KIDS LIFE COACH | EDUCATOR | AUTHOR | SPEAKER
What Ashley helps you accomplish
Ashley helps children and teens become smarter, stronger, and quicker learners through redeveloping their skills for enjoyment. Kids can naturally have fun. But when they experience pandemic-related and prolonged stress, having fun can seem temporary or even impossible. Using her S.H.I.N.E. framework, Ashley creates environments for kids to build their tolerance for challenging tasks and strengthen their attentional control. With these experiences, young people brighten their lives. She believes that purposeful play is still one of the best vehicles to accelerate multidimensional growth. When kids flourish, the community flourishes.
She has worked with hundreds of children and families from a variety of backgrounds in the past 15 years. Her previous experiences include serving as a Family Support Specialist in San Francisco Unified School District; a Case Manager and Program Coordinator at Hunters Point Family; a Children's Ministry Director at Glad Tidings Church in San Francisco; and an Afterschool Teacher and Tutor at Alice Fong Yu Elementary.
Ashley is a San Francisco native with Garifuna roots in Trujillo, Honduras. She is an optimist; a nature lover; a proud Alumna of Howard University and Brown University; and an enthusiastic educator at Meadows Livingstone School in San Francisco, CA.
As a child, Ashley was vibrant, curious, and loving. But her own adverse childhood and adolescent experiences reduced her ability to "bounce back" from emotionally diminishing life events. A life of poverty, stress, and trauma sent her on a journey of seeking status. The pursuit of status affected her post-secondary experiences and what she thought was possible for herself as an adult.
The emotional pain she carried into adulthood propelled her to discover the unconditional value of who she was outside of her trauma. It also taught her how to reimagine her resilience so that she could live happier, and better serve the children, youth, and families in her care. With this knowledge and experience, she has become a trusted practitioner by families, nonprofit organizations, and schools to lead young people
Ashley's coaching style inspires young people to activate their autonomic nervous systems for change that is evident in their time management, relationships, grades, and school-life-community activities.
Over the course of 18 months, Ashley has worked with foster care youth in Northern California on building emotional intelligence through social learning. Take a look at how activities in trust-building, play, and activating the mind-body connection ignites confidence and fosters collaboration.
Adrienne R., Martinez, CA, Mother of 2
Danielle W., San Lorenzo, CA, Mother of 3
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