Professional Development That Matters

KEYNOTES, WORKSHOPS, & TRAININGS

Empowering students, educators, youth workers, leaders to build cultures of connection, purpose, and possibility.

THE MATTERING MINDSET

Mattering is at the heart of who we are and everything we do. Mattering gives us purpose, direction, and inspiration. Mattering is how we embrace our role in creating a world where everyone feels seen, heard, and loved. we achieve this through our Mattering Mindset™ framework - "I Matter," "You Matter," and "We Matter," and provides a paradigm for how we choose to live every single day. Atttendees will leave with a fresh lens of how to approach each day and foster a more supportive and compassionate world.

YOUTH MATTER

Youth and young people are intelligent and inventive, caring and kind, curious and creative, resilient and determined, and so much more. They deserve to shown and know how much and why they matter. EMM's K-12 SEL-intergrated curriculum provides engaging and meaningful lessons that empower students’ social and emotional learning and creates opportunities for them to value themselves, the people around them, and contribute to creating a supportive and compassionate world. Attendees will engage in EMM's promising practices that set the groundwork to help youth and young people connect to how much and why they matter.

CREATING A SPACE THAT MATTERS

Each and every individual who works with youth and young people has the opportunity to make a positive impact every day. Whether with a genuine smile, warm hello, enthusiastic fist bump, or a few minutes of conversation, these meaningful moments allow students to be seen, heard and valued, and just might be what gets them through their day. We never know what students may be carrying as we encounter them, but we can intentionally and thoughtfully create welcoming and supportive spaces. Attendees will be guided through co-creating a space for mattering and will explore promising resources, tools, and practices to create a space for their students to thrive, together.

COMMUNITIES MATTER

Our communities are defined and thrive through our collective commitment to take care of it. Our youth play an integral role in creating our communities. Service and service learning provides a pathway for students to value and take ownership of their neighborhoods, communities, and world. Inspired by the National Youth Leadership Council’s evidence-based service learning model - IPARD, attendees will explore and create a plan to integrate meaningful service experiences for students and help them connect to how they can contribute their skills, abilities, talents and compassion to show our communities how much they matter.

LIVING, TEACHING, & EMBRACING SEL
– AN INTEGRATED APPROACH

At any given moment, we can experience a range of emotions and feelings from despair to happiness, frustration to joy, and so much more. Better understanding social and emotional learning is how we bring awareness to not just what we experience in life but how we experience it.  For our students, social and emotional learning (SEL) is woven into everything they do and we can create the pathway for them to connect and contribute to constructing a space for them to learn, grow, and live. Attendees will explore the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) core competencies: self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, relationship skills, and social awarness, promising SEL practices, and gain a greater awareness of how to integrate these developmental and grade-level routines in classrooms, programs, and organizations.

SEL & WELL-BEING FOR ADULTS

In recent years, we have come to understand the importance of social and emotional learning (SEL) for youth and young people and how vital it is their mental, social, and physical development. We have also come to learn that SEL development is just as important for adults. Attendees will take a deep dive into the five core SEL competencies plus growth mindset, engage in SEL-focused exercises, and craft routines that thoughtfully foster their own well-being.

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KEYNOTE: YOU MATTER™

Have EMM founder and CEO, Matthew Emerzian, share his personal story and the inspiration behind founding Every Monday Matters. His work has been hailed by Oprah.com, The TODAY Show, Fast Company Magazine, Hallmark TV, Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper, and several other media outlets. The author of four best-selling books, Emerzian has spent the past 15 years traveling the country and sharing his unique story and insight on finding purpose. His life-changing message focuses on sustained personal and social change that happens by stepping outside of ourselves. Attendees will engage in a highly interactive keynote that will leave them transformed and with a new appreciation for how much they matter.

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Professional Development Matters

EMM workshops, trainings, and keynotes are adaptable for organization, school, district-wide, and events of any size. Fees are based on duration, number of attendees, and delivery format (in-person or virtual.)

Let’s inspire, empower, and make it matter, together. We can’t wait to hear from you.

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  • I worked with Every Monday Matters’ team to bring their curriculum to hundreds of employees, and they still talk about its worth in their lives today.

    Philip K.

  • “Every Monday Matters helps youth answer the questions, “How do I matter, and how can I make a difference?” These ready-to-go lessons and activities help kids and adults realize their self-worth and build self-esteem through the exploration of thoughts and feelings that can guide their everyday decisions.”

    Michelle P. | Los Angeles County Office of Education

  • “Every Monday Matters is an educator’s best friend. They care about schools, educators, and students. They believe in a learning environment that operates as one giant family. That we all matter and that the world of education shapes how we all interact and value each other.”

    Nora H. | San Joaquin County Office of Education

  • "Through Every Monday Matters students have learned that their voices, opinions, and actions can and do change the trajectory of a world increasingly divided to one that is more empathetic, loving, and united. Every community needs to be touched by the simple words ... You Matter™."

    -Mara W

  • “The EMM program has created opportunities and experiences for our students that are immeasurable. It has helped us in creating a space that students can explore their own self-worth while learning empathy and appreciation for others and the world we live in.”

    Kelli S. | Pleasant Valley School District

  • Our staff have been so incredibly disconnected and just not nice to each other. We have lost touch on people MATTERING. This training is a breath of fresh air and gives me ideas to help reconnect each other so we all MATTER.

    Emilee I.

  • Every day my after school, kiddos ask me what we are doing for after school program when they see me in the hall. Today I was telling a third-grade student everything we are doing and before I could finish, he said, “Aren’t we going to do Every Monday Matters?” I said, “Of course we are!” Your program is making a difference at our school.

    Sara P. - Wichita, KS