Teen Emotions Education 101™

Teen Emotions Education 101™ is a ready-to-teach curriculum for professionals.

You receive everything you need—manuals, slides, scripts, and exercises—to confidently run the workshops yourself in your own setting.

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

Teach trauma-informed Emotions Education 101™ in your practice, school, agency, hospital, or organization. This curriculum is grounded in AEDP theory and affective neuroscience and teaches the Change Triangle®—a practical, life-long tool for emotional health and nervous system regulation.

Each workshop is developmentally tailored and includes everything you need to teach emotional health skills: a facilitator guide, slides, handouts, and engaging activities. You can begin using it right away with confidence.

Who Is This Curriculum For?

This curriculum is designed for professionals across a wide range of settings, including:

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 schools, clinics, faith communities, corporate settings, or family groups, this curriculum meets the urgent need for preventive emotions education in today’s world.

Why Emotions Education?

Emotional health is foundational to lifelong well-being—yet most people are never taught how emotions actually work or how to work with them.

Today’s youth and adults face unprecedented levels of anxiety, stress, and disconnection. By learning how emotions function in the mind and body—and how to use the Change Triangle® to process them—participants can reduce anxiety, prevent depression, and move out of emotional overwhelm.

This work builds a lifelong foundation of calm, clarity, courage, and compassion—the hallmarks of the authentic self.

What This Workshop Offers

This 2-hour experiential workshop provides a gentle yet 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 science, it gives participants both the understanding and the tools they need to thrive.

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 that reduces shame, increases empathy, and strengthens relationships

How It Works

This engaging 2-hour workshop blends age-appropriate left-brain learning with right-brain experiential practices, including reflective exercises and group sharing.

Participants leave with practical tools, greater emotional fluency, and a felt sense of connection—reducing isolation and building resilience.