It is time for a healthy, empowered education in a new world for all students!

I am so excited to be introducing the Empowerment Education blog to allow me to unleash my life’s mission. –for all children to have the freedom, confidence and skills to live their highest and healthiest vision for themselves, their community and their world. All of my educational and life experiences have unfolded to help set a new-paradigm standard and bring to life a truly healthy and empowering educational framework and principles that guide all learning environments.

This new-paradigm healthy and empowering paradigm truly leaves "no child behind", which has little to do with test scores and the survival of the fittest philosophy. It does have everything to do with providing a culture of respect, cooperation and connection where all children no matter their age, race, behavior, academics, culture, religion, gender, or income are given equal opportunity to use their gifts, passions and creativities to gain the confidence, skills and self-inspiration necessary to learn and contribute to their communities. It sets a precedent that until you respect, love and accept yourself, it is nearly impossible to truly respect, love and accept others. It creates a positive environment of trust, integrity, honesty, fun and growth that is highly contagious, healthy and inspiring. Students feel compassion and purpose and are resilient to life's challenges. Mistakes, vulnerabilities, and emotions are seen as normal and are welcomed because they lead to more discoveries of the self and of their life purpose.

We have been talking about educational transformation for years.

One of the things that has stood in the way of the SHIFT is that much of our past educational research endeavors, even though they had good intentions, were focusing on goals such as raising test scores. This viewpoint put the definition of educational success in a competitive, outcome-based framework which breeds comparison, judgment, jealousy, unstable self-worth, and a "not enough" mentality. These traits and emotions lead to decreases in perceived control and increases in stress. It is common knowledge today that increased physiological and psychological stress is one of the main undercurrents of our epidemics of chronic disease, violence and bullying, and the massive herd of school dropouts.

Although I have found that most teachers and students, along with many others feel that changing the current educational model is hopeless, and that moving the school paradigm into a healthy and intrinsically motivating one seems futile, there have fortunately been bits and pieces of healthy, empowering theories, practices and programs peeking through the dense cloud of the unproductive, unhealthy, disempowering and controlling ones.

This new tribe of information is based in personal wellness, empowerment and leadership and leads to the positive outcomes we are really wanting. They are lead by great visionaries and evolved educational minds that are sometimes lost in the sea of mainstream research. I believe that when brought together, the results of their research, philosophies and practices will be strong enough to influence the change. These hidden gems will be (and already are) the beginnings of the cultural and personal empowerment standards that will lead the way for the next generation of students to truly live the new definition of educational success.

How is Empowerment Education® contributing to this healthy educational framework?

The Empowerment Education System of W.E.L.L.-Being is helping to set a new standard and bring to life learning based in well-being by coaching and training educators in a new-paradigm, trauma-informed, transformational pedagogy, called Empowerment Coaching and Learning.

I believe it is perfect timing for this endeavor, and that we are ready; the world is ready for the positive educational transformation that is going to explode during the next 25 years and Empowerment Education will help do this working with the adults who are ready for personal transformation as a way to change learning environments into healthy and empowering one,

I hope you enjoy reading my thoughts about the new-paradigm as you learn about Empowerment Education® through the real life stories I have come into contact with and my own research.