Dear Educators and Health Professionals:

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Please freely use and adapt this introductory 12-Class Emotions Education Curriculum to provide a basic education in emotions and The Change Triangle® tool. The Change Triangle® tool shows a holistic approach to healing and prevention of anxiety, depression, and more. 

 

I use the Change Triangle daily in my personal and professional life. I cannot imagine life without this roadmap for dealing with life's many emotional challenges.

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​This curriculum for emotional health:

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• Is grounded in AEDP psychotherapy and affective neuroscience.

• Provides lifelong tools that prevent, ease, and heal anxiety and depression.

• Builds calm, confidence, and peace of mind.

• Improves relationships and skills for authentic communication.

• Great for trauma-informed social-emotional learning programs

 

Here's why we need this: Anxiety, depression, and other symptoms of blocked and buried emotions are at epidemic levels. Adults and children alike are suffering. Emotions education with the Change Triangle starts us on a road to preventing, easing, and healing symptoms like anxiety and depression caused by adverse life experiences.

 

Emotions education provides a crucial resource to heal the invisible and overt traumas that affect each and every one of us. There is much that can be done to improve our individual and collective mental health and wellbeing. And it begins with emotions education.

 

This curriculum can be used as-is or as a guideline where you can incorporate your own materials. You can make changes as needed for the varied populations that I hope will engage with this information.

This course is intended to start each person’s individual journey to feel and be their best and most authentic Self, to foster self-esteem and personal capacities that build calm, connectedness, and compassion, and that further individual and collective wellbeing.

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For the next level of learning and emotional health, check out the Emotions Education 101™ 8-Module Turnkey Experiential Curriculum.

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For family and school-based emotional health, check out the Teen, Preteen, and Caregiver Emotions Education 101™ Introductory 2-hour Workshop Curriculum.

 

With love and hope for greater wellbeing for all.

 

Warmly,

 

Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW

Hilaryjacobshendel.com

 

Special thanks to Heather Sanford. LCSW, MPA who first developed this curriculum and who generously has given permission to share it and have it adapted. She can be reached at Sanford.he@gmail.com.