For schools, youth-serving organizations, and workforce development

Stressed brains can’t learn, problem-solve, collaborate, or think critically. Not won’t. Can’t.

When the nervous system sounds the alarm, the brain’s capacity for thinking, focusing, and connecting goes offline. WiseMind® teaches a physiological stress recovery process that works in the moment, in a framework that helps it last.

Three years of applied work

The outcomes are documented.

From 2023 to 2025, WiseMind® worked inside 14 K‑12 schools across Salem-Keizer Public Schools and Silver Falls School District, and in the innovative iBuild program at Salem Kroc Center. Nearly 400 students received coaching. More than 400 educators and youth-serving professionals completed training. Each school said yes when offered the opportunity to continue.

Spotlight

Silverton High School

Four horizontal gain gauges showing average coaching outcomes at Silverton High School: Stress recovery +1.45, Body awareness +1.35, Expressing needs +1.30, Independent tool use +1.20 — on a 5-point scale

Measured on WiseMind’s coach-observed Resilience Tracker. Not a clinical assessment.

I’ve always had such bad anxiety and I’ve never been able to help it. This is the first time that I’ve been able to calm my brain down. I’m just so thankful for this experience.

I never really tell people how I’m feeling. This experience helped me reconnect with myself.

2023–2025 project partners

Salem-Keizer Public Schools Silver Falls School District Salem Kroc Center Team Oregon Build
Roundhouse Foundation AE Foundation Pacific Power Foundation Salem Foundation Willamette Health Council Edna L. Holmes Fund of Oregon Community Foundation
What we offer

Stress is universal. The tools WiseMind® teaches are, too.

Professional development

Workshops & Programs

For schools, workforce programs, and organizations.

Student credential · In development

WiseMind® Navigating Stress Microcredential

A competency-based credential for Oregon high school students. Seeking funding partners for 2027 launch.

Training & offerings

Build the capacity to support stress recovery.

WiseMind® training is interactive and hands-on by design. Every session works from the same physiological framework, adapted for the setting and delivered at the depth that matches your goals.

1-hour intro

WiseMind® Essentials

One hour. Practical tools your team actually leaves with. WiseMind® Essentials introduces the physiological stress-recovery framework through direct experience, with practical takeaways staff can use right away. Designed for any setting where staff need results without days out of the field.

$750 nonprofits / schools  ·  $1,200 corporate / healthcare
8-week cohort

Navigating Stress Workforce Training

Eight weeks to build a practice that holds. For cohorts of 3–6, meeting weekly for 45 minutes, in-person or virtual. Participants build personalized stress-recovery plans grounded in their specific work reality, implementing and iterating each week as they uncover new insights through practice.

$1,500 per participant
8-week cohort · ECE

Early Childhood Educators

This field has among the highest turnover of any profession. The depletion is real and its impacts can be most effectively addressed in the body. This eight-week program builds physiological recovery skills for the weight of early childhood work. Participants map and support their stress recovery protocol while learning how to support the children in their care more effectively, too.

$1,500 per participant

Consulting for schools & organizations

Ready to build WiseMind® into your program, not just offer it once? Consulting support includes program design, integration guidance, leadership coaching, and parent engagement.

Published guidebooks

The same framework, presented to children and young teens through story.

Peanut and the BIG Feelings and Jamie's Gift bring the WiseMind® physiological framework into story at the developmental level that meets each reader.

Peanut and the BIG Feelings book cover

Peanut and the BIG Feelings: A Guidebook for Children

An interactive story for ages 3–12, grounded in neurobiology, with an implementation guide for early childhood educators and parents and caregivers.

Jamie's Gift book cover

Jamie's Gift: A Young Teen's Guide to Fears, Worries, and Other Life Challenges (Like Being Irritated by Other People)

Co-authored with 13-year-old Brinsley Hammond-Brouwer, this one meets youth with tools they can use.

Jenifer Trivelli with Peanut and the BIG Feelings

Bulk orders

Buying for a school, youth program, or professional group? Contact us directly for options and pricing.

About WiseMind Educational Services

Built on two decades of direct practice with young people, families, and the professionals who serve them.

Founded in 2014 by Jenifer Trivelli, M.S.

From practice to scale

How the work grew

In its early years, WiseMind Educational Services offered community-based youth programs, parent and family coaching, and professional development for early childhood educators. The organization was contracted by Family Building Blocks, the Early Learning HUB of Marion and Polk Counties, and Abiqua School for consultation. Jenifer authored two books, dozens of print articles, and developed TIME:IN, her first curriculum for adolescents, while leading summer youth retreats in nature settings from 2017 to 2025. In 2022, Salem-Keizer Public Schools contracted WiseMind Educational Services to support students experiencing emotional barriers to their academic potential. Jenifer assembled a team and built a structured Emotion Coaching program in response.

