Teen Train the Trainer Workshop
January 26, 2026
10 AM to 2 PM ET
Facilitate the EE 101™ Teen, Preteen, and Caregiver 2-Hour Workshop at Your Organziation
Special Bundled Pricing of $429 includes the 4-hour Instructional Workshop and the Emotions Education 101™ Teen, Preteen, and Caregiver Curriculum Package. The workshop is live, interactive, and meets on Zoom.
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Workshop Agenda
10:00 - 10:15 AM - Welcome, review of the workshop teaching objectives and overview of the curriculum.
10:15 - 11:15 AM - Participants will engage in portions of the Teen Workshop.
11:15 - 12:15 PM - Presentation covering creating group safety and stance of the facilitator. Integrate a professional use of self. Discuss how to create group safety and cohesion.
12:15 - 12:30 PM - Break
12:30 - 1:30 PM - Practice leading a processing discussion after an experiential exercise in small groups. Recognize facilitators’ own internal experience while leading EE101 lessons and exercises. Apply techniques to help people slow down enough to notice their thoughts and emotions.
1:30 - 2:00 PM - Trainees will learn how to assess participant suitability for EE 101 classes. Wrap up, Q & A.
We expect participants to have already familiarized themselves with the Change Triangle by reading It's Not Always Depression or Parents Have Feelings, Too. Or, you can also watch this video to see how I teach the Change Triangle.
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January 26, 2026
Hilary Jacobs Hendel. LCSW and Heather Sanford, LCSW
Meet Heather Sanford Heather Sanford, LCSW, MPA, is the co-developer and lead facilitator of the Emotions Education 101 curriculum. Heather received her MPA and MSW degrees from Cornell and Binghamton Universities. She has taught Emotions Education 101 in community mental health agencies as well as in private practice. She is a licensed AEDP psychotherapist. She specializes in group work and individual sessions with LGBTQ + teens. Heather is the co-developer of the Emotions Education 101 Curriculum and Teen, Preteen, and Caregiver Curriculum.
When you register, you are enrolled in the January 26th 4-hour live workshop. This workshop includes the Teen, Preteen, and Caregiver Curriculum Package. After you register for the workshop, we will email you a link to the curriculum within a few days. Please know we do not issue refunds once you receive the curriculum.
The curriculum package dropbox includes:
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
Class Overview
Join me and Heather Sanford, LCSW, for a live, interactive half-day training on Zoom designed to help you confidently teach essential emotional health tools and skills that last a lifetime.
This workshop is for mental health professionals, physicians, nurses, coaches, and educators who want to provide practical, evidence-based emotions education for teens and preteens using The Change Triangle® as a guide.
Participants will learn to facilitate group experiences that build self-awareness, hope, and emotional empowerment in young people. Understanding how emotions work in the mind and body helps children realize their feelings are natural and manageable, fostering confidence and resilience.
The Change Triangle—a trauma-informed, mind-body tool grounded in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)—maps the path from anxiety and disconnection to calm, confidence, and compassion. By learning it, participants develop skills to help youth move from shame and avoidance to authenticity and well-being.
Early exposure to this framework also dispels harmful myths about emotions that often lead to shame and anxiety. Many children believe that sadness, anger, or fear mean weakness, which causes them to suppress emotions—putting stress on their minds and bodies. Teaching them to work The Change Triangle helps prevent, ease, and heal anxiety and depression rooted in buried emotions.
We’ve added a 2-hour workshop for parents and other adults who work with kids to this curriculum package. Many adults, like children, were also taught myths and misconceptions about emotions, and they too benefit greatly from learning The Change Triangle®. By giving both kids and adults the same foundation in emotions education, we help families get on the same page and speak a shared emotional language.
In this Train-the-Trainer Workshop, you’ll learn how to facilitate our 2-hour Teen and Preteen workshops for youth and caregivers. You’ll experience what it feels like to participate in a Change Triangle group, explore the theory through clear, engaging presentations, and practice facilitation skills in small groups to build confidence.
Together with the Emotions Education 101 Teen and Preteen Curriculum Package, this training provides a step-by-step guide to running these classes in your practice, agency, hospital, school, or organization—ready to use the very next day.
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