Workshops & Services

UDO is a non-profit entity dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth through transforming organizational cultures. UDO bases its learning experiences on a highly successful philosophy called Transformation Education and infuses its teachings with the latest neuroscience research. UDO also offers learning tools and books that can be purchased at the UDO Store [click here to visit the UDO Store now].

Committed to "Helping Adults Help Kids," UDO offers a  variety of services and programs that include professional development experiences, leadership development consultation and experiential environmental design. UDO also offers a Certification Program for presenters interested in delivering UDO seminars. To learn more about each service click on the links to the left.

brain magnifyOur professional development experiences – our workshops – are the most popular UDO service. UDO offers outstanding experiences on the most relevant issues facing today's teachers, parents and child-serving professionals. We call them "experiences" because we deliver our cutting-edge material in an active, engaging, "brain friendly" manner that results in our participants "experiencing" rather than just receiving the exciting information we have to share.

We've organized our workshop, keynote, and pre or post conference experiences into four categories for your convenience. To learn more about these categories and the workshops within, please visit the Professional Development Workshops section [click here to navigate to this section now]A complete lisiting of our workshop titles is also presented below for quicker navigation.

A C C E L E R A T E D  T E A C H I N G  C O L L E C T I O N

Brain Matters: The Essential Guide to Brain-Based Learning    
The New IQ: Understanding and Teaching Executive Function Skills In and Out of the Classroom      
Jack's Brain, Jill's Brain: Gender Differences and Why They Matter    
See, Experience, Tell: A Brain-Friendly Teaching Model    
Giving a Fish a Bath: The Untold Story of the Adolescent Mind     
Change Your Language, Change Their Lives: What You Can Say Differently Today to Transform the Tomorrows of Our Youth  
Right From The Start: Building Great Brains From Birth to Age Five  
My Awesome Brain: For Middle and High School Students  
Beyond 30-Something: Successful Strategies for Teaching Effectively Despite Larger Class Sizes   
Conquering Boredom, Apathy, and Indifference in the Classroom: Strategies to Change, Excite and Motivate Your Students  

T H E   C H A L L E N G I N G   B E H A V I O R S   C O L L E C T I O N  

Beyond Poverty: Brain Inspired Ways to Understand and Respond to Poverty     
Rethinking ADHD: What Works, What Doesn't and Why     
Battling the Bully: Brain-Inspired Responses to Bullying    
Trouble Letting Go: Understanding Addiction in the Adolescent Brain   
Child Abuse and the Brain: The Developmental Impact of Trauma in Childhood  
Secrets of the Stressed-Out Brain: What Really Happens in There and What You Can do to Conquer Stress  
The Saddest Song: Teens, Suicide and the Developing Brain  

O R G A N I Z A T I O N A L   L E A D E R S H I P   C O L L E C T I O N

 
Creating the Upside Down Organization: Transforming Staff to Save Troubled Children  
Leadership and the Modern Mind: Connecting Brain Research and the Art of Transformational Leadership  
Transforming the Culture of Conflict: A Brain Compatible Model for Solving Problems in Modern Organizations  

P A R E N T   U N I V E R S I T Y

 
A Parent's Guide to Building Great Brains  
Buried Treasure: The Golden Rules for Raising Outstanding Minds in a Chaotic World