“Resilience is not just for surviving the worst day of your life, it’s for thriving everyday of your life.”
Professional Development & Workshops
Creating Resilience for Individuals and Groups
My journey started with a focus on children, but I quickly realized a fundamental truth: to create a lasting ripple in our families, our classrooms, and our communities, we must first tend to the source. The shift begins within.
I partner with individuals from all walks of life—educators, parents, and mission-driven professionals—who are ready to move beyond “getting by.” This is for the seekers invested in transformational work that doesn’t just help you survive the day, but helps you expand your internal capacity to truly inhabit your life.
You spend your days pouring into the needs of everyone else, holding the weight of their worlds both personally and professionally. You deserve a space that is safe enough to hold yours. While you are busy caring for the world, let’s create the room you need to finally rise.
Resilience Coaching
Reimagining Resilient: Individual & Community Coaching
In our work together, we aren’t here to “fix” you—because you aren’t broken. While we will certainly navigate the obstacles in your path, our true focus is on expanding your internal capacity. We are shifting the narrative from the exhaustion of survival to the spaciousness of thriving.
Resilience isn’t a snap-back to the old you; it’s a rising into the new one. Together, we create a grounded, “safe enough” container.
Surface the Current
Acknowledge exactly where you are, without judgment
Recognize the Impact
Honor the story your body and mind are carrying
Deepen Self-Understanding
Listen to the wisdom beneath the surface
Embody New Ways of Being
Practice the tools that move you from "stuck" to "unfolding"
I believe that how we tend to our individual selves creates a ripple effect. When we move with more presence and regulation, we contribute to a greater collective—doing the essential work of building a more just, equitable, and resilient world for everyone.
I have benefited from my one on one coaching with SaraJane. Having someone like her listen intently and be reflective back, has allowed me to feel more confident in taking the next right step to move forward.
A. Reed
Participating in Coaching for Educators gave me time to think and reflect calmly about what I am currently experiencing. It offered me time to consider some changes I needed to make to feel stronger and happier moving forward.
S.G.
My coaching sessions with SaraJane leave me feeling energized and reminded of what I have control over. She makes sure I have solid next steps to tackle whatever I bring to our time together.
K.W.
I partner with organizations to move beyond “checking a box.” Whether we are navigating the weight of vicarious trauma or building the foundational work of anti-racism, we approach these sessions with a focus on sustainable, embodied change.
The Foundations of our Work
Understanding the Reach of Trauma
Trauma isn’t just an event in the past; it is a physiological experience in the present. It impacts our physical, emotional, and spiritual beings, rippling out from the individual to affect the health of the entire collective. At Rising Resilient, we look at how trauma lives in our systems and how we can begin to move towards collective regulation.
Cultivating Resilience as Capacity
Resilience isn’t about endurance; it’s about the ability to feel, acknowledge, and return to center. We move away from “bouncing back” and toward building the internal and communal practices that allow us to hold more. This work is rooted in trauma-informed care that honors the nervous system’s need for safety and connection.
A Somatic Commitment to Anti-Racism
To create a collective where everyone truly thrives, anti-racism must be more than a statement – it must be a foundational practice. This requires a long-term commitment to building awareness, acknowledging harm, and taking courageous action toward equity.
My Commitment to the Collective
I focus on facilitating this essential work with those who identify as white, helping to dismantle the internal and external systems that uphold inequity. To honor the depth of this work and the communities it serves, I return 75% of the proceeds from these specific sessions to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) individuals and organizations.
EXAMPLE: Moving from Reactive Crisis to Proactive Capacity
Standard “self-care” workshops often miss the mark because they ask exhausted educators to do more on their own time. My workshops are different. We focus on the neuroscience of resilience and the somatic tools needed to stay grounded in the “good, important, hard work” of education.
After attending this professional development I left feeling informed and hopeful that I am not the only one who feels this way, and there is something I can do about it besides giving up and quitting my job.
M.O.
I really appreciated how the antiracism sessions have helped me feel connected in mind and body to the anti-racism work we are trying to do. She guides in a way that allows us to dig deep without fear.
M.H.
I attended SaraJane’s workshop at the Trauma Sensitive Schools conference. Her presentation was engaging and helped improve my understanding of the impact trauma has and the need to build resilience.
Anonymous
Yoga & Mindfulness
So many things demand our attention throughout a day. However, despite the demands to pay attention, this isn’t necessarily something we’ve been taught to do. Mindfulness is a vital component to our health, well-being, and resilience, especially when working with traumatized or vulnerable populations.
A practice of mindfulness helps us to:
- Pause
- Breathe
- Recenter our scattered senses
Yoga
Yoga goes beyond being flexible or physically fit. In fact, yoga is the opportunity to unite the mind and body together through a breath and movement practice. Connecting the breath and the body becomes vital for those working to heal from chronic stress and trauma, as well as anyone experiencing vicarious trauma.
Through yoga we:
- Increase awareness and honor choice
- Foster compassion for self and others
- Create healthy emotional regulation
By practicing mindfulness with her on a weekly basis, it allowed me to sift through distractions and focus on my well being. It was easy to be refreshed and clear headed after listening to the prompts from SaraJane and helped me navigate the abrupt disruptions at the beginning of COVID with a sense of groundedness.
D.O.
SaraJane’s teaching was the most emotionally connected I have ever experienced, and she created such a safe, nurturing space to arrive as you are and feel whatever comes up. I felt more open and in touch with my heart and my truth afterwards, and my body was in alignment with that feeling too.
N. Brenner
I was feeling stuck from being inside during the initial months of the pandemic. SaraJane offered me a moment of mindfulness outside. It felt freeing and gave me the opportunity to more fully experience being outside and hear some of my favorite sounds. It was an amazing experience that I feel very grateful for.
Anonymous