From 2023 to 2025, WiseMind Educational Services coached nearly 400 students and trained more than 400 educators and youth-serving professionals in both urban and rural districts. In 2026, that work formalized into three pathways: workforce training, a student microcredential, and a self-guided app.

The WiseMind® Framework

A state problem, not a mindset problem

Under stress, the brain's capacity for higher-order thinking goes offline. That's not a metaphor. It's a measurable physiological event. The moment a person, of any age, most needs to think clearly is precisely when thinking clearly is hardest to access.

WiseMind® works from the bottom up, through the body's own recovery process. The shift happens first in the body, which is accessible even when thinking is hard, then the capacity for thinking and connecting can come back online.

Expanding access

Currently in development

A browser-based self-guided student app

Gives students in grades 6–12 a physiological reset accessible in the moment, without adding one more training for educators. Early access opens for a small number of schools in Summer 2027.

Get in touch

The WiseMind® Navigating Stress Microcredential

A competency-based credential that teaches physiological stress recovery to students directly, in any school that has it.

Founder

Jenifer Trivelli, M.S.

Jenifer Trivelli, M.S., Founder of WiseMind Educational Services

Jenifer has spent two decades figuring out what actually meaningfully helps students under stress, starting in a rural Oregon school with no established counseling program and students who needed more than existing resources could give them.

She holds an M.S. in Counseling and has keynoted at Western Oregon University (2023), presented at the Somatic Experiencing International Conference (2021) and The Embodiment Conference (2020), and appeared on KGW's Portland Today. She wrote dozens of articles for print magazines, Peanut and the BIG Feelings: A Guidebook for Children (English, Spanish, and German), and co-authored Jamie’s Gift: A Young Teen’s Guide to Fears, Worries, and Other Life Challenges (Like Being Irritated by Other People). Her ideas and framework have been shared in schools, clinics, and living rooms.

Jenifer lives in the Willamette Valley with her partner, two teenagers, and their cat. Outside of her roles, you're most likely to find her in the garden or motorcycling among the pines.

Right now: EdTech founder creating scalable access to the WiseMind® framework by developing a student stress-reset tool and youth microcredential program.

WiseMind® Navigating Stress Microcredential

A physiological stress-recovery credential for Oregon high school students.

Seeking funding partners to build the infrastructure for 2027 launch.

Schools are doing the best they can to address the consequences of student stress. This credential teaches students the skills to navigate it upstream.

Student needs exceed current educator capacity. Most curricula require students to have executive function capacity to utilize them, and acute stress takes that offline. WiseMind® works at the physiological layer that remains accessible, builds a skill students keep, and earns them a credential they carry.

This is an educational credential. It is not a counseling program or a clinical intervention. It gives students a physiological foundation that means fewer of them arrive at a counselor's door in acute distress.

A competency-based credential aligned to Oregon's 2027 graduation requirements.

Students complete an 8-module program, demonstrate a personalized stress-recovery protocol verified by a school counselor, and earn a digital badge aligned to Oregon Employability Skills and SB 3's Higher Education and Career Path Skills requirement, available in any high school for any student enrolled.

WiseMind Educational Services is building the LMS infrastructure that delivers the program directly to students in any school that has it, without adding to educator workload.

In a large high school that is short on resources and constantly moving at a fast pace, WiseMind has worked seamlessly with our Counseling Department.

Kevin OrtegaCounselor, Silverton High School
The track record

The methodology is proven. The infrastructure is what's next.

2023-2025

WiseMind's framework reached nearly 400 students across Salem-Keizer Public Schools, Silver Falls School District, and the iBuild workforce program. More than 400 educators and youth-serving professionals completed training. Each school said yes when offered the opportunity to continue.

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Summer 2026

WiseMind® framework delivered in person at Team Oregon Build's Ready2Respond Summer Camp and Southern Oregon's IBuild Camp.

These are tools that I know I'll use for the rest of my life.

High school student
The ask

Help us build the infrastructure that reaches every Oregon student.

WiseMind Educational Services is seeking foundation grants and district partnerships to fund the LMS build, credentialing system, and school integration layer that makes this scalable beyond pilot settings. Full budget, timeline, and pilot design are available in the prospectus.

WiseMind operates under fiscal sponsorship of United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley. A Memorandum of Agreement is available on request and submitted with every grant application.