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At The Thrive Group, we regularly offer a range of courses and events designed to support professionals, parents, and individuals in understanding and applying therapeutic practices. Explore our upcoming offerings below and discover how our expertly-led sessions can help you thrive.

Upcoming Courses

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🧠 Beyond the Label: Understanding the Real Needs Behind ADHD

📌 Workshop Overview

Children with ADHD are often misunderstood. Their behavior may be seen as disruptive or inattentive, but often it reflects underlying challenges in regulation, attention, and connection. This workshop gives parents, educators, and therapists a clear understanding of the child behind the behavior—offering practical, compassionate strategies to help children feel safe, focused, and more in control of their actions.

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👥 Who Should Attend?

✔️ Occupational Therapists
✔️ Educators & School Staff
✔️ Mental Health Professionals
✔️ Parents & Caregivers

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📖 What You’ll Learn

🧠 What’s really going on beneath the surface of ADHD behaviors
🤯 Why children with ADHD may appear inattentive, hyperactive, or impulsive—but are often struggling to regulate
🛠 Tools and strategies to help children with ADHD access calm, focus, and connection
🤝 Ways to improve your relationship with the child and reduce power struggles
🌱 How to support their emotional growth alongside behavioral expectations

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📍 Workshop Details

📅 Duration: Customizable (typically 2–6 hours)
🎤 Format: In-person or virtual
📧 Email: info@thethrivegroup.co
🌐 Websites: www.thethrivegroup.co | www.otinyourpocket.com

💬 Turn chaos into connection—learn how to support children with ADHD from the inside out.

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🧭 Helping Kids Tune In: Attention Strategies That Stick

📌 Workshop Overview

Many children today struggle to stay focused, remain engaged, or follow through with tasks, often leading to frustration for both the child and the adults who support them. This workshop gives educators, therapists, and caregivers a clear, compassionate understanding of what drives attention challenges and offers practical, movement-based strategies to help children become more present, connected, and calm.

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👥 Who Should Attend?

 ✔️ Occupational Therapists
✔️ Educators & Learning Specialists
✔️ Mental Health Professionals
✔️ Parents & Caregivers

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📖 What You’ll Learn

🧠 How underlying regulation difficulties can affect a child’s ability to focus
🛠 Simple, movement-based tools to improve attention and reduce fidgeting
🧘‍♂️ Strategies to help children settle their bodies so they can engage their minds
🤝 Practical supports for improving focus both at home and in school

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📍 Workshop Details

📅 Duration: Customizable (typically 2–6 hours)
🎤 Format: In-person or virtual
📧 Email: info@thethrivegroup.co
🌐 Websites: www.thethrivegroup.co | www.otinyourpocket.com

💬 Equip yourself with the tools to unlock focus, ignite learning, and help children stay fully present.

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😨 Behind the Behavior: Understanding Fear & Stress in Children

📌 Workshop Overview

Children who experience fear, anxiety, or stress may appear withdrawn, explosive, rigid, or avoidant. These behaviors are often protective nervous system responses that keep the child stuck in survival mode. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to recognize and respond to these patterns using the Thrive Method’s practical, body-based strategies that help children feel safe, supported, and regulated, without relying on talk-based tools alone.

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👥 Who Should Attend?

 ✔️ Occupational Therapists
✔️ Educators & School Support Staff
✔️ Mental Health Professionals
✔️ Parents & Caregivers

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📖 What You’ll Learn

🧠 How anxiety, fear, and stress responses show up in behavior
🤯 Why traditional discipline can escalate fear-based responses
🛠 Practical strategies to calm the nervous system and reduce reactivity
🤝 How to help children feel safe enough to connect, learn, and regulate
🌱 Techniques to decrease controlling, avoidant, or frozen behaviors in daily life

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📍 Workshop Details

📅 Duration: Customizable (typically 2–6 hours)
🎤 Format: In-person or virtual
📧 Email: info@thethrivegroup.co
🌐 Websites: www.thethrivegroup.co | www.otinyourpocket.com

💬 Help children move from fear to freedom—with strategies that calm the nervous system and build emotional resilience.

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🌿 The Regulated Child: Building Calm From the Inside Out

📌 Workshop Overview

Emotional outbursts, shutdowns, and explosive behavior can leave adults feeling helpless and children feeling ashamed. This workshop focuses on practical, body-based techniques from the Thrive Method that not only helps children but also helps adults regulate themselves first—so they can help children move from emotional chaos to calm connection. Learn how to support a child’s emotional regulation from the inside out, even in moments of distress.

