Proactive Connections, LLC is a New York-based consulting firm, servicing areas in NY, NJ, and Westchester, dedicated to nurturing the emotional and social well-being of children (infants and up) and the adults in their lives to mindfully thrive to enhance relationships at home, in school, in camp settings, and in the community, with lasting benefits into the future.
President Randi Goldfarb, LCSW, is a mindfulness-based behavioral expert with over 30 years of experience working to support people across the life span so they can live their best lives. Randi has embraced varied opportunities with diverse populations to embark on this mission over the years. Her career path before, during, and since becoming a licensed clinical social worker has included: working with individuals and groups; in the special needs community with children and adults experiencing medical challenges in varied settings; in a home visiting private practice, and as an SEL-based preschool teacher, early childhood consultant and trainer, parenting coach, team building trainer, and certified yoga instructor. Randi is also blessed to be the mom of two sons whom she learns from all the time! In everything Randi does, she passionately and intentionally incorporates yoga, mindfulness, social-emotional skill-building, and Jewish spiritual wisdom to enhance emotional attunement, regulation, connection and resilience in all those she supports.
Randi is ready to be your guide to MINDFULLY THRIVE, and connect with you, your child, your school/camp, and your community to identify and navigate day-to-day challenges and the range of emotions with greater clarity and intention!
Meet Randi, Your Guide to Mindfully Thrive! I am a your master Social Emotional Wellness Coach with over 25 years of diverse experience and training. My mission is to empower people across the lifetime; infants children though adults to take charge of their capacity to MINDFULLY THRIVE throughout life!
I started Proactive Connections because of the understanding that building our connection between mind, body, heart, and soul builds self-love, kindness, and curiosity, which are roots for self-esteem and healthier relationships. I am a firm believer that there is no time like the present. The presence of today, and each future day to come, brings enormous potential for social emotional seeds to sprout, grow, branch out, blossom, and stand strong and firm. Just like a tree!! My mission is to guide others to be proactive-and begin the journey to MINDFULLY THRIVE at any time, any age, whether we have a specific challenge or just regular life stress! Why wait?!
Randi Goldfarb, LCSW is the founder and president of Proactive Connections, LLC, a New York consulting firm dedicated to mindfulness and yoga-based behavioral coaching to enhance the emotional and social growth and well-being of children, families, adults, and communities. She has extensive experience working with children and adults in varied settings, including hospitals, classrooms, camps, and in the home. Randi provides one-on-one coaching to parents, conducts family consultations, coaches educators, and delivers presentations to community organizations.
Randi is the author of Yippie Yahoo, I’m Going to School (LINK), a children’s picture book which engages very young readers and their grown-up who are struggling with separation anxiety. She created the Keep Calm Kit (LINK), a stocked bin filled with creative tried and true tools to help children identify and manage their “big” feelings with their grown-up. The tools included help all to regulate their emotions develop healthy connected relationships.
Randi earned her master’s in social work from Hunter College School of Social Work and her B.A. degree in Psychology from Queens College. Randi is passionate about integrating her social work skills, creativity, and love of yoga, with mindfulness and spirituality into lessons and activities that support social and emotional learning and help children and adults mindfully thrive. Earlier in her career she worked in the Radiation Oncology department at North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital, where she developed a child-friendly “what to expect” radiation therapy guide to provide young patients and their parents with psychosocial support throughout the Radiation Therapy treatment process. Randi also created a similar guide for staff focusing on how to treat pediatric patients with developmental awareness and provide psychosocial support when treating children with serious medical illnesses. She also designed and implemented a unique protocol for developmentally disabled patients receiving radiation therapy, which culled from her work with the special needs community.
As a seasoned social worker, student supervisor, certified yoga and mindfulness instructor, early childhood educator, consultant, parenting coach, and mother of two sons, Randi is here to empower and guide you, your child, your students, and your community, to enhance your life so you can MINDFULLY THRIVE.
"Working with Randi changed our family dynamic and has helped all of us to keep calm. Living without meltdowns as a daily occurrence has brought a lot more fun to our house, which creates a less anxious environment and helps stop meltdowns before they start. I’d say we are finally thriving instead of getting by."
