Speaking Engagements & Workshops
These speaking and training experiences are designed for schools and families who want more than surface-level solutions. Led by Brandon Joffe, LCSW, each presentation combines clinical insight with practical strategies that help adults respond to emotional dysregulation, crisis, and conflict with confidence and compassion. The result is clearer communication, stronger relationships, and environments where students, educators, and families can thrive.
Resilience Through Perseverance
A powerful presentation featuring Zack Collie, AMFT, and his inspiring journey after a life-changing injury. In an engaging conversation with Brandon Joffe, LCSW, Zack shares how he embraced resilience, adapted to his new reality, and found strength in patience, gratitude, and acceptance. He discusses the challenges of losing independence, the power of shifting focus from loss to possibility, and the importance of stepping outside one’s comfort zone to grow. His story is a testament to the unwavering power of finding resilience through perseverance.
Dysregulation & Emotional Regulation in the Classroom
A practical, trauma-informed training that helps educators recognize emotional dysregulation early and respond with clarity and confidence. Participants learn how to identify underlying needs, use co-regulation effectively, and apply concrete tools and language in the moment. The training provides ready-to-use strategies and scripts for supporting students with ADHD, anxiety, and trauma—reducing power struggles while strengthening connection, safety, and learning in the classroom.
Suicide Awareness & Crisis Response for School Staff
A compassionate, clinically grounded training that equips school staff to recognize suicide risk, respond effectively to crisis language, and follow clear, appropriate intervention protocols. Participants gain confidence in knowing what to say, what steps to take, and how to collaborate with administrators, families, and mental health providers. The training also emphasizes thoughtful postvention support to help students, staff, and families feel supported and stabilized after a crisis.
For Schools, Administrators, Educators, and Youth-Serving Professionals
Preventing Teacher Burnout: Mental Health for Educators
An empowering training focused on sustainability in education and the emotional realities of working in high-demand school environments. This presentation helps educators understand the roots of burnout, protect their emotional energy, and strengthen professional boundaries without guilt. Participants learn practical regulation strategies, realistic self-care tools, and mindset shifts that support longevity, clarity, and renewed purpose in their work.
Supporting Students Through Grief, Divorce, and Home Instability
This training equips educators with the language, understanding, and structure needed to support students navigating grief, divorce, and home instability. Participants learn how to respond with empathy while maintaining predictable routines, clear expectations, and academic engagement. Emphasis is placed on creating emotional safety in the classroom without lowering standards, helping students feel supported, regulated, and capable during difficult seasons.
Creating a Culture of Psychological Safety on Campus
This training guides schools in creating a culture of psychological safety where both students and staff can thrive. Participants learn how trauma-informed awareness, consistent responses, and relational leadership build trust, connection, and engagement across campus. The focus is on practical shifts in language, behavior, and systems that foster emotional safety, reduce reactivity, and support a healthier, more connected school environment.
Navigating Big Feelings in Small Spaces: Emotional Regulation for Elementary Educators
Designed specifically for early childhood and elementary teams, this training helps educators navigate big emotions in small, fast-paced classroom settings. Participants learn practical co-regulation strategies, sensory supports, and developmentally appropriate emotional language to use in the moment. The focus is on preventing escalation, supporting emotional growth, and creating classrooms where young learners feel safe, understood, and ready to learn.
Relational Discipline: Replacing Detentions and Demerits with Repair and Growth
This training introduces a powerful shift away from punitive discipline and toward a repair-based, relational model. Educators learn how to hold students accountable while preserving dignity, strengthening relationships, and increasing buy-in. The approach emphasizes reflection, responsibility, and repair—resulting in improved behavior, reduced power struggles, and more sustainable, long-term outcomes for students and school communities.
Teaching Resilience in the Classroom
This training equips educators with simple, effective ways to intentionally build resilience into daily classroom life. Participants learn how to support emotional literacy, model adaptive coping, and reinforce a growth mindset through everyday interactions and routines. The focus is on helping students develop skills that support persistence, flexibility, and long-term success both inside and outside the classroom.
