Seasoned Play Specialist Howard Moody Appearing at Alpha School

Child study teams from various other districts have been invited to attend as well. Howard has been facilitating workshops for over 25 years. His presentations are fun and focus on play, mindfulness, social emotional learning, communication, and cooperation.

Howard’s goal is to help people be fully inspired, creative and playful in all that they do. His work draws from the fields of positive psychology, mindfulness, leadership development, and holistic health. Specifically, in educational environments, he prefers to focus on skills that help educators create inclusive, energizing, and meaningful play experiences that tie into social-emotional learning, character building, or mindfulness-based curricula.

This spring, we are thrilled to welcome this teacher and successful coach of numerous sports to speak to our staff about the value of creating effective teams and how to achieve peak performance. His programs are helping to transform the 21st-century workplace into an environment that encourages people to be themselves and operate at the highest level of insight, creativity, and teamwork. With our brilliant staff to work with, we have no doubt that Mr. Moody will be ready to play.

Howard is a certified Advanced Trainer for the Nurtured Heart Approach ^®.

After he and its creator, Howard Glass realized how alike they were in their work of nurturing the spirits of children, they collaborated on the book, Nurtured Heart Play. The Nurtured Heart Approach is a success with schools and clinics, as well as parents and counselors worldwide. It is a new way to deepen the social emotional learning that takes place during play and will support any adult who works closely with children. He followed this up with a companion book, a collection of games, entitled The Heart of Play. Now, he leads workshops for nonprofits and companies focusing on the concepts of effective communication, innovation, and teamwork. He refers to this as Organizational Play. Sessions are full-day, half-day or even one hour, and involve comprehensive training on stress management, conscious communication, teamwork or innovation, and creativity.

Howard has been a faculty member at the Omega Institute for Holistic studies and is the co-founder of The Adventure Game Theater. The Adventure Game Theater is an improvisational learning process for teens that has been featured on PBS and NPR. It combines experiential learning with creativity, improvisational theater, play, community building, mythology, and storytelling.