How do we build resilience and community for our children in an age of increasing anxiety, technology and disconnection? Learn techniques for coaching ourselves and our children in how to respond to life’s challenges in an empowering way. Learn how to connect to prevent and address issues such as bullying, substance use, anxiety, friendship challenges, and more.
Christine Guthery, Executive Director of SPARK Kindness, a grassroots group with over 9000 members, will talk about how to build family, school, and community connections that ensure that children do not feel alone, bullied, or unconnected.
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Christine Fortune Guthery is the founder and Executive Director of SPARK Kindness, Inc. After earning her law degree, she worked briefly as a civil litigator and then for the Circuit Executive’s Office of the United States Courts for the First Circuit on a study of Gender and Racial Bias in the courts. In 2010, though none of her three children had been bullied, Christine saw a need for parents and schools to work together to support a positive school culture. By 2011, this movement had expanded beyond parents and schools to the whole community, and became known as SPARK Kindness. Now that SPARK Kindness has grown to over 9,000 members and is working in a number of communities, her passion remains in empowering people at the grassroots level to connect with each other over core values to create more kindness, inclusion, respect, and justice for all.
