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Lili Velo, San Francisco, CA (2025)

06/17/2025

Work with parents?

Imagine this…

A group of committed parents who are eager to support their child’s academic success.

You are a school administrator or perhaps a family engagement specialist, and deep down you know - “we can’t keep doing it the way we have!”

This is where I come in!

Why me?

Because I connect with parents - they feel seen, heard and understood. They walk away from my workshops feeling like they’re not alone, and with a sigh of relief when they understand what’s going on with their child (and themselves!).

You see I was born to Mexican immigrant parents in Kern County. Growing up in what felt like a chaotic home, school became my safe space.

I was validated there.

I mattered at school.

And while I was the straight A student that went to Cal and got married and had kids and bought a home and travelled all over the world, I still hit rock bottom.

I was exhausted, depleted and the pain was too much that I preferred to not be here anymore.

As a Youth Intervention Specialist who wrote hundreds of 504 Accommodation Plans for students with anxiety, depression, ADHD and oversaw the Calming Room, I came to understand that at the root of these challenges was a dysregulated nervous system.

I thought -

If only parents were aware of this!
Perhaps they wouldn’t feel stressed that their child would have to struggle like them.

If only educators were aware of this!
Perhaps they wouldn’t feel overwhelmed with trying to implement yet another strategy to engage students.

If only students were aware of this!
Perhaps they wouldn’t feel like failures.

This is why I’m on a mission to work with parents, educators and students in understanding the root causes of learning and behavior challenges.

With this awareness, we can begin to create a thriving environment at home and school and build a strong partnership between educators and families.

DM me with the word BRIDGE and I’ll send you a PDF of the workshops I offer. Plus a special offer!

💛🤲🏻
Lili

06/01/2025

Building Bridges between Home and School to Support Student Academic Success 🎓

As a former high school teacher, administrator and Youth Intervention Specialist, I understand the pressing issues school face:

✅ Rise in anxiety
✅ Absenteeism
✅ Challenging student behaviors

At the core of these issues is the nervous system.

When parents understand how they can support their child’s nervous system so that they can go to school and have the capacity to learn, then we will see a reduction in the issues schools face!

Send me a message with the word “BRIDGE” and I’ll send you a flyer with more information and a special offer!

💛
Lili

05/21/2025

Building Bridges between Home and School to Support Student Academic Success 🎓

Let’s build a bridge between the worlds of school and home to create a strong academic foundation for our students to thrive!

Send me a message with the word “BRIDGE” and I’ll send you a flyer with more information and a special offer!

💛
Lili

05/19/2025

I know, you know…

As educators we can’t control what happens outside of school.

Yet we know that students’ experiences aren’t left at the door.

It impacts the bottom line:

✅ Students’ grades
✅ Students’ attendance
✅ Students’ mental health

And parents sometimes may not know how to support their child.

This is where I come in! 💃🏻

Let’s build a bridge between the worlds of school and home and start to build a strong academic foundation for our students to thrive!

If you’re interested in hearing more about my parent offerings, send me a message with the word “Bridge” and I’ll send you a flyer with more information and a special offer!

💛
Lili

03/16/2025

Here we go again! 💃

If you are a parent in the school district and want to learn about what you can do to build a solid academic foundation for your child’s academic success, then join me in this 4 part highly interactive series where we will:

✅ discuss the connection between emotional well being and academic success

✅ understand the rise of worry, anxiety, depression and mental health diagnoses (and what supports schools have)

✅ walk away with a set of effective tools to support our children at home

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Lili

03/16/2025

What a week!! 💃🏻

🥳 Celebrated my birthday on the 11th

💡Faciliated a parent workshop on challenging student behaviors on the 11th too!

✅ Wrapped up a Spanish 4 part series with parents from San Lorenzo Unified School District

And presented to the leadership team at Kenya Big Picture Learning on how trauma impacts the learning brain. (It shuts down the thinking brain! No bueno if you work with students! 😉)

Looking forward to the next monthly meeting!

We will look at how challenging student behaviors are symptoms of a dysregulated nervous system so that educators can look beyond the behaviors and respond in ways that allow students to move thru the survival energy and get back to learning!

