"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.

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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.

This course will help you and the young people in your life:

  • Alleviate stress and discouragement

  • Activate intrinsic motivation

  • Move through challenges with resilience

  • Cultivate calm in at school and home

Young People are Struggling

Let's work together toward positive, lasting change.

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Imagine:

Helping every child or teen cultivate inner happiness and alleviate stress and discouragement.

Turning around challenging classroom dynamics with help from students.

Effectively connecting with colleagues and parents to support student outcomes.

Improving your own well-being in the process.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Getting Started

    • Welcome: Important Details for Getting Started

    • More About Maureen Burford and Ellen Tadd
  • 2

    A Framework for Wise Education

    • Module Overview

    • Author Ellen Tadd: Why this Framework?

    • The Chakra System in Human Development 2

    • What is A Framework for Wise Education?
  • 3

    The Inspiration Factor

    • Module Overview

    • Introducing the Crown Chakra

    • The Inspiration Factor: Essential Attributes

    • The Inspiration Factor: Diminished Patterns

    • The Inspiration Factor: Dominant Patterns

    • The Crown Chakra in Action

    • Assessing Your Crown Chakra

    • Learning Check: Attributes and Common Tendencies of the Crown Chakra

    • Inspiration Meditation Audio (no music)
  • 4

    Module 4: Expanding Your Influence

    • Continuing Your Journey

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.

Experiencing The Inspiration Factor training will feel like you're meeting an old friend for the first time.

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  • Feeling Calm at school