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👥 Who Should Attend?

✔️ Occupational Therapists
✔️ Educators & School Staff
✔️ Mental Health Professionals
✔️ Parents & Caregivers

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📖 What You’ll Learn

🧠 How to recognize when a child is emotionally overwhelmed and what’s causing it
🛠 Simple, effective techniques to help children return to a regulated state
🤝 Why adult self-regulation is the foundation for helping children regulate
🎯 Tools for managing emotional intensity without power struggles or shame
🌱 Techniques to use during and after dysregulation to restore trust and connection

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📍 Workshop Details

📅 Duration: Customizable (typically 2–6 hours)
🎤 Format: In-person or virtual
📧 Email: info@thethrivegroup.co
🌐 Websites: www.thethrivegroup.co | www.otinyourpocket.com

💬 Give children the tools to manage big feelings—without shame or shutdown.

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⚡ The Moro Reflex: Addressing Reflex-Based Stress Responses

📌 Workshop Overview

Children who overreact to changes, loud sounds, transitions, or touch may be experiencing an unintegrated Moro primitive movement pattern—a primitive startle response that should naturally resolve in early development. When it doesn’t, it can lead to chronic fight-or-flight behaviors. In this workshop, participants will learn how to recognize the signs of an active Moro pattern and use hands-on, non-invasive techniques from the Thrive Method to help children feel safer, calmer, and more in control.

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👥 Who Should Attend?

✔️ Occupational Therapists
✔️ Physical Therapists
✔️ Educators & Mental Health Professionals
✔️ Parents & Caregivers of children with behavioral or emotional challenges

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📖 What You’ll Learn

🧠 How the Moro reflex affects behavior, emotional regulation, and sensory responses
🧍‍♂️ Signs of an unintegrated Moro reflex in children
🛠 Practical strategies and body-based tools to support reflex integration
🌪️ How the Moro reflex contributes to emotional outbursts, anxiety, and overreactions
🌱 Techniques that help children feel grounded, secure, and more flexible in their environment

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📍 Workshop Details

📅 Duration: Customizable (typically 2–6 hours)
🎤 Format: In-person or virtual
📧 Email: info@thethrivegroup.co
🌐 Websites: www.thethrivegroup.co | www.otinyourpocket.com💬 Go beyond behavior—discover how addressing the Moro primitive movement pattern can unlock emotional balance and stability.

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🎓 Brick Walls & Breakthroughs: Understanding the Teen Years

📌 Workshop Overview

The teenage years can be full of friction, frustration, and profound opportunity. Teens may seem moody, disconnected, or defiant, but they often struggle to regulate their changing inner world. This workshop helps adults reframe teen behavior through a developmental lens and provides practical strategies to reduce conflict, deepen trust, and speak in ways teens can actually hear.

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👥 Who Should Attend?

 ✔️ High School Educators & Administrators
✔️ School Counselors & Youth Mentors
✔️ Occupational & Mental Health Therapists
✔️ Parents & Caregivers of teens

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📖 What You’ll Learn

🧠 How to understand teen behavior as a developmental and emotional process
💬 Ways to speak to teens that lower defensiveness and encourage openness
🛠 Tools to help teens regulate emotions, reduce risky behavior, and make wiser choices
🤝 Strategies to foster trust and connection while still setting limits
🌱 How to balance structure and nurture during this critical developmental phase

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📍 Workshop Details

📅 Duration: Customizable (typically 2–6 hours)
🎤 Format: In-person or virtual
📧 Email: info@thethrivegroup.co
🌐 Websites: www.thethrivegroup.co | www.otinyourpocket.com

💬 Bridge the gap with your teen—gain tools to connect, communicate, and guide them through the journey to adulthood.

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⚡💥 From Reactivity to Regulation: Helping Impulsive Children Pause

📌 Workshop Overview

Impulsive children often react before they can stop themselves—grabbing, shouting, interrupting, or running off. These aren’t “bad behaviors,” but signs that the child’s regulatory system is still developing. This workshop helps adults understand impulsivity through a developmental and sensory lens, and offers concrete strategies to support children in slowing down, tuning in, and gaining better control over their actions.

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👥 Who Should Attend?

