This innovative training is designed to help educators and youth workers understand the effects of chronic stress both on themselves and the youth in their care. We explore how mind-body practices can help develop emotional resilience using movement, breath, and awareness-based activities that can be done in just a few short minutes each day.
The training will:
- Address the needs of both staff and students
- Cultivate an understanding of how stress and traumatic stress affect bodies, brains, and behaviours
- Develop strategies for educators’ self-care, emotional regulation, and resilience utilizing movement, breath, and awareness (MBA) based tools
- Prepare educators to deliver short MBA practices in the classroom
Created and taught by New Leaf’s Executive Director, Laura Sygrove, RSW, and Senior Training Faculty, Julia Gibran, RSW, B.Ed.
