Honolulu, HI Workshop
Join us in Honolulu, HI where the team from Friendzy will help you to gain practical strategies for nurturing young minds!
Building Belonging
Belonging is a central message of Christ. To belong is to feel secure. Without belonging, we are alone. We know students crave feeling accepted and valued and they need strong connections with their families, teachers and peers. Research confirms caring relationships with educators motivate students to engage in the learning process. Belonging is our primary human need. Beyond food and shelter, nothing promotes human flourishing like having people and a place of belonging. In Christ, we can find true belonging: True belonging is being fully known and being fully loved. We long to belong, and so do our students.
- Date: Sat., January 11, 2025, 8:30 am-3:30 pm HST
- Location: Hawaii Baptist Academy (Middle School)
- Cost:
- ACSI member rate: $105
- Non-member rate: $135
- Includes:
- An amazing day planned to Anchor you in your calling
- Up to six training hours
- Lunch choice: Chicken Sandwich, Cool Wrap or Market Salad (select during registration)
Schedule
| 8:00 AM | Registration |
| 8:30 AM | Opening & Session 1 |
| 10:30 AM | Refreshment Break |
| 10:45 AM | Session 2 |
| 12:15 PM | Lunch (included) |
| 12:45 PM | Session 3 |
| 2:15 PM | Break |
| 2:30 PM | Session 4 and Closing |
| 3:30 PM | Workshop Ends |
We look forward to connecting and engaging with you during this in-person event!
Questions? Contact ACSI Early Education at earlyeducation@acsi.org.
Presenters
Joy Roberts is the co-founder of Friendzy, curriculum designer, speaker, teacher and social-emotional learning advocate. She believes every student deserves a chance to succeed. A complete picture of learning and development not only includes a student's language and literacy competence and science and math understanding, but also includes their social-emotional development. At a young age she experienced childhood trauma. Joy understands first hand that our greatest wounds come from people and our greatest healing comes from healthy relationships; the lasting impact of unresolved childhood trauma leaves us inadequately equipped to thrive in society. Yet - God has designed and hardwired us for connection and community. This has fueled her entrepreneurial spirit to launch a resource into schools that equips students to navigate the social and emotional challenges they have faced and will encounter. Joy grew up in a very small town of 200 people in Washington but has lived in the big city of Portland, Oregon with her husband for the past 26 years. Some of her favorite things include spending time with her two adult sons hiking, eating really good food and completing her Masters in Biblical Theology.
Julie Wideman holds a Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of Washington. She went on to study Audiology and earned a Master’s of Science. While in graduate school, Julie found herself drawn to looking at the whole child and the impact a hearing handicap had on their education. Her graduate studies integrated Special Education, Psychology, and Research Methods. Through graduate school she researched how different learning styles impacted educational growth in hearing impaired students. She studied the multitude of teaching strategies and programs that various schools in the Pacific Northwest utilized. In the process, she witnessed how every student did the absolute best they could with the skills they had. A decade ago, Julie began to recognize another disability in children. Coping skills and relational strategies were needed for not only her own children to successfully navigate their feelings and social situations but social emotional competence was often missing in their peers as well. Julie is a California transplant that calls the Pacific Northwest her home. After fighting the rain for over twenty years she finally finds joy in the cozy wet weather. She lives in Tualatin, Oregon with her husband and two tweens.
