Book America’s Calm Coach Kirk Martin

Families, schools and communities are crumbling under the unparalleled stress, pace and demands of modern society. Our children are responding with disturbing behaviors—defiance, power struggles, bullying, anxiety, inattention, violent outbursts.

Celebrate Calm Founder Kirk Martin will show you step-by-step how to stop these behaviors with practical, concrete strategies. You will regain control of your home and classroom. Your kids will be confident, respectful and responsible.

See why Kirk Martin is trusted as America’s Calm Coach and the most in-demand parenting speaker in North America. He has trained 200,000 parents, teachers, students and professionals through Workshops and Keynotes (see below for more) that are practical, laugh-out loud funny, and life-changing. Book Kirk now.

Workshops

“Kirk and Casey Martin change families, kids and classrooms.”

Kirk and Casey are the only father-son team who can train parents, teachers and students on the same day. Long-term change occurs when all three stakeholders share the same goals and tools.

Multiple schools, PTAs, SEPTAs or churches can co-sponsor workshops. Because our training includes unlimited participation, we can reach hundreds of families. These are community-wide events that create a lot of buzz. We promise you will be overwhelmed with parents and teachers thanking you enthusiastically for sponsoring the event.

Booking Kirk and Casey is easy. Select the workshops you want to offer your school, church, synagogue or organization. Contact Brett directly at 888-506-1871 or email at Brett@CelebrateCalm.com. We can customize a proposal based on your needs and budget.

Parents Workshops

Are You At Your Wit’s End? Stop the Yelling & Power Struggles

Do you need help calming your explosive household? Tired of yelling at, negotiating with and bribing your child? Do you want your child to take responsibility for his schoolwork, chores and attitude? It’s time to stop the yelling, arguing and power struggles with toddlers and teens. Moms, it’s not your job to manage everyone’s emotions and make everyone happy! We’ll show you how to create stress-free mornings, school, dinner and bedtime. We promise you will laugh and leave with a dozen practical strategies that really work.

• Eliminate defiance, disrespect, and power struggles (even with teens).
• Improve focus, attention, and behavior in school.
• Relieve anxiety, sensory issues and sibling fights.
• Develop motivated, responsible children.
• Create stress-free mornings, homework time and bedtime.

10 Ways to Stop Defiance, Disrespect & Meltdowns (all ages!)

Nothing is more frustrating and embarrassing than a child being defiant or melting down in public. Have a little one who looks right through you and says, “No!”? Have a teenager who defies you or rolls his eyes? Have a child who refuses to go places? Kirk will show you how to stop a meltdown in public without losing it yourself! You will learn how to turn emotional power struggles into opportunities to build trust and teach self-discipline. You will be blown away by how practical these strategies are.

“You’re Not the Boss of Me!”: Motivating Strong-Willed Toddlers, Tweens & Teens

How do you motivate a child who looks right at you and doesn’t listen? What about a teenager who has shut down or defiant? Your child was born with boxing gloves on, ready to fight. Well-meaning people tell you to clamp down on and get control of your child. But you don’t want to crush his spirit or create more defiance. Instead of constantly creating power struggles, we’ll show you how to enjoy a respectful, motivated child who is confident, persistent and purposeful.  Society needs our kids. And you can enjoy them. I’ll get my own strong-willed son, Casey, answering questions in this class. One of my favorites.

Stop Sibling Fights, Name Calling & Tattling

Does anything make your blood boil more than hearing your children be mean to each other? But none of your rational discussions make a difference. You feel like a bad parent, like you’ve done something wrong, embarrassed that your kids act like this. What happens when you have one child who takes all your energy and time? We’ll show you how to get your kids to share, stop tattling, and resolve conflict so you don’t have to be the sheriff. We’ll even show you an amazing way to deal with your kids complaining, “It’s not fair!”

Parent Workshop fees: $1,500 – $2,500 plus travel expenses. Includes training for an unlimited number of parents and teachers.

In-Service Educator Training/Professional Workshops

Brain Boosters™ Professional Development: 10 Strategies to Help All Students Succeed

Frustrated by students who fidget, constantly need to be redirected, and distract others? Do you have a handful of children who demand all your time? Ever wonder why certain students struggle with anxiety and anger? Today’s educators deal with situations and issues unimaginable even a few years ago.

Celebrate Calm has combined 40 years of scientific research with cutting-edge insight into the human brain to provide practical, 21st-century tools for educators that address anxiety, meltdowns, sensory issues, bullying, inattention, blurting out, aggression, disruptive behaviors, and more in the classroom. We demonstrate:

• Practical ways to improve attention and retention.
• Behavior plans that build confidence and work long-term.
• Correct ways to calm an angry, anxious or violent child.
• Tips to transfer ownership of academic and behavioral success to students.

