Bring Heart Safety to the children
and adults you serve.

Heart Safety helps children notice internal signals, recognize emotional pressure, and stay connected to what they feel and know when relationships make that difficult.

Dr. Naaila brings Heart Safety to parents, schools, libraries, and organizations through workshops, keynotes, and community programs.

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Parents & Caregivers

Self-trust is built in small moments. Most of them happen at home.

Heart Safety helps parents recognize everyday moments that can strengthen, or unintentionally erode, a child's self-trust. The approach gives caregivers practical language for supporting boundaries, belonging, self-advocacy, and help-seeking.

Parent Workshop

From Body Safety to Heart Safety

A practical workshop for parents and caregivers.

This workshop extends familiar body-safety conversations into the relational world. Parents leave with a clearer framework for helping children recognize emotionally tricky dynamics and stay connected to themselves.

Participants leave able to
  • Recognize experiences that strengthen or erode self-trust
  • Help children notice heart, body, and mind signals
  • Respond in ways that support boundaries and help-seeking
AudienceParents & caregivers
Length60–90 min
FormatIn person or virtual
For Individual Parents & Caregivers

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FOR PTAS, SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES & PARENT ORGS

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Schools & Educators

Help students stay connected to themselves, even when belonging feels complicated.

Heart Safety gives students developmentally appropriate language for friendship struggles, social pressure, self-doubt, and emotionally confusing moments. Each student program is an expert-led child-development experience brought to life through Seeds of Self-Trust, guided discussion, and developmentally designed reflection.

Seeds of Self-Trust book
Every session begins with a story.

Seeds of Self-Trust provides the narrative anchor for every student experience. Story is how children absorb the framework before they can articulate it.

Student Experiences
Student Experience · Pre-K & Early Childhood

Heart Safety Begins

Building the earliest language for what children notice inside.

Students practice
  • Hearing language for heart, body, and mind signals
  • Noticing one thing they feel inside during the story
  • Learning that what they notice inside matters
AudiencePre-K and early childhood settings
Length20–30 min
FormatIn person preferred
Student Experience · Grades K–2

Heart Signals

Building language for what children notice.

Students practice
  • Noticing and naming an internal signal
  • Identifying a trusted adult or support person
  • Using simple language to share what they notice
AudienceGrades K–2
Length30–45 min
FormatIn person preferred
Student Experience · Grades 3–5

Heart Safety in Friendships

Staying connected to yourself when belonging feels complicated.

Students practice
  • Recognizing common friendship pressure
  • Noticing when belonging asks them to override a feeling, need, or boundary
  • Choosing a self-advocacy or help-seeking response
AudienceGrades 3–5
Length45–60 min
FormatIn person preferred
Student Experience · Middle School

Heart Safety in Peer Relationships

Recognizing social pressure without losing your sense of self.

Students practice
  • Identifying peer and social pressure
  • Recognizing when approval pulls them away from their values or boundaries
  • Distinguishing discomfort worth exploring from a conclusion about another person's intent
AudienceMiddle school
Length45–60 min
FormatIn person preferred
Educator Professional Learning
Professional Learning · Teachers & Staff

Heart Safety in the Classroom

Everyday interactions that strengthen self-trust.

Participants learn to
  • Understand relational self-trust and recognize what erodes it
  • Help students trust what they notice without turning every feeling into a conclusion about someone else
  • Use practical language in everyday classroom interactions that strengthens rather than overrides what students notice
AudienceTeachers & school staff
Length60 min
FormatIn person or virtual
Professional Learning · Schools & Districts

Recognizing What Erodes Heart Safety

Deeper learning for educators and student-support teams.

Participants learn to
  • Identify recurring relational patterns that can gradually teach children to doubt or override themselves
  • Distinguish developmentally appropriate guidance from responses that unintentionally train self-doubt
  • Choose responses that preserve connection, accountability, and a child's developing sense of self
AudienceSchools, districts & support teams
Length2–3 hours
FormatIn person preferred

Student sessions can be paired with parent education, educator learning, and book-centered programming. Programs are shaped around your schedule, audience, and goals.

