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Skills to Succeed and Flourish in Today's Schools
Have you noticed that today it takes more energy and stamina to teach successfully? Whether it's mastering
new subject matter, addressing diverse student needs, implementing assessments, learning new technology,
maintaining classroom order, managing time, or making sure all students learn, the demands on teachers are
increasing in number and intensity.
The Resilient Educator™ is a powerful, highly relevant training program that helps educators boost
performance, improve school relationships, and strengthen resiliency. Acclaimed by educators for its new
ideas and solid foundation in neuroscience, the program's proven techniques are easy to learn and help
rekindle educators' motivation and energy. Drawing on the Institute of HeartMath's fifteen years of scientific
research, this training engages educators through practical, research-based approach.
What Participants Learn:
• How to think more clearly and make smarter decisions, especially under pressure.
• How to improve communication with staff, students and parents.
• How to transform the physiological response to stress.
• How to increase vitality and well being.
• How to create a stronger school culture.
Proven Results
Three months after school administrators and K-12 teachers from a Kentucky school district received
training, symptoms of stress had dropped dramatically. Prior to the training, 34% of the participants said that
they felt exhausted. Three months after the training that number had dropped to only 11%. Those who said
they felt like quitting their job dropped from 21% to 14% during the same three-month period.
Program Content:
- • What is resiliency? How to build and sustain it
• What is stress and what are the stressors that educators face
• The role of emotions in performance and health
• How emotions drive brain activity into chaos or coherence
• Using coherence to achieve greater resilience and excellence
• Neutralizing stress
• Demonstration of the Freeze-Framer® Interactive Learning System
• Use of the Freeze-Frame® technique as a problem solving tool
• Effective communication technique for productive working relationships
• Establishing a new baseline of health and well-being
Flexible Training Modes:
The Resilient Educator™ is available in 2, 4, and 6 hour presentation formats. The 6-hour format can be
supplemented to meet requirements for college credit through Dominican University. The 6-hour format is
also available in a two-day weekend retreat format.
Resilient Educator™ and HeartMath are trademarks of the Institute of HeartMath. Freeze-Framer® is a registered trademark of Quantum
InTech, Inc. Quick Coherence is a registered trademark of Doc Childre. HeartMath® trademarks are reprinted here by permission, © HeartMath,
LLC, 2006.
at a day care center, I placed my own child in such a center. The staff there may
have thought I was a bit perverse when I wanted to see the bathrooms and know
the details of their routine for taking children to the bathroom. But it is simply
that I possessed the knowledge that comes from listening to abuse survivors, I
know what can happen.”
knowledge can itself become a distortion. If we lose our sense of perspective,
then our awareness of danger can transform into an expectation of danger--every
plane is likely to crash and every adult is likely to hurt a child. When we lose our
perspective in this way, we enter the world of the traumatized. We stay
constantly on our guard because we anticipate danger at every turn. If we are not
able to regain our sense of perspective, then the next step is avoidance and our
lives becomes organized around what might happen, rather than what is
happening. This is the point where secondary exposure triggers secondary
traumatization.
- • The differences between secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma and burnout.
• The four core life assumptions distorted by secondary trauma.
• How trauma reactions differ culturally and ethnically.
• How to transform the physiological response to stress to improve resiliency.
• How to increase vitality and well being.
• How to leave work at work.
• How to create a stronger, more supportive workplace culture to improve organizational resiliency.
• Demonstration of the Freeze-Framer® Interactive Learning System as a stress reduction tool
Flexible Training Modes:
The Understanding Secondary Trauma: Self Care for Helping Professionals is available in 2 and 4-hour
presentation formats. The 4-hour format is also available in an extended one-day retreat format.
Freeze-Framer® is a registered trademark of Quantum InTech, Inc. HeartMath® trademarks are reprinted here by permission, © HeartMath,
LLC, 2006.
The workshop covers:
- Cultivating productive dialogues and partnerships to enhance values and
practices in our diverse but still unequal society. - Fostering reflection on the intersection between domestic and global
workplace issues and a sense of responsibility as local and global
professionals. - Enhancing teamwork and productivity, improve customer satisfaction,
foster a more harmonious and satisfying workplace, encourage development
of current and future markets - Real role plays using positive and negative scenarios.
- Support applying inclusive strategies, tolerance, empathy, good listening
and observational skills, and improved perspective-taking skills.
Flexible Training Modes:
Diversity and Intercultural Competence Workshop is available in 2 and 4-hour
presentation formats. The 4-hour format is also available in an extended one-day
retreat format.
We look forward to collaborating with you on your personal development goals.
Barbara J. Thomas, Program Director, 415-217-0071, [ NAICS & SIC ]
Bj.Thomas & Associates, Inc., 760 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
