2025 Events
Better Days: Practical and Research-Based Social-Emotional Practices
What if you could take a few brief, but meaningful minutes daily to help your students develop social and emotional skills and take stock, recenter, and reset yourself? At a time when students’ social-emotional health is in crisis, teachers need support- both to help their students and to prevent their own burnout. You can’t teach what you don’t embody. Teachers who are balanced themselves are more likely to be well-regulated for the children they work with on a daily basis. We’ve all heard the adage that you can’t change what happens to you, but you can change how you respond to what happens to you. But how exactly do we respond to the endless curveballs that life throws us, in and out of the classroom? .
Better Days Ahead: A One-Hour Boost for Educators
In a time when student social-emotional health is in crisis, educators are feeling the pressure—and the fatigue. But what if a few small shifts could lead to big changes?
Join Dr. Lisa J. Lucas, author of Better Days: 180 Creative Practices and Daily Connections for Teachers and Students, for an energizing 1-hour interactive discussion designed to inspire and uplift. Discover practical, research-backed strategies to support student well-being and your own. Walk away with simple daily habits to build attention, presence, and a greater sense of ease—starting now.
Because when teachers thrive, students do too.
Past Events
Practicing Presence for Pre-Schoolers & Parents: Staying Present Amid the Chaos of Daily Life
Join Dr. Lisa J. Lucas—author, speaker, and therapeutic coach—for an uplifting workshop that helps parents create calm in the midst of chaos. Walk away with simple, practical strategies to nurture presence, strengthen connection, and bring more ease to daily life.
While parents recharge, little ones discover! With Chelsea LaRose, a seasoned teacher with 10_ years of experience, preschoolers will enjoy screen-free mindful activities—fun, creative, and simple to repeat at home.
East Brandywine Township Lotus Festival
1245 Horseshoe Pike, Downingtown, PA 19335
Sunday, August 17, 2025 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Free Admission & classes, Vendors & Food
Reduce stress. Boost presence. Live better. Therapeutic coach & author of Practicing Presence and Better Days, offering free Discovery session to see if coaching is right for you.
Barnes and Noble Author Event
Lisa will be signing copies of Practicing Presence and Better Days on August 9th 2:00- 3:00
Main Street at Exton
301 Main Street
Exton, PA 19341

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