Addiction and Substance Use: A Relational Approach for Educators
Substance use can be confusing and intimidating for educators to address. This training equips school staff with the understanding and tools needed to respond with clarity, compassion, and confidence—without resorting to fear or shame. Educators leave with practical insight into early warning signs, supportive language, and concrete steps for intervention and collaboration.
Bullying, Boundaries, and Belonging
This training offers an emotionally informed approach to bullying prevention that goes beyond discipline and consequences. Educators learn how to foster belonging, strengthen boundaries, and promote healthy peer dynamics that reduce bullying behaviors and improve overall school culture.
Dealing with Difficult Parents: Communication Tools for Educators
Difficult parent interactions can be one of the most stressful parts of the job. This training gives educators clear, usable strategies for staying regulated, confident, and boundaried while communicating with reactive or demanding parents. Includes practical scripts for meetings, emails, and ongoing communication.
Supporting Neurodivergent Students with Emotional Safety and Structure
Neurodivergent students thrive when adults understand their needs and respond with structure and empathy. This training helps educators build emotionally safe classrooms using predictable routines, emotional attunement, and boundaries that support regulation, learning, and connection.
Staff Cohesion and Emotional Intelligence
This training helps school teams address internal conflict, miscommunication, and emotional reactivity in a productive and respectful way. Participants build emotional intelligence skills that strengthen trust, professionalism, and collaboration across staff.
Collaborative Crisis Response
This clarity-building training helps schools move from reactive crisis management to confident, coordinated response. Designed for administrators, counselors, and frontline staff, it strengthens leadership, communication, and teamwork during high-stakes situations—ensuring students are supported while staff feel aligned and grounded.
Hope for Parents with Struggling Teens
Calm Parenting in a Chaotic World
This workshop equips parents with the skills to stay steady when parenting feels anything but. By learning how to regulate their own emotions first, parents can reduce conflict, increase connection, and lead their families with confidence.
Supporting Your Child Through Depression, Anxiety, or Self-Harm
This workshop helps parents move beyond fear and confusion toward confident, compassionate support. Parents learn how to show up with empathy while maintaining boundaries that support long-term emotional health and safety.
Workshops for Parents, Families and Caregivers
This workshop helps parents move from fear and frustration to clarity and confidence when parenting struggling teens. Parents learn practical frameworks—including the 90/10 principle and parenting hierarchy—to rebuild influence and connection with disconnected or defiant adolescents.
When They Push You Away: Rebuilding a Damaged Parent-Child Relationship
Designed for parents experiencing emotional distance, defiance, or estrangement, this workshop focuses on rebuilding trust, influence, and emotional connection over time.
Boundaries Over Contracts: Parenting for Connection and Influence
This workshop challenges traditional parenting systems that rely on control and rewards. Parents learn how to set boundaries that build trust, accountability, and lasting influence—without power struggles.
Addiction in the Family: A Parent’s Guide to Clarity, Compassion, and Boundaries
This workshop helps parents stay grounded and clear when addiction impacts their family. Parents learn how to respond with compassion while maintaining boundaries that support long-term healing and stability.
Emotionally Dysregulated Kids: What Parents Can Do
When emotions take over, many parents feel unsure how to respond. This workshop gives parents clear tools for navigating meltdowns, big feelings, and emotional storms with calm and confidence.
Relational Repair for Couples in Conflict About Parenting
This workshop supports couples and co-parents in reducing conflict, improving communication, and realigning around shared parenting values.
Parenting Neurodivergent Kids Without Losing Yourself
This workshop helps parents stay emotionally regulated and structured while parenting children with ADHD, autism, or sensory processing challenges.
Grief, Loss, and Transitions: Parenting Through the Hard Seasons
This workshop helps parents lead their families through life’s hardest seasons with honesty, connection, and emotional safety. Parents gain tools to support their children while navigating their own grief and change.