This is a single ticket to the live workshop on January 22nd at 8pm EST and is 2 hours long. Because of the length all respondents will receive a recording of the workshop.

Understand Behavior to Reduce the Effect it Has on Our Stress Response

Discover how to interpret student behavior to calmly and effectively problem-solve and address it.

🧩 This workshop has 4 parts and includes a printable workbook!

Parts:

1. Thinking and Feeling
2. Maladaptive Behavior
3. The 5 Needs
4. Cognitive Distortions
5. Challenging Our Thoughts and Beliefs

🫶 This workshop is perfect if you struggle with:

• Controlling your reactions to student behavior 
• Being in the moment when you are outside of the classroom
• Overwhelm when problem solving student behavior
• Managing your emotions inside and outside of the classroom
• Chronic stress resulting from student behavior

🧠 Part 1: Thinking and Feeling

How our thoughts influence our emotions and how our emotions create our beliefs.

🔑 Part 1 Topics:

• The brains 2 systems: the thinking and the feeling brain and how to keep the thinking brain turned on

• The Threat Response: How the threat response works and how to dampen it

• Negative Thinking Patterns: How negative thinking patterns influence our threat response

🤜 Part 2: Maladaptive Behavior

What we think affects how we feel, and how we feel affects what we believe. If we can change the way we think and feel about certain behaviors and our students, we can also change how we feel and react to their behavior in the classroom.

🔑 Part 2 Topics:

• Student X-Ray Activity: Analyze the maladaptive behavior and create a needs profile for a past or current student

• Behavior as Communication: Understanding behavior as communication and responding rationally 

• Compromised Needs: The 5 needs that must be met for regulation and what compromises them 

• Coping Behaviors: Unhealthy ways humans cope with stress and what we can do

Do emotions control thoughts or do thoughts control emotions?

❤️ Part 3: The 5 Needs

The 5 needs directly influence how everyone reacts to stressors in the classroom.  When these needs are consistently compromised they lead to low motivation, exhaustion, chronic stress, and helplessness.

🔑 Part 3 Topics:

• Psychological and Motivational Implications: How the 5 needs influence psychological wellbeing and motivation
• The 5 Needs: Explanation of safety, comfort, autonomy, belonging, competency
• Compromising Factors: Situations that often compromise the 5 needs in the classroom
• Student X Ray Activity: Identifying the compromising factors that lead to the maladaptive behavior for our student.
• Chalkboard Splash Activity: Reflecting and collaborating on which need is most compromised for our student and considerations

😵‍💫 Part 4: Cognitive Distortions

The brain focuses on the negative more than the positive, and loves to make assumptions and this can distort how we view reality. When this is not recognized it creates cognitive distortions that increase stress and lead to anxiety and depression.

🔑 Part 4 Topics:

• Automatic Thinking: How to keep automatic thoughts from turning negative
• Negative Thinking Cycle: Recognizing negative thinking patterns to prevent emotional hijacking
• 4 Common Cognitive Distortions: The cognitive distortions that commonly influence teachers

💪 Part 5: Challenging Our Thoughts and Beliefs

Certain cognitive behavioral therapeutic techniques can control how reactive you are and how well you can think when responding to student behavior. You can control your reactivity and stress response by learning to notice and challenge your thoughts and beliefs. 

🔑 Part 5 Topics:

• Breaking the Maladaptive Cycle: How to prevent reacting to maladaptive student behavior with our own maladaptive behaviors
• Reframing and Perspective: How to reframe our perspectives and reframe beliefs that keep us from change
• Noticing and Accepting: How to notice and accept our thoughts in the moment to stop emotional hijacking 
• Evaluating and Challenging: How to evaluate and challenge thoughts in the moment to dampen our stress response and problem solve
• The 3 Cognitive Behavioral Techniques: The 3 most helpful cognitive behavioral techniques teachers can use to dampen their fight/flight, problem solve your biggest stressors, and balance your nervous system

This workshop takes place LIVE on January 22nd at 8 pm EST, to , if you would like the recordings please go to The Neighborhood HERE