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Libraries & Community Organizations

Create a family learning experience that begins with story and continues in everyday conversation.

Heart Safety programming gives libraries and community organizations a story-centered, developmentally grounded experience for children and caregivers. Programs can be offered as a children's workshop, family literacy event, parent session, or thoughtfully configured combination.

Interested in a literacy event, family program, or experience designed around your community?

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Keynotes & Speaking

Beyond Body Safety

A keynote on the overlooked relational dimension of child safety.

Dr. Naaila Chagani speaking on stage at the Ismaili Professionals Network Summit 2026, holding a microphone in front of the IPN Summit backdrop
Ismaili Professionals Network Summit 2026

We teach children about physical safety, online safety, and bullying prevention. We speak far less often about what children can do when a familiar relationship, or the pressure to belong, makes them question what they feel, know, or need.

Dr. Naaila brings a fresh, developmentally grounded perspective to conferences, educator gatherings, parent organizations, podcasts, panels, and mission-aligned community events.

Audiences leave able to
  • Understand Heart Safety and its role within the broader child-safety and social-emotional landscape
  • Recognize how relational experiences can shape a child's self-trust
  • Use the heart, body, and mind framework to move from noticing toward appropriate response and support

Talks can be adapted for educators, parents and caregivers, child-development professionals, and broader community audiences.

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Selected Appearances
ITRAB Pre-Primary Religious Education logo
VIRTUAL SESSION · SEPTEMBER 2026
ITRAB USA National Parent Development Program
Heart Safety: Helping Children Notice and Trust What They Feel
How to Deal Podcast episode artwork: Teaching Kids Self-Trust in a Manipulative World
Podcast · How to Deal with Eli Harwood
Teaching Kids Self-Trust in a Manipulative World
Listen to the episode →
IPN
SUMMIT
CONFERENCE · JANUARY 2026
Ismaili Professionals Network Summit
Panelist, Building Children's Emotional Resilience
Dr. Naaila Chagani, child-development expert and author of Seeds of Self-Trust
Meet Dr. Naaila Chagani
Dr. Naaila Chagani
Child-Development Expert · Author · Creator of the Heart Safety Framework

Dr. Naaila Chagani is a child-development expert, author of Seeds of Self-Trust, and creator of the Heart Safety framework. She holds degrees in psychology and education from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Child Study and Human Development from Tufts University.

"I created Heart Safety because every child deserves to trust their inner voice, even when the world tells them not to."
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Common questions

Every student experience includes a reading from Seeds of Self-Trust, but the book is the teaching anchor rather than the full offering. Dr. Naaila brings expertise in child development and the larger Heart Safety framework to each discussion, reflection, and learning experience.
Yes. Student programs can be paired with parent education, educator learning, book-centered programming, and signing. After learning about your community, Dr. Naaila will recommend a configuration suited to your audience, goals, and schedule.
Parent workshops and introductory educator learning are available in person or virtually. Student experiences and deeper professional learning are designed primarily for in-person delivery.
Heart Safety is a specific relational self-trust framework within the broader social-emotional landscape. It focuses on how children notice internal signals, recognize emotional pressure, and remain connected to what they feel and know when another person or group makes that difficult.
Each engagement is quoted individually based on its format, audience, location, schedule, and combination of experiences. Submit an inquiry to begin a conversation about what best fits your setting.
Yes. Dr. Naaila is based in Northern Virginia and is available for travel. Travel is included for engagements within 40 miles of Tysons, Virginia. Applicable travel expenses for engagements beyond that radius are outlined clearly in the proposal.
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Share what you are planning, and Dr. Naaila will follow up to learn more about your audience, recommend the appropriate Heart Safety experience, and prepare a tailored proposal. You do not need to know the exact program or format before reaching out.

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