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Wings for Wishes Academy

Inspiring Minds...Empowering Children

Children Are Remarkable
We Know How to Make That Happen

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Edie Raether

About Our Founder

Global Authority on Child & Teen Development, Potential, and Possibility

Edie Raether, MS, CSP, is the visionary founder of Wings for Wishes Academy™ and one of the world’s leading authorities on child and teen development, potential, and possibility. With a career spanning more than five decades, Edie began her journey as an occupational therapist, later becoming a mental health and family counselor, college professor, psychotherapist, parenting coach,and ABC talk show host.

A bestselling author, international keynote and multiple TEDx speaker, Edie has inspired audiences across five continents. As the Maestro of Mind Mastery™ and the Dopamine Diva™, Edie has the unique ability to translate neuroscience into practical tools that build strong character and reveal one’s core genius, while igniting resilience and emotional intelligence, Her pioneering NeuroShifts™ and Three‑Second NeuroShift™ methods have empowered children, teens, families, and educators worldwide to rewire limiting beliefs and rise into their highest potential.

Through Wings for Wishes Academy™, Edie continues her lifelong mission: to elevate emotional well‑being, expand possibility, and give every child the wings to fly high and rise above.

Our Vision​

Elevate the Way the World Thinks
One Child at a Time

Our Mission

The Wings for Wishes Academy is committed to creating a world where every child and teen stands strong in their identity, discovers their core genius, masters the power of their mind, and rises with resilience. Through our proprietary Three-Second NeuroShift method, we neurologically equip future generations with the courage, confidence, and character to transform potential into possibility—propelled by purpose.

BUILDING MINDS.
SHAPING FUTURES.

At Wings for Wishes Academy, we awaken brilliance in every child by helping children and teens stand strong in who they are, command the power of their minds, and rise with resilience. Through our proprietary Three Second NeuroShift™, we neurologically equip young people to rewire limiting beliefs and behaviors in real time, break through fear, and activate their core genius.

We don’t just inspire hope — we build it. We strengthen brains, shape character, and cultivate confident identities that last a lifetime.

When you support Wings for Wishes, you build stronger minds and brighter futures.

Bring your highlighter! Too many kids are thrown into life’s challenges without the tools and techniques to rebound and Edie helps connect the dots. She has developed a comprehensive resource that shatters myths and emphasizes the ned to and the how to protect children – tomorrow’s leaders. Well Done!

Alexandra Penn Founder Champions Against Bullying.

Who We Serve

PARENTS

How to Raise a Remarkable Kid

Our parenting programs provide support and guidance in behavior management where a child becomes self-motivated and independent.
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TEACHERS

Role Models and Influencers

Our Train the Trainer programs provide mindset mastery and experiential learning tools that create a supportive and compassionate classroom.
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TEENS

Flying High to Rise Above

With brain training and positive psychology teens upgrade their mental software to optimize their thinking, make better decisions and develop healthy life habits.
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COMMUNITY

Creating Caring Communities

Our community outreach includes collaboration with after-school programs, mentorships, summer camps and recreational activities as well as children who are hospitalized and neurodiverse.
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Edie’s work so eloquently brings the truth of a better world to light and offers a set of solutions to the infectious destruction caused by bullying. She has given us the tools, now we must use them!!

Tracy Sitton Founder and Director High Purpose Consulting and Caring for Troubled Kids Network

Don’t Leave Your Child’s Health, Happiness, and Success to Chance

For over 50 years, our research-backed mind mastery power tools and experiential learning programs have empowered children to:
  • Increase self-esteem with mental fitness and positive psychology to develop courage, compassion, optimism, gratitude, resilience, and an empowering belief system
  • Create a blueprint for greatness with conscious choice and mindset mastery power tools such as visualization and guided mental imagery.
  • Develop cognitive, critical, and creative problem-solving thinking skills to acclerate academic performance and goal achievement.
  • Improve social skills and relationships with “brain breaks” that increase awareness, mindfulness, emotional regulation, anger management, and self-control.
  • Get hooked on healthy life habits, discipline, and self-motivation rewarded by the four happy hormones.
  • Prevent challenges such as bullying, anxiety, depression, and addiction including the digital dopamine epidemic due to social media and excessive screen time.
  • Unleash one’s inner genius Upgrade a student’s mental software, attention, and focus with neurodivergent activities that refire, rewire, reset, and refocus the brain.

