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Live Online Training | Wednesday, April 9th | 5-7 PM MDT Educators are working harder than ever to teach social-emotional skills, yet many still feel frustrated when students struggle to apply what they've learned—especially when it comes to behavior and self-regulation. The reality? Most SEL programs are missing key components. Without the right scaffolding, students may understand self-regulation strategies in theory, but when big emotions hit, they can’t access or use them effectively. This can lead to a cycle of frustration for both educators and students. In this live, interactive training, we’ll uncover what’s missing and how mental health professionals can support educators in making simple but powerful shifts that integrate intentionally developing self-regulation skills daily in the classroom What You’ll Learn: ✔️ The hidden gaps in many SEL programs that prevent students from self-regulating. ✔️ How to scaffold self-regulation skills so students can apply strategies independently—even in moments of stress. ✔️ Small, practical shifts educators can make in their daily routines that lead to lasting behavior change. Who Should Attend? This training is designed for school-based and clinical mental health professionals who support educators and students. Whether you work directly in schools or in private practice, you’ll leave with insights and tools you can use immediately to help educators bridge the gap between teaching self-regulation and students actually using it when they need it most. 💡 Join us and learn how to make self-regulation easier—not harder—for both students and educators. -
Join us on February 6th from 5-7 PM Mountain Time (Denver) for this LIVE webinar as we explore how Safety and Belonging Start with the Brain! We all know that creating a safe and welcoming environment is essential for students' social-emotional, psychological, and cognitive well-being. However, as school-based or clinical mental health professionals, it can sometimes feel like we have limited control over the environments in which students spend their days. But here’s the good news: we can make a difference. By sharing information with educators about how the brain perceives safety and threats, we can significantly impact students' sense of security. This knowledge is a powerful tool for supporting students' mental health. In this LIVE webinar, you’ll learn how to:- Support schools in utilizing approaches that foster a sense of safety.
- Nurture trust and belonging within educational settings.
- Encourage students to face challenges with curiosity instead of fear.
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Discover the missing pieces in working with daily challenges in teaching and learning with our unique approach!
Early bird registration is now open! Use code “2025EarlyBird” to save $40 USD when you register by January 14th.
Registration Deadline is February 2, 2025, 12pm Mountain Time (Denver)
Are you finding that some students remain stuck in challenging behaviors despite your best efforts? Or perhaps you’re dedicated to fostering a classroom where every student can thrive but finding that traditional methods aren’t delivering the results you hoped for …. Then join us for the Evolution of a Synergetic Educator program - it’s more than just a set of new tools! It’s about empowering you with a deep understanding of what’s occurring with your students and in your classrooms. Insight into the root causes and underlying dynamics inform our easy-to-use practical strategies for addressing today’s challenges.  We'll empower you to step into being the educator you set out to be before the realities of teaching got in the way. By filling in the missing pieces that traditional approaches often overlook, you’ll be prepared to create lasting positive change in your classroom and your students’ lives, in ways that feel authentic and congruent for you.  We'll guide you through the process, with science, practice, and application support; YOU choose what fits you and your students! Here’s What Sets Us Apart:- Addressing Root Causes, Not Just Symptoms: Traditional approaches to student behavior often miss the mark, sometimes even escalating situations. Our program teaches you how to recognize brain and body states that influence student behavior, allowing you to intervene with the right strategy at the right time.
- Creating Felt Safety and Belonging: Safety and belonging aren’t just about a welcoming environment—they start in the brain. Our program teaches you how to foster an atmosphere where you can help your students develop a felt sense of safety and belonging, leading to better self-regulation and a readiness to learn.
- Empower Students Through Regulation: Regulation is most effective when it’s integrated throughout the day, not just during scheduled brain breaks. We teach you how to guide students in understanding their own activation and behavior, helping them take responsibility for their behavior and regulation.
- Shifting Resistance into Readiness: Collaborating with colleagues can be challenging, especially when resistance to change is high. Our revolutionary Developmental Mindsets Paradigm™ offers strategies to shift resistance into readiness, creating a ripple effect that transforms school culture into one that prioritizes regulation, safety, and belonging for all.Â
- Bridging Gaps in Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): Traditional SEL programs often overlook critical elements like interoceptive awareness and the ability to adapt strategies to different environments. We teach you how to integrate these missing pieces, helping students use SEL skills independently and effectively.