Training sessions can be customized, from 90-minute after-school sessions to half-day training. We employ the “Tuesday Morning Approach.” If we train your teachers on a Monday afternoon, they will walk into school Tuesday morning with at least a dozen very practical, concrete strategies to help their students. Teachers LOVE our training because it’s practical, fast-paced, laugh-out-loud funny, and relevant to their personal and professional lives.

In-Service Educator Training fees: $2,500 – $5,000 plus travel expenses. Includes training for an unlimited number of teachers. CEU Credits will be provided.

Student Assemblies

10 Secrets to Get More Power, Freedom, & Responsibility

Students listen when a teenager challenges them to control their own emotions and take responsibility for their lives. Casey has given over 35,000 students specific action steps to deal proactively with stress, peer pressure, anxiety, siblings, disappointment, finances and their future. He gets kids up on stage and involved in his presentation, mixing humor with hard-hitting advice that kids can relate to. Plus he plays a pretty mean guitar.

We also include handouts for school counselors to reinforce the lessons. These handouts can be sent home to parents as well so they know exactly what their children learned.

“It’s clear that Casey’s message stuck with our students. I regularly ask students who controls their behavior, and since Casey spoke to them, they all respond with an enthusiastic, ‘I do!’ That’s a natural lead in for me to explore with them ways that they can take more responsibility for their actions.
- Krissie Betbeze, M.Ed., LCSW
Counselor, Overbrook Academy / St. Cecilia Academy

Student Assembly fee: $1,500. School assemblies are 30-45 minutes depending on age group. Fee includes unlimited number of students.

Our Most Popular Workshop Package

Train students, teachers and parents on the same day.

Imagine this day at your school. Guitar in hand, Casey Martin takes the auditorium stage and shows hundreds of students how to be responsible for their choices, attitudes, emotions and academic success. Later that afternoon, 150 teachers from local schools are energized as they learn dozens of concrete, practical interventions that solve their toughest classroom challenges. Many will tell you it was the best in-service they’ve had. In the evening, hundreds of parents from the community pour into your school, hungry to learn easy-to-implement strategies to get back control of their homes. Now everyone is on the same page, using the same language. It is very powerful.

“Parents have told me specific changes that have had immediate positive effects for their families. Longtime teachers and new ones alike have pushed themselves to develop creative new solutions that support their students. In less than two weeks, I’ve heard at least a dozen ways you and Casey impacted our community.”
- Overbrook Academy

Book Kirk Now

Call Us Toll Free at 888-506-1871
Email us at brett@celebratecalm.com

Book Your Keynote with Confidence

You want the confidence of knowing your next Keynote Speaker will achieve four goals:

• Connect personally with your audience.
• Make your audience laugh and stay on the edge of their seats.
• Inspire and motivate your members.
• Give relevant, practical tips that really help.

We can make three promises with absolute confidence. First, Kirk Martin delivers on every count. He arrives early and stays afterward to connect personally with people. Via over 800 speeches to 200,000 people, Kirk has perfected a rare combination of powerful insight that is laugh-out loud funny. Second, your members will enthusiastically thank you for booking Kirk. Third, you can relax and be confident that you just booked a memorable event.

Each of the messages below will be fully customized to meet your specific needs. Mr. Martin is available for breakout sessions with smaller groups upon request. He has spoken to pre-school teachers, social workers, high school counselors, foster and adoptive parents, child care workers, marriage and family agencies, community organizations, associations and more. Fees range from $5,000 – $15,000 plus travel fees.

Teachers, Childcare Professionals and Social Workers Keynotes

How to Help Intense, Challenging Children Be Successful…While Keeping Your Sanity

You work with the most challenging children, day in and day out. You love these kids, but they exhaust and frustrate you. Kirk will give you practical strategies to deal with anxiety, meltdowns, violence, sensory issues, bullying, inattention, aggression and disruptive behaviors. We demonstrate:

• Practical ways to improve attention and retention.
• Behavior plans that build confidence and work long-term.
• Correct ways to calm an angry, anxious or violent child.
• Tips to transfer ownership of academic and behavioral success to students.
• How to take care of yourself emotionally so you can have peace and joy.

Thank you doesn’t begin to express our appreciation of your willing outreach to the parents and staff of Fairfax County Public Schools. We work diligently to bring the latest information, resources and workshops to FCPS and you exceeded our expectations measurably. We were thoroughly impressed with your authentic examples, honest sharing, and clear logical resolution to tricky situations.

