Workshop: Nurturing Hearts, Minds and Relationships: Strengthening Social and Emotional Skills for Success and Resilience

Completion certificates are emailed at the end of conference to email provided.

REGISTRATION: 9:50 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

WORKSHOP: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

LOCATION: Virtual – Zoom

Workshop Facts

Nurturing Hearts, Minds and Relationships: Strengthening Social and Emotional Skills for Success and Resilience

This 3-hour interactive workshop equips educators and staff with useful knowledge and practical tools to grow their own emotional intelligence and foster social and emotional learning with school-aged children.

Workshop Objectives

• Learn core concepts of Emotional Intelligence (EI), and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), and how they contribute to lifelong success, resilience and mental health- for both adults and kids!
• Understand the 3 key factors for promoting SEL in school-aged children, and how to put this into practice
• Discover ‘hacks’ for fostering security and strengthening relationships- with children and peers
• Gather strategies to grow emotion understanding and emotion regulation skills in ourselves and children, including:
  • What are emotions and how they affect the ways we think, feel and act
  • ‘Emotional hygiene’ and 3 main approaches for regulating our emotions
  • Why we need to co-regulate children’s emotions and how to do it
  • Observing cultural differences in how we perceive and regulate emotions
• The essential ingredient: Learn the (neuro)science behind why caring for ourselves is a necessary part of caring for others
• Explore practical strategies for self-care and maintaining your capacity to care for others – including how to rewire our brains to be happier!

Presenters

Dr. Angela Low

Dr. Angela Low is an expert in emotional intelligence committed to fostering resilience and social and emotional competence in children and the adults around them. She is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, and a researcher at Simon Fraser University focused on the monitoring and promotion of mental health and well-being of children and adults in BC school communities. She regularly works with government agencies and community groups to develop and implement mental health promotion programs for children and their families. As an educator and mother of 2 school-aged kids, she is especially passionate about helping to transform education, healthcare and community practices to better support educators and parents in the hard work of raising resilient kids in this rapidly changing world.