Equipping youth and those who serve them with essential emotional intelligence skills to successfully navigate their lives and support their communities.
Where Learning & Resilience Develop Naturally
Building Trusted Spaces offers a fun, transformative approach to building strong, joyful, connected school communities and workplaces with this unique, evidence-informed experiential training.
Expand your educational toolbox with strategies that enhance student engagement and attachment to the school community. This training will help you lead a balanced and successful year, ensuring an environment where both educators and those they serve can thrive.
Trusted Spaces are a MTSS Tier One School-Wide Support.
Elevate your impact on all students and staff.
Building Trust
The essence of social-emotional learning (SEL) thrives in trusting environments when it is embedded into all interactions with our youth and one another. Genuine SEL integration into daily life is essential, but it can be challenging to achieve.
Shifting paradigms, mindsets, and traditional classroom delivery styles is often met with resistance. The Building Trusted Spaces program positively influences over 98% of those participating, even most naysayers.
The Power of Trust
Research speaks loud and clear: trusted relationships are essential for social, emotional, and mental well-being. Our training turns this knowledge into real, actionable skills. Trusted relationships serve as the antidote to the stressors faced by youth and adults. They nurture resilience, efficacy, responsibility, compassion, empathy, and positive decision-making skills, while fostering fundamental identity development. Educators often need more training and experience to navigate these emotional times with their students. Our program fills this gap, helping educators do it effectively.
While good intentions are common, students' experiences can differ. Recognizing this disconnect can transform the dynamics in a classroom and the overall campus culture.
Training Highlights
Understand
The Science
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Brain reaction to emotional stressors and trauma
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Stressors impact us as well as students
Start With
Yourself
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Personal well-being is a function of our capacity to support students
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The 6 Adult SEL Muscles to elevate your life, in and out of work
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Trusted Spaces
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Build trust while maintaining authority
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Atmospheres that create healing and learning
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Tangible activities that can be used immediately with both staff and students
Discover the award-winning films that form the foundation of our acclaimed in-person training.
A Trusted Space® is a free and accessible docu-training series designed to reach community advocates, educators, students, and all who care about and serve young people. These educational films and discussion guides confront the escalating indicators of the mental health crisis among students—soaring rates of suicidal ideation, disruptive behavior, and emotional distress.
A Trusted Space doesn’t stop at laying bare the grim statistics; it delves into the science behind them. Gain insights from leading experts who unravel the neurobiological mechanisms influencing behavior, demystifying the often misinterpreted actions of students. Then, with the facts and motivation laid out for everyone, we look to the future with hope.
