Feel Confident Helping Kids Navigate Big Emotions

Mariposa Education is a non-profit based in Baltimore, MD dedicated to social-emotional learning (SEL) training for teachers and parents based on our proprietary Mariposa Method, which we believe to be the most effective SEL training available today. Mariposa Education provides virtual and in-person courses for individuals and organizations, as well as 1:1 consulting and coaching.

To learn more about expected outcomes and results from our Mariposa courses, visit our Outcome Data page.

Mariposa’s approach is useful for building strong relationships with children of any age and can help foster social-emotional resilience, lower stress, and help you feel heard as well. As we have narrowed our focus to early childhood, most course examples relate to younger children eight and under. If your children are older than that, you can often tweak the examples from a Lego tower to an iPad. And the words you use will also vary. Given that you will be your child’s parent at all of those ages, we can help you adapt.

Children build resilience and social-emotional skills through relationships with emotionally skilled adults, even in the face of stress.  While we hope that our children interact with many emotionally skilled adults at home and school, it just takes one quality adult-child relationship. And research shows us that adults do specific things in restorative relationships. And they can be learned. While family changes can be stressful, you have the power in your relationship to buffer your child from stress. And even when…or especially when you and your co-parent are not on the same page, the Mariposa skills can help you support your child and strengthen their skills. And if you are on the same page, you can both work with Mariposa.

Often, as parents learn about how social-emotional skills develop and the adult behaviors that truly support that growth, this question comes up. We are more than happy to meet with administrators, PTO leaders, or organization heads to discuss programs for teachers. When a school community engages with both parents and teachers, we see strong changes.

Mariposa is a non-profit organization founded by Dr. Anne Townsend. Our proprietary method is delivered to educators, parents, administrators, and counselors through graduate courses, coaching, consultations, and programs for parents and teachers. Most of our courses are approved for credits by the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) and the District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE). Additionally, we are partners with Loyola University Maryland, an accredited university.