Start the year grounded, connected, and supported.
Early childhood professionals begin each year with deep commitment and increasing complexity. This interactive virtual member event invites you to pause, reflect, and reconnect with your own well-being as a foundation for supporting young children and families. Together, we will explore the connection between self-awareness, regulation, and professional resilience, learn to recognize early signs of burnout, and practice simple, realistic strategies that support sustainability in this work. While individual practices do not solve systemic challenges, they can help strengthen the people doing the work every day, who can address them. As a community, we will focus on intentions rather than resolutions, reflecting on the powerful truth that how we are matters as much as what we do. Regulated, supported adults are essential to helping children thrive. The session will conclude with a special rebroadcast of selected excerpts from Dr. Chan Hellman’s Science of Hope from the 2025 LEARN Conference, offering renewed purpose and hope for the year ahead.
Member Exclusive Event Debrief
3:00-3:30 pm ET; 30 mins following each monthly Virtual Member Event
Reflect on the ideas and possibilities introduced in the Virtual Member Event with your fellow ZERO TO THREE Members. Consider together what left you curious, what excited you and inspired application potential. Construct individual and collective knowledge and forge connections within your Member Community. Not a member? Sign up Today!
Who should attend
- Direct Service Professional (work directly with children and/or families)
- Program/Service Administrator
- Adult Educator
- Parent Education/Support Provider
- Policymaker/Advocate
- Researcher
- HealthySteps System Affiliate
- Student
Why?
- As a result of participating in this event, learners will be able to…
- Identify how stress impacts both adults’ and children’s ability to engage and learn.
- Outline how mindfulness practice can promote well-being and resiliency.
- Summarize key principles from the Science of Hope and describe how hope can fortify early childhood professionals working under challenging conditions.
