For the love of teaching.
“Can our school be so welcoming, so inviting, and so comfortable that every person who walks through our doors believes they are about to have an amazing experience?” (Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and Ian Pumpian)
Let’s make your school amazing.
Using the F-Word @ School
You shape futures and transform lives. Yet, there’s no doubt that teaching is an emotionally demanding calling. Educating the next generation can lead to a rollercoaster of feelings - both inside and outside the classroom. Prioritizing your staff's emotional well-being is crucial to reduce stress, prevent burnout, and keep the thrill of teaching alive.
By focusing on supporting the emotions that drive good behaviors, you can go beyond the surface and dive deep into nurturing a strong emotional culture that positively impacts every aspect of your school.
Doing so allows you to create a foundation of genuine connections and restored relationships, making your school a place where staff feel listened to, engaged, and valued. By investing in discussions and idea-sharing, you’ll encourage a sense of belonging and collaboration that boosts resilience and sparks innovation.
A positive and supportive emotional culture amongst staff and within classrooms helps create a school community where collaboration, trust, and a collective focus on student success thrive.
Take the first step towards an emotionally vibrant and successful educational journey. And we promise, using the f-word here won’t get you sent to the Principal’s office.
Through this highly interactive and hands-on workshop, your staff will come together to co-create the positive environment pivotal for not only their success while at school, but also their happiness and wellbeing. The objective of the workshop is to map the emotional culture of the team, explore how they support each other, the culture of the team, and the way they work together.
Through this workshop we will help:
Individuals understand their motivations, desires, needs and fears at work, plus their fellow educators
Build greater empathy for each other
Reinforce the great cultural things that already exist within the team and school environment
How we’ll run the 3-4 hour workshop:
We’ll explore how your people want to individually feel and not feel at work
Work together to map how the team want to feel and not feel as a collective to be successful (your team’s emotional culture)
Explore how this environment will impact the culture of the team and how they work together day-to-day
Define the actions, behaviours, and rituals that will support the culture they want to foster at school
After the session, you’ll receive a debrief of the workshop with insights and recommendations to help you continue to grow your emotional culture based on what your team has completed.
This workshop will help your team increase trust and understanding and build stronger connections with one another. Now’s the time to bring more humanity and empathy into your school.
This workshop can also be split into multiple sessions to meet group needs.
Map Your Emotional Culture for Educators
Map Your Emotional Culture for the Classroom
Bring your teachers together for this highly interactive, practical and hands-on workshop that will help them map the emotional culture of their classrooms. The workshop will help them create a better connection and understanding of their students and the type of environment necessary for them to flourish.
By playing with The Emotional Culture Deck in this workshop, we’ll nudge your teachers to:
Explore and learn about the role emotion plays in the classroom
Become more empathetic and conscious of their classroom emotional cultures
Define the environment they need to create for their students to thrive
How we’ll run the 3-4 hour workshop:
Define how they each individually want to to feel and not feel at work as individual teachers
Define how they want their students to feel and not feel within their classrooms
Define the actions, behaviours, and rituals that will support the culture they want to foster
At the end of the session, they’ll have completed the Classroom Culture Canvas, which describes the culture they want to build in their classroom and their personal commitments to it
Participants will be provided with additional tools and resources to continue to grow their classroom culture after the session.
This workshop can also be split into multiple sessions to meet group needs.
Virtual Workshops
We leave no one out. No matter where your team is in the world, we can make it happen. All workshops are virtual.
A few benefits of your virtual workshop include:
Flexibility & Reach. People can participate from any location, accommodating diverse schedules and needs. Participants from different geographic locations can easily join, fostering a diverse and inclusive learning environment.
Improved Engagement. Interactive features such as chatbox discussions, polls, and breakout rooms promote active engagement and participation among attendees.
Time Efficiency. Got a busy team? We can structure your workshop to be delivered in shorter sessions, maximizing learning outcomes while minimizing time commitments.
Increased Psychological Safety. A virtual environment often encourages equal participation allowing all participants to contribute their ideas, ask questions and engage in discussions. It reduces social pressure creating a more comfortable and relaxed environment for participants and provides structured feedback mechanisms for people to share their thoughts and concerns in a way that makes them feel valued.
Looking for in person workshops? In person facilitation is available for select locations in Eastern Ontario, Canada.
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