 ✔️ Occupational Therapists
✔️ Educators & Support Staff
✔️ Mental Health Professionals
✔️ Parents & Caregivers of children who struggle with self-control

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📖 What You’ll Learn

🧠 What impulsivity looks like in different children and why it happens
🛠 Tools to help children pause before acting—without shaming or punishing
🧘‍♀️ Regulation techniques to reduce impulsive behavior throughout the day
🤝 How to build trust and safety while guiding behavioral change
🌱 Strategies that support long-term growth in emotional control and executive function

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📍 Workshop Details

📅 Duration: Customizable (typically 2–6 hours)
🎤 Format: In-person or virtual
📧 Email: info@thethrivegroup.co
🌐 Websites: www.thethrivegroup.co | www.otinyourpocket.com

💬 Give children the gift of the pause—learn how to build impulse control from the inside out.

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🎧🌪️ Making Sense of Sensory: Understanding and Supporting SPD

📌 Workshop Overview

Children with sensory processing difficulties may be labeled as dramatic, defiant, or distracted—but often they’re just trying to cope with overwhelming input. This workshop helps adults see behavior through a sensory lens and offers concrete, body-based strategies from the Thrive Method to reduce overload and support regulationm, so children can feel calm, focused, and safe in their environment.

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👥 Who Should Attend?

 ✔️ Occupational Therapists
✔️ Educators & School Staff
✔️ Mental Health & Allied Professionals
✔️ Parents & Caregivers of sensory-sensitive children

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📖 What You’ll Learn

🎯 How to recognize sensory-seeking and sensory-avoiding behaviors
🌪️ Why some children overreact to noise, touch, or movement—and others don’t react at all
🛠 Practical tools to support sensory regulation in daily life
🧘‍♀️ Techniques that help children stay calm and organized in a classroom, therapy, or home settings
🤝 How to build understanding, not frustration, when a child is “acting out” due to sensory stress

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📍 Workshop Details

📅 Duration: Customizable (typically 2–6 hours)
🎤 Format: In-person or virtual
📧 Email: info@thethrivegroup.co
🌐 Websites: www.thethrivegroup.co | www.otinyourpocket.com

💬 Decode the sensory world—gain strategies to calm chaos, boost learning, and nurture nervous system balance.

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🧠 From Stuck to Started: Supporting Praxis in Children

📌 Workshop Overview

Some children freeze when asked to start a task. Others repeat the same play patterns or need constant direction. This workshop helps adults understand praxis—the ability to come up with an idea, plan it, and carry it out. Rooted in the Thrive Method, this session offers practical strategies to support children who struggle with planning, initiating, sequencing, or finishing tasks. When you understand how praxis develops, you can meet children where they are and help them build confidence step by step.

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👥 Who Should Attend?

✔️ Parents & Caregivers
✔️ Occupational Therapists & Educators
✔️ Professionals supporting children with executive function or motor planning challenges
✔️ Anyone working with children who appear rigid, avoidant, scattered, or stuck

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📖 What You’ll Learn

🧠 What ideation and praxis are—and how they affect behavior, play, language, and emotion
🔍 How to spot signs of dyspraxia in daily routines and classroom or social settings
🛠 Over 100 practical activities, tips, and tools to support ideation, including regulation, sequencing, and motor planning strategies
🎯 How to help children transition from stuck and overwhelmed to engaged and confident
🌱 Tips for boosting motivation, imaginative play, and flexible thinking through everyday activities

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📍 Workshop Details

📅 Duration: Customizable (typically 2–6 hours)
🎤 Format: In-person or virtual
📧 Email: info@thethrivegroup.co
🌐 Websites: www.thethrivegroup.co | www.otinyourpocket.com

💬 Help kids go from “I can’t” to “I’ve got this”—one small success at a time.

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🏢 Stay calm. Speak clearly. Work Better. 

📌 Workshop Overview

Workplace stress, conflict, and poor communication don’t just affect productivity—they impact your well-being. This workshop provides practical, inconspicuous strategies to help professionals regulate their emotional and physical state in real time, even during high-stakes meetings or difficult interactions. Whether you tend to freeze, withdraw, or lash out under pressure, you’ll walk away with tools to help you stay composed, assertive, and connected—no matter what’s going on around you.

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👥 Who Should Attend?

