Scarlett Lewis is a speaker working with Kirkland Productions through Safe & Sound Schools.
About
Scarlett Lewis founded the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement™ after her six-year-old son, Jesse, was murdered during the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in December 2012. After his death, Scarlett became part of the solution to the issues we’re seeing in our society — and that also caused the tragedy, taking a proactive approach to addressing mental health issues and helping children across the world. She created the Movement and became an advocate for social and emotional learning (SEL) and character development to teach children essential life skills to help them manage their emotions, become resilient, feel connected, and have healthy relationships. Scarlett has dedicated her life to helping children around the world thrive mentally, socially, emotionally, and academically, and has been instrumental in changing legislation to incorporate SEL into schools.
The Choose Love for Schools Program is a no-cost, comprehensive, lifespan, next generation SEL and character development program that teaches children and adults how to thoughtfully respond with love in any situation, handle adversity, and have courageous conversations by using the Choose Love Formula of: Courage + Gratitude + Forgiveness + Compassion-in-Action. Choose Love has been extended into homes, communities, athletics, and the workplace. The programs have been accessed in all 50 states and 111 countries, reaching over 2 million children. Scarlett is on a mission to cultivate safer classrooms and school climates, offer mental health initiatives to cope with the stress of COVID and life’s other challenges, and to create a more peaceful world by educating the whole child and teaching children to Choose Love.
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 reveals a simple formula for choosing love and then how this formula can be used in almost any circumstance to promote self-empowerment, resilience, connection and optimism. Scarlett discusses her journey and describes how Jesse’s message has taught her to embracing a deeper meaning of gratitude, forgiveness and compassion. Scarlett describes:
Using a formula for choosing love in any situation
Facing the impossible
Finding courage when you think you have none
Cultivating faith instead of fear
Choosing a loving thought over an angry one
The power of choice
The physical, mental and emotional benefits of choosing love
The neuroscience and brain research behind choosing love
Social and Emotional Learning
(Workshop, 1-3 hours dependent on needs)
Scarlett addresses a need that has been lacking in the educational experience: social and emotional learning. She discusses her own SEL project, The Choose Love for Schools Program, which provides tools that teach children that they have the power to choose a loving thought over an angry one. Using the latest neuroscience, the program addresses new ways to effectively teach emotional intelligence in a logical sequence focusing on awareness 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)
Based on the science and research behind successful “Social and Emotional Learning” programs, Scarlett provides adults in the corporate world the same tools that support and promote healthy interaction, cultivate happiness and enable employees to have healthy perspective without being distracted by negativity. The program provides the support and tools for heightened self-awareness and understanding the opportunity to take personal responsibility for one’s actions and reactions to peers, supervisors, and others in the workplace.
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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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