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Evolution of a Synergetic Educator Spring 2025
Discover the missing pieces in working with daily challenges in teaching and learning with our unique approach!

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.

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.

Join the Evolution of a Synergetic Educator program to gain the skills and insights needed to create lasting, meaningful change for your students, classrooms, and schools. Transform education, while balancing student and educator well-being, so everyone is getting what they need to thrive! Scroll down for program details including cost, learning objectives, and important dates!
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FREE Webinar: The Real Lives of Educators: Will I Ever Feel Rested Again?

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.
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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.

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Evolution of a Synergetic Educator Spring 2025 (Payment Plan)
Discover the missing pieces in working with daily challenges in teaching and learning with our unique approach!

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.

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.

Join the Evolution of a Synergetic Educator program to gain the skills and insights needed to create lasting, meaningful change for your students, classrooms, and schools. Transform education, while balancing student and educator well-being, so everyone is getting what they need to thrive! Scroll down for program details including cost, learning objectives, and important dates!
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Bundle & Save – 5 Part Video Series: Empowering Educators and Students: Strategies for Navigating the Realities and Thriving in Today’s Schools
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

The first two provide a foundation for understanding the science of behavior from a brain and body perspective, including how to apply this knowledge in our work with students, so we are preparing their brains to learn. The third and fourth dive into a deep understanding of the dynamics involved in regulation and dysregulation as we explore how to support students in developing skills and capacities to regulate independently. The final one provides specific strategies that correspond to different states of arousal, and how to use a brain and body perspective to support students in getting back to places of learning. Each video has enough foundational information to be viewed independently. Thank you for joining us on the journey of growth and learning.
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Video 1: The Neurobiology of Preparing Brains and Bodies to Learn in the Classroom

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.

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Video 5: Brain-Aligned Strategies for Re-Wiring Brains and Re-Patterning Nervous Systems

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.

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Video 4: The Process of Developing Self-Regulation – Understanding the Missing Pieces

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.

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Video 2: Creating a Felt Sense of Safety and Belonging in School Starts with the Brain

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.

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Video 3: The Classroom is a Nervous System: Working with Daily Regulation and Dysregulation Cycles

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!

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FREE Webinar: Bridging Gaps in Social-Emotional Learning: Why Aren’t Students Using What They Learn?
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

Take the first step toward more effective SEL teaching. 💕 *This Free Webinar was recorded on September 11th 2024.
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FREE Webinar: Breaking Down Barriers to Working with Schools and Educators

Whether you are working with schools or consulting on behalf of your clients, this free webinar is for you!
What to expect: Explore a Developmental Framework: Learn how to meet educators where they are, paving the way for meaningful connections! Keys to Impactful Collaborating: Implement essential strategies such as talking about stress rather than trauma, focusing on whole classrooms rather than individuals, and much more!
Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights that can transform your work with schools and educators!
*This Free Webinar was recorded on May 8, 2024.

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A Synergetic Approach to Education 2024-2025
Registration Deadline is November 4, 2024, 12pm MST
Are you a school-based mental health professional questioning how to truly support students struggling with challenging behaviors? Or maybe, you’re finding yourself stuck between educational demands and the real needs of your students? Or perhaps you’re trained in Synergetic Play Therapy and looking for ways to bring your SPT skills into schools or educational settings to make a deeper impact? A Synergetic Approach to Education is here to bridge that gap, offering you practical, neuroscience-backed strategies that are not just “another thing on your or others’ plates,” but tools to transform your approach to classroom regulation and student engagement. How Is This Different from Other Programs? Unlike traditional educational programs that often overlook the link between mental health and classroom dynamics, our approach integrates decades of experience working at the intersection of education and mental health. This isn’t just about adding new techniques—it’s about fundamentally reshaping how you understand and respond to student behaviors. You’ll learn to implement small but powerful shifts in daily routines that prepare brains and bodies to learn, helping educators see beyond surface-level behaviors to the neurophysiological states driving them. What Does This Have to Do with SPT? Rooted in Synergetic Play Therapy principles, this program extends the insights of SPT into the classroom, giving you what you need to empower educators to become external regulators who support students in real time. You’ll discover how to translate the SPT model’s emphasis on regulation, curiosity, and connection into practical strategies that fit naturally into classroom settings. Our unique lens helps educators see their own roles in student dynamics, fostering environments of safety, belonging, and co-regulation that elevate everyone. What Will You Learn That Makes Us Different?

Identify Missing Pieces in School Programs: Discover critical components often absent from current school approaches that keep students stuck in challenging behaviors and learn how to explicitly teach educators how to prepare brains and bodies to learn with “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches.

Model Classroom-Wide Regulation: Learn how to demonstrate regulation strategies that benefit all students and teachers, without adding extra workload.

Understand Underlying Issues: Help educators recognize the deeper dynamics affecting classroom behaviors in ways that make sense to them, making their interventions more effective and sustainable.

Tailor Supports to Educators' Realities: Establish practical approaches that account for differing student needs while ensuring educators can implement them seamlessly in their classrooms.

Address Barriers with Curiosity: Tackle common challenges educators face and empower them to engage with these difficulties using a mindset of curiosity rather than resistance.

Prepare Brains and Bodies to Learn: Gain tools to articulate the connection between neurophysiological states and behaviors, equipping educators to support students more effectively.

What You’ll Gain:

Practical, Scalable Strategies: Implement classroom-wide regulation that supports every student and doesn’t feel like “one more thing.”

Deeper Understanding of Behavior Dynamics: Uncover the root causes of challenging student behaviors and learn how to guide educators in addressing them.

Empowerment to Transform Classrooms: Use the principles of SPT to create regulatory environments that allow for dynamic, individualized support.

Collaboration and Connection: Model how to balance support and challenge, cultivating resilience in educators and students alike.

This isn’t just another training program; it’s a comprehensive approach to transforming how we see and support student behaviors in the classroom. Join us in moving beyond traditional methods and embracing a Synergetic Approach to Education that meets students and educators where they are—and takes them where they want to be. "This course has been life-changing for me personally and for so many of the clients and families I work with! I love that your class applies to clinical practice as well! Judith has a brilliant mind and it was an honor to learn from her. I am so grateful. There are moments in your life that are pivotal and I know my Synergetic Play Therapy (SPT) and SPT in schools are one of those pivotal moments for me as a professional and a mom." - Chey Cochran, LPC Check out the clip below for a sample of what you can expect during live webinars!
Program Prerequisites: This program requires that you have taken a Level 1 Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy® program. This includes the completion of one of the following:

Online or In-Person Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy® program

Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy® Intensive Training (no longer offered)

Synergetic Play Therapy® Supplemental Course (no longer offered)

If you have not yet completed one of the above programs, you now have the opportunity to meet the prerequisites for A Synergetic Approach to Education by taking the new Fundamentals Course through the Synergetic Education Institute!* *The Fundamentals Course has been created specifically for individuals who wish to take a Synergetic Approach to Education but have not yet completed a Level 1 Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy® program. This course will take you through key Synergetic Play Therapy® principles, creating a foundation on which to build. Please note: This course has been paired down to focus on specific concepts to prepare students for A Synergetic Approach to Education, and, therefore, is not a full replacement for the Level 1 Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy® program. Should your goal be to apply for the Synergetic Play Therapy Certification program, you must complete the entire Introduction program. If you meet the prerequisites for this program, use the dropdown menu below to select "A Synergetic Approach to Education 2024-2025" to register! If you have NOT completed a Level 1 program, please select "A Synergetic Approach to Education 2024-2025 + Fundamentals Course"!
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