If you’re looking for professional development for your staff, students or parents, send me a message! My calendar is filling up for the 2025-25 academic year!

If you’re a parent, I’ll be offering workshops online soon!

💛
Lili

Interested in attending a workshop on challenging behaviors?

02/27/2025

As the first born daughter to Mexican immigrants, I learned that I had to get things done for my family.

I became

✅ the translator

✅ the appointment scheduler

✅ the fill out all important forms (school registration, government forms, etc)

I also learned

✅ to suppress my emotions and needs (I was too worried about managing others’ emotions to keep myself safe)

✅ to not add any additional stress to my parents (they were already stressed out!)

✅ doing good in school made those around me happy

I didn’t realize until much recently that I was living in survival stress - literally in functional freeze.

Despite me doing well in life by society’s standards (graduated from Cal, got a good job, purchased a home, married and had kids), my mental, emotional and physical health gave out.

I could no longer continue to carry all the emotions, the life force energy that I had suppressed as a little girl to survive.

I share this story because too often we focus on academic success, and while that is important, true success is a healthy nervous system that allows us to thrive and not be in survival mode.

If you work with parents, teachers, para-educators, campus safety officers, parent engagement specialists, I offer a series of workshops that create awareness on challenging student behaviors and what we can do to support authentic student engagement from a place of thriving and not surviving.

Reach out as I only work with a few schools every academic year.

I’ll also be working directly with moms online, so stay tuned for upcoming offerings.

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Lili

02/26/2025

Shout to the parents that showed up virtually last night to

✅ have a deeper understanding of what anxiety is

✅ understand how anxiety impacts student learning

✅ identify ways to support a student experiencing anxiety

Can’t wait to do this in-person!

If you’re a parent and your child experiences anxiety, comment below what are your biggest struggles.

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Lili

02/21/2025

To be successful we are taught to go to school so that we can get a good job and not struggle like our parents.

While having graduated from Cal and earned a masters degree has opened many doors, I’ve learned that success is far more than what we’ve been programmed to believe.

We often don’t talk about how trauma shows up in our life, leaving us questioning our self-worth, believing that we are not good enough and holding us prisoners into boldly stepping into the gifts we were meant to share and be of service with.

Trauma disconnects us to who we are, to our authentic blueprint and keeps us stuck, often repeating the energetic signature we were immersed in growing up.

True success is finding your way back home. Connecting back to your emotions, to your intuition, to your authentic self.

When we have repaired this foundation, everything else in our life reflects this wholeness!

It is from here that we are not only financially abundant, but also emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually abundant!

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Lili

02/20/2025

When we understand trauma as something more than what happened to us or the event itself, we begin the process of healing - of turning off the internal alarm that was never reset.

The leadership team supports students who have lived in survival for so long and are desperately looking for hope.

I’m so honored to be in community with them and look forward to continuing our partnership so that we can create spaces where students learn how to go from surviving to thriving.

💛🤲🏻
Lili

02/15/2025

So thankful for this collaboration with San Lorenzo Unified School District!

Yesterday we started our 4 part parent series in Spanish on how to build a strong academic foundation for students to thrive and not just survive.

We will be discussing:

✅ How stress and trauma impacts student learning

✅ The roots of learning and behavioral challenges

✅ Effective tools for parents to support their child’s academic success

I’m booking up my calendar for the 2025-26 academic year! Reach out if you would like to offer this series to parents, teachers, para-educators or support staff.

It takes a village that is both aware of how trauma shows up at schools and effective ways to respond so that students can lean into their untapped potential!

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Lili

02/05/2025

As an administrator that works with students who are facing academic, behavior and health challenges, I’ve come to learn that as adults we need to understand-

✅ the fundamental role the nervous system plays

✅ behaviors, learning and health challenges are often a reflection of nervous system health

✅ as adults the best way to support students is to not only learn about the role of the nervous system but also, do our own work that allows us to show up with the capacity needed to stay grounded to be able to see beyond the behaviors

I can’t wait to work with Hayward High School’s parents in this 3 part Spanish series.

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Lili

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