 ✔️ Corporate Teams & Department Managers
✔️ HR Professionals & Workplace Wellness Leaders
✔️ Professionals in High-Stress Roles
✔️ Anyone looking to enhance self-awareness, communication, and calm in the workplace

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📖 What You’ll Learn

🧠 How the fight, flight, freeze (and fawn) responses show up in work dynamics
🛠 Discreet techniques to regulate yourself physically and emotionally at work
💬 Communication tools to express yourself clearly and assertively
🤝 How to build positive, respectful relationships with coworkers and managers
🔥 Techniques for handling workplace conflict and difficult personalities
🌿 Strategies to remain calm, focused, and composed under pressure

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📍 Workshop Details

📅 Duration: Customizable (typically 1.5-2 hours)
🎤 Format: In-person or virtual – ideal for workplace training events
📧 Email: info@thethrivegroup.co
🌐 Websites: www.thethrivegroup.co | www.otinyourpocket.com

💬Speak with confidence. Respond with clarity. Lead with calm—no matter who’s in the room.

Past Courses & Events

The following lectures and workshops were presented by Miriam Manela, OTR. Other events are also listed.

• “Anxiety in the Pediatric Population: Reasons Underlying Anxiety & Guidelines and Techniques for Treatment” By Miriam Manela, author of The Parent-Child Dance.  Presented at the ProvidEd Expo (Brooklyn, NY)
• “The 4 Sons, the 4 Types of Relationships You Form” By Miriam Manela, author of The Parent-Child Dance. (Caesarea, Israel)
• “Self-regulation techniques for anxiety and disappointment” By Miriam Manela, author of The Parent-Child Dance. (Brooklyn, NY). Gevuros program, (Passaic, NJ)
• Behavior and Regulation: Strategies and Solutions for Sensory and Attachment Challenges, Theramoves
• “Winning children’s behavior: How to succeed when nothing else works” By Miriam Manela, author of The Parent-Child Dance. Presented at HASC (Brooklyn, NY).
• “Anxiety in the pediatric population” By Miriam Manela, author of The Parent-Child Dance. Sponsored by Yeled vyalda.
• “Doing the Dance: Managing the students with Behavior Challenges is a Dance You Can Learn!” part 1. By Miriam Manela, author of The Parent-Child Dance. (Brooklyn, NY).
• MOTEC “New Jersey Legislative/Regulative Key Issues for Occupational Therapy 2018” by Miriam Manela, author of The Parent-Child Dance. Presented at New York Institute of Technology. NY, NY.
• “Dancing with the Less Twinkly Stars: How to Manage the Students with Behavioral Challenges is a Dance you can Learn!” by Miriam Manela, author of The Parent-Child Dance. Presented at Gan Yisroel School (Brooklyn, NY).
• “Winning Children’s Behavior: How to Succeed When Nothing Else Works” presented at Omni Childhood Center, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY).
• “Doing the Dance: Managing the students with behavioral challenges is a dance you can learn!” by Miriam Manela, author of The Parent-Child Dance. Presented at Yeled V’yaldah (Brooklyn, NY)
• “Attachment: Behavioral and Psycho-Social Challenges in the Classroom: Strategies and Solutions for Therapists, Educators, and Program Administrative Personnel” presented at Theramoves (Brooklyn, NY).
• “Relationships as a Foundation for Behavioral and Social-Emotional Health in the Classroom: Strategies and Solutions” presented at UTA Satmar Elementary School (Monsey, NY).
• “The Parent-Child Dance Course Series for Parents” (4-part Parent Workshop) presented in Monsey, NY.
• “Relationships as a Foundation for Behavioral and Social-Emotional Health in the Classroom: Strategies and Solutions” presented at UTA Satmar Elementary School (Monsey, NY).
• “Helping kids and teens with behavior and regulation challenges: A long-awaited, unique perspective with effective hands-on techniques” (Workshop) presented at Shalva National Center (Jerusalem, Israel).
• “Primitive movement patterns and reflex integration: A treasure trove of hands-on techniques to decrease stress and increase regulation in individuals with sensory and psycho-social challenges” (Workshop) presented at Shalva National Center (Jerusalem, Israel).
• “Integrating Primitive Reflexes to Achieve Control over Reflexive Body and Mind Stress Responses” (3-Day Workshop) presented at Shalva National Center (Jerusalem, Israel).
• “Is it Sensory or Is It Behavioral? Activities and Pointers for Children Who Exhibit: Tantrums, Anxiety, Over-Reactivity, Hypersensitivity, Picky, or Needy Behaviors” (Workshop) presented to parents at Beitar (Israel).
• “Is it Sensory or Is It Behavioral? Activities and Pointers for Children Who Exhibit: Tantrums, Anxiety, Over-Reactivity, Hypersensitivity, Picky, or Needy Behaviors” and “Is it Sensory or Is It Behavioral? Activities and Pointers for Children Who Exhibit: Wild, Noisy, or Impulsive Behaviors” (Workshops) presented to parents at Ramat Bait Shemesh (Israel).
• “In depth view of the Sensory System, Becoming a Behavioral Detective” (Workshop) presented to parents at Ezras Torah (Jerusalem, Israel).
