Teaching skills that last a lifetime.
Holistic Educational Therapy supports and balances the Mind (learning), Body (behavior) and Spirit (emotions).
Executive function Skills for the mind.
As an Educational Therapist/Professional (ET/P), Dr. Weke primarily focuses on teaching skills associated with executive functioning to reduce academic and behavioral barriers to learning. In other words, if behavior is hindering one’s ability to be successful, Dr. Weke works directly with the student to help them gain skills aligned with their goals. Executive function therapy helps individuals develop essential skills for managing daily tasks and responsibilities by focusing on cognitive processes crucial for goal-directed behavior. These processes include:
Planning and Organization: Helping students learn how to plan tasks and organize materials effectively.
Time Management: Teaching strategies to manage time efficiently, meet deadlines, and reduce procrastination.
Task Initiation and Completion: Encouraging students to start tasks promptly and follow through to completion.
Working Memory: Improving the ability to hold and manipulate information in mind for short periods.
Self-Monitoring and Regulation: Developing skills to monitor and adjust behavior and emotions in real-time.
Flexibility: Enhancing the ability to adapt to new situations and think creatively to solve problems.
Students often experience benefits like:
Increased Independence: Students learn to manage their own tasks and responsibilities without constant reminders. Improved Academic Performance: Better organization and time management lead to more effective study habits and higher grades. Reduced Stress: With improved planning and organization, students experience less anxiety related to schoolwork and deadlines. Enhanced Self-Confidence: Mastering these skills boosts self-esteem and confidence in their abilities.
An Educational Therapist encourages individuals to explore their personal learning styles, feelings, beliefs, actions, and experiences that contribute to internal motivation and productivity. An emphasis is placed on developing Executive Function Skills related to: flexible thinking, working memory, time management, organization, and processing, self-monitoring, problem-solving, positive decision-making.
Behavior Regulation for the body.
Behavioral Interventions and Strategies (BIS) empowers students with the ability to regulate their bodies in the classroom and home, by learning how to effectively manage their physical responses and actions. BIS helps students identify and assess learned behaviors in order to replace potentially self-destructive or unhealthy behaviors, with those that are healthy and functional.
BIS focuses on positive, proactive and preventative measures to help students prevent behavioral habits that lead to poor mental, emotional, and physical health. It equips students with coping strategies to manage stress and anxiety effectively. Even more, BIS provides students with a toolkit of techniques to shape desirable behaviors and zap away the unwanted ones.
BIS teaches students positive self-talk—internal chatter that shapes actions and helps rewire negative thought patterns. When students think better, they behave better
Health counseling is also used to support the brain and body connection. Life-skills are crucial to supporting, maintaining, and generalizing knowledge, emotional awareness, and positive behavioral expression with various people and in various settings. To learn more about Ayurvedic Health Counseling, click here.
The use of behavioral strategies allows individuals to better understand the functions of their behaviors (why behavior occurs). The primary strategy involves using applied behavior analysis strategies to promote positive behavior. Interventions focus on building positive and helpful behaviors that typically include: Improved on-task behavior, cooperation, active listening, functional communication, positive interactions, understand the importance of structures and rules, promotes active participation in social activities.
emotional awareness for the spirit.
Social Emotional Learning are ways through which young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.
Together, Emotional and Behavioral Interventions operate at the macro and micro levels: Improving the behaviors we can see AND the emotions/feelings underneath the surface causing them.
Emotional Learning strategies promote the ability of children and adults to process behavior and better understand its impact on others. It allows individuals to explore the impact of their behavior on relationships and encourages them to identify choices and decisions that will maintain or repair relationships.
Emotional Therapy is centered on promoting social-emotional learning experiences for students and educators. Social emotional learning provides a deeper understanding of how emotions can impact the mental, physical, and spiritual wellness of both children and adults, which can consequently impact performance in different environments. Emotional therapy focuses on building skills related to self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making and relationship-building. It also focuses on developing lifestyle practices and daily routines to restore balance between the mind, body, and emotions.