I am sure the enraptured crowd at the Special Education Conference would have willingly maintained their seats for another hour or two. Thanks, Kirk, you are AWESOME!
- A. Gail Holloman
Fairfax County Parent Resource Centers

Foster & Adoptive Parents Keynotes

At My Wit’s End! Stop Defiance, Bullying & Power Struggles

Few people understand the challenges you face as foster and adoptive parents. Kirk gives parents dealing with explosive households and intense children practical strategies to:

• Eliminate defiance, disrespect, and power struggles (even with teens).
• Improve focus, attention, and behavior in school.
• Relieve anxiety and sensory issues.
• Help children become motivated and responsible for choices.
• Create stress-free mornings, homework time, and bedtime.

“Kirk Martin’s presentation was incredible! The information you provided was so valuable to our foster parents. What an incredible resource for years to come! We are so grateful for your continued support of NCFAPA. It means the world to us.”
–Paige Gunter, Training Coordinator
North Carolina Foster & Adoptive Parents Association

Marriage & Family Development Keynotes

Strong Marriages, Strong Families

Marriages and families are under assault like never before. The stress, pace and pressure of modern life are destroying relationships. Kirk will support you in your efforts to maintain strong, healthy families by teaching parents how to:

• Create more order, structure and consistency in their homes.
• Create clear boundaries, expectations and consequences.
• Communicate, resolve conflict and problem solve with their spouses.
• Use proper self-care so they are whole emotionally, physically and spiritually.
• Model self-control, praise and actively teach their children.

Associations & Businesses Keynotes

“Staying Sane in An Insane World!”

Kirk shows attendees how to lead with calm authority through today’s chaotic world and its insatiable demands. Discover practical tools to take back power over your biggest stressors: raising challenging children, managing relationships, fighting traffic, work demands, social pressure, addictions, the economy, finances, etc. This is hard-hitting content with real life application, delivered with laugh-out loud anecdotes that everyone can relate to.

Book Kirk Now

Call Us Toll Free at 888-506-1871
Email us at brett@celebratecalm.com

Professional Endorsements

(These are the people that are REALLY hard to impress!)

Thank you doesn’t begin to express our appreciation of your willing outreach to the parents and staff of Fairfax County Public Schools. We work diligently to bring the latest information, resources, workshops, and presentations to FCPS and you exceeded our expectations measurably. We were thoroughly impressed with your authentic examples, honest sharing, and clear logical resolution to tricky situations in which we have all found ourselves at one time or another.

I am sure the enraptured crowd would have willingly maintained their seats for another hour or two motivated by the calm humorous morsels of wisdom you so graciously shared in perfect bite-sized chunks.

Please thank Casey for his kind engaging support while helping with the presentation. We truly enjoyed working with both of you and hope that this is the first of many more collaboration projects. Thanks Kirk, you are AWESOME!
- A. Gail Holloman
Manager, Fairfax County Parent Resource Centers

Mr. Martin, I want to personally thank you for presenting a workshop for my staff and students that truly provided “immediate” strategies that were evidenced by several of them on the very next day. We have been singing your praises to all. I shared my thoughts regarding your presentation to my staff and parents at my MCAASP Board of Directors’ meeting. The individuals who are represented by this organization are principals, assistant principals, and central office representatives. They were so interested in my “enthusiasm,” that I was asked to share your site information. As a result, our Board president has sent out this information to the 130 elementary representatives. Once again, thanks and I do hope that we are able to collaborate in the future on other workshops.
- Joanne Smith, Ed.D.
Principal, Montgomery County Public School System

You and Casey have impacted every part of our school community. I’m the school counselor, and it’s clear that Casey’s message stuck with our students. I regularly ask students who controls their behavior, and since Casey spoke to them, they all respond with an enthusiastic, “I do!” That’s a natural lead in for me to explore with them ways that they can take more responsibility for their actions.

A number of parents have told me specific changes they’ve made to their routines and responses (like doing push-ups with their kids, sitting on the floor, or taking better care of themselves) that had immediate positive effects for their families.

Finally, our faculty was energized by your in-service. Longtime teachers and new ones alike have pushed themselves to develop creative new solutions that support their students. In less than two weeks, I’ve heard at least a dozen ways you and Casey impacted our community. Imagine what the future holds for us! Thank you!
- Krissie Betbeze, M.Ed., LCSW
Counselor, Overbrook Academy / St. Cecilia Academy

Many, many parents stopped in or emailed to thank me for having you come to our school. The parents said they could have stayed there all night listening, learning and laughing. The teachers were especially excited because they actually walked away with many techniques to try the next day. Many said it was the fastest two hours ever for an in-service.

