Trainings + Classes
With over 25 years of experience, I’ve been delivering workshops and trainings on various subjects. I offer several categories of trainings that are tailored to meet the needs of various organizations. These organizations include Early Childhood Centers, Schools, Summer Camps, Businesses, Mom Groups, Community Centers, Conventions, and Conferences, among others.
I offer private workshops to these organizations, both in-person in Metrowest Massachussetts and virtually to locations around the world. I have a wide range of topics to choose from, ensuring that I can provide the perfect training to meet your needs.
Workshops Are Organized Into These Categories:
Nurture Your Soul
Nurturing Parents and Teachers
Nurturing Summer Camps
Nurturing Parents Through a Jewish Lens
“Jill clearly has experience! Her background makes her a believable presenter. Her style is thorough, helpful and all inclusive. She takes great care in answering all questions! I would go to all of her workshop!”
-Amy Wiborg, Workshop Attendee
Nurture Your Soul
Focused on the well-being of adults - mind, body and soul
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We can carry burdens, beliefs and patterns long after they are no longer serving us. And sometimes they were never ours to carry in the first place. This experience offers a powerful space to let go of what you are ready to release, without needing to know exactly what it is or where it came from. Through an IFS-inspired Unburdening Meditation Ritual with Quantum Light Wave Healing and Reiki, you’ll experience a deep process of release and healing, creating space for greater lightness, freedom and possibility.
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We all have emotions and experiences that don't get fully processed and can become stuck or held within our systems, creating what can feel like emotional weight. In this experiential workshop and group healing, you'll learn about emotional energy and a powerful Energy Psychology tool for helping process and release it. You'll choose something that is bothering you now and be guided through the process in real time, while receiving Quantum Light Wave Healing and Reiki throughout the release and afterward to deepen the healing, restore and rebalance.
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We can hold unprocessed emotions within our bodies and systems, leaving us feeling stuck, heavy or weighed down. Through intentional somatic yoga, you’ll create movement and flow in the body, helping loosen what has been held and prepare your system for release. You’ll then choose something that is bothering you now and experience a powerful Energy Psychology process to consciously work with and release the emotional energy connected to it, while receiving Quantum Light Wave Healing and Reiki throughout the process. Gentle somatic movement closes the experience, helping you return to your body, integrate and rebalance.
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We can carry burdens, beliefs and patterns long after they are no longer serving us, and sometimes we can feel that weight held within our bodies. Through intentional somatic yoga, you’ll create movement and flow within the body, helping loosen what has been held and prepare your system for release. You’ll then move into an IFS-inspired Unburdening Meditation Ritual with Quantum Light Wave Healing and Reiki to release and transmute what you no longer need to carry, followed by gentle movement to return to your body and integrate the experience.
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Learn practical, hands-on tools to help regulate emotions, release stress and restore greater balance within. This experiential workshop explores the connection between the mind, body and energy and introduces a variety of approaches for moving through stress and difficult emotions. Participants will experience techniques drawn from mindfulness, meditation, movement, energy-based approaches and more to discover what works best for them in everyday life.
“Jill has a rare gift for creating a space where people feel safe to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and explore their inner experience with curiosity and compassion. She beautifully weaves psychology, energy work, meditation, and holistic healing into experiences that feel both intuitive and deeply grounded.
Her calming presence and ability to listen deeply to the energy of the people she is guiding create a space where insight, healing and authentic transformation can unfold naturally. I wholeheartedly recommend Jill’s workshops and healing experiences.”
-Dima Bosko, Embodiment, Somatic and Yoga Instructor
Nurturing Parents & Teachers
Focused on the mental health of parents, caregivers, teachers and children.
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Difficult conversations with families can quickly become challenging when parents feel worried, judged or misunderstood. Learn how to approach sensitive conversations in ways that reduce defensiveness and build partnership. Explore how to help parents see concerns you may be noticing about their child, get on the same page and become more open to additional support when needed. Gain practical strategies for listening, validating concerns and adapting your communication to help families and professionals work together on behalf of the child.
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To truly understand a child’s behavior, we need to understand how they experience the world around them. Learn how sensory processing influences everything from movement and attention to eating, emotions and everyday behavior. Discover why children may seek or avoid certain experiences and how sensory needs are often mistaken for challenging behavior. Gain practical strategies to better understand and support the children in your life.
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Executive functioning helps children develop the skills they need to focus, plan, problem-solve, manage impulses and adapt to change. Learn what executive functioning looks like in early childhood and why we can't expect young children to have skills they are still developing. Discover practical, play-based ways to help children build these important foundations through everyday experiences, modeling and practice.
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Parenting comes with stress, uncertainty and plenty of pressure to get it “right.” Learn to let go of guilt, comparison and unrealistic expectations while building greater trust in yourself and what works for your family. Explore how your own stress and emotions affect parenting and how understanding what is underneath your child's behavior can shift the way you respond. Leave with practical tools to feel more grounded, confident and connected as a parent.
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Change can be difficult for children, whether they are facing a major life transition or a disruption to something familiar. Learn how change can affect children's emotions and behavior and how adults can help them feel more secure and supported as they adjust. Gain practical tools for preparing children for change, maintaining connection and consistency and giving them developmentally appropriate ways to express and work through their feelings.
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There is no one-size-fits-all approach to challenging behavior. Learn practical ways to respond while balancing understanding and validation with clear expectations and limits. Explore strategies for redirecting behavior, meeting underlying needs, teaching new skills and helping children make more positive choices.
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Sharing and taking turns are skills children learn over time, and what we expect needs to match where they are developmentally. Learn why sharing can be difficult for young children and how adults can help without simply forcing them to give up a toy. Discover practical ways to teach sharing, turn-taking and waiting while supporting children as they learn to play with others.
