Connect with Vlada

Resilience Consultants provide support to teachers and school staff, and work together to build a positive school climate for high-quality teaching and enriched student learning. As your Resilience Consultant, Vlada is available to you for confidential conversations that will not be used for evaluation of your job performance in any way. 

Some of the ways in which our Resilience Consultants are helpful to teachers include:

  • Giving you emotional support as everyone adjusts to returning to their school community

  • Encouraging proven practices that support your personal and professional resilience

  • Sharing information and resources for increasing positive communication and strengthening connections at school

  • Brainstorming ways to respond to challenging dynamics at school

  • Facilitating social emotional learning lessons that focus on building student and classroom resilience skills

  • Observing students, as an extra set of eyes in the classroom, to help gather information on student strengths and needs for your own information, SST meetings, or parent conferences

  • Strategizing approaches to students, families, and colleagues with a focus towards improving behavior, relationships, and academic performance

  • Enhancing the social emotional practices of your classroom community with increased understanding of students’ social emotional needs

  • Engaging in strengths-based reflection, integration, and opportunity conversations with you, which is often the foundation for holding these conversations with your own students

You can contact Vlada by email at Vlada@AcknowledgeAlliance.org

Vlada holds a doctoral degree in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology from CIIS, CA. She is an American Board Certified Trainer, Educator & Practitioner in Experiential Therapy (TEP), certified trauma practitioner and trainer, and an author. Vlada brings a wealth of knowledge and global professional experience to her role in Acknowledge Alliance with specializations in supporting mental health through the personal and professional growth, child development, SEL, caregiver-child relationships, and the facilitation of adult self-discovery, professional growth, and personal fulfillment. Vlada has been working in educational settings for the last 12 years. She feels blessed to be in service of educators in her role with Acknowledge Alliance, supporting school staff in their capacities of resilience, self-reflection and reflection of others, self-compassion, and relationships to self and others.

Acknowledge Alliance is a mental health agency that promotes lifelong resilience in children and youth, and strengthens the caring capacity of the adults who influence their lives. Since 1994, Acknowledge Alliance (formerly the Cleo Eulau Center) has used the power of fostering resilience to help build positive connections between teachers and students to open the doors to learning and wellbeing. The foundation of Acknowledge Alliance started with the belief that when a child has a caring adult in their life who holds high expectations and believes in them, they can succeed despite adversities. Acknowledge Alliance serves K-8 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, integrating resilience into all levels of learning by coaching educators, counseling at-risk youth and teaching social emotional learning lessons for the whole classroom.