Casey, thank you for sharing your story as well. Having you talk is very powerful and helps bring the message even closer to home. I look forward to working with you again.
- Stacie Short / St. Albert School / Louisville, KY

The teachers couldn’t stop talking about your workshop. Some said they could have listened for another hour (now that’s an accomplishment!) Thank you for taking on this mission. Parenting seems to be becoming a lost art. You are a great help to many people.
Mary Nicolatos / Thomas More School / Atlanta, GA

Thanks for another great event! I received a lot of positive feedback and thanks. It was great to see so many Dads in attendance. I was watching their faces and you could see the look of “Oh, now I get it” throughout your presentation. You offer real solutions.
Robin Patras, Director of Children’s Ministry
Christ the Savior Lutheran Church / Indianapolis, IN

Everyone is buzzing about how wonderful you were. The principal wants for me to keep in touch and ask you to come back. The staff developer that has morning cafeteria duty came to the principal and me with a big smile saying,”It works, It really works”! She was referring to a student that was having a meltdown in the cafeteria screaming at the top of his lungs, “I hate this school ” and other things. She put to practice what she learned in the training and asked him to go find a staff member for her. The child completely changed his attitude! Thank you so much.
- Noelia Torres, Parent Outreach Coordinator
Glen Haven Elementary School

Thank you for your insightful presentation! Because our student population struggles with focus, anxiety and sensory problems, your approach and strategies were well-received by parents and educators. I absolutely loved your examples of the power struggles that happen on a daily basis. The “categorizing activity” based on the brain activity and manifestations stirred everyone’s interest. Personally, I was mentally placing each individual student under one of the three categories. Your practical suggestions on how to gain control over yourself before attempting to “control” others were my favorite part of the evening. We look forward to having both you and Casey back at Sophia!
- Camelia Rat, Sophia Academy, Atlanta

Hi Kirk and Casey, I want to thank you for presenting the wonderful workshop here. We all learned so much and could have listened to more for hours. Thank you again for giving your time, expertise, and energy to us. You’re the best!
- Joanie Waldman, Director
Beth-El Zedeck Early Childhood Center / Indianapolis, IN

Kirk Martin’s Celebrate Calm presentations are always gratefully received
by our community. His practical advice and experienced perspective serves
to support our parents and teachers in helping students navigate the
challenging years of adolescence. My community always appreciates us
hosting his workshop.
Kay Sands, Principal
Trickum Middle School / Atlanta, GA

My professional staff and I continue to use the many strategies you presented. The in-depth evaluations provided in your individual team meetings have been invaluable. Your willingness to go beyond the formal lecture presentation to delve more deeply with classroom teachers presented us with a unique staff development opportunity.
Often times, staff development never reaches the classroom. However, your strategy of reviewing actual cases and observing students in the classroom setting empowered our educators to pursue new strategies.
The Parent Workshop was a godsend for many parents. Many programs identify the problems, but few offer practical solutions or strategies. Your ability to de-mystify the problems of students with learning differences gave our parents hope and a renewed commitment to the success of their children.

It is a shared consensus by staff, administration and parents that Calm Classrooms is one of the most powerful training modules for today’s complex learning environment. The combination of your knowledge, expertise and delivery model give Calm Classrooms my high endorsement.
Principal Brandon Smith
East Wake Academy/ Raleigh, North Carolina

You passed on a great deal of insight and knowledge to our teachers and it will impact many children positively for years to come. It was truly a comfort to have someone who really understands the challenges we face as educators.
Robert W. Duckworth, Principal
Legacy Elementary School, Ashburn, VA

Simply put, if you want the one resource who understands kids with learning differences inside and out, you must schedule a Calm Classrooms Workshop. The most beneficial Workshop our school has ever had.
D. Gonzales, 4th grade teacher
Dallas, TX

Most in-service programs are nothing but theory. It is clear you have spent time in classrooms because your strategies work. Highly recommended.
S. Hardeman, 7th grade teacher
Gwinnett County, GA Public Schools

We have used your insight to reduce special needs services for several children, whose performance has dramatically improved. We are looking forward to expanding the program.
M. Castinan, Special Services Coordinator
North Sacramento S.D., CA

Thank you for your collaborative approach. It is refreshing to work on an IEP together with parents in a productive manner.
G. Callahan, IEP Coordinator
LRHS, Baltimore, MD

Instead of a boring lecture, Kirk Martin delivered lively, engaging training sessions that equipped us with the tools to change our community. Mr. Martin made the connection between scientific insights and practical strategies that help all children and families. We highly recommend Celebrate!Calm.
Beulah Greer, Executive Director
MS Parent Information & Resource Center (PIRC)