CHRISTINE BOOTHROY,
Founder and Executive Director
ABOUT US
Become Boulder provides educators, students, and the community with research based and trauma informed wellness practices that support social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth. Through social emotional learning, mindfulness, meditation, sound healing, pranayama, and yoga we empower teachers and students to take a path of self discovery to embrace their authentic selves. These strategies can lead to a shift in thinking patterns and the way they interact with the world.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Christine became a Social Emotional Learning Specialist and Certified Yoga Teacher in 2021 through Breathe For Change. She graduated from University of Iowa with a BA in Communication Studies in 2004. She went on to earn her Special Education Teaching License from Metropolitan State College in Denver, CO. Christine has spent the last 10 years as a Special Education Teacher in the public school system in Colorado and Wisconsin. Her work focused on teaching students with different abilities (learning disabilities, autism, social/emotional disabilities, cognitive disabilities, and physical disabilities).
She is currently working as the SEL/Yoga Facilitator for Wellness For Educators, a non-profit organization that provides strategies to empower educators to work through their own trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and emotions, to heal and be there for their learners,
their colleagues, and their support systems at home. Christine resides in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and two daughters. In her free time she loves to hit the trails and connect with nature. She enjoys painting, dancing, and yoga.
OUR VALUES
Our values were born on the understanding that wellness strategies should be accessible to all people in the community, no matter where they are from, where they have been, what they look like, who they love, how much money they make, or what their ability level may be. Whether you are taking a wellness workshop or a yoga class, you are welcome just as you are. Bring your brilliant and authentic self! Let’s connect, heal, and grow together.
Equality
Acceptance
Authenticity
Community
OUR STORY
I started Become Boulder in 2021 during the Covid Pandemic. I took the year off to move from Madison, WI to Boulder, CO with my husband and two young girls. This year gave me a chance to reflect on my 10 years as special education teacher in the public school system.
During this time, I decided to embark on a journey that would change my life. I enrolled in the Breathe For Change Yoga and Social Emotional Learning Facilitator Licensure program. For eight months I did a deep dive into my social-emotional and physical wellbeing and came to the conclusion that as a dedicated teacher, I needed more support. If I was going to thrive as a teacher and have a positive impact on my students, I needed some tools that would prevent teacher burnout and promote well being and resiliency.
I realized that I was not alone. Many teachers felt stressed, overworked, undervalued, and lacked work life balance.
My mentor Ilana Nankin, Founder and CEO of Breathe For Change, taught me research-based and trauma informed wellness practices that transformed my experience as a mother, wife, teacher, and member of the community. From that point forward, I’ve been on a mission to transform the education system by bringing social emotional wellness, mindfulness, social equity, and yoga into the community one school at a time. My hope is to rekindle the love of teaching in the hearts of educators allowing for a transformation of school culture around the globe.
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Bring your brilliant and authentic self!
Let’s connect, heal, and grow together.
OUR PARTNERS
SPECIAL THANKS
I want to give a shout out to all the educators out there who had to redefine our education system in the blink of an eye due to the Covid Pandemic. I SEE YOU. I SEE YOU putting in extra hours at work to make sure my daughters are accessing the curriculum in a fun and engaging way. I SEE YOU trying to bond with your students even if it’s via zoom. I SEE YOU continuously trying to come up with creative solutions to new problems with grace. I SEE YOU having to learn an entirely new way to teach overnight with limited training. I SEE you learning new technologies. I SEE YOU working that second job just to pay the mortgage. I SEE YOU with a smile on your face everyday, despite how exhausted you may be. I SEE YOU. YOU ARE MY HERO.
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