What You Will Learn:
- Identify stress triggers and strategies to alleviate tension
- Use focused breathing techniques to calm or energize yourself
- Connect breathing practices to manage stress in various situations
- Implement stretches and activities in the classroom to reduce sedentary habits and promote calm
- Foster a peaceful classroom environment to help students regulate mood and restore balance
- Equip yourself and your students with practical tools to integrate throughout the day
Learn with TCEA?
- Our courses are streamlined for efficient and lasting learning.
- We share ideas and resources that you won’t be able to find anywhere else.
- We also offer ideas and techniques based on years of experience in professional development, integrating educator feedback to always meet the needs of course participants.
Self-Paced Online Course
Cultivating Calm is a self-paced, online program. Participants can begin anytime and go at their own speed throughout the program.
Upon enrollment, you will receive a program invitation email from TCEA’s learning management system that will give you access to the self-paced course. Within the course, you will find modules that must be moved through in sequential order.
Course Modules
Fill Your Own Cup First: Examine how cultivating calm can mitigate stress effects on the body and overall well-being, recognizing that to serve others, you must care for yourself first.
Focusing on the Breath: Learn various breathing techniques to calm or invigorate, providing tools to help students when they feel overwhelmed.
Let’s Get Moving: Connect breath to movement with proper alignment and stretches that can be done anywhere, including at your desk and in the classroom.
Regulate and Restore in the Classroom: Learn specific activities to help students regulate their mood and restore calm in just five minutes per day.
A Balanced Life Beyond the Classroom: Develop tools to recognize and prevent daily stressors, extending a balanced approach to a healthy mind, body, and spirit.