Workshops for Schools
There’s nothing more fun than teaching workshops for teens and tweens!
An award-winning professional trainer, Kay combines the witty, dynamic presentation style that’s become her trademark with her leadership development expertise to create one-of-a-kind workshops that entertain, inspire, and give students the tools they need to embrace their full potential.
YOU 2.0 – Embrace Your Destiny, Change Your World
Audience: Teens and tweens (primarily ages 10-18)
Length: 45-55 minutes
** Perfect for inspiring kids year-round
Based on Kay’s popular You 2.0 blog, this entertaining workshop introduces kids to the You 2.0 way of life: pursuing your dreams, changing your world, gratitude, and paying it forward. This four-step process of looking at the world with fresh eyes is both inspiring and the foundation for a meaningful, energizing, go-for-it lifestyle!
Kay incorporates quotes from teens and tweens around the world about how each of the steps has impacted their lives, including profiles of young people already making their dreams a reality. But this isn’t a workshop that’s all about dreaming. This is a hands-on program that gives students the tools they need to begin turning their dreams into reality by creating a custom, easy-to-follow action plan for taking the first step that day.
As a special bonus, Kay provides teachers with a follow-up coaching curriculum–for use in the classroom or as an extracurricular activity–to help kids continue on the “Embrace your destiny, Change your world” path. If you’re looking for a program that will leave your students (and faculty!) feeling like they’re ready to take on the world, this is the workshop for you.
Contact Kay about bringing this life-changing program to your school!
LIVING YOUR FIVE – Your World, Your Way
Audience: Teens and tweens (primarily ages 10-18)
Length: 45-55 minutes
** Perfect for community service curriculums and National Make a Difference Day (Oct.) or Earth Day (Apr.) festivities
Based on the Living Your Five web project–which Kay founded in partnership with fellow YA authors Tera Lynn Childs, Becca Fitzpatrick, and New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noel–Living Your Five is about making the world a better place, one person at a time. It’s about understanding what you care about and how you can make a positive difference in the world around you.
This unique workshop offers hands-on activities, humorous stories, and profiles of real-life teens and tweens making a major impact on their piece of the world. Engaging, interactive discussions help students articulate what they care about most. Then students create their very own Five: five areas in which they personally want to make a difference in their world. Lists can include anything they’re passionate about… from caring for shelter animals to living a greener life to supporting a charity that resonates with them to mentoring another young person. The sky’s the limit!
With their personal Five in place, they’ll brainstorm ways in which they can take their Five from feel-good ideas on paper to real-life transformations that change their world.
Contact Kay about bringing this inspiring, hip, socially-conscious workshop to your school!
SECRETS OF THE SISTERHOOD – Your Ultimate Life Makeover
Audience: Girls, ages 10-18
Length: 60 minutes
** Perfect for all-girls schools, Girl Scout troops, and girl empowerment events of all kinds
Sisterhood has its privileges. Based on the Cinderella Society novels for teens, Kay takes girls behind the scenes of this prestigious secret society. Girls will learn the secrets behind the society’s creed of “Celebrate your strength – Embrace your future – Be extraordinary” and its ultimate life makeover mission.
Armed with the inside scoop, Kay takes girls step-by-step through excerpts of the top-secret Cinderella Makeover Manual. First, girls work on creating their own personal brand, a powerful tool that helps them identify and embrace what makes them unique and special. Then they take their ultimate life makeovers one step further by learning how to create a signature style that makes them feel radiant and confident. Put them together and they’re a change-your-life combination!
Contact Kay about hosting this hands-on workshop that helps transform girls into Honorary Cindys ready to lead the way as their generation’s movers and shakers!
FROM IDEA TO BOOKSHELF – The Insider’s Guide to How a Book Gets Made
Audience: Teens and tweens (primarily ages 10-18)
Length: 45-55 minutes
** Perfect for English classes, business classes, and creative writing clubs
How does an author take the glimmer of an idea and turn it into an actual book on the shelf of your local bookstore? Is it luck, fate, a little bit of fairy dust with a whole lot of wishing to back it up?
Join Kay for this super interactive, funny workshop about how a book really gets made. From the author’s initial idea pondering, to writing and revising, to submitting to agents or editors, to how the publishing industry works, Kay takes students behind the scenes to show them how it all comes together in the end. Kids participate in the action to bring the entire process to life with plenty of laughs to go around. She even shares examples of authors who sold their first book as teens to inspire students to make their voices heard.
Contact Kay about bringing this entertaining and educational workshop to your school!
