Mirroring and Modeling Social Emotional Well-being for Youth

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Mental Health Basics

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) says, “social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions."
Explore a research-based four step process, the Infinite Well-Being ModelTM.
You’ll leave with a toolkit of practices to help you and the young people you serve build resiliency and mindfulness to better handle stresses in the moment.

Your Learning Objectives

Enhance your personal social emotional learning (SEL) skills to deepen self-awareness, emotional resilience, and social awareness
Learn how modeling your social and emotional well-being supports “mirror neurons” that help youth regulate their minds and relax their body’s reaction to toxic stress
Explore SEL strategies to help youth understand the connections between their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
Gain strategies you can use to continually stoke your mental and emotional health for resiliency and well-being

Your Course Details

Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

Dr. Jennifer Clifden intersects the science and soul of being well and thriving in heart-centered, healing/ helping professions. Jen is the founder of Present Well-Being LLC, and she creates evidence-based curriculum and experiences designed to systematically stoke human-service caregiver mental health, emotional agility, and soul resilience. Dr. Clifden’s keynotes, trainings, courses, and yoga retreats focus on research-based preventative and restorative practices that treat and heal soul sickness– burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and sacrifice syndrome. Jen researches and teaches a strategic process for “burning in” to one’s calling through bringing more of one’s soul into their role. She draws on 26 years collective experience as a public-school teacher, university teacher educator, program administrator for the Minnesota Grow Your Own Teachers program at the University of Minnesota, mindfulness and yoga teacher, and mother of a 10th grader and twin 9th graders to raise awareness of the critical importance of caregiver soul health in heart-based callings to serve.