Scarlett Lewis is a speaker working with Kirkland Productions through Safe & Sound Schools.
About
Scarlett Lewis founded the nonprofit Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement after her six-year-old son’s murder in the Sandy Hook tragedy in 2012. She became part of the solution to the issues in society -- and that also caused the tragedy -- and is a Character Social-Emotional Development Advocate. She's the author of Nurturing Healing Love: A Mother’s Journey of Hope & Forgiveness, a memoir of her journey toward choosing love and forgiveness, From Sandy Hook to the World: How the Choose Love Movement Transforms Lives, an in-depth look at how Scarlett founded the Movement and its impact around the world today, and Rose’s Foal, a children’s book, with photographs by Scarlett Lewis, that tells the poignant story of a beloved horse and her newborn foal.
The Movement's Choose Love for Schools Program is a no-cost, comprehensive, lifespan, next generation, SEL and character development program, empowering educators and students to choose love, handle adversity, and manage their emotions. Choose Love programming is extended into homes, communities, athletics, and the workplace, and has been accessed in all 50 states and over 120 countries. Speaking across the US and internationally to diverse audiences, Scarlett urges everyone to become part of the solution, dedicating her life to helping children and adults around the world to thrive mentally, socially, and emotionally, and she has been instrumental in changing legislation to incorporate SEL into schools. In 2021, Scarlett was named a Forbes 50 over 50 Impact Honoree, one of 50 women leading the way with impact and changing their communities and the world in ways big and small through social entrepreneurship, law, advocacy and education.
Scarlett is a graduate of Boston University with a B.S. in Communications. She has worked in the finance industry as a bond trader and an investment trader, and was also a licensed real estate agent. An accomplished artist and avid horsewoman, Scarlett resides on a farm in Connecticut with her son, JT, and her beloved animals.
popular programs
Choosing Love
(Keynote, 1-3 hours dependent on needs)
Scarlett shares her touching story and focuses on the essential life skills she learned through her journey that can benefit and transform us all. She reveals a simple, yet profound formula for choosing love and then how this formula can be used in any circumstance to promote self-empowerment, resilience, connection and optimism. Scarlett describes how Jesse’s message has taught her to embrace a deeper meaning of gratitude, forgiveness and compassion as well as how this is available to us all and is a path to flourishing. Scarlett describes:
Using a formula for choosing love in any situation
Facing the impossible
How we are created to grow through challenges
How to experience Post Traumatic Growth
Finding courage when you think you have none
Cultivating faith instead of fear
Choosing a loving thought over an angry one
The power of love as a choice
The physical, mental and emotional benefits of choosing love
The neuroscience and brain research behind choosing love
Living a life with no regrets
Social and Emotional Learning
(Workshop, 1-3 hours dependent on needs) Scarlett addresses an essential element in school safety and student's health and wellbeing that has been traditionally overlooked. She discusses why and how she created her own unique set up lifespan solutions, The Choose Love for Schools, Homes and Communities Programs, that provides tools that teach children, and adults, to flourish. Using the latest neuroscience, the program addresses new ways to effectively teach social emotional competence in a logical sequence including on awareness, mindset, positive psychology and mindfulness. The overlying message woven throughout the program is “Although we can’t always choose what happens to us, we can always choose how to respond in every situation.”
Cultivating a Healthy Workplace Environment
(Workshop, 1-3 hours dependent on needs) Scarlett provides adults in the corporate world essential life skills in the form of a powerful and profound yet simple formula that supports and promotes healthy interaction, cultivates happiness and enables employees to have a healthy perspective without being distracted by negativity. The program provides the support and tools for heightened self-awareness and the ability to take personal responsibility for one’s actions and reactions to peers, supervisors, and others in the workplace to thrive as individuals as well as teams to enhance productivity as well as happiness. Scarlett will share parts of her journey as examples to share lessons learned and realistic ways we can live our best life by helping and healing others.
It is my great pleasure to recommend Scarlett Lewis as a speaker. Scarlett brings great passion and inspiration to her message of forgiveness, healing and hope. Scarlett inspired a crowd of 300 people and to this day I encounter people who attended and say it was the best one they have ever attended. I give Scarlet my highest recommendation without reservation as a speaker for any event. Her message is a universal one and strikes at the heart, mind and soul of all people.
Tom Petrizzo CEO Tri-County Mental Health Services, Inc.
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It really brought to mind a lot of things that happen to me that I could be upset or angry about but I’m going to look at it differently now. I’m really going to come away from this with a different attitude.
Karen Delvecchio Student Quinnipiac University
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Scarlett was very well received and our staff was touched by her message. It was exactly what we needed to hear after the past two years of pandemic and isolation. Many thanks to her and you for helping facilitate!
Trevor Murnock Covid Recovery Officer Girard School District
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