Teachers and educators carry enormous responsibility, often prioritizing their students’ needs while setting aside their own. When they receive support for their health and regulation, they are better able to manage stress, stay present in the classroom, and model resilience. Strengthening educators’ well-being not only expands their capacity to attend to students but also provides strategies that can be shared directly, helping young people build skills for regulation and navigating adversity.
La Maida Project’s Educator Workshop Series is a four-session program exploring the foundational pillars of our health framing, ecological trauma-informed approach, theory of change, and accessible, actionable steps to implementation, both as an individual and within the education space.
SESSIONS:
Health & Human Nature
In order for individuals to become active participants in reframing and generating mental health, we must first begin with the deceptively simple question, “What is health?” This session is designed to explore the answers to this question and come to a more accurate and empowering view of health that accounts for connection to self, community, purpose, and the natural world as the essential building blocks of mental health and well-being.
Stress & Regulation
This session builds upon the broadened definition of health and delves deeper into the role of community and relationships in health. The workshop explores the brain’s response to stress and trauma in childhood and adulthood, tools to self-regulate, co-regulation tools, and the powerful impact of supportive relationships and community belonging.
Story & Purpose
This session invites reflection upon an often overlooked and complex piece in the story of health: purpose. Through a variety of experiential activities, this workshop uses values and storytelling to offer insight into actions, behaviors, and our overarching “why.” Educators walk away equipped with actionable strategies, age-appropriate activities, and handouts to integrate into their child and adolescent learning environments.
Integration
The Integration Session provides space to revisit the workshop’s key concepts while focusing on how they connect to the realities of teaching and learning. Educators are invited to reflect on their own well-being and regulation, and to explore how these practices can be shared with students. The session emphasizes practical strategies for bringing insights beyond the training, strengthening both personal resilience and classroom culture.
PROGRAM INCLUDES:
Discovery and customization, program workbook, pre and post session exercises, pre and post session evaluation, and a wrap report.
