Our consultants tailor a unique program analysis to identify the strengths and the needs of your program and educational setting. We involve a variety of stakeholders in a process of consensus building through visioning, goal setting, and planning for action. We provide on-site consultation and communication audits to identify and understand the unique factors contributing to your educational setting.

Using highly effective communication strategies, we help our clients identify the strengths and the untapped resources within their community, articulate goals, determine an appropriate program design that will facilitate long-term goals, create an action plan, and integrate on-going continuous program improvement strategies that will actively involve stakeholders in the process of effective observation, planning, action, and reflection.

Mission Statement Our goal is to: Help Educators Articulate and Realize Their goals in Education.
We do this by:
	Considering the needs of all stakeholders;
	Helping identify specific goals for program development and improvement;
	Helping to create feasible action plans to meet program goals;
	Providing personal attention, unique expertise, and effective mentorship throughout the process;
	Conducting specific training tailored to program goals;
	Drawing on the talents and resources of all the stakeholders, including staff, children and youth, schools, families, and the larger community;
	Introducing a culture of continuous improvement that engages members in systematic reflection on current practice to determine and improve future practice (known as “Action Research”).

H•E•A•R•T's Consultants

Itamar Harari, Ph.D. and Brenda Harari, Ph.D. have over 25 years of combined experience with school-based and out-of-school programs. Their experience includes:

	Creating, directing, and administrating out-of-school programs;
	Training and development for all levels of staff, including teachers, para-professionals, teachers, managers, directors, and administrators;
	Standards-based curriculum design;
	Designing and teaching college level courses for secondary and tertiary degrees;
	Comprehensive evaluation, including design, implementation, and management of large and small projects;
	Published reporting and presentation of outcomes to funders and other stakeholders;
	Grant reading and writing.

Non-Violent Communication Overview

Nonviolent Communication (NVC), also known as Compassionate Communication, helps connect us with what is alive in ourselves and in others each and every moment. This method of communication connects us with what we and/or others could do to make life more wonderful. It connects us with our natural instincts to want to contribute to and receive from others. Compassionate Communication is a process of communicating with empathy and honesty. It has been articulated and studied for over 30 years by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg. It has been used in families, corporations, classrooms, and warring countries around the world. It has been described by some as “the language of the heart.”

NVC strengthens our ability to inspire compassion from others and respond compassionately to others and ourselves. NVC guides us to reframe how we express ourselves, how we hear others and resolve conflicts by focusing our consciousness on what we are observing, feeling, needing, and requesting.

NVC is currently being used in over 100 school communities around the world, helping teachers, administrators, students, and parents to make school a place where students love to learn, teachers love to teach, and where parents feel confident that their children’s needs—for safety, respect, and learning—can be met. Hundreds of schools around the world have been introduced to NVC. In many of these schools, teachers, administrators, parents, and students have used NVC and reported:

	Fewer conflicts
	Increased skill in mediating conflicts that arise
	More listening to one another
	Mutual respect among all school members
	Students take responsibility for their learning
	More engaged learning
	Less resistance & more cooperation
	More fun for everyone
	Students and teachers feel safe at school