Train the Trainer Workshop to Teach Emotions Education

Hello and welcome to Train the Trainer!

Please join me and Heather Sanford, LCSW, AEDP psychotherapist, and co-developer of the Emotions Education 101 curriculum on Monday, November 18, 2024. You can register here: https://www.hilaryjacobshendel...n-the-trainer-course

This live interactive half-day workshop is designed for mental health professionals, physicians, nurses, coaches, and educators who want to offer Emotions Education 101 classes at their practice, agency, school, or workplace.  The Emotions Education 101 (EE101) class is designed to engage the whole learner - both didactically and experientially.  Participants in the Train the Trainer workshop will have the same experience.

Using the Change Triangle® tool for emotional health as a guide, participants will learn to facilitate a group educational experience that not only changes lives but saves lives. Understanding how emotions work in the mind and body to create symptoms like anxiety and depression makes people feel hopeful and empowered to feel better. The Change Triangle is a trauma-informed, mind and body-based tool and map grounded in accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP). Learning the Change Triangle and working it throughout our lives teaches us skills to move from anxious and disconnected states of mind to calm, confident, and compassionate states, where we feel more authentic - a "This is me!" kind of feeling.

Working the Change Triangle over a lifetime prevents, eases, and heals anxiety and depression caused by blocked and buried emotions. The Emotions Education 101 Train the Trainer course will show you how to run these classes, teach these life-changing skills, and provide social-emotional learning at its best. This course offers clients and participants a great alternative or complement to DBT groups by emphasizing both the containment and expression of emotion in safe and gentle ways that turbocharge transformation and positive neuroplasticity.

The Change Triangle guides the work by recognizing defenses, regulating anxiety, guilt, and shame, and processing core emotions in the body to connect more fully with our authentic Self.  Participants in the Train the Trainer workshop will have the opportunity to experience what a group feels like as a participant, as led by the workshop facilitators.  There are easy-to-understand didactic presentations covering the theory behind the groups and how to facilitate them.  Participants will have the opportunity to practice the skills learned in small groups to gain confidence in applying them immediately.

The workshop along with the Emotions Education 101 turnkey curriculum (which is included with your tuition) provides a step-by-step guide to running these classes. You will be enabled to facilitate the Emotions Education 101 8-week class in your practice, agency, hospital, school, or organization the next day.

Summary of what you will learn in this workshop:

• Participants will learn how to create safety in groups.

• Participants will learn to embody a stance that facilitates vulnerability and growth in groups.

• Participants have the opportunity to experience what a group feels like by taking part in one led by the facilitators.

• Participants will practice the skills taught during the workshop.

• Participants will gain additional understanding of the Change Triangle.

AGENDA:

10:00 am - 10:15 am - Welcome, review of the workshop teaching objectives and overview of the curriculum.

10:15 - 11:15 am - Participants will engage in a sample Emotions Education 101 group. – This will allow participants to demonstrate an ability to understand and apply the EE 101 curriculum for the facilitation of classes. Specifically, you will learn to facilitate:

• Weekly "Aha!" Moments and Reflections

• Opening Experiential Exercise

• Processing of the Experiential Exercise

• Presentation of Topic Information with Powerpoint Slides

• Practice Exercise with Reflections

• Fielding Questions

11:15 - 12:00 pm - Presentation covering creating group safety and stance of the facilitator. Integrate a professional use of self with the EE101 curriculum for the facilitation of classes. Discuss how to create group safety and cohesion.

12:00 - 12:15 pm - Break

12:15 - 1:30 pm - Practice leading a processing discussion after an experiential exercise in small groups. Recognize facilitators’ own internal experience while leading EE101 lessons and exercises. Apply techniques to help people slow down enough to notice their thoughts and emotions.

1:30 - 2:00 pm - Trainees will learn how to assess participant suitability for EE 101 classes. Wrap up, Q & A.

* We expect participants to have already familiarized themselves with the Change Triangle by reading It's Not Always Depression. You can also watch this video to learn how I teach the Change Triangle. You can also use the videos included in the turnkey curriculum to teach the Change Triangle so you don't have to teach, only facilitate discussions.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Assess participants' suitability for the EE 101 class

2. Apply techniques to help people slow down enough to notice their thoughts and emotions

3. Create group safety

4. Create group cohesion

5. Conduct experiential exercises

6. Facilitate discussions

7. Teach the Change Triangle

To learn more visit the Train the Trainer webpage here and find many more free resources on the trauma-informed Change Triangle tool for emotional health: https://www.hilaryjacobshendel...n-the-trainer-course