Hilary Jacobs Hendel | The Change Triangle

Hello and welcome to Emotions Education 101!

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Our mission is to provide a basic emotions education for teens and adults. Why? Because all people need emotions education to thrive and meet the many emotional challenges of living. We created an affordable and easy-to-implement program for you to facilitate this life-changing class for any population you serve and want to help.

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The Emotions Education 101 8-week class can best be described as a gentle learning experience to understand emotions and defenses and help people work the Change Triangle tool, a powerful guide for wellbeing. The tools and education in the curriculum are based on accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), a model firmly grounded in trauma theory, affective neuroscience, attachment theory, emotion theory, and transformational studies.

 

The course provides people with life-long tools for preventing, easing, and healing anxiety and depression. The reverberations affect generations to come. Participants learn how to predictably access and build their calm, courageous, clear, and compassionate authentic selves.

 

Connecting and sharing with others about emotions in a class such as this helps normalize emotions and decreases aloneness. Participants will leave the class with a language with which to communicate their emotions to others and themselves. Participants unlock their potential for deep and profound transformation. With a combination of left-brained didactic learning and right-brained experiential and body-based exercises, participants leave the class with self-knowledge, tools, and skills to start a life-long journey of growth that transforms wellbeing in distressing moments now and over their lifetime.

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An alternative or addition to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) or Mindfulness Training, the Emotions Education 101 8-week class is not therapy, it's experiential psychoeducation that is extremely therapeutic. Participants who take the class anecdotally report decreases in stress, anxiety, and depression. 

 

This curriculum can be implemented as is or adapted as you see fit for a multitude of settings. For examples:

 

• Are you a therapist, coach, counselor, clergy person, teacher, doctor, or nurse, serving populations dealing with mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and trauma?

 

• Do you want to improve the well-being of people in your corporation or other institution?

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• Do you want to provide wellness tools and life coaching in your community, like at a hospital, mental health corporation, or community center?

 

• Are you concerned for students' wellness and want to provide lifelong tools to help manage emotions and emotional stress in a high school or college setting?

 

• Has your work with parents and teachers helped you understand families' needs for emotions education so parents can model emotional competency for their children? Additionally, do you want to help parents and others better deal with their own emotions for self-care and to prevent unwittingly creating excess anxiety and shame in children?

 

No matter who you are, you can learn to facilitate Emotions Education 101 classes with our turnkey curriculum and half-day training. 

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Here's what is included:

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• The Training Manual PDF (to instruct facilitators).

• The EE 101 Curriculum PDF with lesson plans for each class followed by the exercise scripts and PowerPoint slides with teaching notes for each slide.

• Eight individual class folders containing three videos of Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW and Heather Sanford, LCSW teaching the daily PowerPoint lesson, opening exercise, and discussion exercise. (The videos are meant for people who may not wish to do the actual teaching portion as well as those who would like to use our teaching as a guide to inform their own.)

• The full PowerPoint and Keynote slide decks for teaching.

• PDF of the slides as handouts for participants.

• The one-page consolidated homework sheet for participants.