- Transforming Student-Adult Relationships: Power struggles and miscommunication can derail student-adult interactions. Our program equips you with tools to navigate these complex dynamics, fostering trust, respect, and mutual understanding that lead to positive changes in your classroom and students’ lives.Â
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Educators and school professionals this free webinar is for you!
Did you used to believe that being a teacher would be easy and that you’d get lots of time off? 🤣 Working in schools has become even more challenging. Daily stressors, big and small, impact your nervous systems. It’s easy to lose yourself in these moments. When this happens, you carry this heightened state to your next interaction, compounding the stress. By the end of the day, you’re exhausted, and your nervous system is ready to explode or shut down! Then, couple this with our expectations versus the realities of working in schools, and we have the perfect storm fostering feelings of overwhelm, helplessness, and frustration. Explore these and other dynamics impacting your daily functioning and behaviors. Walk away with an understanding that will move you from reacting in the moment, to responding in ways that support your well-being, so you can reclaim our inspiration for teaching.How is this content different?
Our work at the Synergetic Education Institute is about empowering students AND adults. It shouldn’t be a zero sum game. The well-being of your students doesn’t have to be at your expense. *This Free Webinar was recorded on October 16th 2024. -
Discover the missing pieces in working with daily challenges in teaching and learning with our unique approach!
Early bird registration is now open! Use code “2025EarlyBird” to save $40 USD when you register by January 14th.
Registration Deadline is February 2, 2025, 12pm Mountain Time (Denver)
Are you finding that some students remain stuck in challenging behaviors despite your best efforts? Or perhaps you’re dedicated to fostering a classroom where every student can thrive but finding that traditional methods aren’t delivering the results you hoped for …. Then join us for the Evolution of a Synergetic Educator program - it’s more than just a set of new tools! It’s about empowering you with a deep understanding of what’s occurring with your students and in your classrooms. Insight into the root causes and underlying dynamics inform our easy-to-use practical strategies for addressing today’s challenges.  We'll empower you to step into being the educator you set out to be before the realities of teaching got in the way. By filling in the missing pieces that traditional approaches often overlook, you’ll be prepared to create lasting positive change in your classroom and your students’ lives, in ways that feel authentic and congruent for you.  We'll guide you through the process, with science, practice, and application support; YOU choose what fits you and your students! Here’s What Sets Us Apart:- Addressing Root Causes, Not Just Symptoms: Traditional approaches to student behavior often miss the mark, sometimes even escalating situations. Our program teaches you how to recognize brain and body states that influence student behavior, allowing you to intervene with the right strategy at the right time.
- Creating Felt Safety and Belonging: Safety and belonging aren’t just about a welcoming environment—they start in the brain. Our program teaches you how to foster an atmosphere where you can help your students develop a felt sense of safety and belonging, leading to better self-regulation and a readiness to learn.
- Empower Students Through Regulation: Regulation is most effective when it’s integrated throughout the day, not just during scheduled brain breaks. We teach you how to guide students in understanding their own activation and behavior, helping them take responsibility for their behavior and regulation.
- Shifting Resistance into Readiness: Collaborating with colleagues can be challenging, especially when resistance to change is high. Our revolutionary Developmental Mindsets Paradigm™ offers strategies to shift resistance into readiness, creating a ripple effect that transforms school culture into one that prioritizes regulation, safety, and belonging for all.Â
- Bridging Gaps in Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): Traditional SEL programs often overlook critical elements like interoceptive awareness and the ability to adapt strategies to different environments. We teach you how to integrate these missing pieces, helping students use SEL skills independently and effectively.
