Steady Minds

Nervous System Skills for Schools

Our Approach

Steady Minds is a school-based program designed to help students and staff understand the biological response to stress and learn practical tools to regulate it.

This program shifts the focus from labeling behaviors to understanding what is happening inside the brain and body. When students learn that their reactions are rooted in biology, not personal failure, they gain ownership, confidence, and skills they can use for life.

Normalizing the Experience

Inside Steady Minds, we teach students and staff:

  • How the brain and nervous system respond to stress

  • Why social pressure, test anxiety, sleep loss, conflict, and digital overload activate the same stress pathways

  • What fight, flight, freeze, and shutdown can actually look like in a classroom

Students learn that racing thoughts, irritability, avoidance, or shutdown are not identity traits. They are nervous system states.

This understanding removes shame and builds clarity.

Understanding the Biology of Stress:

Inside Steady Minds, we teach students and staff:

  • How the brain and nervous system respond to stress

  • Why social pressure, test anxiety, sleep loss, conflict, and digital overload activate the same stress pathways

  • What fight, flight, freeze, and shutdown can actually look like in a classroom

Students learn that racing thoughts, irritability, avoidance, or shutdown are not identity traits. They are nervous system states.

This understanding removes shame and builds clarity.

Tools for Regulation — In School and Beyond

Steady Minds provides practical tools that can be used:

  • Before and during tests

  • During transitions

  • After conflict

  • When the classroom energy feels wired or shut down

Teachers receive short, repeatable regulation practices that can be guided in under two minutes.

Students learn tools they can use independently throughout their lives to pause, reset, and respond instead of reacting.

The goal is not to eliminate stress.
The goal is to build capacity, confidence, and long-term self-regulation.

Ways to Work with Us

Online Self-Paced Program

This Steady Minds program is a self paced, with modules and a toolbox of nervous system regulation techniques to use based on needs in the classroom. This if for the admin and staff.

Online Live Training

This is for those that want live training for their school team, meeting online as we work through the Steady Minds program together, connecting on real life scenarios, and Q & A.

On-site Training

Steady Minds comes to your school. Together we discuss the needs of the school, whether it is in classroom working with the students or hands on training with the team. This is a full immersion experience for the whole school.

Let’s connect and discuss best options to address the concerns and reach the goals of your school.

Quotes are available once we discuss your inquiry, as the pricing is tiered based on number of people accessing the programs, along with the specifics of the training. The awesome perk of this program is it can be molded to the needs of your school, your expectations, and much more. So, let’s open up the discussion and let the brainstorming begin!