• “Strategies and Tools for Teachers to Reach Challenging Students” (Workshop) presented to educators at Beth Jacob of Boro Park (Brooklyn, NY).
• “Childhood Stress – Prevention and Action” (Workshop) presented to Kindervelt Early Headstart Program (Brooklyn, NY).
• “Structure and nurture for the classroom” (Workshop) presented at Chabad Early Learning Center (Morristown, NJ).
• “Structure and nurture for the classroom” (Workshop) presented at Cheder Lubavitch (Morristown, NJ).
• “The Nervous System Shutting Down, Acting Out: Techniques and Tools for Therapists” (Workshop) presented in London, England.
• “Strategies and Tools for Teachers to Improve Gross and Fine Motor Development in the Classroom” (Workshop) presented at an Early Headstart program (Brooklyn, NY).
• “Breakfast for Families” (Guest speaker), an event for families and caregivers of individuals with Autism. Presented at Kean University (Union, NJ).
• “Becoming a Behavior Detective” (Guest Lecture) for OT Students at Kean University (Union, NJ).
• “An In-Depth View of the Nervous System: Tools and Techniques” (Workshop) presented in Jerusalem, Israel.
• “Attachment Theory and Its Impact on Emotional Regulation” (Workshop) presented in Jerusalem, Israel.
• “Moro and Fear Paralysis Reflex Integration” (Workshop) presented in Jerusalem, Israel.
• “Intro to Rhythmic Movements” (Workshop) presented in Ramat Bait Shemesh, Israel.
• “Sensory Techniques to Help with Behavioral Issues in Children” (Workshop) presented in Ramat Bait Shemesh and Beitar, Israel.
• “Social Emotional Strategies and Techniques for the Classroom” (Workshop) for the New York Board of Education (Queens, NY).
• “Classroom Strategies for Reaching Our Challenging Students” (Workshop) for Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Rephael Hirsch (Washington Heights, NYC).
• “Sensory Integration Tips for Children with Behavioral Issues” (Workshop) for the New York Board of Education (Queens, NY).
• “An In Depth View of the Nervous System” (Workshop) for the New York Board of Education (Queens, NY).
• “Relationships as a Foundation for Behavioral, and Social-Emotional Challenges in Children: Strategies and Solutions for Therapists, Educators and Psychologists” (Workshop) for Jewish Early Learning Center (Elizabeth, NJ).
• “Shaping Your Student’s Behavior” (Workshop) for Pupa School (Williamsburg, NY)
• “Sensory Over-Responsive” (Workshop) for Chabad Early Learning Center (Morristown, NJ).
• “Child Development and Shaping Your Students Behavior” (Workshop) for Chabad Early Learning Center (Morristown, NJ).
• “Working with Our Own Emotional and Physical Needs While Facing Parenting Challenges” (Part 4 of 4 Workshops) for parents (Brooklyn, NY).
• “Is It Sensory or Is It Behavioral? Activities and Pointers for Children Who Exhibit: Wild, Noisy, or Impulsive Behaviors” (Part 3 of 4 Workshops) for parents (Brooklyn, NY).
• “Is It Sensory or Is It Behavioral? Activities and Pointers for Children Who Exhibit: Tantrums, Anxiety, Over-Reactivity, Hypersensitivity, Picky, or Needy Behaviors” (Part 2 of 4 Workshops) for parents (Brooklyn, NY).
• “An In Depth View of the Nervous System, Becoming a Behavioral Detective” (Part 1 of 4 Workshops) for parents (Brooklyn, NY). 
• “New Jersey Legislative/Regulative Key Issues for Occupational Therapy 2016” for MOTEC.
• “Becoming a Behavior Detective” (Guest Lecture) for OT Students at Kean University (Union, NJ).
• “Practical Ideas to Alleviate Stress in Children and Adults” for HASC Center at the Pearl River Hilton.
• Miriam Manela, OTR wins the 2015 top 5 most nominated kids’ docs in North Jersey in New Jersey Family magazine.
• “The Challenges Faced Daily” (Guest Lecture) for OT Students at Kean University (Union, NJ).
• “Behavior Support Training for Early Childhood Students“(Workshop) for the New York City Board of Education (Queens, NY).
• “Behaviors in the Therapist-Child Dance Part 2” (Workshop) for New York Therapy Placement Services (New York City, NY)
• “Behavior Support Training for Early Childhood Students” (Workshop) for the New York City Board of Education (Queens, NY).
• “Behaviors in the Therapist-Child Dance Part 1” (Workshop) for New York Therapy Placement Services (New York City, NY).
• Presented at New Jersey Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference at Kean University (Hillside, NJ).
• Book Signing for Therapists at Therapeutic Services Class with Sally Goddard Blythe MSc. at Hotel Pennsylvania (New York City, NY).
• “Professional Learning Workshops for Assistant Principals Pupil Personnel Services + 1” for New York High School Principals, Assistant Principals, and Guidance Counselors (Queens, NY).
• Presented at the Annual Joint Clinical Council Meeting for MOTEC  in NYC as the co-chair of legislation for the New Jersey Occupational Therapy Association.
• “The Challenges Faced Daily” (Guest Lecture) for OT Students at Kean University (Union, NJ).
• “Shaping Your Child’s Behavior” (Staff Development Workshop) at Pupa Headstart (Brooklyn, NY).
• “The Magic of Connection” (Staff Development Workshop) at The Clifton Cheder (Clifton, NJ).