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Tantrums and meltdowns can be overwhelming for children and the adults supporting them. Learn what may be happening beneath these big emotional reactions and why they are a normal part of early childhood development. Discover practical ways to respond in the moment, support children through their emotions and recognize triggers and needs that can help prevent or lessen future outbursts.
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Discipline and punishment are often used interchangeably, but they can have very different goals and outcomes. Explore how different approaches to guiding children can impact behavior, self-esteem, responsibility and your relationship with the child. Learn ways to set limits, respond to challenging behavior and teach children while maintaining connection and respect.
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Before we can change a child’s behavior, we need to understand why it is happening. Learn what may be driving challenging behaviors and why young children often repeat them even when they have been told to stop. Discover practical ways to predict and prevent behaviors, respond more effectively and better understand what children are communicating through their actions.
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Website Summary
Learn practical, hands-on tools to support emotional regulation and restore greater balance in both adults and children. Participants will experience a variety of mind-body tools for themselves and learn ways to model and adapt them for the children they support. Through mindfulness, movement, breathing, sensory and other regulation approaches, participants build a flexible toolbox for navigating stress and difficult emotions.
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Time-out doesn’t have to mean punishment or isolation. Learn how to rethink time-out as an opportunity to pause, regulate and help children move through big emotions. Explore different ways to support children based on what they need in the moment while helping them gradually develop the ability to regulate themselves.
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Learn how anxiety can show up in children and what may be happening beneath their behavior. Understand the connection between anxiety, the mind and body and why talking isn't always enough. Gain practical tools to help children work through worries, regulate their bodies and feel more supported.
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Picky eating is common in young children, but there may be more behind it than simply refusing to try something new. Learn how development, unfamiliar foods and sensory experiences such as taste, texture, smell and appearance can influence what children are willing to eat. Discover practical, low-pressure ways to introduce new foods, understand your child’s individual needs and help make mealtimes a more positive experience.
“I really loved Jill’s workshop. It brought attention to things I already knew but needed a reminder of. It also taught me so many new ways to re-evaluate situations in my preschool class and also re-evaluate myself and ways I can become a better teacher.”
- Michele McLaughlin of MA - Early Childhood Educator
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Designed for summer camp staff. This workshop will teach how to proactively set up an emotionally safe community at camp so that staff and campers feel respected, cared for and feel their needs are met. Focus will be on how camp staff can set the tone with campers. It will focus on what children need to feel emotionally safe and how to help campers interact with each other at the same standard. This workshop will give staff the tools to set up a respectful and safe community for all.
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Designed for Camp Professionals/Supervisors/ Trainers. This workshop educates the camp professionals on behaviors and also gives concrete strategies of how to teach these concepts to their younger camp staff. Interactive training suggestions will be explained throughout the presentation so professionals will be able to train their own staff. This workshop explains why children test and repeat negative behaviors. It gives an understanding of children’s motives because we cannot change a child’s behavior if you don’t fully understand what is causing it. Participants will walk away from this workshop with a better understanding of camper behaviors. They will gain the ability to step back and assess a situation with clarity and confidence. Armed with this information, camp staff can more effectively intervene in a camper’s undesirable behavior your anxious staff as well.
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Designed for camp counselors and staff to support children of all ages. Are you familiar with campers who act out, cover their ears, cry frequently, can't sit still, lack personal space awareness, avoid activities, etc.? These behaviors can often be confusing, but they stem from how the camper perceives and interacts with their environment differently from others. This training will provide a comprehensive understanding of the seven senses and their impact on behaviors. Camp staff will learn how to recognize and interpret these behaviors, develop empathy for the campers, and gain strategies for accommodating their needs and avoiding difficult situations.
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Designed for camp counselors and camp staff of children of all ages. Some campers are extremely anxious. Other campers have worries but are not labeled as anxious. Participants will better understand the difference between a worry and anxiety and how to manage them differently. Often these children have behaviors that puzzle staff because it shows up in many different ways. This training will explain what anxiety can look like in different children and how it shows up in camp. It will explain how anxiety works. Camp Staff will learn strategies to support a child who is anxious, worried, or is home sick.
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Designed for camp counselors and camp staff of kids of all ages. This training is designed to help camp staff in preventing burn out and managing stress. In this training you will understand how anxiety impacts you as a camp professional. After this training you will find how to have self-acceptance and forgiveness. You will gain insight into how to prevent the stress and how to bring it down when it is there. You will also learn concrete coping strategies you can use to prevent and to do when triggered.
Nurturing Summer Camps
Focused on the well-being of counselors and their campers.
“Jill's workshops are both interesting and informative. She has an extensive and diversified educational background and is highly qualified to conduct classes for child care providers, teachers, and parents. One definitely looks forward to being able to attend more of Jill's workshops in the future.”
-Carroll Picucci, Early Childhood Educator
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Designed for parents/caregivers/teachers of children of all ages. This workshop will teach positive child rearing skills. It will teach the difference between a positive discipline approach vs. a punitive punishment approach. It will clarify the differences between discipline, consequences and punishment. It will teach why one is more beneficial than the other. This workshop will look at Jewish values and how they impact how we raise our children positively. It will help participants lessen the amount of frustration, yelling, and punishments used with their child. Your kids and your sanity will thank you for coming!
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Designed for parents and Jewish Early Childhood Educators. This workshop teaches 5 main important principles in helping caregivers react and respond to their children’s behaviors through a Jewish lens. This is a proactive approach to helping children feel heard, seen and balanced.
Nurturing Parents Through A Jewish Lens
Anything you’d like to say here?
“I like how Jill is able to use her own experiences with clients and her children as examples.
Jill incorporates humor in her seminar and relatable examples!”
- Meg Scholl - Parent