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Back to What Matters
Reclaim Your Energy. Renew Your Perspective. Start the School Year Strong.
An Educator Well-Being Immersion
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
9:00 AM-4:00 PM
The Shawnee Institute
at the Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort
Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania
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Save My Seat
The most important thing educators bring into a classroom isn't another strategy.
It's themselves.
Before we can build thriving schools, we have to support the humans who make them possible.
How do you go back without losing yourself?
Educators don’t need another initiative, checklist, or inspirational keynote. They need a chance to breathe, evidence-based tools that actually work, meaningful conversations with people who understand, and space to step away long enough to remember what matters before the school year asks everything from them.
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This isn't another sit-and-get workshop.
It's an immersive experience.
We'll spend the day learning, laughing, reflecting, collaborating, walking, breathing, creating, and reconnecting alongside educators from across the region in one of the most beautiful settings in Pennsylvania.
You'll leave with practical tools you can use immediately...and something even more valuable:Â Perspective.
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A FULL DAY IMMERSION EXPERIENCEÂ
Back to Yourself
Rediscover your strengths.
Regulate your nervous system.
Preserve your energy.
Explore evidence-based practices from Positive Psychology and well-being science.
Back to Each Other
Strengthen communication.
Build psychological safety.
Share ideas.
Learn from educators, school leaders, counselors, and helping professionals who understand exactly what this work asks of us.
Back to What Matters
Reconnect to the purpose, humanity, and hope that brought you into education in the first place.
Explore practical ways to build thriving schools by supporting the humans inside them.
You'll Walk Away With...
Practical Takeaways
âś” Practical tools you can use immediately
âś” Positive Psychology strategies
âś” Resources to share with colleagues
âś” Personalized action plan
Personal Renewal
âś” Renewed energy
âś” Fresh perspective
âś” Meaningful connections
âś” More like yourself
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Meet your Facilitator
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Patty McLain, M.Ed.
 Author • Speaker • Educator • Rebel Hope Dealer
Patty blends Positive Psychology, neuroscience, educator well-being, communication, and storytelling to create experiences that are practical, energizing, and deeply human.
A former teacher and instructional coach, she has spent more than two decades helping educators reconnect to themselves, each other, and what matters most.
Her presentations have inspired educators, school leaders, universities, and organizations across Pennsylvania and beyond.
Back to What Matters: An Immersive Professional Learning Experience (Early Bird)
Step away from the demands of back-to-school preparation and reconnect with what matters most. Join Patty McLain, M.Ed. at the Shawnee Institute for a full-day immersive professional learning experience designed to help educators reclaim their energy, renew their perspective, and start the school year strong.Early Bird Offer Expires July 24, 2026
$149.00 USD
Why Shawnee?
Some conversations simply happen differently beside a river.
Nestled in the Pocono Mountains, the Shawnee Institute offers something traditional conference centers can't:
• Space to think
• Space to breathe
• Space to reconnect
• Space to remember what matters
Breakfast and lunch are included, and you're encouraged to stay afterward to enjoy the property, continue conversations, explore the trails, or have dinner at the Shawnee Inn.
