Teen Emotions Education 101™
This curriculum provides a 2-hour workshop teaching Emotions Education 101™ to teens, preteens, parents & caregivers.
Teach Trauma-Informed, Emotions Education 101 in Your Practice, School, Agency, or Organization Grounded in AEDP-theory and Affective Neuroscience.
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What’s Included?
When you purchase the curriculum bundle, you receive four unique 2-hour workshops, each grounded in the Change Triangle® tool and the latest science of emotions. This comprehensive set is designed to support both young people and the adults who care for them. It includes:
2-hour Teen Workshop
2-hour Preteen Workshop
2-hour Caregiver Workshop for Teens
2-hour Caregiver Workshop for Preteens
(optional) Post workshop discussion group with parents and kids together
Facilitator implementation manual
Welcome video from Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW and Heather Sanford, LCSW
Life-long User License
Implementation & Materials
A detailed Training Manual (PDF) for facilitators
Pre-Teen, Teen, and Caregiver Curricula (lesson plans, experiential scripts, teaching notes)
Ready-to-use PowerPoint slide decks and participant handouts for pre-teen, teen, and caregiver groups.
Suggested follow-up meeting prompts where teens, preteens, and caregivers get together to share about the emotions education experience. (An optional post-workshop group)
Welcome video
Curriculum Overview
Each workshop is developmentally tailored and includes everything you need to teach emotional health skills: a facilitator guide, slides, handouts, and engaging activities. These workshops are ideal for schools, community organizations, therapists, and families looking to foster emotional awareness, resilience, and connection.
Emotional health is foundational to lifelong well-being—and yet few of us are taught how emotions work or how to work with them. This 2-hour experiential workshop offers a gentle, transformative introduction to emotions education for teens and their caregivers. Rooted in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and grounded in affective neuroscience, trauma theory, attachment theory, and emotion theory, this curriculum empowers participants with the knowledge and tools they need to thrive.
Why Emotions Education?
Today’s youth and adults alike face unprecedented levels of emotional stress, anxiety, and disconnection. By teaching how emotions function in the mind and body—and how to use the Change Triangle® to process and navigate them—we can prevent and reduce anxiety, depression, and emotional overwhelm. This class helps participants build a lifelong foundation of calm, clarity, courage, and compassion—the hallmarks of the authentic self.
What Participants Learn
The science of core emotions and defenses
How to recognize, name, and safely experience emotions
How to shift from anxiety and disconnection to grounded self-awareness
A shared emotional language to reduce shame, increase empathy, and strengthen relationships
How It Works
This engaging 2-hour workshop blends age-appropriate left-brain education with age-appropriate right-brain experiential practices, including reflective exercises and group sharing. Participants leave with practical tools, greater emotional fluency, and a sense of connection that reduces isolation and fosters resilience.
Who Is the Curriculum For?
This turnkey curriculum can be facilitated by professionals in a wide range of settings:
School social workers, therapists, counselors, coaches, and clergy
Teachers, school administrators, and youth leaders
Healthcare professionals (pediatricians, nurses, psychiatrists)
Corporate and community wellness leaders
Whether used in high schools, clinics, faith communities, corporate settings, or family groups, this curriculum meets the urgent need for preventive emotions education in today’s world.