"I never knew I could find my own way out of anxiety. I just never knew I could do it! Thank you for showing me how."

--6th grade language arts student after learning a new strategy for inspired writing.

In This Course You'll Learn:

  • Why inspiration is the spark behind curiosity, engagement, and lifelong learning

  • How to recognize when inspiration is balanced, diminished, or excessive

  • Practical strategies for strengthening motivation and purpose

  • Ways to apply these ideas at home, in the classroom, and in everyday life

Included in The Inspiration Factor

  • VIdeo Lessons

    Enjoy eleven videos containing over an hour of information.

  • Course Workbook

    A workbook including practice and reflection prompts, as well as a self-assessment tool.

  • Reflective Activities

    Including new tools and strategies, journal prompts, and an assessment tool

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Ellen Tadd's Framework for Wise Education®

The Inspiration Factor

Creative Lives Inc. shares a new, holistic approach to teaching and learning based on Ellen Tadd’s discoveries about the human energy, or chakra system, and its fundamental role in human development. As early adopters of this Framework, we have seen firsthand the profound impact this approach has on children and the adults who serve and raise them.

Testimonials

Course learners share their outcomes

Renewed Purpose In Teaching

Ben L., 5th-6th grade classroom educator

Before this training, I was questioning whether to stay in education. But what I learned here has renewed my passion and sense of purpose. This approach contains the tools and understandings I have been missing.

Benefits at Work & Home

N. Darwish, educator and parent

This course has been wonderful—so helpful. It has supported me in my personal life just as much as at work, and it's given me lots of ways to help kids be whole and healthy.

I Didn't Think I Could Do It

Vermont Early Educator did not think I could do this [The Inspiration Practice from this training]. But then I had a breakthrough—I felt a sense of relief, well-being, and...well...delight settle over me. I couldn't believe it. I hold two jobs and have two young children at home, but everything felt more manageable. As I keep practicing, that feeling stays with me.

I did not think I could do this [The Inspiration Practice from this training]. But then I had a breakthrough—I felt a sense of relief, well-being, and delight settle over me. I couldn't believe it. I have two jobs and two young children at home, but everything felt more manageable. As I keep practicing, that feeling stays with me.

A Powerful Approach

Ree Webster, educator and parent

I have never experienced a more powerful or meaningful framework for approaching education.

Steve Glazer, middle school educator

Maureen Burford is an inspired, dedicated, and extraordinary teacher—and teacher of teachers. Decades of experience in music, theater, education, and contemplative discipline have seamlessly merged into her framework for teaching and professional development.

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