Counseling - Wonderment and Wellness: Tapping into Wonder to Improve Student Motivation
The workshop will explore the construct ‘wonderment’, from its use in existential therapy in adults to recent incorporation into childhood education to improve student motivation.
As the target audience includes teachers from all levels, student motivation will be discussed in contexts of engagement in preschool, elementary school, middle school, and high school. Learning outcomes:
- Understanding wonderment as students are experiencing it - in palatable (& digestible) manner.
- Strategies to ‘knowing your students’ and meeting students ‘where they are’, emotionally and socially.
- Knowing the limitations some students have (due to a family, a social situation or relating to neurodiversity and mental health) and strengthening school, family, and community relations.
- Developing a deep understanding motivation as it relates to life transitions and college and career readiness.
About the Presenter: Dr. Yair Maman is Chair of the Master of Science in School Counseling at Touro University. He has been developing and teaching undergraduate, graduate and doctoral courses in behavioral medicine, developmental and organizational psychology, counselor education, family psychology, human services, business, consulting, social entrepreneurship, and executive/wellness coaching.
He is the author of Perspective: Coaching to Prevent Stress and Invite New Possibilities. He has also authored textbooks and articles in the fields of wellness, counselor education and psychology.
