About Victoria
Victoria Tennant Consulting
1983 – 2012
Choose one of the following to view specific areas of Victoria’s professional experience:
Nurturing Growing Minds – Educational Materials and Presentations
Resonance Repatterning™ – Private Practice
Nurturing Growing Minds – Educational Materials and Presentations
1983 – 2012
Victoria Tennant is an educational consultant with 38 years of experience in education, including 10 years as an elementary classroom teacher. She has a Master’s Degree in Education through Lesley University.
Victoria has built an outstanding reputation for high quality learning materials and inspirational presentations. She is best known for making abstract information meaningful and easily understood in ways that are hands-on, multi-sensory and fun!
Victoria began her career as an independent educational consultant in 1980 when she developed Teaching the Whole Child: Applications of Brain/Mind Research, a graduate level course through Seattle Pacific University for K-12 educators. Victoria’s workshops and curriculum materials reflect a synthesis of 3 decades of studying and presenting implications and applications of brain/mind research. Victoria also worked as a “Mathematics Their Way®” consultant for the Center for Innovation in Education (www.center.edu); a learning styles consultant for the 4MAT System® (www.aboutlearning.com); and as a licensed Brain Gym® instructor/consultant (www.braingym.org).
Victoria has taught numerous graduate level courses as an adjunct faculty member with:
- Seattle Pacific University, graduate level extension courses
- Seattle University, graduate level extension courses
- Portland State University, graduate level extension courses
- University of Washington’s annual summer institutes: Making Connections, Celebrating the Decade of the Brain
- City University, Facilitator of Masters in Education program
- STARS early childhood trainer for Washington State
In the past 10 years, Victoria has presented to a wide range of audiences, including:
- Educational Service Districts, K-12 schools
- Parent organizations throughout the state of Washington
- Washington Alliance for Better Schools
- Comprehensive Health Education Foundation
- Washington State Librarians
- Child Care Providers
- Early Childhood Coalitions
- Foster Parents
- Health and Human Services
- Child and Family Services
- Outreach Services
- Council for Children
- Counseling Services
- Washington State Prevention Services
- Juvenile Detention Workers
- Juvenile Court System
Adolescent brain development is a current focus. She is the author and presenter of: Understanding the Mysteries of the Teenage Brain and is currently writing a book Challenges into Opportunities: A parent’s guide to understanding the mysterious teenage brain & mindful parenting practices.
She was a Content Editor for two high school text books on brain development, published by Glencoe/McGraw Hill Publishing Co., CA. in 2010.
Victoria is the author of two early childhood programs: Healthy Beginnings, Nurturing Young Children’s Growing Minds™ and Calming Ourselves in Stressful Moments™, both published by Comprehensive Health Education Foundation (www.chef.org).
Victoria and her partner Sue Anderson, are creating a new business, Mindfulness Education 4 Life. They are revising Calming Ourselves in Stressful Moments™ and plan on making it available in the latter part of 2012. For more information, please refer to their website: www.mindfulnesseducation4life.com.
Resonance Repatterning™: Certified Practitioner 2002 – 2012
Resonance Repatterning™ is a unique energy-based system for creating positive change that draws from a variety of disciplines. Sessions help a client to identify and transform negative beliefs and patterns of limitation (often formed in childhood) and replace them with positive beliefs and actions.
Victoria began an intensive 300-hour diploma program in 1997 with the Holographic Repatterning Institute (now known as Resonance Repatterning). She received her Certification as a Resonance Repatterning™ Practitioner in 2002. She was a certified teacher of the introductory course, Empowering Yourself with Holographic Repatterning (2002 – 2006). She now has a successful private practice in Olympia, WA.
The Resonance Repatterning™ process utilizes an integrative model that dovetails with Victoria’s background in early childhood development and the impact of experiences on the brain (both positive and negative). The importance of a positive, holistic approach in parenting and education is a focal point of Victoria’s work. The Resonance Repatterning™ process educates the client’s system to identify and resonate with coherent, life-enhancing beliefs. This allows the unique beauty, integrity and giftedness of the individual to evolve, at any stage of life.
The menu of modalities (experiences to reduce stress and move the energy system to a more coherent state) in Resonance Repatterning™ and Victoria’s experience as an educator overlap in many ways, including:
- Courses for educators (1980 – 2012). Whole brain learning strategies, self-awareness activities, relaxation techniques, guided imagery and positive affirmations.
- Licensed Brain Gym® Instructor/Consultant (2005-2009). Brain Gym® is a program of simple, yet powerfully effective activities that integrate the body/brain’s physiology to reduce stress, enhance learning and improve performance. For information on Brain Gym® see www.braingym.org.
- Calming Ourselves in Stressful Moments – helping young children and their caregivers manage stress (2004 – 2012). Refer to www.mindfulnesseducation.com for more information.