disruptive behaviors as trauma and toxic stress unravel their childhoods. At the same time, teachers are often expected to wave the academic victory flag as they meet standards from stakeholders. How do we help children tame their dragons, while creating spaces where they can joyfully and playfully learn and develop? We are here to help you on this quest!
Explore
For explorers curious about how to help children growing up with trauma or living with caregivers who struggle with substance use.
And for adventurers wondering about how to use fairy tales and play to joyfully build resilience in your classroom while addressing children’s challenging behaviors.
Our Resource Hub of curated media will help you find your way through the forest!
Read
All children deserve the tools to fight off whatever dragons they encounter and move happily through life!
My book Happily Ever Resilient: Using Fairy Tales to Nurture Children through Adversity gives you a treasure chest of classroom-tested ideas that build resilience as children explore popular fairy tales, storytelling and play!
Develop
If you’re looking for a presenter for your next professional development session to tackle topics like trauma, resilience, challenging behaviors, imagination, and play, I can help!
I offer a variety of in-person and online keynote and workshop topics at an affordable rate (and having fun is guaranteed!)
Meet Stephanie
Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Stephanie Goloway.
As a child, she was enchanted by fairytales, and the many places her imagination could take her. When she grew up, she wanted to keep playing make believe, and so she became a teacher of young children (since they are masters of the pretend!) For many years, she learned, played and shared with children in child care centers, public schools, residential treatment centers, libraries, and as a mother to her own two dear ones. At last she settled in to teach education and early childhood development to community college students, so she could teach others about the importance of play and the imagination - the sparkliest source of learning.
One thing led to another, and she returned to school so she could explore how children are affected by living with caregivers with substance use disorders. In her studies to become Dr. Goloway, she discovered how the ordinary magic of resilience could offer hope and joy to children and teachers. So she set off on her own adventure to help others use fairytales and other stories to help build children’s resilience.
Stephanie is now happily ever-retired in western New York, where she dreams on the shores of Lake Erie in a magical cottage. She wrote a book, Happily Ever Resilient: Using Fairytales to Nurture Children through Adversity and she is a speaker and trainer who loves sharing how storytelling and fairy tales can help all children have the happily ever afters they deserve.
Happily Ever Resilient
“With the woosh of her wand and a trail of glitter, Stephanie Goloway transforms the classic fairy tales into tools for learning and emotional support.”
