FuelEd programs empower educators with the science and skills to build secure relationships, and to teach and lead with a trauma-sensitive lens — from a place of self-awareness, wellness, empathy and social emotional competence.
Immersive multi-day training
Teaching, learning, and leading in schools is a relationship-driven endeavor, and the Whole Educator Collective prepares educators for this reality.
Our flagship training gives educators foundational knowledge on the science of attachment and trauma, practice with powerful relationship skills, and space to reflect on and unpack their own trauma.
Participants will learn how to:
One-Day Skills Training
Educators' empathy skills have proven effects on student outcomes, school culture, and teacher retention. But most educators are never formally taught the skills of empathy.
This five-hour in-person or online training in the art and science of empathic listening helps educators develop these skills, and leads to professional and personal relationships that are more productive, more satisfying, and foster healthy school cultures where adults and students thrive.
Participants will learn how to:
CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM FOR SCALING EMPATHIC COMMUNICATION
Growing Empathy is a powerful, cost-effective, capacity-building model designed to scale the use of empathic communication throughout an education ecosystem.
Growing Empathy helps education leaders build and sustain school climates where emotionally secure relationships drive teaching and learning, foster wellbeing, and create successful caring communities.
The FuelEd team provides training and ongoing support to a select group of on-site educators who then lead Growing Empathy professional learning throughout the school or district
This capacity building program comprises
SAFE & SUPPORTIVE HEALING SPACES FOR EDUCATORS
Empathy Circles give educators a continued experience of the healing power of empathy, the opportunity to practice empathic communication with their peers, and the ability to take what they discover forward into their classrooms and school communities.
Bring our Empathy Circles to your school or district to demonstrate your leadership's commitment to building caring, relationship-driven school climates and to improving teacher wellness.
In FuelEd Empathy Circles, teachers and leaders:
Short Online Workshop
Students have tremendous needs related to widespread losses of safety and predictability and for many, trauma related to adverse childhood experiences. Prolonged stress can hinder development, derail emotional wellbeing, and impair learning. Educators have a critical role to play in providing emotional safety and co-regulation to students.
This 90-minute facilitated workshop provides educators with an accessible springboard of knowledge, skills, and sustainable strategies for building relationships and practicing self-care, in the face of collective trauma.
Participants will learn how to:
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