BELIEVE   BEHAVE   BECOME

Kids Can Be Remarkable.
We Know How to Make That Happen
Parenting can be a challenge with so many competing influences offered by the internet and social media. I Believe I Can Fly! inspires and elevates by instilling hope and a positive belief system that gives all children an equal opportunity for greatness. It is mindfulness on steroids, providing social-emotional skills to “prevent” and correct the following challenges:

• Bullying, intimidation and aggression due to lack of compassion?
• Childhood obesity and other mental and physical health issues including childhood trauma.
• Drugs, alcohol and suicide due to lack of hope and problem-solving skills.
• Lost potential due to apathy, limiting beliefs and low self-esteem?
This evidence-based interactive character-building program is designed to help children discover and unleash their inner genius.

I Believe I Can Fly! is a “done-for-you” program that plants the right message, at the right time, in the right way for Better Thinking!
The book introduces the cast of characters, all inspiring role models.
The audio creates magic with guided mental imagery exercises.
The blanket is a “trigger” that ignites a flash of a child’s greatness.
The Guidelines provide suggestions on how to effectively facilitate the program to optimize results.  

WIPING OUT POVERTY OF THE MIND

TEDx Talks

Brain Fitness for Kids:
Cloning the DNA of Einstein

All of the neuropsychology revealed in this talk is integrated into the fabric of the program, I Believe I Can Fly! Discover how to help children achieve their full potential with this groundbreaking TEDx Talk. Learn more about the power of brain fitness to boost confidence, mindfulness, and problem-solving skills in children.

Is AI and Digital Dopamine
Making Us Dumb?

Is Digital Dopamine and excessive screen time changing your child’s brain and causing anxiety, depression, academic or behavioral problems?

MindShift Programs for Teens

Flying High…Rising Above

Our evidence-based curriculum for teens provides:

Brain training and cortisol control for stress and anger management.

Brain hacks help in setting healthy food, exercise, and screen management habits.

Mental tools for improving performance in school, sports, and the arts.

Mindfulness and meditation exercises that enhance memory and motivate individuals.

Techniques for reducing anxiety, depression and compassionate outlook.

Awareness-building exercises for improved decision-making and problem-solving skills.

Role plays and experiential activities to enhance social competency and relationship skills.

Diversity and bullying elimination strategies will create a culture of kindness and respect. 

Edie’s knowledge is captivating: She offers an amazing insight into the psychological aspects of the different types of bullies. Her research, experience, and expertise will help school officials, law enforcement, parents, counselors, and coaches gain a greater understanding on how to create an action plan to stop the cycles of violence. Keep up the good work. Edie! You’re amazing!

Sharon Hamilton President Educate to Protect & Kid Phone Advocate

Inspiring Keynotes and Seminars

Bully-Proof Your Kids, Classroom and Community

Known as The Bully Buster, Edie’s inspiring keynotes creates a neuropathway for students and teachers to think differently together. Her one-day inservice training program provides tools and techniques that convert conflict into cooperation and hate into kindness. (It is experiential)

Unstoppable: If You Can’t Walk…DANCE: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities to Bounce Back Big

Join Edie’s transformational journey where you will embrace the power tools to turn obstacles into opportunities. Beyond positive thinking, it is positive “knowing’ that fuels the forces of conviction that breaks through all barriers. With mind mastery methods, a positive belief system, and the willingness to do whatever it takes, you too will be unstoppable.

12 Do’s and Don’ts of Parenting: How to Raise a Remarkable Kid

With over 50 years of experience as a family counselor, Edie provides an easy-to-implement blueprint for successful parenting. Edie provides answers to your everyday challenges and solutions to dealing with difficult behaviors. Rule number one: Children learn what they live.

The Digital Dopamine Dilemma: Mind Mastery and Brain Hacks to Cultivate Healthy Habits

Taking you on a deeper dive into the neurochemistry of success, you will discover the driving force behind our brains and behavior…dopamine, the maestro of motivation. The dopamine addiction due to excessive screen time and social media is rewiring the brain and is the culprit in the rise in drugs, depression, suicide, anxiety and other mental health challenges.
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