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"Life is a beautiful beast. Protect your beauty. Empower your strength."

Building Stronger Students · Healthier Educators · More Resilient Schools

Every workshop, series, and consulting engagement offered by BellaMonet is customized to your school's context, culture, and goals. We bridge mental health and education through resilience, wellness, and sustainable school systems — bringing over a decade of clinical, instructional, and systems-level expertise directly to your staff.

How We Work Together

Half-Day Training 3 Hours
Ideal For

Faculty Meetings · PD Days · School Improvement Initiatives

A focused, high-impact session covering one core topic. Perfect for introducing new frameworks, building shared language, and sparking meaningful conversation among staff.

Full-Day Institute 6 Hours
Ideal For

District-Wide Training · Leadership Retreats · Opening-of-School PD

An immersive deep-dive with time for skill-building, reflection, and action planning. Includes whole-group learning and small-group breakout activities tailored to your team.

Multi-Session Series 3 – 6 Sessions
Ideal For

Sustained Implementation · School Improvement Teams · Year-Long PD

Designed for lasting impact. Series options include the Trauma-Informed School Series, Educator Wellness Series, SEL Implementation Series, and MTSS Series.

Coaching & Consultation Ongoing
Ideal For

Leadership Teams · Student Support Teams · MTSS Coordinators

Direct consultation to help schools design, implement, and strengthen mental health programs, student support systems, and whole-school wellness initiatives.

Signature BellaMonet Workshops

Flagship offerings developed exclusively by BellaMonet — schools cannot get these anywhere else.

Signature Workshop

The Resilient Educator™

Sustaining your passion while preventing burnout — because you cannot pour from an empty cup.

  • Recognize early signs of burnout and compassion fatigue
  • Build emotional resilience strategies for challenging environments
  • Develop boundaries without guilt and self-care that actually works
  • Strengthen self-awareness and emotional regulation as a professional
Signature Workshop

Beyond Behavior™

Understanding what student behavior is communicating — and responding with intention.

  • Examine student behavior through a trauma-informed lens
  • Apply co-regulation strategies before correction
  • Build restorative approaches that repair rather than punish
  • Strengthen classroom relationships while maintaining structure
Signature Workshop

Mental Health Matters™

Practical knowledge every educator needs to support student mental health with confidence.

  • Recognize signs of anxiety, depression, and emotional dysregulation
  • Understand intervention pathways and referral processes
  • Build protective factors within the classroom community
  • Create psychological safety for students to ask for help
Signature Workshop

Dancing the Same Dance™

A collaborative experience rooted in shared responsibility for student success.

  • Build a unified school culture of shared ownership
  • Strengthen collaboration between teachers, counselors, and support staff
  • Align around student-centered goals and co-created systems
  • Cultivate a community that rises together through challenges and wins

Educator Wellness & Resilience

Helping educators sustain their passion while preventing burnout — because staff wellness is the foundation of student success.

Preventing Educator Burnout

An honest, research-grounded look at the unique stressors educators face — and practical strategies to stay well without leaving the profession.

Participants Will
  • Identify personal burnout risk factors and warning signs
  • Apply evidence-based stress management techniques
  • Create a sustainable wellness plan that fits real educator life
Half or Full Day

Compassion Fatigue vs. Compassion Satisfaction

Understand the difference between being depleted by caring and being energized by it — and learn how to shift the balance in your professional life.

Participants Will
  • Distinguish compassion fatigue from burnout and vicarious trauma
  • Identify sources of meaning and satisfaction in their work
  • Build protective practices to sustain long-term engagement
Half Day

The Emotional Labor of Teaching

An affirming exploration of the invisible work educators do every day — and strategies to honor it without being consumed by it.

Participants Will
  • Name and validate the emotional demands of the teaching role
  • Develop emotional boundaries that preserve authentic connection
  • Practice strategies for emotional recovery at the end of the day
Half Day

Boundaries Without Guilt

Practical tools for setting healthy professional and personal limits — without the second-guessing, the apologizing, or the shame.

