Dr. Jen Clifden
Educator | Relationship Researcher | Retention Specialist
"I will rewatch all of the lessons!
I actually feel like a healed person."
High School Educator
Rooted in Care. Focused on Empowerment. Designed for Burnout Prevention.
In relationship-first professions, your connection to yourself—especially in challenging times—is what empowers you to lift others.
Stress is unavoidable and ubiquitous, and how you use it matters. It can fuel resilience and strengthen relationships, or it can drain your energy and lead to burnout.
The Light You Cast™ ON-DEMAND helps you transform stress into empowering energy through brain-based, trauma-responsive practices. Strengthen mental health, build relational resilience, and amplify your Presence—so your light sustains you and radiates outward.
The Light You Cast™ ON-DEMAND is an eight-module, self-paced video curriculum designed for all relationship-first professionals.
Each 35-minute module blends restorative movement, guided mental health practices, and practical strategies—grounded in current research—to reduce stress, strengthen resilience, and protect relational well-being. With immediate, easy access, ON-DEMAND helps you heal, recharge, and sustain your impact.
"After learning TLYC practices, I now go home after work tired, but happy and grateful.
There is a big difference between being tired and being burnt out."
Hight School Counselor
The Light You Cast™ | Pillars of Practice
Each of the eight 35-minute, self-paced modules guides you to learn, experience, and embody the three core pillars of relational well-being and personal empowerment ---- helping prevent burnout, heal the effects of stress and trauma, and foster trust-based, safe, and supportive relationships.
REST
BODY
Regulate Nervous System
Engage body-centered, trauma-responsive practices that gently regulate your nervous system, relieve patterns of tension and overwhelm, and replenish internal energy reserves. These practices invite your body out of survival mode and back into balance, allowing calm and vitality to naturally return.
RESTORATION
MIND
Making Meaning
Learn our signature, evidence-based Burn Balanced™ stress metabolization practice designed to sharpen focus and clarity, soothe anxiety and fear, restore emotional balance and inner calm, and rebuild a healthy sense of agency that helps you direct your energy toward what you can control while releasing the tight hold on what you cannot.
REVITALIZATION
RELATIONSHIPS
Connect with Others
Build the social intelligence and relational skills to respond with intention, create connections where others feel deeply seen and valued, and amplify your impact while standing strong in your own peace and Presence.
ON-DEMAND Features
SELF-PACED | Eight self-paced modules (35 minutes each) translate the latest science on mental health, stress metabolization, and nervous system regulation for new teachers into quick, practical tools for real-time relief and renewal.
LOW-BURDEN, HIGH-IMPACT | Offered through the district as an optional, on-going professional learning pathway for new teachers (and the mentors who support them).
INSTANT & SUSTAINED | A sustained, instantly accessible resource educators can return to (over and over again) during high-stress moments, key transition points, and the most demanding phases of one's work.
RETENTION FOCUSED | Supports retention and relational effectiveness. Strengthens participant well-being, presence, and connection over time—key factors in care-giver sustainability and effectiveness.
CEU CLOCK HOURS | Participants earn 4.5 clock hours of professional development in SEL, mental health, and stress management while building daily practices that support long-term health and impact.
COMMUNITIES of PRACTICE | Optional (complimentary) in-person or online The Light You Cast™ | Communities of Practice are designed to foster shared reflection, co-regulation, and collective growth; helping staff stay grounded, connected, and supported as they navigate the realities of their calling and integrate The Light You Cast™ practices into their daily lives.
TLYC | ON-DEMAND
Impact
26,000 +
views of video content
19,000 +
hours of engagement
7,000 +
professionals impacted
25 +
school districts served
Give TLYC | ON-DEMAND
a go!
Our Signature Curriculum
Heal, restore, and reinforce relational resilience at your own pace as you move through our most "gold-standard" curriculum while earning 4.5 Continuing Education Clock Hours of professional education.
01
The Basics of Banishing Burnout
Breath, Balance, Boundaries
02
Taking Time Stress Off the Table
Managing your energy -- not time
03
Essentials to Empowerment
The science behind hope and joy and how they positively impact cognitive health and resonant relationships
04
Detoxing Toxic Stress
Health is not the absence of illness, and resilience is not the absence of stress
05
Compassion | The Ultimate Antidote
Self-compassion cures compassion fatigue and transforms your connections with those in your care
06
The Wisdom of Burnout
How pain and personal trauma create wisdom, insight, and courage and your capacity to create safe spaces of empowerment for others without draining your energy in the process
07
Your Wellness is Contagious
Cultivating communal health through individual well-being
with Dr. Nuhu Sims
08
The Light You Cast
You, your health and well-being, are the intervention, the impact, and the source of empowering others through resonant relationships
Customized Module Content
(8) 15 minute
SOMATIC MOVEMENT PRACTICES
designed to melt tension, reduce cortisol levels, regulate and "re-fine" nervous system, soothe an overactive mind, and elevate the mood while strengthening the physical body.
Each movement video also contains a specific trauma-responsive movemindfully® practice guided by Kathy Flaminio to expand your tool kit of strategies to metabolize stress and trauma reactions.
*Closed Captioned
(8) 20 minute
DIRECT INSTRUCTION VIDEOS
designed to help you recognize early signs of burnout, compassion fatigue, and chronic stress fatigue, while strengthening evidence-based stress metabolization practices that are proven to sharpen focus, expand your perspective, soothe anxiety, restore emotional balance, and rebuild a healthy sense of agency—helping you direct your energy toward what you can control while releasing the tight hold on what you cannot.
*Closed Captioned
(8) Downloadable
"PUT INTO PRACTICE"
HANDOUTS
that detail concrete, transformational tools and reflective practices with beautiful illustrations by Minneapolis-based artist, Jinjer Markley, that can be immediately implemented and applied to one's professional and personal context.
ARTICLES and ONLINE RESOURCES
that align to the module topic to extend the learning, interaction, and integration of the module concepts for those wanting to take a deeper dive into any of the module topics.
Testimonials
We listened. We learned.
Integrated and sustained workplace mental health support and stress management wellness matters!
“I strongly believe that our profession is very consuming and if we don't get in a routine and build our tools to take care of our selves we won't do it. Please continue the classes so we can build our resilience to be better teachers.”
“I found the series to be calming, centering, and hopeful. It was really nice to have short modules that I could complete anytime."
“The entire training was EXCELLENT! I am usually a play it but don't listen person. Not this time, I actively listened and participated in all the modules.”
“I was very surprised to like the yoga/mindful movement and how it was integrated. I've tried yoga from time to time in the past and not been a fan, but the way it was described it made sense for why to do it. The mindful movement was very accessible— it was very doable, especially for a novice like me.”
"These modules were exactly what I needed to find myself again amidst the paperwork, meetings, and planning. These were the best hours spent getting to know myself again.”
“This training really helped me to understand why compassion and joy are my foundation for teaching (and all of life), and why they need to stay my foundation. The training helped me to understand that this is why my students thrive - why we are connected and engaged even in these very difficult times.”
“With this past year being the most stressful of my career, I needed to to change my thinking and focus on my own mental health. Through this I realized that I need to be healthy in order to better serve those in my care.”
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We can schedule a 15 - 45 minute discovery conversation where I learn more about your needs and offer ways I am potentially able to support you or your staff's development. This is a no obligation, no risk discovery conversation.