“The Behavioral and Psycho-Social Challenges in the Classroom: Strategies and Solutions for Educators” workshop was conducted for over 200 special education and other teachers, reading and learning specialists, therapists, physicians, and administrators of HASC special needs programs including:

• HASC Woodmere
• HASC Remson
• HASC 55th st Brooklyn
• HASC 63rd st Brooklyn
• HASC 59th st Brooklyn
• HASC Rockland County
• HASC Sullivan County

• Participated in a two-part interview on the Therapy Soup blog at PsychCentral.com. She discussed the relationship between psychology and occupational therapy and how OT can help children with emotional challenges, such as anxiety. Read the full interview here.

• “Is It Behavioral?” (Guest Lecture) for OT Students at Kean University (Union, NJ).

• “Is It Behavioral?” (Staff Development Workshop) at Clifton Cheder. (Clifton, NJ)

• “Is It Behavioral?” (Guest Lecture) for OT Students at Kean University (Union, NJ)
• Miriam Manela, OTR wins the 2013 WCBS-AM/Cancer Treatment Centers Women’s Achievement Award. Listen to the interview on WCBS-880 here.

• Miriam Manela, OTR was appointed by (AOTA) American Occupational Therapy Association as a Representative for New Jersey.
• Conducted a workshop at the NJOTA Annual Conference (Mount Laurel, NJ).
• “Is It Behavioral?” (Staff Development Workshop) at Early Head Start (Brooklyn, NY).

• Conducted a workshop for OT Graduate Students on Pediatric Mental Health at Touro College (New York City, NY).

• Guest lecturer for a Pediatric Rehabilitation Seminar for OT Graduate Students at Touro College (New York City, NY).
• Miriam Manela, OTR was appointed as legislative co-chair of the New Jersey Occupational Therapy Association (NJOTA).

• “Is It Behavioral?” (Staff Development Workshop) at Yeshiva Head Start (Brooklyn, NY).

• Addressed Psycho-Social Issues and Challenging Behaviors in Pediatric Practice, PART II at Kean University (Union, NJ).

• “Is It Behavioral?” (Staff Development Workshop) at New Hope School (Clifton, NJ).

• Addressed Psycho-Social Issues and Challenging Behaviors in Pediatric Practice, PART I at Kean University (Union, NJ).
• Lectured at Yeshiva Ketana (Passaic, NJ).
• “OT Specialty Areas” (Panel) at Kean University (Union, NJ).
• Conducted a guided support and therapy group for women.

For more information contact Miriam Manela, OTR/L