Brain Science
Understand how stress affects thinking and behavior.
For schools, organizations & helping professionals
Support the people who support children and families.
Mindy offers practical presentations, author visits, resources, and collaboration that help children, caregivers, and staff better understand behavior, stress, personality, and communication.
Led by Mindy Green, MSW—former school social worker, parent educator, author, and speaker.
Understanding before reacting.
A shared mission
Supporting children also means supporting the adults around them.
You may be supporting children who shut down, react intensely, or struggle with transitions. Staff may need shared language, while caregivers need ideas they can realistically use at home. Mindy turns brain science, regulation, and personality insights into practical conversations and tools for your setting.
Understanding does not remove accountability. It helps adults support dignity, responsibility, connection, and growth.
Who this page is for
Many roles. One commitment to children and families.
For schools and the wider community of people supporting families.
Schools, educators, school social workers, counselors, and student-support teams
Boys & Girls Clubs, after-school programs, and youth organizations
Libraries, community centers, nonprofits, and family-resource programs
Social workers, therapists, parent educators, coaches, and other helping professionals
The Stretchy Brain Framework™
Four elements that help us understand and respond.
A shared language for looking beyond the reaction while keeping expectations clear.
Regulation
Practice ways to pause, reset, and recover.
Personality
Recognize different communication and emotional needs.
Connection
Support dignity, responsibility, and skill-building.
The framework complements the professional judgment, programs, and services already in place.
Ways to work together
Begin with what fits your people and your setting.
Choose a children’s program, parent presentation, staff conversation, resource, or collaboration.
Programs for Children
Stories and activities that make big ideas approachable.
Interactive elementary read-alouds can include Bubble Breath, conversation about frustration and perseverance, a simple activity, and author Q&A.
Ask about a children’s program →Support for Parents & Caregivers
Practical education for everyday family life.
Presentations explore topics such as stress, personality, communication, routines, focus, resilience, and what may be happening beneath behavior.
Explore parent education →Staff & Professional Learning
Useful insight for the adults supporting children and families.
Current topics include nervous-system awareness, personality-informed communication, regulation, repair, family communication, and healthy expectations.
Discuss a presentation →Community Collaboration
A thoughtful partner for family- and youth-centered work.
Mindy welcomes mission-aligned conversations about conferences, family events, book-centered programs, parent engagement, and resource partnerships.
Start a collaboration conversation →
Mindy sharing Sammy’s Super Stretchy Shoelaces and hands-on Stretchy Brain activities at a community family event.
Books & practical resources
Tangible tools for real conversations.
Current materials support read-alouds, family engagement, routines, regulation, personality, communication, and youth programming.
Sammy’s Super Stretchy Shoelaces
Useful for: Elementary read-alouds, counseling conversations, libraries, family events, and youth programs
Sammy’s Super Stretchy World Activity Book
Useful for: Breathing, movement, feelings, friendship, calming tools, confidence, and reflection
Understanding Your Child’s Personality
Useful for: Parent education, helping-professional conversations, and more productive family communication
Ready, Set, School
Useful for: Back-to-school routines, mornings, transitions, homework, focus, and expectations
Growing nextMore Stretchy Brain Resources
New tools are being created with real settings in mind.
Stretchy Brain Activity Cards are planned for the fall. Additional counselor and educator resources are also in development, with details to be shared as they are finalized.
Complete counselor guides, standards-connected lesson resources, and a comprehensive schoolwide curriculum are not currently available.
Ask about developing resourcesA few helpful details
Before we work together.
What kinds of organizations can contact you?
Schools, Boys & Girls Clubs, libraries, youth programs, nonprofits, family-resource organizations, conferences, and helping professionals are welcome to inquire.
What age groups do you serve?
Many current books and child-centered activities are designed for elementary-aged children. Parent, caregiver, and professional presentations can also address the school-age years through the teens when the topic fits.
Can a presentation be adapted for our audience?
Mindy considers your audience, goals, time, and setting, then determines whether a current topic or resource is a good fit.
Does this replace clinical or school-based services?
No. This work provides education, discussion, skill-building, and family-engagement support—not clinical treatment, supervision, or a replacement for existing services.
Begin with a conversation
Tell Mindy about the people you support and what you hope to create.
Share your audience, setting, goal, preferred format, and the kind of support you are considering.
Start a conversation