Participants Will
  • Clarify personal and professional values that guide boundary-setting
  • Communicate limits clearly and with confidence
  • Release guilt associated with prioritizing personal wellbeing
Half Day

Self-Care That Actually Works

Moving beyond bubble baths and buzzwords — building genuine, sustainable self-care practices that fit inside real educator lives.

Participants Will
  • Identify personal self-care barriers and how to address them
  • Design a realistic, personalized wellness routine
  • Develop micro-practices that can be used during the school day
Half Day

SEL & Trauma-Informed Practices

Building emotionally intelligent classrooms and trauma-responsive school communities where every student can learn and belong.

SEL Beyond the Lesson Plan

Practical strategies for embedding social emotional learning into everyday instruction — not as an add-on, but as a way of teaching and being in community.

Participants Will
  • Integrate SEL into academic routines and transitions
  • Build student self-awareness and emotional vocabulary
  • Design SEL-aligned classroom environments and norms
Half or Full Day

Trauma-Informed Classrooms

Transform your classroom into a space where students who have experienced trauma can actually learn — and where relationships are the foundation.

Participants Will
  • Understand how trauma impacts learning, memory, and behavior
  • Apply the five key principles of trauma-informed practice
  • Create predictable, safe, and relationship-centered environments
Half or Full Day

Co-Regulation Before Correction

Explore why co-regulation is the most powerful discipline strategy — and how to use it with students of every age and in every classroom moment.

Participants Will
  • Understand the neuroscience of co-regulation and emotional contagion
  • Build a personal toolkit of co-regulation strategies
  • Apply co-regulation in high-stress classroom moments
Half Day

Restorative SEL Practices

Blend restorative justice principles with social emotional learning for school communities built on accountability, repair, and genuine belonging.

Participants Will
  • Understand the foundational principles of restorative practice
  • Facilitate restorative conversations and community circles
  • Build a school culture where harm can be addressed with care
Full Day

Supporting Students Impacted by Adverse Experiences

Deepen your understanding of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and develop concrete strategies to support healing within the school setting.

Participants Will
  • Understand the research on ACEs and developmental impact
  • Identify trauma-responsive classroom adaptations
  • Build strength-based relationships with students who have experienced adversity
Half or Full Day

Mental Health in Schools

Building staff confidence in recognizing and responding to student mental health needs — with knowledge, language, and a clear pathway forward.

Youth Mental Health 101

A foundational training that gives every staff member the knowledge and language to recognize and respond to student mental health needs — with confidence, not fear.

Participants Will
  • Understand the most common mental health challenges affecting today's students
  • Recognize behavioral and emotional warning signs in the classroom
  • Navigate referral and crisis response processes with confidence
Half Day

Anxiety in Today's Students

Practical, research-informed strategies for recognizing and supporting students managing anxiety — in an increasingly anxious world that schools cannot ignore.

Participants Will
  • Identify how anxiety presents differently across age groups
  • Apply classroom-level accommodations and de-escalation strategies
  • Communicate effectively with families about student anxiety
Half Day

Depression and School Performance

Understand the intersection of depression and academic engagement — and how educators can be a protective factor in a student's life.

Participants Will
  • Recognize how depression impacts attendance, motivation, and achievement
  • Build compassionate and effective educator responses
  • Connect students and families to appropriate levels of support
Half Day

Suicide Awareness and Prevention

Evidence-informed training to help educators recognize warning signs, respond appropriately, and feel equipped — not paralyzed — in moments of crisis.

Participants Will
  • Recognize risk factors, warning signs, and protective factors
  • Apply safe messaging guidelines in school settings
  • Understand the school's role in a community crisis response
Half Day

Building Protective Factors

Practical strategies for creating the relational and environmental conditions that protect student mental health — across the entire school community.

Participants Will
  • Identify key protective factors for youth mental health
  • Embed protective factor development into daily school practice
  • Strengthen school connectedness as a mental health intervention
Half Day

Psychological Safety in Schools

Create the school-wide conditions where students feel safe enough to learn, take risks, ask for help, and truly belong.

Participants Will
  • Define psychological safety and its role in learning and wellbeing
  • Identify practices that build and undermine safety in classrooms
  • Design whole-school approaches to psychological safety
Half Day

MTSS & Student Support Systems

Helping schools build effective, sustainable, data-informed systems of student support — so no student falls through the cracks.

