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Professional Development Catalog
(Character Development)
All trainings can be adapted to meet your specific needs and can be presented in person or virtually.
Cultivating Empathy: Helping Sensitivity and Kindness Blossom
Empathy is a fundamental part of building positive friendships and relationships. Moreover, it significantly contributes to overall well-being and mental health. Join us as we share age-specific strategies designed to help children learn empathic skills. Build an environment in which sensitivity and kindness thrive, thus creating a positive ripple effect that will enrich your entire classroom culture.
From ME to WE: Cultivating a Caring Classroom Culture
Discover practical ways to move students “from me to we” by cultivating a classroom culture grounded in empathy, kindness, and gratitude. In this session, you’ll explore strategies and activities that build stronger connections, encourage caring behaviors, and help students develop the social-emotional skills they need to thrive together.
Noticing, Naming, and Navigating Emotions
Children often have BIG emotions – both positive and negative. Learning how to acknowledge and label these feelings is a vital part of healthy social and emotional development. Join us as we discuss strategies for guiding students to better understand, express, and handle their emotions. Checking in emotionally with students and validating their experiences will move them forward on the path to stronger relationships and overall emotional intelligence.
Planting Seeds of Leadership: Growing Confident, Capable Youth
Building leadership skills in youth will create habits that will benefit them for life. These same skills can also significantly impact student self-confidence and belief in their abilities. Join us as we share practices for planting the seeds of effective communication, responsibility and accountability, teamwork and collaboration, and creative problem-solving to help your students blossom on their way to becoming well-rounded, successful adults.
The Power of Thank You: Promoting Gratitude to Enhance Your Program Culture
Gratitude has the power to increase optimism and joy, decrease anxiety and depression, and strengthen feelings of connectedness. In this session, we will share research on the benefits of expressing gratitude and recommend strategies and resources to help you promote thankfulness in your program. Small acts and messages of gratitude can ripple outwards in big ways, and the more you practice gratitude, the more powerful it becomes!
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