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Calm Teachers, Confident Learners; Reducing Anxiety & Building Resilience in the Classroom

In person workshop

Science-Based Strategies for Reducing Anxiety in Primary Schools.

Discover how our face-to-face workshop can make a difference in your school. Book a call with us to learn how we have successfully supported schools like yours.

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Introduction

This workshop is designed to address the growing problem of anxiety in primary age children, by addressing underlying biology.

Teachers will leave with a fundamental understanding of anxiety and how it is linked to changes in the body's biology. Along with practical tools to help children move to states of calm.

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Why Calm Teachers, Confident Learners; Reducing Anxiety and Building Resilience in the Classroom? 

  • Face-to-face workshop: Offers personalised guidance, immediate feedback, and hands-on learning.
  • Fast, effective tools: We’ve designed a simple, time-efficient tool tailored for busy teachers, enabling them to quickly reduce behavioural issues and classroom anxiety with immediate results.
  • Understanding emotions is crucial: Anxiety is tied to biology. Without understanding this connection, it’s hard to provide the right support.
  • Your calm matters: Awareness of your own anxiety—and how it affects your children—is key to creating a stable, nurturing environment.
  • Empower your children: Teach them to take control of their emotions and build emotional resilience.
  • Anxiety in children is increasing: Due to a lack of understanding of how it impacts biology.
  • Seamless integration: We provide all of the materials you will need for your classroom to get up and running straight away.

Course Benefits

Science & evidence

Critical understanding, drawing on the latest insights from industry experts about what anxiety is, what emotions are & how anxiety works in the body and how it affects behaviour.

Anxiety reduction

Teachers gain access to quick, practical tools and techniques that help themselves and their pupils manage anxiety leading to a calmer classroom environment where students feel supported and ready to learn.

Improved health outcomes

When anxiety is reduced, physical, mental and social health and wellbeing outcomes are increased along with academic performance.

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How will the course be delivered?

  • 3 1/2 hours of face to face training by both Emma and Laura.
  • Downloadable training materials - including videos, children's worksheets and certificates.
  • Printed posters, training manuals, workbooks and children's books are all included.

A look inside the course

 

The Biological Lense

Purpose: Emotional health is the foundation for learning, relationships, and resilience. By understanding emotions like anxiety through a biological lense, we can reframe behaviour and create a more connected, supportive environment for our children. 

Key Learning Objectives:

  1. What is anxiety?
  2. What are emotions?
  3. The stress response in more detail.
  4. The stress response & behaviour.
  5. Anxiety, lifestyle and emotions - the bigger picture.

 

It's All About You

Purpose: Your emotional state has a huge impact on your child. Children naturally absorb our emotional states through mirror neurons—a process known as co-regulation. Understand yourself to help regulate your child. 

Key Learning Objectives:

  1. Emotions are contagious – co-regulation.
  2. Becoming aware.
  3. Examining your own emotional patterns.

 

Communication 

 

Purpose: Both verbal and physical connection play a crucial role in calming a child's nervous system. Learn coaching conversations and become your own inner coach.

Key Learning Objectives:

  1. The power of connection.
  2. Communicating with a child.
  3. Shifting your internal dialogue.

The Emotion Potion

Purpose: Helping children learn to regulate their bodies and emotions with our science based toolkit. Teach your children with our children’s book, “The Emotion Potion: For Navigating Big Feelings.”

Key Learning Objectives:

  1. Understanding the science behind processing emotions through the body.
  2. Applying The Emotions Potion: Feel it, Tap it, Breathe it, Move it.
  3. Other strategies: The ‘Emotions Potion’ toolkit.

 

Implementation and Use Case Scenarios 

Purpose: Best practise for implementing The Emotion Potion, use case scenarios and learning from other schools.

Key Learning Objectives:

  1. How to implement The Emotion Potion into your school
  2. Looking at use case senarios
  3. Learning from other schools
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Hear from our teachers

"“Staff liked the way The Emotions Lab explained the science behind the Flex-it! approach as this made the reason for doing it more meaningful to the staff and children.

Knowing the science behind Flex-it! will make it easier for the staff to explain the approach to the children. Many staff were so inspired by the training that they discussed Flex-it! with individuals/ classes later that day.

The Emotions Lab were so knowledgeable and inspiring. They presented the approach very well and kept the staff engaged throughout the training sessions. Everything that Emma and Laura said made sense and they linked it to their own personal experiences.”

Claire Rolfe, Assistant Head, Trinity C of E, Henley

"This technique is a great tool to use in school to help children accept and feel in control of their emotions. 

We are using it regularly with whole classes and groups to literally tap into how they are feeling which means when a child needs some individual support they have this technique at hand to help them manage difficult situations.

Training was informative, rooted in evidence and easy to transfer into practice”

Kate Bodle, Deputy Head, St Marys School, Henley

""Hi, I wanted to share some good news! I put The Emotion Potion poster on the wall this morning and without any intervention the children linked it to their feelings . After lunch we watched the video. They then continued to talk about how they felt and where they felt it.

We went out to the playground to draw and AF was really cross - I asked what was wrong and she said "I'm jealous". I did the tapping routine with her and noticed her shoulders drop and her calm. I then said come on let's draw and off she went happy and skipping! Her afternoon continued to be calm.

I really think it's going to be a positive addition to our day and curriculum.

Thank you!"

CS, Teacher, Badgemore School, Henley