EFST® for Education Professionals

This six-webinar series teaches education professionals the four core tools of Emotion Focused Skills Training(EFST®).

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Course Overview

For Education Professionals

This course covers the basics of Dr Joanne Dolhanty’s EFST®. Learn this simple program in how to use classroom and schoolyard emotions in the moment they arise to protect well-being and enhance learning.  You will learn how to work with emotion to enhance motivation and increase effectiveness in setting limits and expectations that promote success and well-being. Educators develop greater competence and confidence in harnessing emotion to enliven learning.

$99 USD

Includes 365 days of access

Discounted bulk licences or for unlimited access organization-wide options are available.  

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WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE

This course will empower education professionals in school systems, mental health facilities, and the community:

  • Classroom Teachers
  • Early Childhood Educators
  • Special Education Teachers
  • Educational Assistants
  • Guidance Counsellors
  • School Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Child and Youth Workers
  • Principals
  • Superintendents
  • Others (including community-based professional partners, educators in mental health and other facilities; international education professionals with other designations and roles)

WHAT IS EFST® IN SCHOOLS

EFST® in Schools is part of Dr. Joanne Dolhanty’s work to translate emotion-focused approaches into practical tools for everyday use. In schools, educators and staff navigate complex, emotionally charged interactions with students, families, and professional partners, often while addressing learning challenges alongside social and mental health barriers. EFST® in Schools supports the well-being of school professionals across all settings; from classrooms and school yards to counseling offices and school boards. The program equips educators with practical tools to understand and respond to emotions (their own, their students’ and their students’ parents’), strengthen motivation, and improve relationships among teachers, staff, students, and parents. Professions of those utilizing the model include:
  • Classroom and Special Education Teachers, Educational Assistants, Early Childhood Educators.
  • Professional Support Service Providers including Guidance Counsellors, Social Workers, Psychologists and Psychological Associates, Child and Youth Workers, School Liaisons. 
  • Administrators including Principals and Vice Principals.
  • School Board Personnel including Superintendents.in Schools

GOALS AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Learn the content of the EFST® program for education professionals
  • Start to learn the basics of the model of change in EFST®
  • Learn how to build competence and confidence with emotion
  • Understand what it means when a student appears unmotivated
  • Learn about and work with competing motivations
  • Enhance intrinsic motivation to change
  • Learn to attend to “emotion data” in others using the research-backed tools of effective validation, motivation, apology, and boundaries
  • Learn a new boundary tool to set, communicate, negotiate, and implement limits, rules, expectations, values, and norms in your school

$99 USD

Includes 365 days of access

Discounted bulk licences or for unlimited access organization-wide options are available.  

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EFST® in Schools is an innovative and simple program that makes complex change techniques accessible to education professionals.
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Price : $99 USD

Course Curriculum

Session 1 – Introduction to EFST-S and Emotions 101
  • Why EFST® in schools
  • Supporting well-being
  • Integrating EFST® into your school programs & values
  • Overview of the tools of EFST®
  • The three modules of the NET structure of EFST®
  • The bridge metaphor for change
  • Emotions 101
  • Why Emotion?
  • Learn about emotion
  • Universality of emotion
  • Emotion Basics Simplified
  • Work with emotion
  • Learning to read emotion data
  • Tool: Validation
  • Why validate?
  • How to validate
  • Practice validating
  • Impact of validating: Emotion competence & confidence
  • The Brain Boss
  • Hijacked
  • Feeling Traps
  • Magnets & Triggers
  • Assess & Address
  • Conversation between the self and the self
  • More practice validating
  • The difficulty of validating
  • No such thing as unmotivated
  • Understanding motivation
  • Competing motivations
  • Using awareness
  • Assessing for magnets & triggers and competing motivations
  • The old way of thinking about boundaries
  • Rationale for new conceptualization of boundaries
  • The new way of thinking about boundaries
  • Incoming and outgoing boundaries
  • Animal models for boundary style
  • Assessing your boundary style
  • Radical responsibility
  • Boundaries without judgment
  • Tool: Boundary PECCS
  • Assess and Address
  • Flex Your PECCS
  • Practice using the boundary tool
  • Review