Stephen Birchak

Professor, Positive Psychology, (and Reformed Class Clown)

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Stephen Birchak

Professor, Positive Psychology, (and Reformed Class Clown)

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Florida

Why Book

Stephen illuminates how energy, sincerity, and hope are more than just abstract concepts and when fully examined and strategically implemented, they can become institutional initiatives for improving communication and productivity… and they can become contagious.
His unbridled and infectious sense of humor (a “reformed class clown”) brings smiles and laughs to even the most suspicious and cynical audiences – Dr. Birchak is living agent for positivity, optimism, and social change.
Audiences are absorbed into a heartfelt message and leave with a blend of laughter, tears, and reflection. He not only reminds you of the most important things in life, but also stirs the heart and inspires you to want to be a better person.

Biography

Dr. Bird uses humor, research, and personal reflection to examine our most common reactions to change, tension, and stress in today’s high-pressure world. Using hilarious examples, research, and anecdotes he offers audiences real-life skills and solutions for dealing with the most difficult situations and people. Even the most difficult audiences have remarked how they leave his presentations a little lighter, a little happier, and with a little less baggage. “It’s not a crisis! It’s an inconvenience!” has become the workplace motto for many of the groups who have heard Dr. Bird. Dr. Bird is partners with businesses, corporations, conferences, and school districts to deliver tailor-made keynotes, workshops, and programs.

Dr. Bird was honored with the 2015 New York State Champion of Character Award, and the 2015 “Friend of Education” award by The School Administrator’s Association of New York. Dr. Bird clings to the strong belief that our generation’s greatest legacy is to tap into our human dignity and reconnect our sense of human worth. In a world filled with fear, paranoia, anger, and resentment, he believes that our greatest challenges are not in education or technology but in human relations and the need for a revolution of kindness, compassion, and human character.

Dr. Bird can get an audience moving like no other speaker you’ve heard. He hits all of our nerves by touching our soft side, our funny bone, and our spirit. Dr. Bird’s background as a professor, author, parent, college coach, and speaker merge together for high energy and a memorable experience. Over the years he has delivered hundreds of presentations to audiences with a polished delivery, attention to details, and an entertaining style. Each audience leaves with much more than they came with. His genuine passion consistently results in top–notch reviews and numerous return engagements.

Programs

The Jerk Whisperer: How to Deal with Tyrants, Tormentors, and Bullies… and Still Keep Your Sanity!

This remarkable book from an inspiring teacher will give you new insights and help you to discover the ten essential skills that will enable you to remain calm, kind, and productive (even when others are not); unearth the secrets to permanently rid your life of petty obsessions, imaginary crises, resentment, and revenge; recognize the six most common reactions to Jerks (and how these reactions rob our energy); understand the eight most paralyzing myths related to mean and cruel behavior.

How to Build a Child's Character: By Tapping Into Your Own

Give your children the best life they can have by giving them the best part of you. For teachers, counselors, parents, and mentors. This inspirational book sets out essential principles and strategies for creating happy human beings. It shows how to: examine your own relationships and character; help your children develop valuable life-skills, etc.

It's Not a Crisis; It's an Inconvenience! The A-Z Mindful Survival Guide for When Life Gets Messy!

Traffic! Long Lines! Drama! Negativity! Pessimism! Does the unexpected chaos in your life drag you down? From Abandonment to Zen, this indispensable guide helps you put life in perspective by teaching you how to be mindful, thoughtful, and most importantly, happier! It is the distillation of Dr. Birchak’s approach to life, love and happiness, which he tries to impart to his students, readers and audiences.

Tapping Into Your Best – When Your Best is Needed

How do we stay positive when things are getting tough? Dr. Bird will take a look at how to become reenergized even when we feel overwhelmed. Change produces tension. Tension can bring out the worst in us. Dr. Bird has spent 20 years studying positive psychology and the effects of tension and stress in our culture. Dr. Bird uses humor and reflection to examine three essential lessons for obtaining success (Based on Dr. Bird’s book). He will offer strategies for building our passion, reducing our stress, and increasing effective skills for today’s challenges. The presentation will cover: How are we treating each other? Civility- Essential skills for building civility and how to eliminate practices that don’t work. Conscience – Differences between those who care and those who don’t, and how we can build conscience in others? Collaboration- What skills do effective collaborators have that miserable people don’t?

The 5 Mental Skills of Resilience

In today’s world of high demands, cyberstress, and incivility, it’s difficult to maintain our sanity. Dr. Bird will take a humorous and insightful look at the 5 mental skills that enhance effective living and allow us to build powerful shock absorbers. The presentation will ask reflective questions pertaining to contentment, growth, personal control, compassion, and optimism. Using stories, examples, and strategies, Dr. Birchak will give participants the opportunity to build these personal skills and acquire the personal power that every individual needs. He will offer strategies for building our passion, reducing our stress, and increasing effective skills for ourselves and the people we work with.

The Happiness Code: 5 Active Reflections of Really, Really, Really Happy People

Has our culture forgotten how to be happy? In today’s world of high demands, cyberstress, and incivility, it’s difficult to maintain our sanity. How do we stay positive when things are getting tough? Dr. Bird will take a look at how to become reenergized even when we feel overwhelmed. Change produces tension. Tension can bring out the worst in us. Dr. Bird has spent 20 years studying positive psychology and the effects of tension in our culture. Dr. Bird has examined the research on those people who are perpetually happy… and why others seem to be born with the misery gene. How can we free ourselves from other’s judgment, improve our self worth, increase our gratefulness… and most importantly, bring more love to all our relationships. Dr. Bird talks about the links between Counseling Psychology, Positive Psychology, and ancient Philosophy to connect with actual skills for increasing happiness in their own lives. In this day and age of hostility and tension, we could all use a little more serenity.

The 5 Golden Rules for Staying Connected to Children

In an age of disconnect – what works and what doesn’t work? Is it possible to grow stronger connections in a world that often pulls us in different directions? Dr. Bird takes a humorous and compassionate look at how we can use The Five Golden Rules to effectively use specific skills and strategies that enable adults to:

1. Practice the Behaviors We Want to See in Children

2. Become a Guide Not a Dictator.

3. Move From Problems to Solutions.

4. Be a Scientist Not a Victimist.

5. Make the Most to Be What You Want to Be.

The presentation will allow participants to examine strategies that build character and allow us to manage even the most difficult situations. Dr. Bird provides real-life examples, research, insights, and strategies for causing change in our environment.

The 5 Keys To Connecting Mindfulness To Character Education

The social maturity and emotional development of our youth have never had greater challenges than now. Recent research in Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, and Educational Psychology are leading us to discoveries that are changing the face of education. Well-being and positive psychology are no longer being seen as fluff, frivolous, or pointless. Mindfulness is now recognized as an essential pathway to the character education values we are trying to develop in children. Virtues such as patience, gratefulness, compassion, empathy, and positive self-worth are all attainable through character education curriculum that includes positive emotional skill building techniques.

In today’s high stress world, what can we do to build happiness and resilience in ourselves and the children we work with? How do we maintain positive self-worth when we are pushed to the limit?