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Educators need to show compassion, to help students build an emotional learning toolkit. Students need to grow, build loving relationship with others, and most importantly with themselves. I plan to do this by receiving two hundred hours of wellness training focused on yoga and meditation through Breathe For Change. A teacher for eighteen years in the New York City public school system, one thing I know for sure is asking a student, what happened, and not what’s wrong with you, can be the start of a trusting conversation. As a survivor of childhood trauma, the classroom has been the place I have gotten a do over. It’s where I have been able to teach little Connie alongside my students about love, empathy, emotional regulation, trust, mindset, positive affirmation, compassion, and self-awareness. All the tools needed to build a social emotional kit for my students, but also the ones I didn’t have. The ones I had not been taught, and the ones many of my students so desperately need. Breathe For Change is an acclaimed certification program, which empowers educators as experts in social-emotional learning, yoga, mindfulness, and community well-being. Once certificated, teachers gain ongoing access to resources and development on becoming leaders and holding school-wide wellness programs as leaders of change. The dates of this training will take place July 28, 2019 through August 16, 2019 in New York, New York from 8:00am to 7:00pm. Over the two hundred hours I will learn breath work, meditation techniques, yoga asanas, interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, and how this work can be taught in the classroom in order to create a vibrant and compassionate learners.

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Educators need to show compassion, to help students build an emotional learning toolkit. Students need to grow, build loving relationship with others, and most importantly with themselves. I plan to do this by receiving two hundred hours of wellness training focused on yoga and meditation through Breathe For Change. A teacher for eighteen years in the New York City public school system, one thing I know for sure is asking a student, what happened, and not what’s wrong with you, can be the start of a trusting conversation. As a survivor of childhood trauma, the classroom has been the place I have gotten a do over. It’s where I have been able to teach little Connie alongside my students about love, empathy, emotional regulation, trust, mindset, positive affirmation, compassion, and self-awareness. All the tools needed to build a social emotional kit for my students, but also the ones I didn’t have. The ones I had not been taught, and the ones many of my students so desperately need. Breathe For Change is an acclaimed certification program, which empowers educators as experts in social-emotional learning, yoga, mindfulness, and community well-being. Once certificated, teachers gain ongoing access to resources and development on becoming leaders and holding school-wide wellness programs as leaders of change. The dates of this training will take place July 28, 2019 through August 16, 2019 in New York, New York from 8:00am to 7:00pm. Over the two hundred hours I will learn breath work, meditation techniques, yoga asanas, interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, and how this work can be taught in the classroom in order to create a vibrant and compassionate learners.

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