31 – (PM) Reignite Your Why: Confidence, Purpose & Resilience for You & Your Students – in-person with Linda Bartholme

Time:  1:30 – 3:00pm              Target:   Grades 6-12  (adaptable for Grades K-12 and staff  )

Presenter:  Linda Bartholme, Mental Fitness Trainer with Positive Intelligence
Location:  G.P. Vanier   
Limit:  50 in-person max  (will also be providing online – do not register for online as we’ll provide link later) 

Note: Please bring a notebook or device for reflection.  All materials provided. 

Teaching today requires deep reserves of clarity, adaptability, and heart. This experiential 90-minute session helps educators reconnect with their sense of purpose, strengthen resilience, and explore simple tools they can also use to help students build confidence and emotional steadiness.

Through guided reflection, small-group dialogue, and a hands-on “strength story” activity, participants identify moments where they have overcome challenges — and the strengths they drew on. This reinforces growth mindset, identity, and confidence for educators, while also offering a classroom-ready tool students can use to build the same skills.

Drawing from modern psychology and performance science, this approach has been used successfully in school districts, university programs, and elite sport environments to help people show up with more focus, calm, and purpose.

Grounded in the First Peoples’ Principles of Learning, this session honours holistic growth and the understanding that learning deepens through shared stories, lived experience, and community connection.

Participants will leave with:
• Renewed clarity and purpose as educators
     • Daily reset strategies for energy and focus
     • A practical reflection tool for building student confidence and resilience
     • A sense of connection and shared strength

Linda Bartholme is a Certified Heroic Performance Coach, Mental Fitness Trainer with Positive Intelligence®, and former French Immersion teacher who understands firsthand the realities educators face. With Master’s degrees in Kinesiology and in French Language & Literature, she blends research-based tools with compassion, humour, and the lived experience she brings as a teacher, mother, immigrant, and coach supporting educators, women and families.

Through Be Thriving Moms Today, Linda delivers interactive workshops and coaching that help educators and parents create sustainable, energizing routines and resilient mindsets. She has facilitated workshops for the CSF (Conseil Scolaire Francophone), the City of Courtenay, the Town of Comox, CFB Comox (19 Wing), Réseau-Femmes C.-B., and the SDE (Société de développement économique de la Colombie-Britannique). She is known for making mindset tools practical and immediately usable in both classroom and daily life.