Professional workshops built for the humans doing the work.
GroveWorks workshops combine practical neuroscience, real-life examples, reflection, and usable tools to help people better understand themselves and how they respond under pressure, change, responsibility, and everyday demands.
The goal isn't to give participants another program to implement. The goal is to give them tools they can use themselves.
Built for real rooms with real teams.
GroveWorks workshops have been delivered to educators and organizations across Minnesota, including repeat engagements with teams that wanted to continue the learning.
Participant feedback consistently highlights the practical tools, relatable examples, and ability to apply the learning both professionally and personally.
What Participants Have Said
"This workshop has opened up a part in my brain that I did not think existed."
“It helped me remember that I need to focus on me so that I can positively impact my students and their families.”
"You have definitely sparked a flame in all of my teachers that was missing this year."
Elementary Educator
"You have definitely sparked a flame in all of my teachers that was missing this year."
“It helped me remember that I need to focus on me so that I can positively impact my students and their families.”
"You have definitely sparked a flame in all of my teachers that was missing this year."
Executive Director
“It helped me remember that I need to focus on me so that I can positively impact my students and their families.”
“It helped me remember that I need to focus on me so that I can positively impact my students and their families.”
“It helped me remember that I need to focus on me so that I can positively impact my students and their families.”
Elementary Educator
“It can relate to anyone and be applied to our daily lives.”
“It helped me remember that I need to focus on me so that I can positively impact my students and their families.”
“It helped me remember that I need to focus on me so that I can positively impact my students and their families.”
Leader
Roots & Shoots FTG Workshops
Big Ideas Made Understandable for Young Minds
Brain-based learning for children.
Roots & Shoots uses the four From The Grove story books to introduce simple concepts that give children (primarily age 4 to 9) language for identity, emotions, self-worth, thoughts, choices, and personal agency in ways that are concrete, age-appropriate, and easy to remember.
Interactive learning activities may include naming our emotions, recognizing automatic negative thoughts, noticing “Yabuts,” identifying possibilities, practicing helpful self-talk, and learning what happens when we repeatedly water and feed certain thoughts.
The language is intentionally simple. The concepts are not.
What the program looks like
Roots & Shoots is typically delivered as a six-week series, with approximately one hour of learning each week. Each session combines one From The Grove story with conversation, activities, movement, reflection, and practical tools children can continue using after the program ends.
The experience is designed to be engaging without becoming another classroom lesson or behavior-management program.
Where Roots & Shoots fits
Roots & Shoots can be offered through elementary schools, after-school programs, community organizations, youth programs, faith communities, and other organizations serving young children.
It can work especially well for organizations looking for developmentally appropriate ways to support children's emotional vocabulary, self-awareness, confidence, and decision-making.
Important distinction
Roots & Shoots is an educational and developmental learning experience.
It is not counseling, therapy, mental health treatment, or a clinical social-emotional intervention.
The program gives children language and tools they can use alongside the support they already receive from the trusted adults in their lives.
