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Designed for Colorado educators and beyond. Join this self-paced 10-part video training program (15 contact hours) that meets the behavioral health relicensure requirement for all Colorado educators and equips educators nationwide to champion student well-being and confidently navigate federal mandates. Unlock the science, soul, and systemic wisdom behind today’s most vital educational shift. This dynamic series empowers educators, school leaders, and support professionals to build trauma-informed, neurotype-responsive environments where every learner can thrive. From the first foundational step, defining behavioral health within the educational landscape, to exploring the neurobiology of regulation, the architecture of safety and belonging, and the frameworks that bring empowerment-focused practices to life, this program delivers actionable insight with heart and precision. Practical and visionary, this program bridges evidence-based neuroscience with policy, relational teaching, and legal clarity, without losing the emotional heartbeat of education. Whether you're teaching in the classroom, designing learning spaces, supporting complex behaviors, or decoding acronyms like FAPE, MTSS, and IDEA, these modules meet you where you are and move you toward systemic coherence. Key Features that Make this Training Unique 🔑 Meets Colorado Department of Education’s Behavioral Health Relicensure Requirements 🔑Self-paced and accessible from anywhere, anytime, you have plenty of time to complete it 🔑Research-backed with real-world classroom strategies 🔑Integrates neuroscience, trauma-informed practice, and legal clarity 🔑Designed by educators, for educators This program gives you the tools to move from reaction to intention—and from burnout to real impact. What You'll Gain ✅ Practical brain-aligned strategies you can use tomorrow ✅ Scalable approaches to create regulated and resilient schools where all students and adults belong. ✅ Confidence navigating federal policy with compassion and clarity Who Should Attend? This program was designed for all teachers, school-based mental health professionals (counselors, social workers, and psychologists), educational leaders, and all student support staff such as paraprofessionals, behavioral specialists or social-emotional behavior support coaches. 💡 Join us, not to meet a standard, but to create a new one! -
Time to move from skill-building to cultivating environments that promote individual and collective growth, so each student has the space to flourish. By utilizing trauma and community responsive approaches coupled with neurotype-responsive practices, we will explore how the design of classroom spaces, daily routines, and relationships can actively promote success for every learner. Participants will engage with frameworks that encourage intentional decision-making, reduce power struggles, and enhance emotional safety. Together, we will explore class wide frameworks that help students access "doses of regulation" throughout the day, anchoring their learning in self-awareness and self-advocacy. We will explore the question, “What does a regulatory environment look like?” to understand how such an environment feels, functions, and transforms interactions. Join this deep dive into really understanding what regulation is and isn't! -
This 18-hour foundational course dives deeply into understanding the context in which learning is taking place. Neuroscience can help us understand what is happening for educators and students in moments of dysregulation, so teachers can learn how to support regulation for students and classrooms. You’ll learn to use brain and body state awareness to guide you in applying strategies and learn how to talk to others about the science behind the strategies you’re using. Exploring an embodied approach, we’ll focus on safety and belonging, along with promoting reflective self-awareness, all vital pieces in creating new options for behavior. Welcome, we are excited to share this journey with you. -
Use Early Bird Coupon Code “EarlyBird50” for $50 USD off until October 1st!
Registration Deadline is October 28th, 2025, 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.
- 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.
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)
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Use Early Bird Coupon Code “EarlyBird50” for $50 USD off until October 1st!
Registration Deadline is October 28, 2025, 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.
- 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.
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)