- Transforming Student-Adult Relationships: Power struggles and miscommunication can derail student-adult interactions. Our program equips you with tools to navigate these complex dynamics, fostering trust, respect, and mutual understanding that lead to positive changes in your classroom and students’ lives.Â
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Empowering Educators and Students: Strategies for Navigating the Realities and Thriving in Today’s Schools is a 5-part video series. You can watch them all (already selected, just add to cart for your discount) or CLICK HERE to explore and purchase them individually. Should you want to watch the entire series, we recommend viewing them in this order:- The Neurobiology of Preparing Brains and Bodies to Learn in the Classroom
- Creating a Felt Sense of Safety and Belonging in School Starts with the Brain
- The Classroom is a Nervous System: Working with Daily Regulation and Dysregulation Cycles
- The Process of Developing Self-regulation: Understanding the Missing Pieces
- Brain-aligned Strategies for Re-wiring Brains and Re-patterning Nervous Systems
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Even highly skilled educators need help to be effective when students are not ready to learn. Stress and anxiety influence daily school life academically and behaviorally, as these impact processing capabilities in the brain, creating dysregulation… And, dysregulation is contagious, growing from one to two students to entire classrooms. You can see the problem if what we’ve been trained to do is ignore certain behaviors. Neuroscience can help us understand what is happening for educators and students in moments of dysregulation and help us learn to recognize when students are not in brain or body states conducive to learning. This is the first step in understanding how to prepare brains and bodies to learn by providing clues about what is needed and what support will move students back to a place of learning. -
When strategies that have always worked in the past, are not working, it’s frustrating! In fact, sometimes our responses even seem to make the situation worse. What’s going on? When we learn to identify brain and body states it facilitates using the right strategy at the right time, including understanding why something might work in one moment and not another. When students aren’t in the higher regions of their brains, some strategies meant to support them, actually create escalation. Learn critical classroom strategies that work with students during varying states of arousal, expanding windows of tolerance and getting students back to places of learning. Strengthen your ability to help students grow their capacity for dealing with stress and challenges in and out of the classroom as you support creating new options for behavior. -
It can be frustrating when we teach students certain skills, and they don't seem to use them. This is especially true when it comes to behavior, and it's easy to assume that students are intentionally being defiant. However, what if we told you that much of the social-emotional learning programming and teaching lacks important components? These missing pieces make it difficult for students to use strategies independently. The good news is that we can incorporate these vital elements by making only small shifts to daily routines! Learn a framework for using whole-brain approaches that includes teaching specific skills and developing capacities that result in students being able to determine and apply strategies that work for them. We can provide students with the tools they need to succeed both academically and socially, by scaffolding the development of the skills they need to take responsibility for their own behaviors. -
Safety and belonging start with the brain! Creating a safe and welcoming environment is the foundation of classroom culture and community and is crucial for academic success and overall well-being. We spend so much time creating beautiful classrooms, however, providing students with a sense of security can be challenging if we don't understand how the brain perceives safety and threats. You cannot talk someone into feeling safe. Learn to use approaches that foster a sense of safety, nurture trust and belonging, and support students in approaching challenges with curiosity instead of fear as they learn that they can manage to do things that are difficult. -
Discover the true importance of regulation and how it's often misunderstood. Don't let regulation be just another buzzword in your vocabulary. Join Judy to explore how regulation and dysregulation cycles affect students and adults throughout the day. Learn how finding moments of regulation in the midst of dysregulation can be a powerful tool in improving your well-being and shifting students’ behaviors. By gaining a deeper understanding of how dysregulation is a natural part of everyday life, we can recognize important clues for supporting students in becoming aware of their own activation and learning effective strategies through challenging moments. Apply this understanding to class-wide activation. Viewing the class as a collective nervous system gives you the ability to support entire groups of students at the same time, without burning out your own nervous system. Empower yourself and your students! -
Educators and school professionals this free webinar is for you!
You’re committed to teaching SEL, but are you noticing that students are not applying what they learn? It’s not just you—this is a common challenge that educators face. The good news? There are specific, actionable changes you can make to ensure your SEL lessons lead to lasting behavioral change in your students. Enjoy this free webinar and discover what your current SEL program might be missing and how to fix it. Explore how to integrate these vital pieces into what you’re already doing. During this webinar, you’ll learn:- The missing pieces in most SEL programs
- How to help students internalize and use SEL skills independently
- Simple strategies you can incorporate into your existing curriculum
