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CEL Teacher Training Workshops

A unique and simple program to reduce classroom stress and create a positive academic environment in any school. Help your students reconnect to their love for learning by uniting their bodies, minds and emotions in as little as the first 5 minutes of class.

A Program for Student and Teacher Enrichment
Everyone knows how stressful school can be. Students and teachers alike often arrive struggling with and distracted by emotions, worries, and physical aches and pains. With distractions like these, effectively educating students can be a real challenge. What's missing is a way for everyone to address and move past these physical and psychological issues. In as little as five minutes of class time, CEL's Mindful, Stretching and Breathing Methodology provides the critical missing piece.
How It Works CEL's Methodology gives its participants three main tools that complement and assist their learning tasks. These tools are accessible for the rest of their lives and promote increased happiness, wellness, academic and career accomplishments.

	1. Teachers are trained to develop and sustain mindful, relaxed alertness in themselves and their students. Teachers and students learn safe, simple movements, yogic breathing techniques and other self-awareness disciplines, developed in conjunction with modern brain research, to unify the scattered mind. This calms the nervous body and defuses emotionality, resulting in a balanced state that promotes openness to learning.
	2. Teachers learn how to instruct students to make, keep, and renegotiate agreements in and outside of school. Agreements can be arduous tasks to uphold. Students learn the process of understanding, making, keeping and renegotiating agreements with others and oneself as a critical skill for managing their lives successfully.
	3. Teachers learn how to navigate their own and their students' emotional landscapes and then utilize those emotions to create a relevant connection to academic studies. Many emotions surface during the first two steps. CEL's methodology trains teachers to utilize these emotions to make academic subjects relevant to students, making school more personal, fun and effective.

Proven Results

As a result of practicing CEL's Methodology, students and teachers become happier and more adept at:

• Focusing their minds
• Observing their self-talk
• Maintaining commitments through hardships
• Understanding themselves and others
• Navigating the circumstances of their lives more skillfully
• Engaging in academics with contentment and accountability
• Demonstrating self-reflective and corrective skills

As a direct result of these skills participants spontaneously and inevitably self-generate:

• On-task attitudes and behaviors
• Inclination to participate, connect and belong
• Better wellness habits, lessening compulsive behaviors
• Compassion towards self and others
• Academic excellence

Educators notice:

• Participation, comprehension and accountability improves
• School becomes a relaxed, enjoyable environment for everyone
• Performance, attendance and graduation rates increase

CEL's Training Workshop Details

Participating in this enjoyable, relaxing and interactive workshop provides everything a teacher needs to successfully implement CEL's proven method in the classroom.

Participants will work with a support partner to practice CEL's full emotional literacy methodology for 30 days. They will also train their students in the methods and apply them in 5-minute classroom segments.

Healthy refreshments and handouts are included. There will be an hour break for lunch; bring a sack lunch if desired.

Training Workshops (two options)*

* Prices are per person. Travel and per diem added on for workshops outside of Austin area.

Workshop Price Includes:

• A one-hour group conference call for participants within 10 days after workshop.
• A 30-minute individual coaching conference call in 3rd week.
• A one-hour group conference call 30 days after workshop.

Call 512-351-5538 or Email contact@theCEL.org for Schedule Information