Virtual Lunch & Learn: Holiday Break Surviving and Thriving

Fusion School

Date: Friday, December 17th from 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Registration: Please register by clicking here. A zoom link will be sent once you register.

Cost: Free

Fusion Academy  Invites You to Attend Our Monthly Virtual Lunch & Learn:  Holiday Break Surviving and Thriving

Whether you’re a parent, a teacher, a school administrator, or a mental health professional who works with students, you, and the children and teens in your life, likely have ideas about what the upcoming winter holiday break should look and feel like, but you also know there’s a good possibility this vision will get derailed.

In this talk, Debbie Reber, MA, will share:

• Strategies for having a holiday break that meets the needs of students and adults alike
• Strategies for feeling more calm, restorative, and spacious over the break
• Ideas for helping parents and other adults who support the wellbeing of students address their kids' expectations, proactively plan for challenges, and ensure that their own needs don’t go unmet.

About Our Speakers

Deborah Reber, MA, is a parenting activist, New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and speaker who moved her career in a more personal direction in 2016 when she founded TiLT Parenting, a top resource for parents like her who are raising differently wired children. The TiLT Parenting Podcast has grown to be a top podcast in Kids & Family, with nearly 3 million downloads and a slate of guests that includes high-profile thought leaders across the parenting and education space. A certified Positive Discipline trainer and a regular contributor to Psychology Today and ADDitude Magazine, Debbie’s newest book is Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World. In November 2018, she spoke at TEDxAmsterdam, delivering a talk entitled Why the Future Will Be Differently Wired. In the summer of 2020, she co-created the Parenting in Place Masterclass series.

Prior to launching TiLT, Debbie spent more than fifteen years writing inspiring books for women and teens. In doing so, she built a successful brand as a teen authority, was frequently interviewed and spoke about issues like media literacy, self-esteem, and confidence, and consulted for clients including the Girl Scouts, the Disney Channel, McGraw Hill, and Kaplan.

Since 1999, Debbie has authored many books, including Doable: The Girls’ Guide to Accomplishing Just About Anything, Language of Love, Chill: Stress-Reducing Techniques for a More Balanced, Peaceful You, In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers, and more than a dozen preschool books based on the series Blue’s Clues. In 2008, she had the privilege of creating and editing the first-ever series of teen-authored memoirs, Louder Than Words.

Before embarking on her own path as a solopreneur, Debbie worked in TV and video production, producing documentaries and PSAs for CARE and UNICEF, working on Blue’s Clues for Nickelodeon in New York, and developing original series for Cartoon Network in Los Angeles. She has an MA in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research and a BA in Communications from Pennsylvania State University.

In 2019, her husband, and 16-year-old twice-exceptional son relocated to Brooklyn, NY after living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands for five years. Debbie is an avid runner, traveler, and hiker, and claims reality shows as her guiltiest of pleasures.