Education and Public Services Training
1: Emotional Regulation Training for Teachers
Emotional regulation is key in supporting people, whether they are children, young people, parents or colleagues. Many things can trigger dysregulation, however it is almost impossible for a dysregulated individual to regulate someone else.
That’s why learning to identify and manage your own and someone else difficult and intense emotions is so fundamental to helping yourself and others be the best that they can be. This leads to more confident and fulfilled teachers, engaged learners and better outcomes for all!
Our emotional regulation training covers
1. Introduction to Emotional Regulation in Teaching:
- Define emotional regulation and its importance in the context of teaching.
- Discuss the impact of teachers' emotional regulation on classroom dynamics, learner performance, and overall well-being.
2. Understanding Emotional Triggers:
- Identify common triggers that may lead to emotional responses in teachers.
- Explore personal triggers and their impact on teaching effectiveness.
- Discuss the connection between emotional triggers and stress management.
3. Recognising Signs of Emotional Dysregulation:
- Educate teachers on recognising signs of emotional dysregulation in themselves.
- Provide strategies for self-awareness and self-monitoring of emotions.
- Highlight the importance of early intervention to prevent emotional escalation.
4. Techniques for Emotional Regulation:
- Introduce evidence-based techniques for emotional regulation, such as mindfulness, deep breathing exercises, sensory interventions and cognitive reframing.
- Provide practical exercises and activities to cultivate emotional resilience.
- Discuss the role of self-care practices in maintaining emotional well-being.
5. Building Empathy and Compassion:
- Emphasises the importance of empathy and compassion in teacher-learner interactions.
- Explore strategies for developing empathy towards learners, colleagues, and oneself.
- Discuss the impact of empathy on creating a supportive learning environment.
6. Effective Communication Skills:
- Teach active listening techniques for better communication and conflict resolution.
- Provide strategies for expressing emotions constructively and assertively.
- Discuss the importance of non-verbal communication in conveying emotions.
7. Creating a Supportive Classroom Environment:
- Explore techniques for fostering a positive and inclusive classroom culture.
- Discuss the role of clear expectations, consistent routines, and meaningful connections in promoting emotional regulation.
- Address strategies for managing challenging behaviours with empathy, acceptance, curiosity and respect.
8. Practical Application:
- Engage participants in practicing emotional regulation techniques for themselves and others
- Provide opportunities for reflection and feedback to enhance learning outcomes.
- Encourage participants to develop personalised action plans for implementing emotional regulation strategies in their teaching practice.
2: Stress and taking control of your personal well-being
Work based stress can happen to anyone, at any time and at different intensities. We are all different and the way in which stress shows in everyone will look slightly different too. However, stress can take its toll but learning to take back control of your own wellbeing can be a game changer! You might notice that your stress has an impact not only on you but on the children or young people that you teach too. This can exacerbate the stress and result in really unhelpful thinking that can be tricky to get out of. Or maybe stress has lead to an unhealthy culture of negativity within your school or education setting. We are here to help you move to a more calm, settled and in control place with this training course.
Our training course covers;
- Developing an understanding as to what work-based stress is
- Learning to identify work-based stress
- Enhancing skills in recognising the contributory factors to stress in life and the things that increase/ decrease this stress
- Learning about the 5 pillars of happiness and wellbeing
- Targeting the unhelpful thinking that can get in the way of taking charge of your own wellbeing or feeling able to put in place positive steps towards change
- Developing a plan of commitments to yourself and your own wellbeing
In addition to this, we can also include the wellbeing of your staff as a team and supporting you in developing a whole-school approach to wellbeing by devising departmental or school implementation plans to support the wellbeing of you and your staff. They all contribute to the team around a child or young person and looking after them will improve the outcomes for everyone!
3: Thinking Together about Attachment
An attachment style is something that everyone has and it goes everywhere with us. It impacts on how we view ourselves and the lens through which we see other people and the world. It is developed in childhood and with it comes strategies to manage and survive the situations that we are faced with. Yet, attachment relationships can be something that can be confusing, complex to manage and result in challenging behaviours or escalations. Let us help you demystify attachment, feel more confident in managing the intricacies of attachment relationships, develop practical strategies to support those with attachment difficulties and provide positive experiences for children and young people that you work with.
This course will help you to;
- Develop a clear working understanding of attachment
- Provide opportunities to try out using attachment as a model to make sense of children’s difficulties
- Learn practical ways of using the knowledge learn on the course in supporting children
- Have an increased awareness of attachment within practice
- Place attachment within a more holistic understanding of the child
- Have a working understanding of the resources in the toolkit