MTSS for Student Wellness

An introduction to applying multi-tiered systems of support to social, emotional, and mental health needs — not just academics — with fidelity and equity.

Participants Will
  • Understand the MTSS framework applied to student wellness
  • Align existing school supports within a tiered structure
  • Build shared ownership across teachers and student support staff
Half or Full Day

Strengthening Tier 1 Prevention

Build the universal, school-wide practices that prevent problems before they escalate — because the strongest intervention is one that never has to happen.

Participants Will
  • Assess the strength of current Tier 1 prevention systems
  • Embed SEL and wellness into universal instruction
  • Design proactive structures for belonging, connection, and safety
Half or Full Day

Data-Informed Student Support

Use data to identify which students need what support — and to measure whether it's actually working — without losing the human at the center of the data.

Participants Will
  • Identify and collect meaningful wellness and SEL data
  • Interpret data to inform tier placement and intervention selection
  • Build a culture of continuous improvement in student support
Half Day

Collaboration Between Teachers and Student Support Teams

Build the systems and culture that make teacher-counselor collaboration seamless, consistent, and genuinely student-centered.

Participants Will
  • Clarify roles and responsibilities across disciplines
  • Design efficient communication and coordination protocols
  • Strengthen trust and shared language across the support team
Half Day

Effective Referral Processes

Streamline your referral systems so students get the right support at the right time — and families are never left wondering what comes next.

Participants Will
  • Map your current referral process and identify gaps
  • Design clear, efficient, and equitable referral pathways
  • Ensure families are informed and engaged throughout the process
Half Day

Progress Monitoring for Social Emotional Growth

Build a meaningful, practical system for tracking student progress in social emotional skills — beyond grades, beyond behavior referrals.

Participants Will
  • Identify appropriate SEL progress monitoring tools and metrics
  • Use data cycles to track growth and adjust interventions
  • Communicate student SEL progress clearly to families and teams
Half Day

Leadership & School Culture

Designed for principals, assistant principals, deans, instructional leaders, and district administrators ready to build something that lasts.

Leading a Trauma-Informed School

Help school leaders develop the mindset, skills, and systems to create genuinely trauma-responsive school communities — starting from the top.

Participants Will
  • Understand the leader's role in building a trauma-informed culture
  • Assess current school climate through a trauma-informed lens
  • Design systems that embed trauma-responsiveness school-wide
Full Day

Building a Culture of Wellness

Create school environments where both adults and students thrive — not just survive — with structures that make wellbeing a built-in priority.

Participants Will
  • Define what a true culture of wellness looks and feels like
  • Identify structural and relational barriers to staff and student wellbeing
  • Design sustainable wellness systems beyond Wellness Wednesday
Full Day

Psychological Safety for Teams

Build the conditions where staff feel safe to speak up, take risks, disagree respectfully, and show up authentically — because that is what great schools are built on.

Participants Will
  • Understand the research on psychological safety and team performance
  • Assess current psychological safety levels within your school team
  • Lead with practices that build trust, inclusion, and honest communication
Half Day

Using SEL as a School Improvement Strategy

Position social emotional learning as a driver of academic achievement, not a competing priority — and bring your whole staff along for the journey.

Participants Will
  • Make the evidence-based case for SEL as a school improvement lever
  • Integrate SEL into school improvement planning and leadership decisions
  • Build teacher and community buy-in for a whole-school SEL approach
Half or Full Day

Supporting Staff Through Change

Lead your team through transitions, challenges, and growth with emotional intelligence, strategic communication, and genuine care for the people doing the work.

Participants Will
  • Apply a trauma-informed lens to organizational change
  • Communicate change in ways that reduce anxiety and build trust
  • Support staff wellbeing while sustaining momentum toward goals
Half Day

Mental Health Leadership

Equip school leaders with the literacy, language, and systems-level strategies needed to champion student and staff mental health at every level of decision-making.

Participants Will
  • Develop mental health literacy as a leadership competency
  • Build school-wide systems that prioritize mental health access and equity
  • Lead with both urgency and sustainability in mental health initiatives
Half or Full Day