Program Value & Learning Outcomes

Short, engaging videos followed by reflections and activities that focus on your wellness first, then provide tools, strategies, and activities for building a wellness-informed environment that promotes health.

  • Understand the "Why" behind our behaviors (brain-science!)

  • Learn a personalized framework for using challenges to build resilience.

  • Develop a nonjudgemental language for empathetic communication.

  • Gain a sense of control over your wellness and learn strategies for mindful decision-making.

Program Outline

    1. Introduction to the Course

    1. Intro to Neuroscience

    2. Activity: Neuroscience

    3. Brain Development

    4. Activity: The Three Stages of Brain Development

    5. Pathways

    6. Activity: ABC - 123

    7. Activity: Audiation

    8. Pruning & Paving

    9. Activity: Pruning & Paving

    10. Neurochemicals

    11. Activity: The Seven Cs

    12. Activity: Getting Neurochemicals

    13. The PFC

    14. Activity: The PFC & Executive Function

    15. Autonomic Nervous System

    16. Activity: The ANS

    17. Activity: Combat/ Box Breathing

    18. The Four R's

    19. Activity: The Four Rs

    1. The Resilient Mindset Model Intro

    2. The Four S's

    3. Activity: The 4 S Framework

    4. The 4 Characters of The Brain

    5. The Ant

    6. The Grasshopper

    7. The Glowworm

    8. The Dragonfly

    9. Activity: 4 Characters in Action

    10. R.E.A.C.T.S.

    11. Activity: Understanding Your Triggers

    12. Mindful Choices

    13. Activity: Dragonfly Mindfulness

    14. Activity: Applying the Model

    1. Mental Health Literacy Intro

    2. Mental Health Continuum

    3. Activity: Mental Health Statistics

    4. Activity: Breaking The Stigma

    5. Protective Factors

    6. Activity: Protective Factors

    7. Risk Factors

    8. Activity: Risk Factors

    9. Prevention

    10. Ant Tools

    11. Activity: Understanding The Ant

    12. Balanced Decisions

    13. Activity: Healthy Decisions Continuum

    14. Stress & Threat

    15. Activity: Stress and Threat

    16. Trauma & The Brain

    17. Activity: The Brain's Response to Trauma

    18. Three Types of Trauma

    19. Activity: Collective Trauma Now

    20. Violence, Anxiety, Depression

    21. Coping

    22. Activity: Coping Strategies

    23. Mental Health Perspective

    24. Getting Help

    25. Resource: Signs & Symptoms

    26. Resource: Common Mental Health Disorders

    27. Activity: Getting Help

    1. Brain-Based Leadership Intro

    2. Security & Autonomy

    3. Activity: Roots and Wings

    4. Leadership Styles

    5. Activity: Leadership Styles

    6. Scaffolding & Scripting

    7. Activity: Scaffolding & Scripting

    8. The Resilience Formula

    9. Proactive, Not Reactive

    10. Planning

    11. Activity: The Resilience Formula - Planning

    12. Implementing

    13. Activity: The Resilience Formula - Implementing

    14. Reflecting

    15. Reflecting Activity

    16. Restorative Justice

    17. Activity: Apologies & Restorative Justice

    18. Activity: Difficult Conversations & DEI

    19. Self-Care for Leading

    20. Activity: Self-Care

    21. Brain-Based Leadership Supplemental Guide

    1. Dragonflying

    2. Mini Program Survey

About this course

  • Free
  • 84 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

Instructor(s)

Founder of Pathways to Empower Dr. Donna Volpitta

Always an educator, Dr. Volpitta loves finding ways to translate neuroscience so that people can apply it to their own lives. Her work is grounded in the latest research in neurology, psychology, and education. She is the co-author of The Resilience Formula, author of Neuroworld, co-creator of the Nametags Education Program, and is a sought-after speaker. A former classroom teacher (and mother of 4 adolescents!) with experience in both general and special education, Donna holds a doctoral degree in Learning Dis/Abilities from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Co-Founder/CEO Jason Schofield

With a strong background in coaching, management, entrepreneurial consulting, and developing products and services in the technology space, Jason brings his creative spirit and forward-thinking mindset to the Pathways products. Jason feels incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to unite his three main passions, education, health, and entrepreneurship, through Pathways to Empower.