Transforming Educator PD from Mundane to Magical, from a waste of time to whimsically in-spired! Created by teachers for teachers <3
Start this year with a real impactful PD that doesn’t waste your teachers time!
Watch your teachers light up with that ‘finally’ energy from an interactive PD that highlights the biggest emotions in education behind teacher burnout and creates space for real discussion and action around the dilemmas that educators face. Your teachers will come in skeptical for ‘yet another PD’ and leave inspired with a deeper connection to your school team and their own teacher intuition to face the emotions and challenges of the year!
$ Empower teachers to thrive with tangible transformational whimsical well-being tools
$$ Launch your collective care community unifying your school team and a wise culture of belonging
$$$ Unleash the whimsical wisdom of your team transforming your school from the inside-out with a co-authored whimsical action plan for teacher burnout at your school!


Moments to Movements
A NEW interactive PD workshop created by teachers for teachers getting to the root of teacher burnout at your school and turning real classroom moments of burnout into playful processing and re-writing the narrative to honor the emotional side of teaching, and find fresh perspective, collective care, and renewed joy.
What to Expect: The unexpected!
SAMPLE 2 Hour PD Plan
PD First Hour
Creatively holding space to truly listen to your teachers and have real discussion around educator burnout, mental health, the emotional journey of education, and co-creating a collective care community for your staff! Note – this may include live bite-sized performances of whimsical wisdom moments in education by our facilitation team with processing space and opportunity to ‘change the narrative’ – not your average skits 🙂
PD Second Hour
Your staff will be invited to go through the ‘Moments to Movements’ process with the Swing Set team, tapping into their own critical moments in education, being guided through a whimsical process of bringing these moments into the creative process, making larger connections to the movements of our time and possibly even a few mini medium-pressure performances!
Your staff will be guided to co-author a whimsical action plan for teacher burnout at your school!
All staff will take with them a ‘Top Secret” toolkit of whimsical wellbeing transformational tools, a ‘certified whimsy’ degree reminding them throughout the year to bring the whimsy to wellness, and a renewed sense of possibility.
The Swing Set Team is Ready to Meet your School!
Book your custom Moments to Movements PD today by CONTACTING DAVID or emailing info@swingsetinstitute.org
The Swing Set Institute program team is a whimsy team of teachers who created ‘Moments to Movements’ for teachers and the whimsy team is excited to bring this realness and ridiculousness to your school!
And..transparent pricing you may have wanted 🙂
Moments to Movements PD
Two Hour Whimsical Workshop:
- $2,500 for up to 25 staff
- $4,500 for up to 50 staff
Whimsical Half Day:
- $5,000 for up to 25 staff
- $7,500 for up to 50 staff
Full Whimsy Day:
- $7,500 for up to 25 staff
- $10,000 for up to 50 staff
Whimsy Series of Four 2 Hour Sessions (spread out throughout the year)
- $10,000

The Whimsy Program Facilitation Team!
Meet our team
A collective of whimsical wise teachers who love working with teachers!

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Facilitator, Elementary Education Lead

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Facilitator, Secondary Education Lead

David Metler
Founder
David is the Swing Set Institute Founder and has over 20 years of experience as an education leader empowering youth and education changemakers across PK-20, children’s hospitals, juvenile detention centers, maximum security prisons, and foster care.
Playful fact: David is trained in Musical Improv, Stand Up Comedy, Sketch Writing, Intergroup Dialogue Facilitation, and Mindful Self-Compassion with degrees in Secondary Education and Practical Wisdom in Parenting.
The Whimsy Moments to Movements Program Development Team

